Posted on 02/17/2005 4:38:08 AM PST by stevio
This is to all the thin skinned FReepers who got offended by Hannity's comments at the beginning of his 2/16/05 show. Ease up on the guy! Personally I like him, he's young, good looking (yea, the girls dig him), doesn't back down from a fight (something the Republicans desperately need) and he is on our side (really). The constant bashing he takes on this site makes me ill. One of the things he said yesterday was that we eat our own, who can disagree with that? 2500+ replies (at this writing) on a couple of sentences he spoke shows we can't let it go. He's human, I'm sure it gets to him when people he thinks are on his side berate him. We are all blessed with certain gifts. If he doesn't say exactly what we think he should say, yea well, try speaking for three hours a day and an hour at night 5 days a week. People on him for pushing his books, we do believe in free enterprise, don't we? And lastly, he relentlessly campaigned for George W. Bush. The passion he has has nothing to do with money, he believes in the cause just as much as we do. Flame me if you want, we are still family.
And you're about to become the red-headed step child ... good luck.
I don't care what he says one way or the other.
I like the guy, and I listen to him every day coming home from work. I admire his incredible success - at a relatively young age - based mostly on his passion and perseverance. Folks who don't like Hannity don't have to watch or listen. The ones who flame him incessantly are, well, IMHO jealous/insecure.
Thank you for your opinion. But in MY opinion, Hannity was still wrong to lump together a hundred thousand FReepers as irrelevant "fringe" lunatics. I will continue to watch FOX, however, and keep listening to conservative talk-radio. My brush isn't nearly as broad as Sean's.
Book?
He said way more than that. He said we have been taking over by radical elements and he never visits us anymore. Say what you want, but this site has become extremely moderate over the last few years, and in pretty much is a fair representation of the GOP party. Hannity was absolutely wrong and mischaracterized this forum in a lame attempt to promote his forum. He owes us an apology.
There is plenty of good analysis of what bothers conservatives about Sean's show in the Sean thread. To sum it up, he's a dilettante.
Sean, I thought you said you didn't come here anymore.
Let not your heart be troubled.
I wrote on the thread yesterday that if you spend 5 days a week, for 5+ years, in a studio with Alan Colmes, the occasional "brain fart" is to be expected, and excused...
Sean's okay. He just talks out of his rear end sometimes.
Ok, whatever.....But was it necessary to start a new thread?
People looked at the message board, which is what he wants.
If he runs his site like Trixie it will never have more than a hundred posters.
Maybe it we all buy a sleep number bed and promise to eat at Ruth's Criss Steakhouse he'll like us more?
Did you listen to the audio tape of his FReeper comments? He didn't just make some casual, offhand remarks...in fact, I rarely hear him as snide when speaking about/to liberals...
I didn't agree with what he said yesterday, but I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater either.
he had a topic and good focus in the drive to the election. Since then he's scatter-shot all over the board. I prefer talk shows that find a couple or few issues each day and expound on them with insight, then open to discussion, and keep it on point without meandering too far.
Yes I did, see reply #7.
I still like him and don't think we should throw him out. He was wrong and owes un an apology though.
#16
And it explains his attitude toward FR. Anyone who was on the wrong end of that would have a negative view of the site.
What these people don't understand is that Hannity does great work for the conservative movement. His target audience is apolitical types, and he reaches them, in spades.
People who've never cared much for politics one way or another and wouldn't be able to follow a deeply intellectual conversation about politics because they've always found it boring. We NEED someone like Hannity to reach these people, and he does it well.
As for his book promotion, I agree with you there too. We're conservatives and we're supposed to support the free enterprise system. His books sell. More power to him.
I'm grateful he's on our side and not the other side.
Don't worry about him. As long as he is with us in the fight against the Dems, we won't have much to worry about. He will get around to it soon enough.
Perhaps it has escaped Hannity's notice that by condemning FR, he is eating his own too. I thought we were all conservatives?
But he didn't do that. He specifically stated that there are lots of good people who are "Freeps." His comments are in response to the nasty stuff that gets posted about him here on a regular basis. The guy's human. That stuff has got to hurt.
Didn't get a chance to hear Sean yesterday. What did he say?
i don't hate him. After hearing his comments i am not more inclined to listen to his radio show than i was before, and am not remotely interested in his website. In the Past, i was a fairly big fan, but the shameless huckstering has gotten to be unbearable. He has proven not to be immune to ego, and if his remarks were aimed at boosting traffic to his own site, well he was just disingenous. He said EVERYONE HE KNOWS left this site 2 years ago. i wonder if he knows Tony Snow, who was here the day before asking for prayers for his cancer. his remarks while not earthshattering, do not reflect well on him.
Yeah! How can he say we've been overtaken by the fringe if he never visits? That's like saying you hate a food you've never tasted. How do you know? It was an attempt to promote his own blog. Tear us down to prop up himself... That's a trick of the left and Sean should know better. Apology required.
Bingo!
And if he doesn't visit, then how does he know?
Bottom line, he said what he said for his own personal benefit. He's a Judas willing to do anything for gain.
I suppose it's better to have him around than not. Who else is going to reach out to married women of below average intelligence who
1. have never heard talk radio before
2. think the long and short of conservatism is gong to a Shania Twain concert, or whoever that country chick is
3. Don't have enough of a grasp on current events to analyze any subject beyond 'GOP good Dems bad'
4. Like to talk incessantly about how cute Sean is
5. don't listen to Rush so they hear the rebroadcast of what he said during Sean's turn at the mic
6. I could go on....
He's booooooooooring. His show is the chick flick of talk radio.
Hannity is all about Hannity. If he thinks he can get ahead by bashing FR, he'll do it. He's first and foremost, a 'media personality' and if he doesn't keep his numbers up, there are plenty of competitors who are ready to step in to take his place. In broadcasting, what you did yesterday means nothing, what you do TODAY is everything.
Having said that, I predict Hannity will discover all too well that old saying about 'be nice to the people you climb over as you make your way to the top, as you will ultimately be passing those people again as you head back down to the bottom'.
American conservatism is bigger than any one person, and it is WAY bigger than Sean Hannity could ever hope to be.
Wait a minute, wait a minute....I do listen to Sean and one of the things that Sean always tells his guests and his listening audience is that he is NEVER bothered by what is said about him and never has been bothered.....if Sean is upset about FR, then I do not understand his statement. Sean also needs to remember that there is no doubt in anyone's mind here that there are disrupters who may "sound" like Freepers and conservatives, but who are really trying to undermine this site by attacking Rush and Sean. That's my 2 cents worth.
Exactly. I stopped watching regularly because I'm so sick and tired to listening to the other side. They get guys/gals on the other side that are so ridculous, any intelligent purposes would be insulted. I'd rather watch Gibson in that time slot. Hannity would do better in another format. With all that said. Hannity has done enough for our side to make him a significant mouth piece for our issues. If he did say those things, I think he should rethink that.
I agree
NOBODY worked harded for Bush in NOVEMBER than he did
Being married with kids and a TV Show and Radio show attending rallies all over the country ( at his own expense )and having to put up with Alan Colmes I don't know how he did it
In addition he is very supportive of the TROOPS
He does a hell of a lot more than any other CONSERVATIVE MEDIA FIGURE including LIMBAUGH- SAVAGE etc etc
People on this site go WAY OVERBOARD at times
Hannity must be thinking of doing his own "blog". That's why he attacked us. Did he mention Lucianne's site or does he even know it exists?
The Question:Is Hannity targeting the females on his program? Answer: Sure, and what's wrong with that?
The Question: Do I listen to Hannity? Answer: once in a while, but Rush is The Man!
The Question: Does FR ban opinion that doesn't fit with prescribed conservative opinion? The Answer: So much so that I may be banned for posting as tepid a response as this, and I have worked hard to keep it tepid.
"The inescapable truth is that he made his attack statement as part of a commercial pitch for his site."
I am not happy with how he characterized this site. I am new here and have seen diversity of opinion. Yes, newbs like me get brutalized at first, but only if we do something out of the "norm" like post a vanity asking what a ping is.
However, his week in review on Friday with the guy doing voices is the funniest thing on the radio today. (Granted it's because of the guy who does the voices, but it's still on his show.)
Though Hannity gets on my nerves at times with his self-promotion, and while he is IMHO at best a 3.5 on a scale where Rush is a 9.5, I think you make a good case for him, and admire your willingness to speak out, knowing you'll take considerable flack.
Hmmmm, sounds like he is a Freeper.
Go figure. But some here still express shock that he shoots back.
His inability to observse, converse, and interact with individuals who are out to harm this country - Rangell, Kerry, Churchill, et al - and not have the sense or balls or whatever you want to call it to nail these people as traitors and unAmerican is what galls me! He got where he is by a combination of hard work and groups like Freepers that started listening to him and alerated others to listen to him. Now, instead of reflecting on what people are saying, he turns on them. Maybe some here do go after him hard but others have right on insights regarding him.
I agree with almost every comment made on both sides of this issue.
What really angered me about Hannity's bashing of FR is that it is tied to his promotion of the discussion boards on his own site.
In other words, he is willing to sell down the river a good conservative site in order to attract more clicks, and $$$, to his own site. That is despicable.
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