Posted on 06/13/2004 11:44:16 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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This guy doesn't know his history.
His drawing ability shows he spent most of his education in art class...
That's absolutely hilarious! He must have gotten some really pure "stuff" this week.
Hannity puts me to sleep. It's like listening to a political tinkerbell, or Disneyesque politics.....
Problem as I see it, with the ideas of Marx & the corresponding shift it caused, the meaning of the word liberal changed. No one sent any of the current lefties the memo about it, so they're a little bit confused.
I hope Wiley Miller will call up Sean and defend his strip. Hey, at least if Bush gets re-elected not only will it be good for the country, but these leftists can make all sorts of money lampooning Bush for another 4 years.
"So, I'm gonna miss Reagan, man, but...I'm a comedian. Reagan did for comedians what the microwave did for appliance stores."
--Comic Will Durst, 1988 (album "Strange Bedfellows: Comedy and Politics")
If he does any more "What's the story with my new boat" or Dr. Hannity sessions, I'd agree with you. Now you want someone to put you to sleep, try Franken. He isn't on in Boston but I was in the People's Republic of Vermont
this weekend and tuned into a couple minutes of his show on the affiliate up there..."so I guess we're like Regis and Kathie Lee he he he, you know I went to a New Kids on the Block concert with my daughter and..." zzzz...
Weird.
It is Hannity (and conservatives in general) who are trying to SAVE the constitution from being further ravaged by the socialist Democrats and other liberal scumbags.
On the other hand, this cartoonist is probably a scumbag himself. I have seen some funny cartoons from him/her/it in the past, but those usually had some basis in truth. Satire always works best when it has some basis in reality. This cartoon is just a lazy smear job.
The old "all or nothing" argument. Childish at best.
Maybe he is talking about the mythical document that has a rights to abortion, sodomy, and gay marriage in it.
He certainly isn't talking about the actual Constitution of the US though. This is a mistake Leftists seem to make alot.
I haven't bothered with Hannity (boring, repetitive, dim compared to Medved) in a couple of years or so, but I imagine he's once again insufferably flogging this thing every 5 minutes, right?
I saw that yesterday. On first reading I took it as an insult to Mr. Hannity. On second reading, I thought an intelligent liberal might feel insulted that Air America thinks their listeners would actually believe all that.
I heard that Hannity wrote a book.
It wasn't liberals who freed the slaves among other things.
He's probably talking about the first amendment and privacy. He's apparently so far to the left that he doesn't even realize that he needs to explain himself. The left conveniently forgets about the second amendment because they think we're at the end of history. Privacy is an issue of contention at both the left and right. I think Reagan would have been for privacy, because he always upheld the rights of the individual over the rights of the state. But he would have found absolutely no constitutional support for same sex mmmmmm (can't say it) "unions." The ACLU and the Massachusetts Supreme Court have decided that there's some sort of right to "that" in the Constitution. Malarkey!
Believe it or not back in 1982 or 83, and I swear to God that this happened, one of the first jobs I ever had was as a messenger for this advertising company out in Long Island where I use to deliver advertising proofs to companies in Manhattan. I use to have to pick up these proofs in Long Island (where I lived at the time) and take the Long Island Rail Road into Manhattan. This was when Reagan was Prez of course, and me and my friends believe it or not were major Reagan supporters. We use to call him God ha ha! (Young Republicans) I remember I even use to have Reagan stickers all over my first car (A dodge dart). Well one day I was waiting for a friend I use to work with at the train station after I bought some coffee, and while I was waiting I noticed that this cable news truck was parked on the side. It was this long Island news show, I forget the name but I think it was called News 12 long Island or something. And I really didn`t pay much attention to it because I was more concerned about catching the train because it was late and my friend still hadn`t shown up. Well I was looking at the main street searching for his car when all of a sudden I heard someone say "Hello" and I turned around and it was this beady eyed looking guy with a microphone, and he asked me just straight out "Hi News 12, mind if I ask you a few questions?" So I said sure not really sure what was going on, and he asked me "How is the recession affecting you?" Then I realized it was News 12 and was pretty shocked and freaked out that I was actually going to be on TV (I was 18 at the time) so I said "Well it really isn`t because I`m working now" and I pretty much clammed up because I didn`t know what else to say, plus he had this freggin` mike right in my face and I just wanted to get out of there. If you ever been interviewed by these street News people, they really shove that mike about an inch from your face. So he saw that I was bugged and said thanks then went on to another person. Now cut forward to today. THe first time I ever saw Sean Hannity on Fox, I knew immediately that he was the guy who interviewed me, I even remeber saying to my brother THAT`S the guy from New 12!!! So I looked up his bio and he indeed grew up on Long Island but in his bio it doesn`t mention News 12 or anything, but I swear to God it WAS him!! I never forget a face, and I find it ironic that today he is known as a staunch conservative when back then he was asking people about the recession when at the time Reagan was President. I even wrote him an email a few years ago about this and he never got back to me, and I`m wondering if it`s because he doesn`t want anyone to know about this.
Well, he was probably doing a job he was assigned to do. I don't include all of my early jobs in my resume either.
Wasn't the recession inherited from Carter? Was he trying to portray it as Reagan's fault?
He CAN'T "explain himself". Otherwise, you may be right - - he's so ignorant of the Patriot Act, and how carefully it was crafted, that he wants to blindly side with America's more fringe political elements (plus he is no doubt mindful of the half-hearted new "reservations" that his man Kerry now claims to have).
I guess I could point out that Wiley's characterization of Air America is Satirically, brutally honest, in many ways.. no funding, shoestring budget, extreme liberal agenda...
I guess I could bother trying to explain the character of "Obviousman" to a group of right-wingers that are practically caricatures of the very left-wing, shallow-minded, pavlovian, slogan-trained sort of idiot conservatives accuse liberals of being..
But it would be a waste of time..
If we were talking about "Boondocks", you might have a point..
It's not Hannity. He was a housepainter in the era you're talking about, and he didn't get politically active until the Ollie North hearings, which was 1987. He got his start calling up a radio station in Atlanta, where he lived then, and was such a good repeat caller, he ended up getting a job as a talk show host.
So in the last block he as much as admits that all he read was the title. Someone should tell him that "The Fountainhead" isn't about public water displays, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" isn't about bells and that "Catcher in the Rye" isn't about grain production.
Absolutely right. Classic Liberalism is the ideology this nation was founded upon. It used to have ties with 'liber', Latin for freedom. The word, and the ideology, got severely distorted in the 1800s. How are government controls and tyrannous majorities without private property (ala Social Democracy/modern liberalism) associated with freedom?
Liberals today are clueless. Liberals of the 1800s were right on (after that whole slavery thing got patched up).
I don't get it. Usually, to be funny, the joke has to have some basis in fact. So not only isn't it truthful, it isn't funny or even intellectually stimulating. Just boring.
That's so that the microphone picks up your voice and not a lot of surrounding noise.
I wonder if anyone actually read the last panel of the cartoon before their knees starting jerking upward
The old "all or nothing" argument. Childish at best.
Wiley's been getting nastier and nastier, and more overtly partisan, as the election nears. It may be time to demand he be moved to editorial pages where he belongs.
"I wonder if anyone actually read the last panel of the cartoon before their knees starting jerking upward."
I did, both before and after you comment, and I fail to see how that changes the perception. I make a point of reading these comics to see just how whacked out the libs are getting. Wiley is consistently liberal, though he does point out lib hypocricy from time to time.
Ditto. And not only is Boondocks lib editorializing, it's racist and should be removed altogether.
There ya go, mixing a history lesson with a survival tactic. Learn the difference.
so did I.
www.ultimateamerican.com
He's just a commie.
thank you for that detailed anecdote, former president clinton.
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