Fox's Sean Hannity rails against the 'dependency' classes
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Fox New's Sean Hannity has just written his personal creed, but unlike Our Lord's' would you be surprised to hear that Hannity's is pretty exclusionary?
In his new book, titled Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda, Hannity rails against what he identifies as the signature issues for Democrats: chief among them their fiendish plot to expand what he calls the 'dependency' classes.
Excuse me, the what? The dependency classes? Is that what they call the poor at his yacht club now? Is that why he's expressing himself like an oligarch circa 1910? Who talks like this in 2010?
Hannity's senior college at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, may share most of his views but he has the sense not to offer them in haughty tones that make him sound like a Brahmin shuddering at the great unwashed.
There's been a lot of overheated rhetoric coming out of Fox News and from the right in general over the last twelve months, but you should read this quote from Hannity's new book for an example of his blowhard myopia:
“Obama and his party stand for America’s economic bankruptcy, virtual surrender in the war on terror, and a culture of death, from abortion to embryonic stem cell research to healthcare rationing tantamount to death panels. He stands for a comprehensive radicalization of our culture, from turning our schools over to homosexual activists, to undermining the sanctity of heterosexual marriage, to expanding the dependency classes. He stands for polarization and alienation between racial and ethnic groups, and between those of different economic circumstances. He stands for government swallowing the private sector and equalizing income and asset distribution; he may even use the courts, if he can pull it off, to impose what he and his fellow radicals call ‘economic justice,’ a grand-scale version of ‘spreading the wealth around.’”
Vote for Obama and you're children will be ensnared within the Pink Triangle. Your husband will leave you for another man. Your grandparents will be sent to a concentration camp. We'll be goaded by racists. We'll be held up at gun point. We'll have our homes taken from us. It'll be Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, every goddamned day.
No wonder the Tea Party crowd are spitting mad and shrieking at Congressmen. No wonder they're freaking out in front of the cameras. Sean Hannity and Fox News is telling them the world is ending. It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.
If you're stupid enough to fall for this nightmare vision of the future - and sadly, millions are - you'll actually become the danger to society that Hannity claims he's working to prevent. Funny how that works.
The Fox News noise machine is cranking at full tilt this year, obviously. It's a shame this kind of overheated rhetoric is turning it's anchors into cranks.
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Monsoonman | Apr 07, 2010, 10:19 PM EDT
Reading this board is like reading the patients dialogue in one flew over the cuckoos nest. Time for your meds.
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hyattsville | Apr 07, 2010, 03:23 PM EDT
There’s a great photo going around the internet these days. It’s a photo of Hannity's silly book wedged in the middle of a display of other feminine hygiene products (your rigid word censor won’t let me type the original word which starts with a d and ends with an e and there's an ouch in the middle!). Simple humor but funny nonetheless!
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seanomelbourne | Apr 06, 2010, 06:55 PM EDT
So he was a soldier! I am glad you agree with the premise of my article I assume I have your tacit approval or are you hiding a bias. I notice the cowardly right will not condemn or condone hannity's slur. I cannot find a misspell.
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hurley3 | Apr 06, 2010, 05:27 PM EDT
seanomelbourne, I recommend you learn to improve your research. McVeigh was not a Marine!, he was a soldier, thus a member of the Army! And please learn how to spell. Semper Fi
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seanomelbourne | Apr 05, 2010, 01:24 AM EDT
come on moonsoonman! lost your mettle condemn or condone Hannity or are you one of cowardly right who hide there colour bias, there Montana style wannabee militia marauders,why don't you come out of the closet tell us.Will your heroine(Sarah Palin) put target points on more Congressmen so your right wing militia can finish the job. Would you advocate crosshairs on your president.
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Mayolady | Apr 02, 2010, 08:34 PM EDT
It is all about money and power. He is not concerned with justice. He has his and he doesn't even want the average worker to have the basics. He does not believe in democracy. He does not give us as voters the right to elect our leaders without his approval or enact laws without HIS approval. HE is the tyrant we fear, not Obama.
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seanomelbourne | Apr 01, 2010, 06:26 PM EDT
Hannity at a tea party convention yesterday ,I Quote,"you are timothy Mac Veigh wannabees" and they cheered.ARE the tea partyers now aligning themselves
with a mass murderer HE killed over 100 children.IN McVeigh's last interview in jail he was asked why, his answer was, "I did not know they were there but as we were thought in the marines they were collateral damage". I repeat Hannity he is a blight and a danger to civil society.
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Monsoonman | Apr 01, 2010, 09:26 AM EDT
So you prefer the soft tyranny of the nanny state to take care of you from cradle to grave? What you call "heated rhetoric", is to many clear thinking people,(the ones forced to pay for the nanny state) the truth. America was founded on the premise that you have the "right to pursue happiness". Not that the government was to guarantee you happiness.
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seanomelbourne | Apr 01, 2010, 05:23 AM EDT
I bet Hannity,s Irish fore bearers came from the dependency class, hoping to rid themselves from their poverty. This man is a blight on America and so are his fac-ist friends Imus ,Limbaugh,Malkin and that slobbering Dick Morris.
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heybuldog69 | Mar 31, 2010, 11:24 PM EDT
What a hit Hannity would have been during the Famine. His words echo the same things that were said when our people were dying from the blighted potato crops. England was reluctant to come to the aid of Ireland because this would create a dependency/. Laizzez-faire capitalism is as bad as Marxism in that the most vulnerable are victimized. Seem like Sean has sold out to the Ascendency.
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