Hannity suggests SCOTUS nominee will be "somebody extremely radical" since Obama's policies have been "radically left" and "socialist"
May 01, 2009 9:23 pm ET
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I listened to the first five minutes of Hannity's show today- he used the word "Radical" no less than six times in that first five minutes, including "Radical Agenda," "Radical court pick" (not even a list of prospective choices available yet) "Radical Economic plans," etc. etc. etc.
I think he gets paid based on the number of times he can fit the word "Radical" into a rant. His entire show- radio or TV- should be "Radical, Radical, Socialist, Bill Ayers, Radical French Apology Tour Radical French Socialist" repeated a thousand times or so. None of his loyal listeners would know the difference.
Drink once for Socialist, twice for [b]Socializded Medcine[/b.
Drinnk once for Radical or Leftist, twice for Radical Leftist or Leftist Agenda, three times for Radical Leftist Agenda.
Drink once for Bill Ayers or Reverend Wright
Drink once if his Birth Cirtificate is mentioned, or if he's accussed of being a Muslim. (Twice if that's NOT done by Ann Coulter.)
Drink once everytime Glenn Beck feins outrage over something nonsensical. (Wait that could get pretty expensive...)
Drink once if Hannity repeats a proven falsehood, even after a guest ON THAT SHOW, IN THAT SEGMENT has said otherwise.
Drink everytime Pres Obama is accused of hating, blaming or apologizing for America. (Twice if it's NOT Hannity.)
Drink once if Bill O'Rielly reference a Culture War, the War on Christmas, or (anyone) claims Marriage is Under Attack.
If you've ever lived by the ocean, I mean live right on it, where the high tide isn't much more than 100 feet from the back of your house (and I've been lucky enough to have lived in three different houses exactly like that), if you've ever lived by the ocean, then you can appreciate this:
After a while, you no longer hear it.
You get so used to the sound of the surf, and to the resulting rolling clicking sound of the rocks as each and every wave recedes, and even to the sound of the gulls too, and the sounds of the bells on the buoys marking the channel and sounding out the choppiness of the sea... you get so used to all of these unrelenting sounds, that after a while you never even notice them, and effectively don't hear them anymore.
My point is: this noise about socialism and radicals and fascism and whatever other isms these media hacks fall upon or otherwise invent, it's such an unrelenting noise that I'm wondering, are we becoming deaf to it yet?
I mean, after a while, wouldn't this unrelenting noise be like any other unrelenting noise, and have the effect in the one who hears it (lives near it), of no longer noticing it, and in effect not hearing it?
Well anyway, screw that noise, never mind it... instead imagine in your mind's ear what I recalled and described to you above: it's nicer.
I agree with you Dem, after awhile you just don't hear the noise. To use your analogy; when there is a storm coming, and the wind is up, and fog horn is going off, you can't ignore it.
These hacks are aware of that, so they ratch up the noise, and in so doing the anxiety. The wind is all the push button words; socialism, facism, terrorism, immigration etc. The fog horn is their call to safety, by defining the real America.
They all have the same narratives, and the real America. They use the myths of the past (Horatio Alger, etc) that appeal to our emotions. It is a strategy that can be every effective. They know it, and they use it.