Hannity falsely claimed Obama "said" he is "going to ... cut tens of billions of dollars in our military"
SUMMARY: On Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama "said" he is "going to ... cut tens of billions of dollars in our military." In fact, Obama has said he would cut "tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending," not overall defense spending.
On the October 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama is "going to ... cut tens of billions of dollars in our military. That's what he said." In fact, as Media Matters for America repeatedly noted when Hannity made similar claims, Obama told the group Caucus4Priorities that he would cut "tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending," not overall defense spending. Sen. John McCain has also pledged to "cut wasteful spending in defense and non-defense programs."
During the October 22 program, Hannity also criticized Obama for "vot[ing] to cut off funding for our troops" without noting that McCain voted against legislation that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
From the October 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: [Former Clinton White House special counsel] Lanny [Davis], I'm going to quote a good friend of yours. First of all, let's go over the Obama plan. He's going to be cut tens of billions of dollars in our military. That's what he said. He's changed his position about pulling out of Iraq and waving the white flag of surrender.
But he voted to cut off funding for our troops that even Joe Biden said American troops' lives would be lost. He'll meet with rogue dictators without preconditions. And he said Iran's a tiny country, not a serious threat.
Now, there's a very famous person, a good friend of yours, her name is Hillary, and she said that his positions on national security issues, quote, "are naive, dangerous, and irresponsible." I actually agree with her. I agree with your friend. She was right. Why -- convince me why she's wrong.
Rumsfeld was doing exactly that in 2000, with the commander-in-chief's approval.
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sorry i meant my comment to hang out by itself in reference to Hannity's proclamation that sen Obama as president would cut billions off the military budget.
Yeah. "Tens of billions ..." What is that? Three weeks in Iraq? He makes it sound as though Obama would be recklessly putting our national security at risk.
As usual SEANIE BOY is slanting the facts to get his talking points accross for his GOP heros,kind of like DR. JOSEF GOEBBLES did for his hero, ADOLF HITLER
Sean supports the policies of Hillary Clinton and waves the white flag of surrender in the war for decent journalism. Did I get that right?
for a 100 million dollar contract, inshannity will say anything his sycophants want to hear. I see him every nite and he is just such a joke. I would not believe ANYTHING he said.
Sounds like O'Reilly is getting ripped with his newly signed contract of 40 million for four years.
Come to think of it, how much of the 100 mil is Ailes getting back ? Interesting business model to present to the shareholders.
Considering Davis is still a little namby pamby when it comes to enthusiastically supporting Obama, it would be nice if MMFA gave us his response here to Hannity's nonsense anyway.
I agree it would be nice, but it would still not have any effect on the truthiness of what Hannity said about Obama.
Maybe just a Hannity timeline would serve the purpose. Something along the lines of:
Hannity Log - 10/19/08
18:03 - Obama, Ayers
18:07 - Ayers, Obama
18:12 - Iraq, Afghanistan, Petreus, Ayers
18:22 - Economy, Ayers
18:23 - Economy, Ayers, Reid, Pelosi
18:25 - H. Clinton, Ayers
18:26 - Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, Ayers
...and so on.
Could save a lot of time.
You left out Joe the plumber. I wonder if he is still dating ralph reed. Are they expecting yet?
You forgot that at 18:04, 18:11, 18:21, and 18:24, he referred to someone as "a great American". :-)
Where does one go to sign up for a job that pays a lot of money for you to just say anything that pops into your head? I am fully qualified.
You're too honest to qualify. Pat Buchanan, Newtie, Sean, Glen Beck, Wm. Bennett, KKKarl Rove, etc. get their big bucks from spouting nonsense at every opportunity.
for a 100 million a year I will learn how to lie also. Thing is, I would have to cut my IQ at least in half and I stopped drinking years ago. Guess I could sniff methane by following bush around but, then inshannity's head would be in the way. Shucks, what am I going to do?
Yeah, well... I had a chance to take a job making 100 million a year, but I turned it down because I didn't want to move into that higher tax bracket.
I'm kidding, of course, but that is EXACTLY the basis for the Republican argument against the progressive income tax. Kind of silly, isn't it?
What I understand about the increase in taxes for the "rich" is: $0-250K =36%.
THEN anything over the $250K is taxed at 39% Put a pecil to the difference and I would gladly take that deal and I believe 100% of REAL people not making 250K a year would say "hell yes, I will take that deal" This is much to do about nothing for the VAST majority. Kind of illustrates how little the repukelicans have to run on. Their tank is empty (except the straight talk express bus and that is emptied at the rallies for the brain dead that show up It's called right wing coolaid).
Exactly. As I understand it, if Joe the Phony really cleared 280K unclogging drains, he would pay about $900 more under Obama's plan. Pardon me while I wipe my tears.
Don't forget the other buffoon, Bay Buchanan who actually said Obama, an elected S Senator, is a socialist. Amazing Anderson Cooper did not call her out on that and would not allow David Gergen say something. I know communisn is socialism and the unspoken connection is unerving.
According to the Rolling Stone article on John McCain, in 1993 he sponsored legislation to cut off funding for our military in Somalia.
This is not the "inside baseball" garbage we're hearing about whether or not Sen. Obama voted to cut off funding for our troops (actually, I don't think it was really a vote to "cut off" but that's another story). Sen. McCain's budget amendment was quite clear - we have troops out there, on duty, "in harm's way," etc. etc. - and he wanted to stop funding them. Period.
Is Sheer Insannity going to talk about that? Or give away some more advertising tradeouts and make himself look so, so generous?
You can be assured Insannity would never go near John McCain's congressional record on the POW/MIA issue:
[McCain] was certainly far from calm on the Senate POW committee. He browbeat expert witnesses who came with information about unreturned POWs. Family members who have personally faced McCain and pressed him to end the secrecy also have been treated to his legendary temper. He has screamed at them, insulted them, brought women to tears. Mostly his responses to them have been versions of: How dare you question my patriotism? In 1996, he roughly pushed aside a group of POW family members who had waited outside a hearing room to appeal to him, including a mother in a wheelchair.
Waitaminnit..... didn't Grampy say that he would cut Defense spending, too?
Every citizen should watch the movie "Iraq for Sale". Iraq has turned into a money machine for Cheney's buddies in the Military Contracting business. According to witnesses in the movie, private contractors in Iraq are blowing up trucks rather than pay to ship them back home.... and charging the Pentagon $100 per load to wash soldiers' laundry. Now, I'm sure it's a BIG load.... but $100?
Those of us old enough will remember all the kerfluffle over the $400 hammer back in the 70s or 80s. Seems that ripping off the Pentagon is part of the Military Contractor handbook. Apparently a lot of the outrage over that hammer has been forgotten, but I have a feeling that the graft going on in Iraq makes a $400 hammer look like a Blue Light special.
Don't give K-mart any ideas ;-)
By the way, if somebody wants to defend the $100 per load for laundry based on the dangerous conditions in Iraq.... the fact is that soldiers used to do their own laundry, or there were other soldiers assigned that duty. I'll bet that the vast majority of soldiers in Iraq would gladly do their own laundry... and you could afford to give them a $100 a month raise.
It's all about privatizing everything the govt does. That's what neo-cons believe in.
With bush's trickle -up economics, I wonder how much of the 100 dollars he pockets. Or is cheaney that stingy that he gets 0
I tune in to Hannity in the car from time to time because outrageous lying can be entertaining in small doses. So how is it that everytime I catch a portion of his show he's running down the whole "Obama Scary List" mantra he's developed? Does he really just say nothing but that for four hours a day, five days a week? And if so, why do people keep tuning in?
cause pork rinds and bear and inshannity go together like a horse and carriage. Also there are those that are averse to reality.
Hannity tells his guest to "convince me that she is wrong." I think trying to convince Hannity anything contrary to his beliefs would go something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmrd1MbNkFs
Hannity is a mean, hateful little man who lies at every turn, even when praising the conservative saint, Reagan. Hannity claims to be a Christian but that is proven to be false by his constant lying.
Hannity is a mean, hateful little man who lies at every turn, even when praising the conservative saint, Reagan. Hannity claims to be a Christian but that is proven to be false by his constant lying.
Personally, I feel sorry for his kids - having a lying loser like Sean Hannity for a father is a fate far worse than being the child of Charles Manson.....
Isn't manson inshannity's father? He mentioned this several times. Or is this statement similar to the stements inshannity makes?
TONY ROME, you hit the nail on the head concerning SHEAR INSANNITY. I couldent have said it better myself
The sad part is that Hannity, Limbaugh, that wretched little cur Levin and the rest of RNC talk radio act like they are talking to America. They are not. They speak to a very small, bigotted, hateful, lunatic fringe of America that is not going to vote anything but Republican, even with the disaster of 8 years of Bush staring them in the face. Hannity keeps demanding that Obama go on his show, but why should he? To try to reason with people who believe every lie that Hannity pukes out? Hopefully, Obama is smarter than that.
THAT WRETCHED LITTLE CUR LEVIN,That's one of the best descriptions of LEVIN i've seen. I believe that he is the most beligerent and hatefull of all the talking RIGHT WING GASBAGS. His attitude is us vs them. If anyone disagrees with his conservative ideas , then those persons are , unamerican , unpaitriotic, liberal , socalist jerks.He will spit out all sorts of scorn on his opponents. He tries to say he knows the CONSTITUTION and the law, but in listening to him I think he is all hot air.I hope and pray that OBAMA and the DEMOCRATS are elected and enact the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE that will cut the legs out from under these hatemongers. Hopefully this will end one of the darkest times in the history of media journalism.
I think his 100 million deal is based on $1 per lie. This will probably only take till the end of the year.
A classic tonight on H&C. Hannity screeching out his "Big Issues" ( Joe the Plumber, Joe Biden's statement about Obama being tested, some other non-issue that Sean is excited about) and Geraldine Ferarro talking to him as the patient mother to the "slow" child who wants to join the circus.
It was almost sad as Hannity offered "insight" as to the real and qualified Sarah Palin.
I swear to whatever God(s) may exist out there....... but Sean Hannity has got to be the absolute most stupid person on the face of the Earth!
This guy makes twits like Sarah Palin and Glen Beck seem intelligent!
Just hearing his pathetic girly-man voice causes me lose thousands of brain cells per second!
I realize that FoxNoise has no credibility (which is why they probably keep him) .... but even they have to realize just how dumb this guy must be? Can't they?
</b> ok....is the bold gone?
Nope..... now?
inshannity has a great memory but, he is stupid by definition. So is billybob o'really. Again, billybob has a great memory for certain facts but, reality in general has escaped them. biilybob is a pinhead. It gives me no pleasure to point these simple truths out. Both of these cretins hate America. That is what their shows are about. Pointing out all of the reasons they HATE AMERICA AND REALITY. They can't stand they way America is and want to change it. They can't stand progress and return America to a point in time when the inquisitions took place. Their rants are hate progress for America rants. Of course these 2 Bozos could NEVER see this because the money they make spewing forth their vile, hate America diatribes, justifies their "brilliance" in their own mind. Hitler thought he was right and a Great German. billybob and shyawn inshannity both think they are brilliant and great Americans. I would bet you baby bush is a legend in his own mind as well.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE STATE." -- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
And Goebbels would be at the control board in the recording studio at fake news if he were alive. faucks news personifies the definition of PROPAGANDA.
I WISH that Obama would cut tens of billions of dollars in our military. America spends way too damn much money on the military, and I think that it should be immediately cut to 10% of its current funding. All it is is corporate welfare.
Every four years one of the two major party candidates talks a good game about reducing "wasteful government spending" yet does little or nothing once in office. In general, Democrats will raise both taxes and spending. With the Republicans, you may get taxed a little less but they also keep increasing the size of government.
Hannity is like most conservative talk-show hosts, loaded with nothing but talking points. If you try t challenge him with any decent amount of logic, he either interrupts you, asks you a question without responding to your question, or falls back on his talking points. Sadly the liberal talk-show hosts pull the same act so there's not a dime's worth of difference between them.
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