Hannity found Jackson denial "very credible" -- but still says he hears voice of Bill Clinton denying Lewinsky affair
On Hannity & Colmes, discussing reports that "Senate Candidate 5" in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rob Blagojevich is a reference to Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Sean Hannity asserted that Jackson "gave an emotional -- and he gave a very passionate defense of his conduct here" and that "he came off as very credible and believable to me." Hannity added, "[B]ut there's always a skeptical side of me. You know, in the back of my mind I hear that voice, 'I did not have sex.' You know, I hear Bill Clinton."
On the December 10 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity cited a statement former President Bill Clinton made regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky as a possible reason to be "skeptical" of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s (D-IL) "passionate defense" following reports that Jackson is the person referred to as "Senate Candidate 5" in the criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D). Hannity asserted that Jackson "gave an emotional -- and he gave a very passionate defense of his conduct here" and that "he came off as very credible and believable to me." Hannity continued, "[B]ut there's always a skeptical side of me. You know, in the back of my mind I hear that voice, 'I did not have sex.' You know, I hear Bill Clinton." Author and CNN contributor Bill Bennett responded, "Well, sure," to which Hannity replied: "And so people can lie in a passionate defense. But I found him to be credible today."
This is the second time in two days that Hannity has evoked Bill Clinton while discussing the Blagojevich scandal. As Media Matters for America documented, on the December 9 edition of Hannity & Colmes, Hannity compared the FBI audio tapes of Blagojevich to tapes released by Gennifer Flowers. In 2007, Media Matters also documented that Fox News' E.D. Hill compared President-elect Barack Obama's explanation for why he had stopped wearing an American flag pin on his lapel to Clinton's statement about his relationship with Lewinsky.
From the December 10 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: All right. Let's move on. I watched Jesse Jackson Jr. today.
BENNETT: Yeah.
HANNITY: He gave an emotional -- and he gave a very passionate defense of his conduct here. Now, I'm going to be -- it was funny, because my wife wrote me at the time, and she goes, "What do you think?" I said, you know what, he came off as very credible and believable to me, but there's always a skeptical side of me. You know, in the back of my mind I hear that voice, "I did not have sex." You know, I hear Bill Clinton.
BENNETT: Well, sure.
HANNITY: And so people can lie --
BENNETT: Yeah, oh gosh.
HANNITY: -- in a passionate defense.
BENNETT: I know.
HANNITY: But I found him to be credible today, because if you look at this -- what -- what was written yesterday, and what they're -- what they're laying out about candidate number five, it's pretty damning. So for him to have such a passionate defense --
BENNETT: Yeah.
HANNITY: -- he better be telling the truth. What are your thoughts?
BENNETT: Well, who knows? We have all been conditioned to this some, haven't we, Sean? I mean, we have seen these things before. And so we look for body language, we look for all sorts of things. Who knows?
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That voice you hear, Sean, is the almighty dollar, telling you to do Murdoch's bidding.
The real voice he hears is "But he's a democrat"...
Gee, when I get nostalgic for lying politicians, I hear things like "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud", or "There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties."
The Wabac Machine of political lies takes me back to "I am not a crook." Hannity's, of course, is set to skip Republican administrations.
When a Republican does it, it's not a crime.
hasn't. Why can't you edit posts?
Why does Sean heal Bill Clinton talking about Monica Lewinsky? Couldn't he have heard Bill O'Reilly talking about Andrea Macrkis for a change?
Not "heal," "hear."
This interface really bites.
Buenos tardes, Prince. I'd been curious about who Alan Colmes replacement patsy would be since I'd heard he was leaving H&C. I heard Hannity's radio show this afternoon, and he announced the new title of his show; HANNITY !
He's getting rid of that overbearing left wing blowhard, which should give him more time to do his unique brand of objective, thoughtful analysis and balanced investigative journalism.
Finally!
I heard part of it too. He claimed come Jan 12, the show would be nothing like you have seen before blah blah.
Here is what I do not understand. In the same show on radio, he claimed multiple times that Obama and the IL gov. are probably both crooks and his evidence was that there was a photo of both of them together and that there was a Chicago Way. So far very Hannity-esque.
However, he allowed at least two callers that were saying the photo is meaningless in arriving at the conclusion he did and that he was fooling his listeners by just mentioning the photo.
Why?
My4, are you asking why Hannity actually allowed some truth on his show? I noticed that he does mention the things that seem to make it clear that Obama isn't implicated in this, and I can think of a few reasons;
1. Sean gets to use the word "exculpatory" a lot. It was either on his word-a-day calendar, or he's hoping his audience doesn't know what it means.
2. These facts (Blago's expletive-filled outburst againsts Obama's peoples' failure to get involved with him, Fitzgerald's statements ) are too obvious for even the dimwitted Hannity to pretend to be unaware of. Even Sean may know this is a joke, and he can cite himself as fair for mentioning them, while using them to launch into "but.... (wild theories about Obama's guilt)
The other angle seems to be that if Obama comes up clean in connection with Blago, he can be portrayed as naive for not knowing about his dirt or reporting it. If it turns out (I haven't heard) that Emmanuel was involved in tipping off the FBI, the whole thing will be shot, except for the hardcore Hannitized.
All that aside, this has been the most entertaining Hannity obsession in a while.
BTW, I mentioned in another thread that "The Chicago Way" may be the new go-to phrase in your Hannity drinking game. "Unrepentant terrorist" is still alive, but fading.
"...he announced the new title of his show; HANNITY !" Or, to give it the proper Irish spelling, hVannity.
Hannity, by the way, is actually a midlands English name (I've looked it up), not Irish, though I don't know where his people actually immigrated from. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that enough of these right-wing blowhards bear Irish names to burn my Yank-Hibernian buns.
like many rightwingers, hannity probably hears clinton in his sleep. help, the boogey man is after me.
He (and, sadly his family) make their living off of Clintons. Without the phony outrage he fools his followers with everyday, he is toast.
Some years down the road, he will make his money from Obamas.
Suckers are the (supposed) millions that believe him.
Only if they make up stuff about the Obama's and his subjects suck it up as true.
Actually, Hannity is so unreliable that no matter what he says about Democrats, think 180 degrees opposite. Hannity is the most well developed smear artist ehrn hr id on s diatribe against a Democrat. Yep, very biased and very organized in his smears about Democrats. If Hannity mentions any fault of a Democrat, be sure to check further since the facts wil most often lead you to the context of some Republican being exposed for malfeasance in connection with their duties as a politician. Hannity skirts the facts so often when dealing with a factual report about any Democrat so that one has to divide by a million and subtract half of that answer to reach a solid number to correctly weight the malfeasance charge he ASSUMES has been committed by said Republican.
This "sycophant" for the conservative republican party mentions Bill Clinton every other word...it reminds of Rudy...a noun, a verb & 9-11! No evidence, just speculation all the time!