War on Easter? Really, Hannity?

[pokerfan]

(edit to fix the image)

Poor, poor Sean Hannity. He may be a multimillionaire but as a white Christian, he faces terrible discrimination in America. It used to be just the War on Christmas. But now the forces of evil secular liberalism are threatening Easter - or at least Hannity would have you think so. And what better way to show off being a Christian than to use your victimhood as an excuse to attack people who disagree with you? Unfortunately, in this case, Hannity’s examples of the Easter War had almost nothing to do with Easter, much less a war on it, and his Christianity-crusader guest was – well, I hate to say it but she seemed almost demonic.

I’m sure the folks at Fox searched high and low for proof that President Obama is somehow behind the War on Easter (don’t forget those dastardly environmentally-friendly Easter Eggs!) or at least some high-profile liberal that Fox News loves to hate, such as Van Jones or a union member or even a Muslim. But, apparently, the best they could do was Lady Gaga (for her new song called, “Judas”) and Ricky Gervais who had the nerve to criticize Christians at this time of year. Surely, they could have found something “better” from Bill Maher!

News Hounds - We watch FOX so you don't have to....

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/04/22/fox_and_hannitys_ridiculous_whine_about_a_war_on_easter.php

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok that does it

hand me a few laughing tracts at this point.

War on Christmas, war on Easter... war on the values of this christian nation (Jefferson is spinning in grave)... but these guys LOVE AN RYAND who wanted to actually DESTROY all their worship like for REAL!

My irony meter is broken

[Shiver]

2. The War on Easter is WINNABLE! n/t

[DCKit]

3. Eventually, Faux is going to hire someone who thinks "news" is telling their audience...

how big a BM they had this morning... and it'll make for better programming.

[DCKit]

4. How did you shrink the image?

I'd like to learn so I can be a better DUer and pass the info along.

[pokerfan]

7. It's a completely different image

The first image was just a quick ctrl+prn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot#Microsoft_Windows">screenshot while the flash was running. I used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP">GIMP to crop it but didn't do much else with it. Then I decided to catch a better Hannity expression so I used https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/DownThemAll!">downthemall to download the clip from YouTube and then I used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player">VLC to single step through the frames one by one until I found one I thought captured his emotional state and used VLC's built-in frame grabber to save it as a jpg.

[DCKit]

8. Geez, that's a lot of work.

But maybe it'd give me more time to think about what I'm posting. :evilgrin:

Oh, and thanks for the reply.

[pokerfan]

11. Yeah, but I think it was worth it

Poor Shawn looks like he's about to cry!

[Morning Dew]

5. The Christ hating calendar makers have pushed Easter almost to May this year!!

Damn them!

[lob1]

6. The pro Easterers can be defeated because at the root of

their philosophy is a basic flaw. They have Easter bunnies and Easter eggs. Those two things don't go together. Is is Easter bunny or Easter Chicken? We drive the wedge there and they're ours.

[pokerfan]

10. Well...

They have Easter bunnies and Easter eggs. Those two things don't go together.

Not normally...

[lob1]

24. Damn, a bunny-chicken conspiracy, I didn't see that

coming. We're as screwed as the chicken.

[Keith Bee]

9. Quick! We have to arm the bunnies!

:rofl:

[Warren DeMontague]

12. I have to agree. If people are waging war on springtime fertility and fucking celebrations

by God, this time they've GONE TOO FAR!

[OnyxCollie]

13. Locking.

No sex threads.

:rofl:

[Bluesbreaker]

14. We need a war on asshats like Sean Hannity

And I know right where to put the "Tip of the spear"

[RebelOne]

22. I agree. I never watch that idiot.

He believes his own lies.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. shhhhh be wary quiet...

I'm hunting easter wabbits!

[formercia]

20. Silly Wabbit.

[athenasatanjesus]

16. I've already murdered several Easter Bunnies this year.

Secular Liberal Pride!!!

[eShirl]

17. You'd think they would have come up with a non-Pagan name for the Christian holiday by now. n/t

[pokerfan]

21. You'd think...

Usually when they co-opted these pagan holidays they would rename them.


Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts

[Fuddnik]

18. Lighten up Sean. It's called Rabbit Season.

And them's good eatin'.

[brettdale]

19. Havent followed politics for a real long time

But even for the repugs wouldnt this be getting old???

Even the faux news guys like Hannity and Oreilly and Beck, wouldnt they be tried of saying the big bad democrats
want to ban Jesus.

I mean wouldnt they just want to lay on the beach and enjoy life instead of doing what they do?

[Ezlivin]

23. Let the children enjoy Easter!

Damn. That's about as scary as Donny Darko's rabbit.

[Dappleganger]

25. RISE UP PEEPS!!11!!!!

[JoePhilly]

26. LOL

[pokerfan]

28. Peeps!

(Peep Show)

[hfojvt]

27. an army of shotguns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQcccIfy7mE

[IcyPeas]

29. You guys obviously didn't get this memo:

Easter Eggs are now called "Spring Spheres"

http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=459668

think this'll catch on?

[pokerfan]

30. The only problem with that story

The “spring sphere” story was recounted to a Seattle radio station by a 16-year-old volunteer at the school who wouldn’t give her last name or the name of the school in question. She claims she was handing a kid an Easter egg filled with candy. “They said I could do it as long as I called the treats ‘spring spheres.’ I couldn’t call them Easter eggs,” she explained. Which has either prank or media studies project written all over it.

Meanwhile, a Seattle school board spokesperson says that they have been looking into the incident, and can’t find proof that it happened or that any of their schools are using the term “spring sphere.”

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-spring-spheres-instead-of-easter-eggs-not-so-fast

Of course, that didn't stop Fox from running with it: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/04/07/school-renames-easter-eggs-spring-spheres

[IcyPeas]

31. I didn't know that ....

I think it's a pretty funny prank -- hey, it made the news and was harmless. touche

[pokerfan]

32. Pranking FauxSnooz

is like hunting dairy cattle with rifle and scope. The only downside is that there are sad souls out there who might not realize that FoxNews is a comedy channel.