Hannity airs cropped, misleading Dunn quote, then tells Davis "you don't have a clue what she was saying"
October 20, 2009 10:19 pm ET
From the October 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
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Which is exactly why they got Davis on the show. To point and sneer and say "Oh, typical stupid liberal!"
It's not very often the producers make the mistake of booking someone with a spine, and when they do we never see them again on FOX. Then they wonder why the WH singles them out...
And the moral of the story kids... is that when you crop something someone says so that it will fit your own personal agenda to make that person look bad to those who you are trying to bulls**t is not journalism nor is the work of any kind of media... it is however the work of pathetic insignificant insect!
This goes for anyone who would be so blatant in their need to push their agenda in such a way and I don't give a damn who it is that does this garbage, I'm talking to you as well!
About not having a clue as to what she is saying, Hannity doesn't have a lot of room to talk. His rational thinking has gone out the door and the garbage he is saying about Dunn is ridiculous. There is nothing wrong with quoting individuals and saying they are your favorite philosophers. You don't have to like a person to accept their ideas, but by accepting their ideas, you also don't have to support what they did. I'm sure that at least once in his life, Hannity has quoted someone of disrepute, but no one is calling for him to be fired because of it.
I've got to say that one of my favorite philosophers is Thomas Hobbs. Doesn't mean I agree with him and think this country should be a monarchy. However, some of his ideas provide the background for great academic discussion and deep thinking, which is something we should be encouraging, especially in schools. Somehow, I don't think Hannity would accept free thinking or challenging the norm (or justifying it rationally).
It's thirteen extra words to the audio that give the context of what she said an entirely different meaning. To play it any other way is intentional and deliberate.
Because to do so would make Sean an honest individual instead of the lying hack he is.
Play the entire clip? Hannity doesn't play that game.
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/09/29/tomo/index.html
I frequently enjoy and agree with your posts, but respectfully disagree with you this time. Davis's performance here was as feckless and pathetic as any I've seen from a Fox Dem, and I'm not one of those purists who insists that liberals shouldn't go on Fox. He was not in command of the facts and allowed Sean to lie to his face without rebuttle. If that typifies his performance on Fox, then I don't care if he's invited back.
Fox Dems typically come in several flavors...
1) Wishy-washy centrist or conservative Dems who will as often as not back up the conservative. Known by the phrase: "I'm a Democrat and I agree with you on this one, Glenn Beck." (i.e. Pat Caddell)
2) Flat out frauds who claim to be liberal but are in fact far right-wing (i.e.; Tammy Bruce).
3) Centrists or even center-right performers who are proclaimed "liberal" by dint of the fact that they are to the left of Sean Hannity.
4) Possibly genuine progressives who are not A-list performers, and who generally get steamrolled or laughed at by the conservatives who invariably outnumber them on any given panel.
4-a) Possibly genuine progressives who occassionally get pugnacious or are in command of the facts (very rare).