Hannity teased "Clinton Chapters" segment about "the strange and unanswered questions involving the death of Vince Foster"
On the July 19 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity promised to discuss "the strange and unanswered questions involving the death of Vince Foster" on the July 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America, which he hosts. Hannity announced the segment as the latest installment of "The Clinton Chapters," an ongoing series on Hannity's America, the assertions of which Media Matters for America has repeatedly debunked. The segment Hannity teased follows his assertion on the previous week's edition of Hannity's America that "the death of Vince Foster" is a "chapter[] remaining open" for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). In fact, Foster's death has been conclusively determined to be a suicide. The Office of the Independent Counsel -- then headed by Kenneth Starr -- completed its inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Foster's death with a report issued on October 11, 1997, which concluded that "based on investigation and analysis of the evidentiary record, that Mr. Foster committed suicide by gunshot in Fort Marcy Park" in Virginia.
Immediately after previewing the Vince Foster segment, Hannity teased another segment from the July 22 show focusing on "[t]he Apollo moon landing": "[O]ur conspiracy month continues. There are those that actually think the moon landing is a hoax and actually never happened. So, we'll delve into that."
From the July 19 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: Now, this Sunday night, 9 o'clock on Hannity's America, an all-new episode we have. Arianna Huffington is going to join us. We're gonna talk about the hypocrisy of liberals that lecture us about walking to work and riding our bicycles, but yet they're Lear jet liberals, and they fly around in private jets. Also, on her website, there's been some very controversial things up there, including those wishing for Dick Cheney to be dead. I'll confront Arianna about that.
Also, we have our own Ainsley Earhardt is investigating an unbelievable story down in Fort Myers in Florida. Eight bodies have been found. And they don't know who they are. We're going to investigate that.
Also, we continue our investigation into the "Clinton Chapters." And this year we are gonna be -- this week, we're gonna be talking about the strange and unanswered questions involving the death of Vince Foster. We'll get into that also.
The Apollo moon landing, our conspiracy month continues. There are those that actually think the moon landing is a hoax and actually never happened. So, we'll delve into that.
And also, chasing down fugitives in one of America's biggest cities, we'll get into that, all coming up this Sunday night, a special brand-new edition of Hannity's America.
"In fact, Foster's death has been conclusively [link to www.washingtonpost.com] target="_new" title="This external link will open in a new window">determined to be a suicide. The Office of the Independent Counsel -- then headed by Kenneth Starr -- completed its inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Foster's death with a [link to www.washingtonpost.com] target="_new" title="This external link will open in a new window">report issued on October 11, 1997, which [link to www.washingtonpost.com] target="_new" title="This external link will open in a new window">concluded that "based on investigation and analysis of the evidentiary record, that Mr. Foster committed suicide by gunshot in Fort Marcy Park" in Virginia"
If that's the case. then why doesn't Media Matters simply wait until after Hannity's show to criticize his presentation? Why are they pre-judging the segment? They could surely at least wait until Monday to put up a thread debunking what Hannity said in the segment.
Pre-emptive strike.
In any event, does anybody really care about it anyway? It's an old story, done and settled. Hannity's obsessed with it to this day, and his viewers will eat it up munching on popcorn, so what? If you are as disinterested as I am, don't watch.
Tommy, don't you mean "Why is this here?"
Nah, Rino said as much.
tommy sez, for the eight hundred and sixty third time, just ignore it because nobody cares. someday he will understand that's not what this site does.
Tommy keeps telling people to ignore stuff like that because he is ignore-ant.
In any event, does anybody really care about it anyway? It's an old story, done and settled.
So now it's not whether or not it's actually misinformation, but whether or not you think it's a story anyone cares about? Why don't you just get yourself on the seat of the MMFA board and change its charter, given that you know what's best?
That's easy Rino, Hannity is a proven liar who can't be trusted. I can safely assume his segment will be full of more garbage.
You can always tell when Hannity is lying. his lips are moving.
I believe MMFA has added this because Sean said " we're gonna be talking about the strange and unanswered questions involving the death of Vince Foster." Well, if the death is not strange and the questions have been answered then this is misinformation. I agree with MMFA on this one. The advertisement of the show implies that Clinton may have had something to do with the death of Vince Foster. Even if his reports says otherwise (which I doubt), his teaser implies otherwise.
MMFA is clearly criticizing the teaser for Hannity's latest Sunday train wreck, not the train wreck itself.
Do you want us to wait until Hannity makes his case before deciding whether men went to the moon or not?
I'm not a mind-reader, so I don't presume to know what motivated MMFA to post this story. But it seems reasonable to me to think of this as a call in poker.
Hannity is representing this story if he's holding some great cards: there are "unanswered questions" around every event because there are no limits to the questions that may be posed, but if he's going to devote a segment to the unanswered questions around Vince Foster's death, then the burden falls squarely on Hannity's shoulders of making a newsworthy claim -- one that justifies the public reexamination a man's suicide. If, on the other hand, Hannity is simply adding new fuel to speculation and rumors of criminal acts by the Clintons, then he should be held accountable for despicably exploiting Foster's death.
I take MMFA's post as a straightforward challenge: "This had better be good."
Perhaps Hannity does indeed have some new information about the case. That's why I was saying that they should simply wait and see and then post a thread about this on Monday. They did the same exact thing when Glenn Beck did a documentary on global warming. They criticized it before it even aired! So much for the notion that liberals are open minded.
They didn't criticize either show before they aired. They criticized the ads that had misleading information about the show's content.
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200705020001
Where's Hannity's open mindedness when it comes to the Apollo Moon Landings conspiracy?
Don't get me wrong: I'm not implying that the Apollo Moon Landings were in any way faked. But note how Hannity pairs two debunked conspiracy theories in order to make one seem plausible by comparison. It's a sly rhetorical tactic.
To use your own argument: why does Hannity dismiss the Apollo Moon Landings conspiracy theorists out of hand before they've had a chance to present possible new evidence? Why doesn't he just wait until all the evidence is in? There are, after all, unanswered questions.
Even if you don't accept my response to your argument so far, consider this: on what basis do you suppose that Hannity might have new evidence to offer? If he had managed to turn up something new -- something that a four-year, multi-million dollar state investigation somehow missed -- why wouldn't Hannity say so in his promo for the segment?
You guys are missing the point- if we don't give the same consideration to every minute of propaganda made up by habitual and documented liars Hannity and Beck as we do to actual reality-based accounts of the world, we have forfeited any claims of open-mindedness.
So sayeth RINO.But RINO sayeth a lot of silly stuff.
When Rino was talking to Tommy
He whined like a babe to her mommy
He asked with a sneer
"Tell me, why is this here?"
Then went back to eating salami
There's a difference, Rino, between being open minded & simply being empty headed.
And the hunter becomes the hunted...
Maybe people are incredulous about the Vince Foster death because of facts like this. Some simple questions leap right out of this report:
(1) Why were members of Hillary Clinton's personal staff present in Vince Foster's Office when the Police were there attempting to search the place for evidence?
(2) Why did these persons improperly remove files from that office before the police had determined the circumstances of Mr. Foster's death?
(3) Were any of these files improperly filtered prior to their eventual return to authority? If so, what was removed or added?
But here are the REAL unanswered questions:
4) Why are Republicans still obsessing over a case that was closed over a decade ago?
5) Why are Republicans convinced that the law only works when it finds Democrats guilty, not other Republicans?
6) When will Republicans stop acting like Clinton practically broke the nation when in fact it was one of the most prosperous times in our nation's history?
Randy
Somebody should investigate that one of these days.
Well there were those investigations by the Park Police, the U.S. Congress, and Independent Counsels Robert Fiske and Ken Starr, but I know what you mean, HBL. None of those investigations were thorough and legitimate. We all know that Ken Starr was a shill for the Clinton administration and that he was complicit in Clinton Inc.'s cover-up.
I'm tired of defending the Clintons on this. The truth--and we all know it--is that Hillary Clinton murdered Vince Foster in cold blood because he was about to reveal the truth about the Apollo Moon Landings to the American people.
vysotsky , I was actually responding to NL202s post, which was comprised of "strange and unanswered questions" about something that had been investigated pretty thoroughly.
Let that be a lesson, kids. when you leave your desk for 20 minutes, be sure to hit "refresh" before responding !
Frankly, I should have directed my especially bitter and sarcastic post to NL207. Sorry about that.
your "facts" are just more of the same old same old. a lot of conclusions about nothing at all.
Independent Counsel states quote, "the overwhelming evidence compels the conclusion that Vincent Foster committed suicide. There is no evidence that issues related to Whitewater played any part in his suicide
Sorry NL, if there was a pimple on either Bill or Hillary's a** Starr and the Republicans would have found it. There is no part if the Clinton's that have not had a full examination. The man is dead (1993 I think) and the Clinton's have been out of office for 6 years. Enough!
Maybe they ought to look into the strange suicide of the woman who had accused George Bush of raping her
http://www.opednews.com/thoreau1103bush_rape_suicide.htm
Early one Saturday afternoon in July 2003, I made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a rape lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002. I expected to leave a message on a machine, so I was caught a little offguard when Schoedinger answered.
She, too, sounded somewhat surprised I had called, saying she hadn't heard from many other reporters. But she talked to me for a few minutes about the legal action.
"I am still trying to prosecute [the lawsuit]," said Schoedinger, a 38-year-old African-American woman who lived in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. "I want to get this matter settled and go on with my life."
Well, Schoedinger hasn't gone on with her life. In fact, three months after I spoke to her, she died in an apparent suicide. And this matter remains unsettled.
Obsessed much sean?
My customary Hannity is a Neocon-douche post:
Hannity = paid Liar = Hypocrite
as always on Hannity comments I have to include:
"Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?" - Sean Hannity, March 24 1999
"Number one is the president has really failed to lay out before the American people the reason why we need to be involved militarily. That's number one. And then we go back to Harry Kissinger's test, which is number one, is there a vital U.S. national interest? And do we have a plan to disengage? What's the exit strategy? I don't see that we've met that test either. And why does it have to happen this second, this hour? Why don't we have a national debate first?" - Sean Hannity, March 24 1999
"But you know what? There's a lot of massacres going on in the world. As you know, 37,000 Kurds in Turkey, over a million people in Sudan. We have hundreds of thousands in Rwanda and Burundi. I mean, where do we stop?" - Sean Hannity March 24 1999
"Sure Milosevic's a bad guy...but that doesn't mean we should go to war...He's an evil man. Horrible things are happening. I agree with that. Are you saying we go to Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Sudan? Where does this stop? And when you look at sheer numbers, 2000 - and I'm not minimizing death. Its horrible. What this man is doing with ethnic cleansing is abhorrent, but sheer numbers - 2000 killed in the last year versus hundreds of thousands, millions in some cases in other parts of the world. Are you saying the United States should go to all those places?" - Hannity on the O'Reilly factor April 5, 1999
Excellent post. I wish someone would compile an exhaustive sampling of quotes from conservatives criticizing Clinton's military interventions. I'm sure there'd be enough to fill a book. I distinctly remember G. Gordon Liddy routinely refering to such missions as "delivering the pizza". Our own President Numbnuts referred to it as "Nation Building" and promised not to do it.
As for Hannityputz...I wonder what he had to say about the Left's attempts to dredge up old stories about President Numbnut's Air National Guard "service". I'm guessing that he was just outraged.
I still have some strange and unanswered questions involving GWB's military service record.
Yeah Monk that's still an open *mystery* that continues to be ignored.
I'd like to see some journalist really sink his/her teeth into all the very real inconsistencies that surround Bush's "service" in the National Guard. Perhaps after he's left office we'll get at the truth.
Of course July 18th was the 38th year anniversary of Teddy Kennedy's Chappaquiddick adventure. Despite the many books/theories that have been around for so many years, we still don't really know what actually took place that evening... I'd like to see that one settled once & for all as well.
They left San Pedro late one night;
The moon and the stars were shinin' bright.
They were drivin' up Grapevine Hill,
Passin' cars like they were standin' still.
Then, all of a sudden, in the wink of an eye,
a Cadillac sedan passed them by.
The remark was made, "That's the car for me."
But, by then, the taillights wuz all you could see.
Well, Mary Jo ribbed Ted for bein' behind,
So he started to make that Lincoln unwind.
Took his foot off the gas and, man alive,
he shoved it down into overdrive...
Let's not forget that strange unanswered question about Ann Coulter's sex. He/She? Inquiring minds want to know.
Some questions are best left unanswered.
I remember the cable news pundits endlessly discussing this ad nauseum. And now hannity revelas they didn't finish the job ?
That's why Hannity is "continuing [his] investigation" of the story. Because he, and only he, is qualified to do such in-depth investigating. Just look at all his other investigations. How about his in-depth investigation leading to the connection (and devastatingly detailed O'Really chart, I might add) of Soros money and Media Matters for the Homeland? How about his penetrating Terry Schiavo investigation that convinced him she could soon be living a normal life? How about his comprehensive story about the veteran's funeral that was being protested by a "far-left liberal group" (the Westboro Baptist Church)?
I say give him three hours a day, that's all I ask. The Homeland needs him now more than ever to bring the truth to light in our time. (*sniff)
Sean Hannity, you're a great Homelandican....ster....ishman.
And let's not forget his exclusive "We've found the WMDs".
Oh, of course. There's a reason it was exclusive.
So many triumphs, so little space.
It seems like Hannity put the correct context for once (although probably inadvertently). The moon landing hoax and Vince Foster suicide conspiracies: both equally credible.
I'll be watching FOX sunday night, Homer et al!!
IF HANNITY WAS SO INTERESTED IN VINCE FOSTER WHY DID HE WAIT TO DO THESE STORYS NOW? HMM COULD IT BE ITS ELECTION TIME.ACTUALLY WITH HIM EVERY KNOCK IS A BOOST FOR HILLARY.
There once was a pundit named Hannity
With a tenuous hold on his sanity
He talked over his guests
In his error filled quests
For more verbage to bolster his vanity
I tried once or twice. Mine were sad.
But you know, "Mary", that wasn't bad
So... JuliaJayne
did you change your screen name?
'cause limericists aren't so readily had.
Nope, didn't change my name. Must be the name "hannity" that brings out the Irish in me!
Poor Sean. He'll go to his grave with thousands of strange and unanswered questions about the most basic aspects of reality.
Really sad.
Republicans continue to play the "Six Degrees of Clinton" game. Each and every thing can and will be linked to the Clintons.
Ever heard of the phrase “rest in peace” Sean?
There were two congressional probes and two independent investigations that concluded that Foster committed suicide. Case closed.
In the last powerful days of another way of life. When everything happenned in cars. When sullen desperate men would anytrhing for a tank full. In these dangeroue times, ordinary citizens had to do the work of real police. Apprehending criminals and solving tricKey moral problems. They had private cars but public fists. Full tanks but clean consciences! And tonights story is only tipical!
Car Hook! Staring Dirk Primate in Dick private, private dick.
Saterday morning, I'd just locked myself out of the office for a weekend that promised to be gin soaked and hand rubbed. At least thats what I figured she meant when she said,"Lets get drunk and refinish my furnature. Anyway it was the way she said it, youknow, like the lead dog in a snow job, and I wasn't about to be left out in the cold.
(Phone rings) "Damnation, I thought." A private shamus is always hungry and this might be an ace in the closet, to put some pizza in the pantry.
"Go ahead answer it",I thought,"she'll wait." So I did, only to wind up holding the anchovies, in more ways than one.
"Ah ah Mr. Private, I'm Regular Boyklin. I've appreared opposite you on another channel for a couple of years."
"Yeah, The Regular and Ethel show, I've heard of you. Whats the matter, swallow your car keys, lock yourself out of house, want to know how to make an attractive bookend out of a shoebox and a brick?"
"No no nothing that exciting, but look you have to come over here. Its really weird over here."
"Well it ain't no swiss picnic over here either pal."
"Ah come on your only a couple of channels away. You could make it easy!"
"Nobody ever made it before."
"But we all seem to be dreaming the same dream."
"Wow thats teriff."
"And there's all these glowing balls of light."
"Hold it!"
"Glad too."
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"What, whatwhatwhat."
And fade out.
The intro to "Roller Maidens from Outerspace", by Phil Austin of the FST. Last heard he was a bit iffy on the work. I think its great fun.
Media Matters for America should create the "Hannity Chapters-Sex, Lies and Videotape." I will guarantee that you will find a lot more interesting stories on this habitual-lying media hack than the Clintons.
Hannity has serious issues: Paranoia and lying. He needs help.
If you ever see this media circus clown in person, you will know what I mean.
"One who hides in the dark will be discovered in the light."