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Hannity hosts Continetti to complain about the media's "persecution" of Palin

November 12, 2009 10:31 pm ET

From the November 12 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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Previously:

The unbearable stupidity of Weekly Standard's Matthew Continetti

Irony alert: Weekly Standard's Matthew Continetti decries the Palin haters

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    • Author by DAWUSS (November 12, 2009 10:53 pm ET)
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      Any guesses on the number of hardball questions Hannity will ask Palin during his interview with her? If the line is zero (0), I'm taking "under"
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      • Author by ProgLib (November 13, 2009 7:48 am ET)
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        hes giving her ANOTHER interview???

        isnt it funny, though, how the wingnuts claim olbermann, maddow, matthews, etc., are so liberal and obsessed with obama, yet, how many times have each of them interviewed members of the administration (obama, biden, emanuel, etc.)? i would venture about a total of 3 times since the elections ended... maybe less. and how many times have hannity and others talked to mccain, palin, huckabee (who works for fox, of course)? like eleventy billion?
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        • Author by Tiredog (November 13, 2009 4:11 pm ET)
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          There's a reason that Obama & Company aren't being interviewed repeatedly...they've got too much work to do, undoing the messes of the previous misadministration.
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      • Author by princeofwheels (November 13, 2009 10:52 am ET)
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        Every question asked of Palin is a hardball question for her.

        So the answer is EVERY question.
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      • Author by DeirdreFlanagan6 (November 13, 2009 9:11 pm ET)
           
        Too high.....
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    • Author by WhatImlost (November 12, 2009 11:05 pm ET)
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      For @#$S's sake

      Sean your not a comedian. Letterman is.
      Thats why he can "get away" with saying things you couldnt (aslo helps that he wasnt talking about the 14 year old)

      You Sean are supposed to be either
      1) A journalist
      2) A politcal comentator

      In either job your not supposed to mock the people you cover

      Letterman gets paid to mock people

      If you want to claim the moral high ground compare your comments against Maddow or KO or Mathews (except you cant cause thet dont say anything as factually inncorrect as you)


      also just an idea here for Palin but might it not have been a good idea to tell the McCain campain and not just the vetters your daughter pregnant that way they wouldnt be blindsided.

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 12, 2009 11:14 pm ET)
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      LOL...Oh yea, the left is afraid of Sarah Palin alright.

      Please, please, please, God, let her run in 2012.

      BTW, how much are the goobers gonna like her when her jowls sag and her butt gets wide? Oooops...there goes 85% of her appeal. Sorry, girl...got a daughter who can run for office instead? ;>)
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    • Author by Jen7 (November 12, 2009 11:23 pm ET)
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      She opened up the flood gates when she couldn't name ONE newspaper she reads. I don't care if you like her Sean, deep inside you, you have to know she is an idiot.
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    • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (November 13, 2009 12:01 am ET)
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      Media persecution of Palin. Shame.

      Fox persecution of: Obama,Biden,Sotomayor,Pelosi,Reid,Dunn,Sunstein,Jones,Holdren,
      Jenkins,Jarrett,Frank,Gore,Clinton,Muslims,ACORN,SEIU,MSM,
      Climate Change,Chicago,Health Care Reform, socialism, Democrats,liberals,moderates,czars,science,government, and.....oh yeah, truth
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      • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (November 13, 2009 12:14 am ET)
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        Jennings....not Jenkins. Who or what did I leave out? Screw it, throw in reality too.
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        • Author by princeofwheels (November 13, 2009 10:54 am ET)
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          No correction needs. I'm sure somewhere, the Cons are rapping a Jenkins.
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    • Author by bewildered (November 13, 2009 12:12 am ET)
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      I wonder if Palin will let the cameras film her during her interview with Hannity.

      She's been trying real hard these days to keep her rhetoric behind closed doors.
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    • Author by dadre (November 13, 2009 12:22 am ET)
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      If you look closely you can see them passing a bottle of anti reality KY.
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    • Author by Civic Racecar (November 13, 2009 2:26 am ET)
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      Continetti is right about one thing, Sarah Palin posted a lie about healthcare on Facebook and it sent everyone into an uproar. People always complain about politicians lying, but it is never "his/her" politician that lies. Sad thing is, Palin told everyone the biggest lie of them all and everyone believed her.

      Somehow, I think Palin's experience of 2 yrs as a Governor and 6 yrs as a Mayor is rather insignificant. The only degree she has is a BS from University of Idaho. Compare that to Barack Obama who had 3 yrs as a Congressional Senator and 7 yrs as a State Senator. Obama also has a JD from Harvard and spent 12 yrs teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. I think Obama more better educated and I would trust Obama a little more to run the country than Palin, due to his legal background.
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      • Author by SMTDL (November 13, 2009 2:46 pm ET)
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        I find this amazing... to put her experience as a strong suit is just plain delusional.Six years as mayor of a town ( pop ~4000) little more than trading post which is what it started out as being.Very little municipal government..County and regional control for most basic services.Then a year and a half as governor of a state with less than 1 million residents getting more funds back from the federal governement than almost every other state and benefiting (for a while) from rising oil prices to help balance state budgets!!!!If you were to show this experience on a resume and ask interview questions side by side with Barack Obama..in no way could you objectively give her an edge in experience.Why not add her years as a PTA member in Wasila? This is why she got off to such a negative start with many when she criticized "Community" organizers as if that's all Obama had done even tho Chicago has millions of people in its"communities"!!
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    • Author by PhuckPHOX (November 13, 2009 3:55 am ET)
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      I agree that her and her family have been over-scrutinized... but you have to admit, she is an idiot. Not fit for office at all.

      I agree with Sean that people are afraid of her, but not for the same reasons he thinks. People are afraid of her because of what her endless idiocy and ignorance would DO to this country if she were elected. Her popularity is scary, frankly. The fact that SO MANY PEOPLE consider her intelligent and fit to run this country really is frightening. If she runs and is elected President (which I doubt would ever happen, thankfully), this country will go down the tubes so fast that we won't even have time to think about it.
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    • Author by mjh (November 13, 2009 4:08 am ET)
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      With all this talk about the "media persecution of Palin" -- both here and here -- why, you'd almost think Palin has . . . a -- a BOOK or something coming out soon . . .
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    • Author by mdey (November 13, 2009 4:15 am ET)
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      Okay Matt,
      So Sarah was never a member of the Alaska secessionist party. Nobody ever suggested that. Her husband was! That's what everyone was pointing out!
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    • Author by Ribelin2000 (November 13, 2009 5:44 am ET)
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      Funny how Hannity and Continetti say that if Hannity talked about Hilary Clinton the way he talked about Palin, he'd be "in a lot of trouble". If I remember correctly, didn't Hannity once suggest that Hilary might've murdered Vince Foster? I don't remember anyone calling for any boycotts then.

      I mean, has anyone accused Palin of murder? I don't think so. The way I see it, Palin has had a walk in the park compared to what Hilary and Pelosi have been going through over the years, and yet these right-wing muppets have the nerve to whine about the "double standard" against Palin, when they're the ones perpetrating the double standard against Hilary and Pelosi!! "Boo-Hoo" indeed!!!

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    • Author by joshwahu (November 13, 2009 7:06 am ET)
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      im surprised the camera didnt explode with this amount of stupidity in one room. 6 minutes of talking about how awesome sarah palin is is beyond my ability to comment on otherwise, because if you still like her now, i have no respect for you.
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    • Author by liberalXtian (November 13, 2009 7:34 am ET)
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      If the media did not know anything about Palin, how did they know who her enemies were so they could call them? If that is the illogical nonsense that this guy is spouting, I don't need to hear the rest of the clip. I have better things to do with 5 minutes of my life.
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    • Author by Handyman (November 13, 2009 8:45 am ET)
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      In all fairness, we need to keep in mind why Palin was chosen in the first place - McCain was trying to capture the feminist percentage of Hilary Supporters.

      It was McCains refusal to address the economic condition of our country that led to his defeat. Of course Palins comment about seeing Russia from her house didn't help much.

      Contineeti is just a guy trying to cash in on someone elses misfortunes.
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    • Author by bintx (November 13, 2009 9:36 am ET)
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      The media doesn't have to "persecute" Palin. Her own mouth does a pretty good job of it on its own. Add to it her actions . . . nah, just reporting what she says and does pretty much paints a very accurate picture of this woman's incompetence and lack of intelligence.
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    • Author by Sks1 (November 13, 2009 10:11 am ET)
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      omg!!! sean hannity gushes over Palin and the likes of Cheney whenever he interviews either..yet he demonizes the do called mainstream media whom Palin steererd clear of ,,she couldnt even answer one supreme court outcome she disagreed with other the Roe vs Wade nor give one she read to get her current event news stories im sure the democrats will be licking gheir chops if she runs again and it shows the total disrespect the right has for Obama that they would prefer someone who took 5-6 yrs to get a college diploma from a mediocre college than someone who was president of the harvard law revue their is no comparison to Palins intellect and Obama's. as far as the mainstream media attacting her its absurb anyone who runs for the highest offices in the land should expect to be scrutinized.
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    • Author by JLP (November 13, 2009 10:36 am ET)
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      Yes, the right would never persecute anyone, not even the POTUS.
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    • Author by marco21 (November 13, 2009 10:39 am ET)
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      Hilarious. Talk about setting the bar low for persecution.
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    • Author by JLP (November 13, 2009 10:57 am ET)
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      Learn how to pronounce Lehman Brothers for one, that along with saying that Sarah Palin was more qualified than Barack Obama shows what a stooge this guy is. What alternate reality do these guys live in?
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    • Author by princeofwheels (November 13, 2009 10:59 am ET)
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      "Young and pretty" why talk about Prejean. Now there is another female leader in the Repubs who Seannie drools over..

      Please whoever you are, Palin isn't pretty and I am sure she would not like being called pretty. It is too demeaning. She is a Soccer Mom.

      Run, Sarah, Run.
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    • Author by blueline99 (November 13, 2009 11:41 am ET)
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      "The left is afraid of Sarah Palin?"

      I want her to get the nomination... please, please, please!!!

      She has small, vocal, die hard supporters, but at the end of the day she will be a lightning rod for support against her and it will doom the GOP.

      I'm not afraid of her... I hope she runs!
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      • Author by indigo1968 (November 13, 2009 2:35 pm ET)
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        Hannity's "interviews" bring new meaning to the term "masturbatory."

        Go back and look at his interviews with Palin before last year's election. Hannity all but humped her leg. It was comical as hell.





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