Why the hell is Hannity being allowed near the convention?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

He's been on the air boasting about how he's going to interview delegates and put 'their stupid, misinformed comments' on the air

who the hell made the decision to allow this prick access? he's not a journalist. he's not even an honest commentator. he's a republican operative and propagandist.

do you think the GOP would let michael moore in their convention? why does the DLC go out of its way to accomodate the enemy?

[fdr_hst_fan]

1. As long as the DNC makes him wear a sign

that says, "I'm Handjob Hannity from FAUX NEWS-wanna talk to a moron? I'm available!", I don't see a problem with it!

[bushwakker]

2. I'd love to run into him next week

perhaps he'd like an impromtu dip in the Charles?

[jmowreader]

11. General Purpose Concrete is $2.58 per 80-lb bag at your local Home Depot

Two bags make a wonderful Hannity-sized wading shoe. You need a left foot and a right foot, of course.

[bushwakker]

13. Hannity sleeps with the fishes in Boston Harbor

a little twist on the Boston Tea Party

[in_cog_ni_to]

42. No, no, no! Don't give Home Depot any of your money!

100% of their political donations go to the republican party! Boycott them. Shop elsewhere for the cement. :hi:

[xcmt]

3. My answer..

Because we're better than they are.

Hannity wants to come to Boston and continue spreading his lies...that's fine by me. We all know him for what he really is. No point in denying him access and giving him yet another thing to gripe about.

[NMDemDist2]

7. hi xcmt welcome to DU

and I agree


:hi:

[underpants]

12. I can't imagine that the average pedestrian would have troublewith Hannity

and yes I am aware of "the general public". All you have to say is "Why are you leafing through that 3 ring binder so frantically"

He reads but he only reads the same things over and over. I have listened and he hasn't pulled off a clean reading yet.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

34. My husband and I were walking past the Fox studios

in Manhattan one day. You can look in the windows and watch them. We were laughing so hard because it was right before Hannity and Colmes were going to go on and he was sitting there, obvously memorizing his little talking points. He was concentrating so hard with his head in his hands and looked like such a dope.

Then Colmes and John Gibson walked in and they were getting their pictures taken by these teen-age fans. All three looked very pompous and cheesy-looking.

[thebigidea]

33. Well, I'm a bad liar with plastic hair. Give me access!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. all he's going to do

is edit people out of context and create a misleading video or audio bit for his show. he shouldn't be allowed any closer than the protestors

[w13rd0]

5. exactly...

...banish his ass to the "free speech zone". That or ship him to someplace like Uzbekhistan. Oh, and the DLC goes out of their way to "accomodate the enemy" because you are mistakenly thinking the DLC sees the lying, dissent suppressing shills of the right wing as their "enemy"...they don't, they share tactics, donor lists, and many points on their agendas.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. I hope he runs into someone who is very big and very strong

who reminds him if his remarks are taken out of context, well....

[Cerridwen]

8. Because Democrats do more than pay

lip service to freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Funny that.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

25. hannity isn't a journalist

and not letting him in isn't an assult on his first amendment rights

[Cerridwen]

30. I thought freedom of speech applied to all U.S. citizens . . .

not just journalists?

[Salviati]

39. Sure, hannity is free to say whatever he wants

as long as it doesn't stoop to slander or libel. That doesn't mean that anyone is forced to talk to him though...

[freetobegay]

9. First off show proof the DLC has anything to do with Hannity

Being able to interview the candidates. I am sick & tired of people shooting off at the mouth for which they know nothing about.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

24. Kerry is DLC, they run the party, thus they run the convention

and decide who gets on the floor.

--Duh.

Letting Hannity in is the type of craven shit these guys are famous for

[MikeG]

10. Sounds like wedgie time to me.

[dignan27]

16. Agreed

Hannity sucks

Steelers rule



(I had nothing to add really I just liked your icon.)

[vi5]

14. I think he was at the 2000 convention wasn't he?

I remember at the time I had a higher tolerance for right wing radio since we were at the top of the world at the time (at least it seemed that way) so it was fun to listen to their insane ramblings.

But I remember he got into it with some young convention attendee who walk passed him and said "Hi Sean. Or shoud I say Seig Heil" and then gave him the nazi salute.

Sean called the dude over and they started arguing, with the guy calling Sean a nazi and a few other choice tidbits.

[CBHagman]

15. Don't worry, sweetie.

He sure as hell isn't a journalist, but he is a radio and TV personality, so we must indulge him. Besides, we could send him on a snipe hunt to Salem and have him locked in the stocks...

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. Because the DLC *is* the enemy

Bringing down the Democratic party from within has been their mission all along.

How do you get Americans to accept a one party fascist dictatorship?

You don't. Unless it happens without most of them even realizing it.

And this ain't no tinfoil post. It's an honest assessment of everything the DLC has done consistently since they proclaimed the 1994 Gingrich/Dole theft of Congress as a "liberation".

[bushwakker]

18. DLC has nothing to do with this convention

they are a separate group. as for hannity - if he wants to come here and make a jackass of himself - it's a free country.

[VolcanoJen]

19. I'd walk by him faster than a Congressman in a Michael Moore movie.

Maybe that's just me. }(

[louis-t]

20. He wants to tell them he found nukes in Iraq..

buried 18 feet underground. What an ass.

[bobbieinok]

21. isn't he there as a FOX reporter?? if the convention allows the co,

can they pick the reporter???

[SoCalDem]

22. If he has a "press" pass, he cannot be considered "entertainment "

later on when he violates the 60 day rule.. Is "ET" going to be at the convention??

If it's only for news people...he cannot all of a sudden hide behind the "I'm only entertainment" barricade..

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. Untrue - Hannity is to Dems as Michael Moore is to GOP

That isn't a comparison I'm comfortable with - re:the truth

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

27. i'm not making that comparison

actually i hate that one

along with the 'al franken is our coulter' one


our guys are accurate and truthful when they talk

but the right views al and mike the way we view sean

so why are we under this nonsensical dillusion that we have to allow him in?

nothing good will come of this. all we'll get is embarrassing, misleading video a la the wellstone funeral 'scandal'

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

29. I don't think we'll even get that

I hate that fucker!

[drscm]

26. Personally, I think that a group of delegates should follow him around

everywhere he goes. The same people should stick to him like glue the whole time without actually touching him. He would not know what to do.

[Tosca]

28. What do you want to do? Ban him?

That would be the great for his ass. He'd be braying for eternity.

Let the fool go. You know, sooner or later, these jackasses are gonna be found out for what they really are.

[TexasSissy]

31. I don't think he should be allowed. Really. We have to start drawing

the line and protecting ourselves. We're getting beaten up by all t his conservative press that spins and spins. Yet we don't do the same. So we should bar those who try to do that to us.

[geek tragedy]

32. His bitch, Alan Colmes, probably got him tickets.

Excuse the crude gender remark, but Colmes is like a character from Oz.

[kaitykaity]

35. Can you hear him whining if they don't let him in?

Besides there have been a couple Dems who have handed him
his head -- Howard Dean, Robert Reich to name two, and those
are the people we should get in front of him one right after
the other and make him run home screaming for Rupert.

That's what I'd do.

[Shopaholic]

36. He's probably just waiting for one of us to hit him. . . .

so he can go whining about it on-air. I still don't think the DNC should have allowed him access though--unless it was say. . . in Pittsburgh or some other "nearby" area.

[kaitykaity]

37. lol.

A free-speech zone for Hannity. Good one!

[Spygame]

38. Yep. Your right

[Hotler]

40. Make Hannity and O'Liely broadcast from ...

the FSZ's.

[Mr.Green93]

41. Give him a desk in the Freedom Cage

[ronnykmarshall]

43. No one will talk to his sorry ass.

So he'll have make up some bullshit quotes.

Nothing new for that slime ball.

[LTR]

44. He'll be part of the human sacrifice ceremony

If only...