Bush actually used a Hannity (lie) talking point last night

[underpants]

I couldn't believe that he would parrot that RW radio line (keep the base tight no doubt) but that numbers is the result of..........FUZZY MATH

Kerry proposed withholding $1.5 Billion OVER 5 years not FOR 5 years

1,500,000,000 DIVIDED by 5 = $300,000,000 a year (1% of the TOTAL CIA budget)

from the National Reconnaisance Office (spy satellite contractor and military contractor slush fund) who had hoarded $1 Billion over the years and were planning to use it to build an office building for the defense lobbyists.

The motion failed in committee but Arlen Specter (R-Pa) put it up for a voice vote the same day and it passed 96-3.

Hannity has been trumpeting this for a year-he started with a $3Billion figure (WRONG) bumped it up to $4B for a while eased it up to $5B for a few weeks got it to $6B for two weeks and then in one week moved it up to $7B and then $7.5B (1.5 X 5) so that the "Hannitized" hopefully wouldn't notice the sudden change. Trust me I heard this on the way home everyday for several months.




Mr. Kerry x x x x tax cut over homeland security. Wrong choice.

Q. Mr. President.

Mr. Bush That's an odd thing to say since we've doubled - tripled the homeland security budget from $10 billion to $30 billion. Listen, we'll do everything we can to protect the homeland. My opponent's right, we need good intelligence. That's also a curious thing for him to say since right after 1993 he voted to cut the intelligence budget by $7.5 billion.

The best way to defend America in this war - in this world we live in is to stay on the offense. We've got to be right 100 percent of the time here at home. And they've got to be right once. And that's the - that's the reality. And there's a lot of good people working hard. We're doing the best we possibly can to share information. That's why the Patriot Act was important.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/politics/campaign/09dtext-full.html?pagewanted=8

[Cocoa]

1. it's the other way around

Rove feeds Hannity and the others their entire script.

[underpants]

2. Okay but this has been one of Hannity's aces in the hole

The others WERE:

Clinton-Sudan-deal for Osama-Monsour Ijaz story
That was shot down the day after the 9/11 commission report was issued. Hannity had Lehman on he played his coveted audio of Clinton talking about getting Saudi Arabia to arrest OBL when the Sudan kicked him out. Hannity has spun this into proof that a deal was offered. Lehman said (close quote)~"We didn't include that in the report because the source (Sean himself?) was unreliable and the supposed middle man (Ijaz surely) was also not reliable"

I haven't heard Hannity mention it since.

Dean said that Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened
Franken threw this back in his face when Hannity was on Al's show at the Dem convention. Hannity tried to say that Dean had "advanced" this theory and Al played audio of Hannity actually saying that Dean SAID it.

Dean was on NPR saying that the 38 pages of redacted info in the Congressional 9/11 study (Saudis)was going to be redmeat for conspiracy theorists who have said that Bush knew-the end of the statement was Dean saying that he completely discredited such theories. Hannity conveniently left the before and after part of that statement out of the audio he plays for the "Hannitized".

The $7.5 B fantasy is Hannity's third ace in the hole and is a credible as the first two.

[Cocoa]

3. does Hannity talk about the UN scandal?

I know that the Weekly Standard and people like Charles Krauthammer have been pounding away at it for a long time, but now Bush has started talking about it. And it sure is pathetic. The oil-for-food scandal as a defense of no WMD, how desperate have they become?

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4. Same words on all their scripts

Yes he hammers on it all the time. The local station switched formats and put their hate radio shows on a weak channel so I haven't been able to listen to it for a couple of weeks but yes that has been on the daily menu for Hannity.

Look there were serious problems with the Oil for Food program but they are just using it for distraction from no WMD and the drill the "liberal media" lie further down the already convinced's throats.

[underpants]

5. _

See that really wasn't necessary...........but I did it anyway.