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Hannity: Obama "destroyed" the economy, Wall Street

January 13, 2010 10:07 pm ET

From the January 13 broadcast of Fox News' Hannity:

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    • Author by leftofwhat (January 13, 2010 10:11 pm ET)
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      Why does Juan take this abuse.The man is intelligent,yet he keeps taking a beatdown from these squawking heads.
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      • Author by Kikabi (January 13, 2010 10:18 pm ET)
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        Yeah, that almost made me feel sorry for Juan having to deal with such BS being slung at him from three people at once.
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      • Author by nshelton2 (January 13, 2010 10:21 pm ET)
           
        Yeah the other people wouldn't even let him finish talking. He was making a valid, arguable point but they decided to attack him and talk over him to point that he couldn't even say what he was trying to. Also Hannity and the other two are complete morons and don't actually know what is going on with the Obama administration and the American people. They are just fear-mongering and claiming that doom is being brought upon the United States by Obama.
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      • Author by ojnabieoot (January 14, 2010 10:56 am ET)
           
        Maybe he likes the three-against-one challenge? In terms of net IQ, Hannity+2 is about evenly matched with Juan.
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    • Author by smarshall1432997 (January 13, 2010 10:17 pm ET)
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      And Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, LOL.

      Republicans are masters in "re-writing" American History, huh Sean? FoxNews is just shameless. Americans and the World are focused on Haiti, and the shows of O'Reilly, Hannity and Greta all throwed political rocks and attacks at the present American President hour after hour. Oooooooh, now it makes sense. FoxNews Network (the ONLY Cable News Network tonight) did NOT believe there was that much damage, or human life lost in Haiti from the EarthQuake yesterday. Just shameful, shameful, shameful.
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      • Author by gg (January 14, 2010 12:12 am ET)
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        I agree, in fact I am still waiting for Sean to be water board because it's only a little water up the nose.
        However to the point, it was under the Bush administration in 9/2008 when Paulson got the bailout, not under Obama.
        Now I know the right wing is trying to rewrite history over 9/11/2001 but they seems to be forgetting 9/2008, or they maybe they are just re-writng history one year at a time.
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    • Author by seahawks123 (January 13, 2010 10:22 pm ET)
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      lets see....10+% unemployment with no end in sight. tax increases. oh yeah cap and tax. taking over of corporations. a whole lot of confidence there lol. next hing they'll be bringing back the misery index just like carter.
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      • Author by leftofwhat (January 13, 2010 10:48 pm ET)
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        No,it is you who brings the misery index.Gloom and doom is hopefully in a downward spiral and your fear mongering does nothing to improve a dialogue.
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      • Author by ScienceBuff (January 13, 2010 11:17 pm ET)
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        Job losses bottomed out about the time Obama took office and have been declining since.
        [http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4b4b3f440000000000990fcd&maxX=617&maxY=381]

        It's also interesting to note how the US, the most capitalist of the industrialized nations, handled the economic downturn the worst.
        [http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/01/06/business/economy/gdpjobs.jpg]
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      • Author by ScienceBuff (January 13, 2010 11:26 pm ET)
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        This is a better job gain/loss chart. Better screen fit.
        [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3bGnkNeoPxk/Sxec_2yKueI/AAAAAAAADQI/8q3zp1sFpMw/s400/ADP_Employment_Report-Nov_2009.png]
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        • Author by John Paradox (January 14, 2010 12:36 am ET)
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          I think it was on Maddow's show, they called it "the bikini chart".
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      • Author by raddave43 (January 14, 2010 12:02 am ET)
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        what tax increases are you talking about? Are you talking about the end of the Bush tax cuts that helped only the top 1% of the population? it is cap and trade, not cap and tax. cap and tax is a right-wing smear. taking over corperations? If those corperations woul have been allowed to fail, many more people would be unemployed now and you would be attacking the President for allowing them to fail.
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        • Author by raddave43 (January 14, 2010 12:07 am ET)
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          And speaking of cap and trade. McCain was "for it before he was against it."
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      • Author by alienofwar (January 14, 2010 12:50 am ET)
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        Let's see, I hold a party in your house, trash it and than hand you the keys back and hand you the keys back and blame the mess on you. That's exactly what Republicans are doing. Where is the logic in that?
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      • Author by bintx (January 14, 2010 8:27 am ET)
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        Wow, you really need to read real news. Unemployment has actually decreased from its high and is currently at 10%. Job losses in December 2008 were 577,000, in January 2009, they were 598,000. Bush was the president at that time, not Obama. Job losses in December 2009, while higher than expected, were only 85,000. Who was President in December 2009 when the job losses were almost 500,000 lower than the previous year? As for taxes . . . mine have gone down . . . are you telling us that you make over 250,000 a year? If so, why are you posting here? The unemployment rate in my city has decreased significantly in the past few months.

        Turn of Fox and hate talk radio . . . READ. Those folks are lying to you, Mr. "Registered Indipindent."
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      • Author by Boxer1979 (January 14, 2010 11:29 am ET)
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        You really need to understand the the history of corporate influience of corporations on a political level. Once you understand that you will have a different aspect on corporations.

        Plus also understand that everytime unemployment goes up, wall street numbers go up. Wall street is not the middle class' buddy my friend.
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      • Author by televin (January 15, 2010 9:30 am ET)
           
        Lets see....in YEAR THREE of Reagans first term unemployment hit 10.8 per cent but he was a great President and that was Carter's fault LOL
        Lets see , President Obama REDUCED TAXES on 95% of Americans

        BUSH bailed out the banks , BUSH bailed out AIG and mindless lemming like yourself delude yourself into believing that it's all Obama's fault .

        How sad , how uneducated.
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    • Author by seahawks123 (January 13, 2010 11:05 pm ET)
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      So pointing out the facts only applies when it's in your favor
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      • Author by raddave43 (January 14, 2010 12:03 am ET)
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        You didn't point out a single fact. Earlier you said unemployment was at 10.8%, now you have changed it toe 10+%, it's 10% and has dropped the last two months.
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      • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (January 14, 2010 12:28 am ET)
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        Pretending that the Bush-Cheney regime isn't responsible for our problems earns you all the downthumbs you receive, wingnut.
        ~
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      • Author by bintx (January 14, 2010 8:23 am ET)
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        What "facts"? The economy started tanking in December 2007 and continued until Bush left office, it has slowly, but surely begun to rebound under Obama. Those "facts" are supported by actual numbers. Sean Hannity, a college dropout with NO economic expertise at all, has NO facts to support his asinine opinion, but then, you don't care, because it supports your asinine opinion.
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    • Author by Publius39 (January 14, 2010 12:41 am ET)
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      Wow, I really feel sorry for Juan on this one. But Hannity packs his "Great American Failure" with sycophants though.
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    • Author by Publius39 (January 14, 2010 12:48 am ET)
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      How did Obama destroy the economy or Wall Street?
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    • Author by pazzman69 (January 14, 2010 1:10 am ET)
         
      Why hasn't anybody asked the obvious. Who cares what Fred Thompsons wife thinks? What qualifications does she have to even be speaking on this issue. Oops sorry, more qualified than Sarah Palin. But she's so insignificant they just put "wife of Fred Thompson".
      What a joke.
      Once again a Fox personality changes history to fit what they want you to belive. Next they will say Joe Biden hired blackwater. Ohhh, better not give them any ideas.
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    • Author by Billos (January 14, 2010 1:19 am ET)
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      Wow. Taking a beating. I don't think so. Three against one and they all got flustered accept for Juan. He stuck to points of relevance and, spoke the truth. Oh and was that a supposed fair and balanced host hannity coming out and saying what is inevitable, that he would pick palin over obama anyday. Sham Hannity further added the evidence that "fair and balanced" from fox news network talking heads is as likely as a fast food channel being "home cooked and healthy". When they had heard enough and could'nt quell the truth they had to bail.
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    • Author by tman418 (January 14, 2010 1:43 am ET)
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      This statement has as much accuracy as "Roosevelt started the Great Depression" (something cons have tried before).
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    • Author by cindermaker (January 14, 2010 2:07 am ET)
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      Hannity was one of the first to destroy my faith in Fox.
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    • Author by princeofwheels (January 14, 2010 2:26 am ET)
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      I must ask this question..

      If SeannietheSissyBoy did not have his own show, would he ever be invited onto ANY other program, be it Fox or anywhere, as a commentator, an expert, a contributor or a consultant?

      I think the answer is NO WAY...

      P.S. I can't figure out which fellow, Seannie or BillO, are doing the most sniffing of Sarah Pailns' butt, literally.
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    • Author by Old55 (January 14, 2010 6:26 am ET)
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      Unfortunately for Obama, the longer it takes to get out of this recession, the more the recession will be blamed on him. Remember, Americans have a notoriously short memory.
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    • Author by bintx (January 14, 2010 8:20 am ET)
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      Seriously??? Has Hannity looked at the stock market numbers lately? Since Bush destroyed our economy and Wall Street, Wall Street has made an unprecedented recovery. My 401K is back to where it was before it started tanking in March of 2008. Who was the president in March 2008?
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (January 14, 2010 8:26 am ET)
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        Hannity has nothing to do with reality. All made up, all the time...and Hannity has made a fortune out of being dishonest.
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        • Author by bintx (January 14, 2010 8:33 am ET)
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          Oh, I agree. Hannity is the biggest liar on Fox. Beck and now Sister Sarah give him a run for the money, but Hannity holds the title. He's supposedly a good, practicing Catholic. He must spend most of his days saying Hail Mary's and Our Fathers because, if he's honest in confessional, the priest is prescribing gazillions to him for penance for bearing false witness.
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    • Author by nerzog (January 14, 2010 8:40 am ET)
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      Yeah, Obama sure destroyed Wall Street. That's why the DOW is back up to 10,000, and the big banks are handing out huge bonuses again.
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    • Author by Turk72 (January 14, 2010 9:14 am ET)
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      Pick Pailin please pick her! Run her against Obama, I dare you. If the right wing is dumb enough to do that I'd really be surprised. But I hope they do.
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    • Author by sheerinsanity (January 14, 2010 9:55 am ET)
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      Hannity, you destroyed it more than Obama did. Try again, and please seek an education.
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (January 14, 2010 9:58 am ET)
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      HANNITY is a lying, intense partisan sack of s--t. It was his REPUBLICAN heros that nearly destroyed the economy, not PRESIDENT OBAMA. But the truth dosent matter to him
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      • Author by bintx (January 14, 2010 10:00 am ET)
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        Actually, I've heard that he sees this as a great gig only. He doesn't believe one bit of the s*** he shovels, it's just a means to an end . . . . mega-money in his pocket.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (January 14, 2010 10:00 am ET)
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      Umm.... WHEN, exactly? HOW, exactly?

      I followed the polls pretty closely, day by day, in 2008 and Obama and McCain were in a statistical tie until the day AFTER wall street imploded. Only then did Obama take a sustained lead.

      So if the destruction of Wall Street happened before Obama was even likely to be our next presedent...

      -------------------------------------------------------
      WTF is this imbecile TALKING ABOUT?!
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (January 14, 2010 11:33 am ET)
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      Hannity: Obama "destroyed" the economy, Wall Street

      Hannity pawns to the rich and people who do not earn more than what he makes in a week should not listen to his viewpoints.

      Deception works wonders on a dense mind!
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