Hannity's screener tells me, "God, you can't say THAT to him".

[11 Bravo]

Maybe I have too much time on my hands. Anyhow, I stumbled onto Insannity's show just in time to hear his 500th inane reference to Ted Kennedy "having a few pops" complete with the trademark jackass "hiccup" noises. I started dialing and eventually actually reached the screener, who asked me what I wanted to discuss with Sean. I replied that "Your boss makes constant references to Senator Kennedy's drinking. Is he aware that the total number of DUIs that we currently know about stands at Bush/Cheney 3 and Ted Kennedy 0?" I went on to say that "Hannity constantly refers to Senator Robert Byrd as the 'old Klansman'. Senator Byrd repudiated the Klan and all that they stand for prior to either of Dick Cheney's 2 DUIs and well before George W. Bush received his DUI. In the interest of fairness, shouldn't your boss start refering to Bush and Cheney as those 'old drunks'?" That's when the screener pitched a mini-fit, but I swear I thought I detected just a little bit of laughter in their voice.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Hannity's audience can't handle the truth...

they've never heard it before, it would completely screw them up. Heads would explode everywhere.

[Pab Sungenis]

2. Don't forget Laura!

She has an alcohol related vehicular homicide on her record!

[NYCGirl]

15. One mistake...

It was NOT alcohol related. Hannity lies, Democrats don't.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

[Pab Sungenis]

18. Thank you for the correction.

So it's still Bush/Cheney 3, Kennedy 0.

[justice1]

3. You're probably right, I laughed.

[DrGonzoLives]

4. No, no, no, no, no

LIE to the screeners. It's the only way to get on.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Ha! Good one!

I'll go out on a limb here and guess that you never got to talk to the "big man" himself.

Reality doesn't have a place on that show.

[Inland]

6. That's infuriating that cons have the gall to bring up drugs and drinking.

With ex-cokehead Bush and a VP who shot someone in the face under the influence, OxyRush et al., the liberals and democrats are Carrie Nation by comparison.

[librechik]

19. Classic Rove technique--accuse your opponent of what YOU are guilty of

works, too, dammit

[Inland]

21. They look in the mirror and come up with the smear.

Kerry, coward war criminal, for example.

[benburch]

7. She'd lose her job!

So, of course she cannot let you say that to him!

[Tim4319]

8. Didn't Laura use to sell weed?

I thought I heard somewhere that she sold some weed in college.

[paparush]

22. Not weed...they called it...um....happy grass!! ; -)

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. "...a little bit of laughter in their voice."

I don't doubt you're right. They know they are in the entertainment business, doing their schtick for the rubes. And the rubes take them seriously. (That is, the station personnel, the crew, the screeners, etc. Not the Hannitys and the Limbaughs -- they're just nuts.)

[Tim4319]

10. You should have said.

"I have something to add to the whole Ted Kennedy and alcohol point he made." And let it at that! Then, as soon as you got on you should've let him have it.

[dusmcj]

11. Sean misses his college binges at the local pub

two Irish boys fightin' about who's tipped more, how sweet.

[Ian David]

12. My gun has killed one less person than Laura Bush's car

Claim: While a teenager, future First Lady Laura Bush caused the death of a classmate in a car accident.

Status: True.

<snip>

Origins: Driving is one of the most dangerous activities we engage in, and most of us do it every day, little realizing the peril of it. Every year in the U.S. there are approximately 6.5 million traffic accidents, resulting in about 42,000 fatalities.

In May 2000, a two-page police report pertaining to a fatal accident that had taken place near Midland, Texas, in 1963 was made public. It Laura Bush contained the information that 17-year-old Laura Welch had run a stop sign, causing the death of the sole occupant of the vehicle hers had struck. According to that report, the future First Lady had been driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on 6 November 1963 when she entered an intersection without heeding the stop sign and there collided with the Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Also in the car with Laura Welch was a passenger, 17-year-old Judy Dykes.

<snip>

Michael Douglas, the young man who was killed, had been a member of Laura Welch's crowd at high school and her friend. He had been a star athlete, excelling in track and football, and was looked up to by his peers not just for his athlete prowess, but for his personality and intelligence too. By all reports, he was likeable, outgoing, and funny. He was nominated as the school's most popular boy while a junior, an honor that almost always went to a senior.

There has always been speculation about the nature of his relationship with Laura Welch. One rumor asserts the two had never dated, but that Laura had been romantically interested in him. Another claims he had been Laura's boyfriend when he died, and another that he had once been her boyfriend but the couple had subsequently broken up. (The latter theory is advanced in the 2002 biography of the Bushes, George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage, which states Laura Welch and Michael Douglas had dated throughout early and mid-1963, but by the fall of that year Michael was going out with Regan Gammon, one of Miss Welch's closest friends.)

The accident is difficult to understand it that it took place on a clear night on dry pavement at a crossroads described as "the middle of nowhere," where the view was unobstructed and the stop sign that faced Laura Welch was clearly visible. (The intersection was a two-way, not a four-way, stop.) Yet looking to only weather and road conditions to explain what happened is to miss the obvious: there were two teen girls in the car, girls who were on their way to a party and thus who likely would have been bubbling over with chatter about who would be there. Laura Welch, the driver, had turned 17 only two days earlier. She and her passenger were still of an age when they could all too easily shut out everything going on around them, even the approach of another car and the recognition of a stop sign.

More:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

[rucky]

14. Laura Bush has killed more people than Charles Manson. n/t

[TheFarseer]

13. la la la, I'm not listening

only democrats do bad things because they are immoral. Republicans are the party of Jesus.

Thanks for the laugh

[mrcheerful]

20. Now you know thats unfair to judge someone after they are born again.

yes sarcasm.

[varkam]

16. Next time, just say...

"I can't believe I got through! I've been trying to talk to Mr. Hannity for weeks now! He's the most handsome and smartest person on television! I'd just like to discuss what more I can do to help him and our President. Jesus. Bible."

[kurth]

17. Never bend over to pick up anything while near

Sean Hannity or any of his fanboys. If you do, you will end up losing your ability to poop correctly and make Jesus cry.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Sean_Hannity