My appearance on Hannity Friday night regarding ACA/Obamacare

[stevenleser]

[RagAss]

1. You have a lot of courage to go into that snake pit....Good job !

[Heather MC]

32. +1

Hannutty is so annoying, Whenever truth dribbles out on Faux news he either over talks you , changes the subject, or gets someone else to speak.

[warrant46]

59. What a rude bunch of assclowns and brain washed zombies in that Pit

Reminded me of a mosh pit

[Left Coast2020]

69. That was going to be my point too Heather.

Just simply a rude POS who talks over a "logical" or "common sense" POV/opinion. Can't wait for the day that he says the wrong thing to the wrong person and does his show with a black eye or rearranged dental work.

And kudos to you Steven for being so bold to walk into a sewer room.

[brucefan]

2. Hope you got combat pay......Well done!

[OneGrassRoot]

3. I'll add to the chorus admiring your courage and tenacity. Thank you! K&R n/t

[spanone]

4. K&r...

[Scuba]

5. Credit given. Good pushback.

[sheshe2]

6. K&R! nt

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

7. hells to the yes! Steve!!!

[Shrike47]

8. So damn hard to deal with people who yell right over you.

Good for you.

[randr]

9. Some may say you can not speak truth to the misinformed

You did a good job and thanks. Every opportunity to confront the madness must be taken.

[Blanks]

10. Good job. eom

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. Give 'em hell Steve!

cheers!

[kydo]

12. Ugh - At first I wasn't going to watch

But then I saw it was only 37 seconds. So I figured if you Steven could sit in a room for as long as you did surrounded by the Crazy, I could spend 37 seconds watching this clip.

I wish other people in the cable media when talking to a bagger would do what you did in this clip. Just keep talking. The second you stop the baggers start talking (ok talking is to civil for them yelling or at the very least talking extremely loud) they don't stop.

Like that rancid pubic hair dude that's head of the rnc, this is how normal interview with him goes when he is on anything but faux:

Host of pretty much any program: Let me Welcome the head of the RNC...
rancid pubic hair: Thanks for having me here, Obama sucks, Bad President with no leader ship, Obamacare will kill everyone, etc etc no periods to end sentence, just talk talk talk and when the interviewer tries to speak no matter what don't breathe and talk louder until your time is up.

Good job though and keep doing what you are doing.

[RVN VET]

13. "Oh, wait, I wanna address something Doug said. . . ." said Hannity

As he turned the conversation away from Mr. Leser without addressing any of the points Mr. Leser made. What douche-nozzles on Fox! And the chief of them all is Mr. Sean.

[BlueCaliDem]

14. Steve ... I really, really like you! You're fighting the good fight, bringing truth to their viewers

they would otherwise never hear from the propagandists! Perhaps you're the reason many Fox viewers have tuned in to MSNBC!

Kudos for having brass ones, and for standing up for the truth even though you have to wear thick rubber boots in that snake pit of slimy propagandists! It also helps that you can talk in rapid fire and do so with a clear voice so you're heard.

Keep up the good fight! Thanks for sharing the clip with us. Since I never watch Fox "News" Channel, I would've never known you were on that show. It was a treat to watch, Steve!

[Beartracks]

77. Fox viewers are switching to MSNBC??

That sounds incredible and positive. Are there polls that show this?

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[BlueCaliDem]

80. According to a new Pew study, 28% of Fox "News" viewers also watch MSNBC.

More of them (44%) watch CNN. But that 28% of Fox "News" Channel viewers would even consider watching MSNBC is huge news to me.

A slighty smaller percentage — 28 — of Fox News viewers also watched MSNBC, although since Fox News has more actual viewers than MSNBC, the actual number of viewers may be higher. Forty-four percent of Fox News viewers also watch CNN.

http://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-viewers-also-watch-msnbc-study-says/

Maybe they're the ones who consistently vote on Ed Schultz's daily question, and make up the 2-5% that consistently vote against every question Big Ed poses.

[cordelia]

15. Thank you for asking the question none of them will address:

Why did the republicans (sic) wait until NOW to become engaged?

They offer no solution. None. Only criticism and vitriol.

[dotymed]

48. Here in the South (with the "r" governors)

The bastards refuse to open the Medicaid rolls ....screw the poor while making the ACA look bad.

[cordelia]

52. Don't I know it - Nathan Deal is GA's governor, where the "r" stands for "reprehensible".

[packman]

16. Steve in the Lion's Den

Well, more like the lemming's den. I love those mini-townhall thingies Hammity has every so often. I haven't seen so much baloney stacked so high since I left my favorite deli in Pennsylvania. Steve, you really don't need to suffer that abuse, but kudos to you for your over-sized manly appendages.

[mountain grammy]

17. Way to go Steve and thanks for posting or I never would have seen this...

I think the guy behind you is actually LISTENING to you! One bagger at a time!

[panader0]

18. K and R!

[secondvariety]

19. Now you

know how a kindergarten teacher feels. Good job, Steve.

[NJCher]

20. as a speech teacher

I would say your voice projects well.

It tends to be the one listened to in a crowd of people talking.


Cher

[ucrdem]

21. Nice job Steve

Thanks for posting it!

[arthritisR_US]

22. Well, you tried. However, your question was

too logic based and so the liar Hannity couldn't deal with that so he cut you off, switched topics and failed to address it. His fantasy can never be threatened by facts.

You tried though, and good on you for that!

[freshwest]

23. You're like a bull, you just keep on going. Good work, appreciate the video.

[msanthrope]

24. Good form! nt

[closeupready]

25. You did good, as always.

K&R

[nolabear]

26. Thanks for all you do, Steve.

[onlyadream]

27. Great job!

And a great point.
You really have good concentration with all those people talking at once. I would have lost my train of thought for sure.

[Jesus Malverde]

28. This seems like an endorsement of Hannity's legitimacy.

These people are best ignored. Next we'll have DU watching fox to catch our talking heads.

Fuck murdoch, fuck fox, fuck corporate TV.

[DirtyDawg]

29. I've often...

...wondered if shows like Hannity's, or indeed any or all of the FauxNews things, require one to pass through a metal detector or something. Cause if they didn't i think I might 'give it a shot' (so to speak).

[locks]

30. Thanks for trying

but Hannity will never allow anyone he doesn't agree with an opportunity to present a logical question or opinion. It's so hard to watch not just because his opinions are so wrong-headed and dumb but because of the way he treats the few articulate and honest "guests" he allows on the show. It is no wonder that we have so many elected reps voting against needed and smart policies; most of their gerrymandered-in constituents watch and listen to this garbage every day.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

31. You Sir,

win the "Balls of the Day Award." Well done!

[William769]

33. Kick & recommended.

Good job Steve.

[Kahuna]

34. You rawk, as always!

[Cryptoad]

35. Glad I can say

I have never voted for a member of the "heartless MotherFuckerism" GOP!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. That guy behind you looks like he was going to smack you if you said something "Liberal"...

Good thing he was too stupid to figure out what you were saying.

[stevenleser]

37. LOL, he was one of the mic guys.

There were three or four guys who darted in and out to hold mics near whoever was speaking.

They were really fast. It's not easy and when you consider that they have to make sure they don't hit anything in the process because that sound would show up and be an ugly interruption, they did a really good job!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. Don't they have booms???

[stevenleser]

40. Yes, hand held with very long metal rods. I would be hitting people and chairs all over the place

if I tried to wield one of those.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. That's what the counterweights are for. They could have simply wired everyone with a mic.

[Buddyblazon]

53. As someone who is a production manager...

micing everyone up would be an absolute nightmare.

"LAVALIERS FOR ALL MY MEN!!!!". Eeeek. lol.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

56. Guess all the money goes to Sean's salary.

[Buddyblazon]

57. It's not that...

It's an outrageous amount of vocal mic inputs.

Do you leave them on and let everybody scream to their hearts content? Do you hire a small army of sound guys to be quick on the mute buttons for each individual input?

We had a crappy debate in our venue last year between Elliot Spitzer and Glenn Beck. The set up looked very similar to that set up. Micing 50-60 people with lavalier mics is a recipe for disaster and creates an absolute insane amount of work for the sound guys. In the end, they did the same thing they did in Steve's video. That's just how they do it in the industry.

And trust me, they've had decades and decades to figure out the best way to do it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

58. Wouldn't be that hard. Not the way they cut mics.

[Buddyblazon]

75. You should forward on your advice to the studios.

eom

[7962]

64. From the comments, apparently ANYONE can do your job!

Jeeze. No respect, huh?

[Buddyblazon]

74. I'm used to it...

I've been doing this for nearly 20 years. When I started, it was seen as trade. Like plumbing. Or carpentry. "Stagecraft" to be exact and all that entailed (audio, lighting, video, staging, pyro, rigging, yada yada)

Now that the corporations have taken over (and it's been that way for more than a decade now), they view the people that do stagecraft as simple slack jawed yokels that can be replaced by any crackhead or ready temp off the street. Hey...they don't have to pay them jack and they could care less if those people get hurt. And the public view has gone the same way.

I'm the boss now, but on a regular basis I have to field complaints from some guy that has a nice stereo at home about the quality of sound. Forget that it's $750,000 PA that's been tuned for the room and that the sound guy has 30+ years of experience. The guy with the Kenwood at home is positive he can make it sound better if you'd just take his advice.

What are you gonna do? They've been lowering the bar for so many years, you just have to deal with it. It's a dying industry (for any average Joe at least) and as soon as the corporations can figure out how to automate it all, the stagecraft guys will be gone, and us production managers will all be downsized for a couple dudes in New York to do all the prep work via email and skype.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

76. Face it,...FOX "News" doesn't do actual panel discussions. Those require politeness.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. excellent work!!!!!!

Geeeez the poxers deriding you. .... they look like the people on that old old star trek episode who gather around to laugh and sneer at the "fight" they telekinetically control between Spock and Kirk.

You can really keep your focus on point!! Wow!

[OwnedByCats]

41. How cool is that?

Good job Steve!

[yuiyoshida]

43. I would guess after doing that there is a long, long...

decontamination period. Lets hope a good meal followed it.

[grahamhgreen]

44. Very nicely done! Great suit, good look. Nice cadence. Good content, no

wonder Hannity had no response!

[StrayKat]

45. Do you ever find that you sway anyone's opinion with these appearances?

Fox viewers seem pretty entrenched in their dogma. Are you able to make some breakthroughs?

[stevenleser]

46. Yes

I lurk on a lot of the bigger conservative discussion forums to see what the reaction is to my appearances.

I tend to get a fair amount of "I hate that !@#$% Leser (or pick some intentional bastardization of my name) but I can't argue with what he said about XYZ." or "... he had a point about XYZ" etc.

Obviously I get a lot of criticism, hate mail, hate tweets and all of that too, occasional death threats against me or my family or expressing a desire to see me/us dead. That also is an indication of impact. They wouldn't bother with me if there was no reason to do so.

[StrayKat]

47. Great attitude to view the "fan" mail as a measure of effectiveness.

Thanks for reporting back from the trenches.

[Egnever]

60. Good lord the projection of these guys is amazing

The Obama healthcare lies forum....From the guy who has been shown to trot out people lying about Obamacare.


I dont know if i could stand in the same room as Hanity without running over and smacking him. So kudos to you for getting in there and challenging him rationally.

[MindMover]

81. For every one of them, there are 1000 of us, so keep up the good fight .... ty .... nt

[Leith]

49. Thanks for the Clip

One of the reasons that I can't stand to watch Fox Propaganda channel because people don't seem to have enough manners to stay quiet for a few seconds while someone else is talking - like those who did that to you yesterday. Are they trying to shout opposing views down? Do they think that the speaker will suddenly stop, listen to them, and change his mind? Are they always so rude?

You are made of better stuff than I am. I would have said something about their blatant rudeness.

[tweeternik]

50. Well done! n/t

[Iggo]

51. I don't know how you do it, man.

But well done, sir!

[Hayabusa]

54. Loved how he just moved on...

Fucking hack...

[arely staircase]

55. dude, RT and now Fox

Keep up the good work. Seriously.

[TxDemChem]

61. Good for you for saying your piece!

Between the ass-bookish eye-rolling and attempts to interrupt, I heard you. Hope everyone else did as well.

I'm still rooting for you. Keep it up!

[blue14u]

62. K & R Steve

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Kudos for your bravery on THAT nonsense of a show!!!!

[Stellar]

63. What a man!!!!

What courage. I'm glad to know that you made it out alive. Bravo!

[passiveporcupine]

65. Great Job Steve

Now I want to watch the whole show and I don't watch Fox programs.

[reACTIONary]

66. K&R nt

[SunSeeker]

67. K & R

[Nanjing to Seoul]

68. Steve, seriously. . .how could you fight the temptation of not socking that swarmy little SOB?

[secondwind]

70. EXCELENTE!!!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

71. takes a special talent to get your point across in that environment.

good job!

[blkmusclmachine]

72. Faux Nooz. Where Republicans go to lie/be lied to.

[pacalo]

73. The rightwing "news" network has the gall to label this sham of a discussion with a huge banner

entitled "Obamacare Lies" (lies that come from their own network), then they talk over you when you're trying to inject the truth. The irony of their deceptive practices is duly noted.

[nightscanner59]

78. Yes I admire your resolve to even go on the "box in any opposing viewpoints" show.

And snicker a little at Sean Hannity admonishing interrupting audience to "let him talk" when he knows very well that's not his M.O. when hes got a "guest" to frame.

[a kennedy]

79. You always make me proud Steve.

[hopemountain]

82. thank you, steve! you are a much

bigger person than i who is unable to have any type or rational discussion with siblings who echo the faux news garbage without me yelling "fawk you" and threatening to disown them.

[ffr]

83. How do you keep your thoughts with all the interruptions?

More of a statement than a question. You're awesome!