Sean Hannity

The Unteachable Lesson: Can We Learn From Gates and Crowley?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Racial Discrimination, James Crowley, Hate Crimes, Gates Arrest, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Ghetto, Cambridge Police, Rnc, Obama-Crowley, Black Men, Discrimination, Republican Party, African Americans, Po Po, Michael Steele, Obama-Gates Defense, Rush Limbaugh, Politics, Obama Crowley Gates, Harvard Professor, Barack Obama, Racism, Racial Profiling, Culture, African American, Sean Hannity, White Men, Police, Sergeant Crowley, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Obama-Gates Arrest, Hate, Racialism, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."

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Gates-Crowley Battle Not About Race, but Rather Citizens' Rights

Ray Hanania | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Extremism, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge, Fanaticism, Police, President Barack Obama, Massachusetts, Citizens' Rights, James Crowley, Race, Home Break-In, Politics, Sean Hannity, Racism, Glenn Beck, Henry Louis Gates, Health Care, Arrest, Politics News
Ray Hanania

When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.

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Colbert Helps Hannity By Scaring Crap Out Of Americans About Health Care Reform (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Video, Stephen Colbert Health Care, Sean Hannity, Colbert Report, Comedy News

In a segment called "Health Care Hell-Scare - Die-agnosis: Mur-DR" Stephen Colbert picked up where Sean Hannity left off: Scaring the crap out of you ...

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The "Birthers" and Our Ailing Political Culture

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Birthers, Obama Patriotism, Birther-Movement, President Obama, Barack Obama Citizenship, Democracy, Media, American Culture, Barack Obama, Politics, Patriotism, Progress, Sean Hannity, Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

These birthers represent a small but vocal minority in this country who have somehow failed to grasp that American democracy is rooted in a set of principles, not a set of demographic characteristics.

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Talk Radio Rules Blue Dog States

Sue Wilson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Arkansas, Michael Copps, Republican National Committee, Rush Limbaugh, Rnc, Lousiana, Indiana, Ohio, Susan Crawford, Georgia, Obama Health Care, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Utah, Blue Dog Seven, Fcc, Sean Hannity, Tennessee, 1996 Telecommunications Act, Blue Dog Democrats, Media News
Sue Wilson

22 percent of Americans get their news from talk radio, and conservative talkers, like Hannity and Limbaugh, have been lying to their listeners about what's in the health care bill.

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Obama Blows His Presidency -- Top Ten Health Care Reforms He Won't Do

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Incentives, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Sean Hannity, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, Obama Birth Certificate, Msnbc, Chri Matthews, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Stanton Peele

Obama is afraid to tell Americans that -- well, remember that old sign: "You can have it cheaper, better, and more of it -- but not all at the same time."

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Steele: Dems Should Pass Health Care Bill Without Republicans

Think Progress | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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Michael Steele has spent a lot of time in his short tenure as RNC Chairman railing against President Obama for what he perceives as the president's la...

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Crazy Wingnut Healthcare Attacks Exposed

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ed Schultz, Alex Castellanos, Msnbc, Michele Bachmann, Public Option, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Health Insurance, Tom Arnold, Lewin Group, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Bob Cesca

Predictably, as healthcare reform grows larger in the window, the claims from the far-right are becoming increasingly bizarre and ridiculous, topping, in some cases, the psychotic claims of, say, the Obama birthers.

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Chyron Of The Day: That's About Right

Alex Leo | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Chyron, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Chyron of the Day, Media News
Alex Leo

To be totally accurate it should probably read, "despite the fact that everyone blames the Internet for the demise of newspapers it's really people like me that instill a serious distrust of the media in the American psyche."

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Health Care Reform to Destruction

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Sicko, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Michael Moore, Universal Healthcare, Living News
Stanton Peele

Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.

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I Came Out of Rehab Because Sean Hannity's A Liar

Dave Hackel | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Jason Linkins, Lincoln, Obama, Fox, Garrett, Sean Hannity, Ailes, Media News
Dave Hackel

Taking someone's words and rearranging them to tell a completely different story is wrong. It's not journalism, reporting or even commentary. It's lying. So why isn't this front page news?

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Jason Linkins

Sean Hannity's Pattern Of Selective Editing Documented (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Major Garrett, Media Criticism, Selective Editing, Barack Obama, Media News

Seems like only yesterday I was talking about the way Sean Hannity cooks up some news, for his teevee show. It goes a little something like this: 1...

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Jason Linkins

Sean Hannity Caught Selectively Editing Obama Speeches, Again (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Barack Obama, Media Criticism, Major Garrett, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Selective Editing, Media News

Whenever President Barack Obama goes abroad, cameras follow him, and record the things he says to people. Just as often, it seems, Fox's Sean Hannity...

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New York to Nashville: Two Manhattan Liberals Boldly Go Forth into America's Heartland

Samantha Marshall | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Nashville, Obama, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Guns, Bbq, Sarah Palin, New York News
Samantha Marshall

In a media capital like New York, we're obsessed, and a little suspicious of anyone whose views don't line up on the side of political correctness. But, south of the Mason-Dixon line, other priorities loom large.

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WATCH Mark Levin: Obama's Policies Are "Bernie Madoff Times A Thousand"

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

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Right-wing talk radio firebrand Mark Levin was a guest on Sean Hannity's self-titled Fox News show and unleashed a diatribe against President Obama. ...

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Jason Linkins

Franken's Critics Agonize Over Senate Victory (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Paranoia, Al Franken, Minnesota Senate Race, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Media News

Yesterday, Al Franken, after a protracted Hundred Years War with Norm Coleman that played out in front of every legal body in the state of Minnesota, ...

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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How Obama Will Keep Michigan Blue in 2010

Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michigan Budget, Gop, John McCain, Sonia Sotomoayor, John Cherry, Gm, 2010 Election, Reagan Democrats, Government Spending, Macomb County, Anderson Cooper, Joe Biden, Stimulus, Ray Lahood, Barack Obama, Chrysler, Gary Locke, Pork-Barrel Spending, Oakland County, Michigan Republican Party, Unemployment, Hilda Solis, Jennifer Granholm, Sean Hannity, Michigan, Glenn Beck, Rust Belt, Recovery Act, Dennis Darnoi, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

If the Republicans win the governorship here, the national media will trumpet that as an Important Trend. And a sign of the president's impending doom in 2012.

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Diane Sawyer Responds to Health Care Special Attacks (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Abc News, Howard Kurtz, Healthcare Reform, Sean Hannity, Obama Media, Diane Sawyer, Obama Health Care, Abc News Health Care, Media News

"Good Morning America" co-anchor Diane Sawyer responded to accusations that ABC News will pander to the Obama administration in an upcoming primetime ...

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Think Again: Chiller, Socialist Theater

Eric Alterman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Dick Armey, Tom Delay, Socialists, Jim Demint, John Boehner, Communist, Marxist, Jon Voight, Barack Obama, Socialistic, Michele Bachmann, Lawrence O'Donnell, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Geoffrey Nunberg, Michael Savage, Fox News, Richard Shelby, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, China, Soviet Union, Media News
Eric Alterman

In conservative world, this administration is leading a march on socialism. Just last week alone, Media Matters counted more than 143 mentions of the word "socialism" on the cable news shows.

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Breaking News: Budget Crisis Solved

Tom Gerdy | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Politician's Egos, Rush Limbaugh, Budget Crisis, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rachael Maddow, Media News
Tom Gerdy

I am proposing a tax on the self proclaimed political pundits. Skewed and twisted "news" reporting has taken over our airwaves.

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Why Torturing to Prove Torturing is Wrong is Never Okay: A Note to Keith Olbermann

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Media, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, Torture, Media News
Cynthia Boaz

Reposted from http://www.commondreams.org on June 9, 2009: Although it has been several weeks since Keith Olbermann has used his MSNBC show as a pla...

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Caution: Pundits On This Network May Appear More Relevant Than They Are

Dave Hackel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Giuliani, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Delay, Rupert Murdoch, Fox, Vitter, Bill O'Reilly, Rove, Dick Cheney, Fox News, Santorum, Media News
Dave Hackel

Karl Rove never designed anything other than a way to help elect George Bush and Dick Cheney. He should be ashamed to show his face in public but, of course, that's why Fox loves him.

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Who Watches the Watchmen?

John Milewski | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Free Speech, Media News
John Milewski

Attacking Sean Hannity while ignoring management and ownership is the media equivalent of blaming the grunts at Abu Ghraib while ignoring the generals at the Pentagon.

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Republicans Gone Wild!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Maher, P.J. ORourke, Willow Palin, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sonia Sotomayor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Michelle Malkin, President George W. Bush, Chris Matthews, Sarah Palin, Bristol Pailin, David Letterman, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

The right-wing attack machine is in high-gear, throwing all sorts of inflammatory rhetoric around like it was the '08 campaign all over again.

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