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Hannity revives another smear: "We've got [Obama] on tape saying, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need' "

July 15, 2009 8:24 am ET

From the July 14 edition of Fox News Channel's Hannity:

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Misrepresenting Obama's audiobook, Hannity claimed Obama said, "White folks' greed runs a world in need"

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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 15, 2009 8:33 am ET)
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      And we've got Hannity on tape while someone shines a flashlight in his left ear while someone else is making shadow pictures on the wall with the light that comes out of his right ear.
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      • Author by snoopy (July 15, 2009 2:04 pm ET)
           
        I've got two pics of him shagging sheep and one video of him squealing like a pig. Oh wait, MMFA has dozens of him doing that...
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    • Author by smarshall1432997 (July 15, 2009 8:38 am ET)
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      Prove it Sean Hannity.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (July 15, 2009 8:53 am ET)
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      What a despicable piece of crap. You know what, Sean...we've got YOU on videotape saying "White folks greed runs a world in need." I just heard you say it and every time I replay the tape you say those words again...from your lips. Shame on you, Hannity.
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      • Author by robyn20094113 (July 16, 2009 4:53 am ET)
           
        Wish we could put Sean, Beck and Rush up on that big billboard in Time Square spewing their biggest lies. Followed with proof. Something big, where they would have to refute it with facts, instead of just screaming "This is smear tactics by main stream media." Maybe then their sponsors would pull out and do them in.
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    • Author by goesto11 (July 15, 2009 8:57 am ET)
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      Hannity has acknowledged several times in the past that Obama was simply quoting Rev. Wright in his book.

      So, according to The Hannity Principle...if I repeat the words of Adolf Hitler, then I'm Adolf Hitler.

      Now I get it. Hey, if I recite Love Me Tender, can I be Elvis?
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (July 15, 2009 9:05 am ET)
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        This isn't the first time Hannity has attributed words to Obama when Obama was simply quoting someone else. Hannity is dishonest. In fact, if memory serves me correctly, Hannity once won an award for dishonesty.
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    • Author by jmille426471 (July 15, 2009 9:22 am ET)
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      Gasp!!!

      We have Sean Hannity on tape complaining about "white man's greed"!

      Oh, he was quoting Obama? Whatever, no excuses.
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      • Author by jmille426471 (July 15, 2009 9:44 am ET)
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        Oh my God, I just complained about "white man's greed". There, I did it again! The Horror!
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    • Author by DAWUSS (July 15, 2009 9:22 am ET)
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      Is that the "Whitey" tape he was denying to have owned way back when?
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    • Author by jbraskin4786 (July 15, 2009 9:24 am ET)
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      What's the story with Hannity's hair? It looks like it's as phony as what he's saying.
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 15, 2009 10:25 am ET)
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        His original hair joined AFTRA and went on strike for higher wages. So he now has a scab wig from "Joe's Rent-a-Rug."
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      • Author by vysotsky (July 15, 2009 1:10 pm ET)
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        I'm on tape saying, "Hannity's weave makes me want to heave."
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    • Author by cmiller442 (July 15, 2009 9:33 am ET)
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      Hannity is simply jealous of Glenn Beck replacing him on the Fox Nonsense Channel Looney Tunes list so he will say anything to regain the crown.

      My thoughts are the need more crowns.

      Crowns for Clowns! I kill me..
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 15, 2009 9:53 am ET)
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      When your market is declining,you do high intensity marketing to your value added customers.This so you can make more money off fewer customers.There will be more garbage like this.They are getting desperate.Republican congressmen and senators,are running from his show.Michell Bauchman has rose in rank for his show as a congressional viewpoint person.If it gets desperate enough he will learn what everyone else already knows.Conservatives(republicans),will through you under the bus faster than anybody,and will drive the bus.Swear they never agreeed with nothing hateful on his show.
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    • Author by Reporter in Exile (July 15, 2009 10:07 am ET)
         
      Are you sure you want to draw attention to this?

      I agree that, within that 20 second span, Hannity was not clear that Obama was quoting Wright. He did say “It’s from a Jeremiah Wright song,” which implies the source, but the “we have Obama on tape” leaves the impression they are Obama’s words, and he may not have mentioned Wright if not prompted.
      BUT…where is the part where Obama denounces the statement? Encourages readers to reject the statement? Challenges the statement? The fact that he chose the sermon with THAT racist rant as the title of his book completely overshadows your complaint about the annoying Hannity, and quotes and attribution, etc.
      While you aim at that narrow target, most people would look for context, and they would conclude: “Holy crap. Obama agrees with Wright.”
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    • Author by marco21 (July 15, 2009 11:52 am ET)
         
      This tape must be stashed with the Michelle Obama whitey tape which African Press International will be releasing any day now.

      Sean is still smearing away like it's 2008 using the same old material. How is that working out for you, Sean?
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      • Author by blueline99 (July 15, 2009 2:14 pm ET)
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        Hannity is referring to President Obama's book Dreams from My Father, and the tape is the Audiobook version of it.

        There is one passage in the book where he is comparing abject poverty in Africa, war and famine in one hemisphere and the avarice and self-interests in another... realize, he is speaking of the homeland of his Father...

        It's great fodder for the right to take a nuanced and layered discussion and reduce it to one phrase and claim racism. It shows the utter shallowness of their world view and miniscule size of their brains. I wish someone would call Hannity on this quote and have a real discussion of our role in the world as we stand idly by and watch Africa starve and tear itself apart. How would Hannity feel if he was a citizen of an impoverished nation, with 12 years carrying AK-47s, fighting a war that nobody in the West cares about. Then maybe the quote would make some sense.

        "It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere... That's the world! On which hope sits!"
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      • Author by blueline99 (July 15, 2009 2:15 pm ET)
           
        Hannity is referring to President Obama's book Dreams from My Father, and the tape is the Audiobook version of it.

        There is one passage in the book where he is comparing abject poverty in Africa, war and famine in one hemisphere and the avarice and self-interests in another... realize, he is speaking of the homeland of his Father...

        It's great fodder for the right to take a nuanced and layered discussion and reduce it to one phrase and claim racism. It shows the utter shallowness of their world view and miniscule size of their brains. I wish someone would call Hannity on this quote and have a real discussion of our role in the world as we stand idly by and watch Africa starve and tear itself apart. How would Hannity feel if he was a citizen of an impoverished nation, with 12 years carrying AK-47s, fighting a war that nobody in the West cares about. Then maybe the quote would make some sense.

        "It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere... That's the world! On which hope sits!"
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        • Author by vysotsky (July 15, 2009 3:21 pm ET)
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          More to the point, Obama is quoting someone else in this passage. Obama doesn't represent these words as his own. Hannity, however, does.

          From page 292-3 of the hardcover edition of Dreams from My Father:

          [T]he pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.

          "The painting depicts a harpist," Revernd Wright explained, "a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountaintop. Untill you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.

          "It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere ... That's the world! On which hope sits."

          And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world.

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    • Author by bilbo_dies (July 15, 2009 2:00 pm ET)
         
      Whatever; new/recycled strawman to get all upset about and rile up the base. (yawn)

      I do have to say though that, from a personal standpoint, I think there is a lot of truth in that phrase.
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (July 15, 2009 2:18 pm ET)
           
        I'd agree, Bilbo-dies. I've never seen any of these wingnuts make a good case against the statement, they don't seem to get past the emotional reaction to the "vicious attack" on the poor persecuted white man.

        OT, but saw Bill Maher on Hardball last night, he had a pretty funny line re: all of the confused attempts at playing the race card by the GOPpers questioning Sotomayor. Something about Peurto Rican women from the Bronx having their boot on the neck of white men for far too long.
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    • Author by shell68 (July 15, 2009 2:12 pm ET)
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      All u guys need to get a life Hannity only specks the truth maybe the truth hurts
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      • Author by robyn20094113 (July 16, 2009 5:00 am ET)
           
        Hannity only specks the truth
        What? Are you saying there are only specks of truth in what Hannity says? Or are you admitting that there are not even specks of truth in what Hannity says?
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    • Author by Justalittleluck (July 15, 2009 6:59 pm ET)
         
      Hannity and Beck are both scary!
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    • Author by Tom Bien (July 16, 2009 1:34 am ET)
         
      And now we have Sean Hannity caught saying "White man's greed runs a world of need." He should be ashamed of himself,
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