Sean Hannity: "Fear of getting fired" is a great way to silence liberal college professors

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Hannity is defending Imus right now on Fox because Imus got fired as a result of a black person's protest. Here is what Free Speech Hannity said about liberal college professors:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47601

If it is legal, tape them. If it is not legal, take verbatim notes, get witnesses, bring these articles to the school newspapers, bring it to the local media. Expose these people for the abusive professors that they are, and I guarantee you when there's a series of these instances where we expose these people, I guarantee you this indoctrination process is going to stop dead in its tracks. ...

"Fear is a great motivator, and the fear that these left-wingers are going to get fired or be held accountable for their mean-spirited comments against people or their indoctrination is going to be the single-biggest motivation we ever see to get them to stop doing what they're doing to college kids around the country."

[Azathoth]

1. "If Great Leader won't purge the universities of subversives, we'll do it for him."

Sigh.

[MadMaddie]

2. There is something really wrong with Hannity....

All he needs his his brown shirt and swastika armband and he'll be good to go.

As if he has never said anything bad about another American citizen..

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Thug n/t

[Straight Shooter]

4. "Fear is a great motivator."

So is greed, Hannity. So is lust for power.

Now go look in the mirror.

[kenny blankenship]

16. Such is the hope of every terrorist that ever lived (and killed, or incited murder)

[Cha]

5. And what's it gonna take

to shut the mean spirited, hypocrital asshole up?

LIBERAL LIBERAL LIBERAL..HAHA!

[UTUSN]

6. What a LOSER is HANNITY!!1 I remember in '06 he was SCARING his audience

about "if you don't VOTE, you are going to see SPEAKER PELOSI!!!1" Is that something to be SCARED of? And she's there and there is no APOCALPSE!!!1

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Sean Hannity:

He has to gargle with Fleet Enemas.

[Canuckistanian]

8. This is precisely why academic tenure was invented in the first place

To protect learning institutions from goons like Hannity.

Tenure was supposed to be a protection for people exploring unpopular ideas.

Wiki does a good job of explaining here:

Academic tenure is primarily intended to guarantee the right to academic freedom: it protects respected teachers and researchers when they dissent from prevailing opinion, openly disagree with authorities of any sort, or spend time on unfashionable topics. Thus academic tenure is similar to the lifetime tenure that protects some judges from external pressure. Without job security, the scholarly community as a whole might favor "safe" lines of inquiry. Tenure makes original ideas more likely to arise, by giving scholars the intellectual autonomy to investigate the problems and solutions about which they are most passionate, and to report their honest conclusions.

[sellitman]

21. Great reply!

Thanks for posting. So true!

[mike_c]

9. ROFLMAO....

He should come spend some time on my campus, LOL. I'd like to see him try that crap here. He'd be laughed out of town.

[pinto]

10. Eh. This talk show guy makes a couple of points. One fact based and one emotion based.

"Fear is a great motivator." Undoubtedly true. Flight or fight is a primary hallmark of our biological makeup.

*Yet*, to extrapolate that into a political framework is a hallmark of the right wing agenda. And to advocate it's use to drive their agenda seems primary to their M.O.

A petty, cheap shot.

FDR's comment at a much more dangerous time in our history is worth noting: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

[gatorboy]

11. I love how these folks embrace Imus as one of their own.

Strictly on the basis of his bigoted comments.

[rasputin1952]

12. Oh for God's sake...as much as that miserable liar spews his

crap all over the place, I'm amazed he has any job at all..:grr:

[wtmusic]

13. It's not the professors, it's knowledge in general

that Hannity should be afraid of.

[WinkyDink]

14. RW'ers and Fascists HATE people who THINK. THAT is what this is all about.

[Deja Q]

15. or ANY American right now. It's a good way to encourage support.

Hannity has little business defending Imus. Well, actually he can do what he wants; but given the state of the media (which is nothing more than toilet talk), you'd think more these folks and pretty much anybody would be defending CBS for taking a stance.

For, IMHO, the first amendment has more to do with the right to criticize than it does the right to denigrate whole groups of people. (aka racism, which has NOTHING to do with the first amendment.)

The first amendment reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

When's the last time "nappy headed hos" was used in a PEACEFUL context? Uh, NEVER?! Petitioning the government for a redress of grievances has precious little to do with calling somebody a "diaper wearing prostitute", depending on the linguistic vernacular you're translating to. ("Nappy" is UK slang for "diaper", though it means "napkin" in American English. "Ho" is fairly universal, despite Santa Claus, the Green Giant, and Fat Albert all using the same word too. And two of those characters aren't white. Indeed, one of them may even be black! Oh dear... :sarcasm: And how did I get into THAT tangent?!)

And if there is supposed to be no prohibiting the right to free speech, how come we have countless examples of the opposite in the corporate world today? Or selective prohibition; as some people want to defend Imus, others the rap industry, others defending both, and then that psycho lot who thinks both Imus and anyone else who says the epithet are wrong, devolved, and need to change their attitudes?


And, yeah, the rap community and their record labels have some explaining and act-cleaning to do as well. I'm tired of the devolution of society and it's got to change, and it can only change from the top down. It's like blaming the drug addict for the problem; the problem of which was started solely by the pusher. Let's go after the pushers. And stop defending them. Or are all those FOX specials about how the media and our culture has gone down the loo a load of fiction too?

[MADem]

17. That's very odd, his argument. I can't watch him, but it seems he's decrying

the inability of Republican Imus to speak, and then on the other hand saying it's OK to try to stifle those college profs on the liberal side of the fence.

It just makes no sense.

Of course, if he had any real awareness about Imus's changing stance regarding the war and the incompetence of BushCo these last few months, he'd probably be leading the charge to put his head on a pike.

[azurnoir]

18. I think this has been tried and failed

the srticle is from 11/05 I remember reading about about some little wingnut wanker trying this stunt. He taped a professor who was female and Native American in a Native American history class saying that she made anti-American statements, mot did she not get fired he was disciplined. Unless your talking about some Bible collage I doubt this stunt will work any where.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. Someone should silence his sappy ass. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

20. Sean It-Worked-At-Tianemin -Square-Why-Not-Here Hannity?

[madrchsod]

22. got a legitimate problem with a jr college professor

then take it to the dean of students or the dept head. what hannity fails to realize is that the left can do the same to conservate professors. jesus all this fuss over a jr college professor?

[DBoon]

23. Joe McCarthy's Ghost!

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