Posted on 05/21/2007 7:38:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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HANNITY: Let's go to the one issue that I guess probably everyone would say has been most troublesome for you in the campaign. It became an issue especially after the first debate that you were involved in. And it's the issue I've asked you now extensively about, about abortion.
GIULIANI: Right, right.
HANNITY: But, you know what? Maybe there are people that still want to...
GIULIANI: Sure.
HANNITY: ... get — so I want to run through the issues with you if I can, just real quick.
GIULIANI: Please.
HANNITY: You're against partial-birth abortion.
GIULIANI: Yes, I agreed with the 2003 legislation. I read it, looked at it, I agree with it. I agree with Justice Kennedy's decision. It's — and I support it.
HANNITY: You're for parental notification.
GIULIANI: Yes, as long as there's an adequate remedy in court for unusual situations...
HANNITY: Right.
GIULIANI: ...that's the thing that concerned me. We have it. It's there. I'm for it.
HANNITY: Public funding of abortion?
GIULIANI: Public funding of abortion should be limited by the Hyde Amendment. I said that I support the Hyde Amendment. I would resist anybody trying to change it if I were the president. And I can't get any clearer on it than that.
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GIULIANI: I think it should be eliminated by free choice, by decisions. How do you get there? I personally oppose it. I believe there should be a right of choice. What that leads me to is, let's reduce abortions. We can all agree on that.
I mean, Democrats and Republicans, liberals, conservatives, people of all different kinds, I think the overwhelming majority of Americans want to see it reduced. I had some success with that when I was mayor. Abortions went down 16 to 18 percent. Adoptions went up in my eight years over the eight years before by 133 percent.
I would focus on that as the president. I would focus on what are the ways you can reduce abortions? If a woman is going to have a right of choice, which we should have, make it a real choice. Make it an informed choice. Make it a choice in which she understands that there are other options.
I’ve never understood Sean’s man crush on Rudy. He loves the guy. And that slimeball Trump.
Every time Hannity interviews Rudy it’s a total love fest. It reminds me of Bill Clinton with Larry King.
I listened to Sean Hannity on the radio in NYC for a couple of years before he went to his national show, because it coincided with my commute. He seemed to be a decent guy, not decent, but with a sense of the difference between right and wrong.
I presume from his name that his background, at least, is probably Catholic. I don’t remember if he said anything about his religious beliefs.
Anyway, I wonder how a decent guy who seems to understand that abortion is important to the conservative base can square it with himself to gloss over it, and try to help elect a man who is virtually certain to appoint pro-abortion judges?
“I think it should be eliminated by free choice”
Huh?
So he supports more of the same without coming out and saying it point blank because it would hurt him with conservatives.
Hannity is a cafeteria Catholic. He rejects some of the teachings of the Catholic Church. He even grilled a priest on the Hannity and Colmes show because the priest told him that people shouldn't present themselves as Catholic while actively embracing anti-Catholic positions. Sean has promoted birth control. I'm not sure if he's pro-abortion, but wouldn't be surprised.
The Rudy love-fest thing is a puzzle. It's possible that Rudy has promised Hannity something in exchange for his shameless, sycophantic promotion.
“Anyway, I wonder how a decent guy who seems to understand that abortion is important to the conservative base can square it with himself to gloss over it, and try to help elect a man who is virtually certain to appoint pro-abortion judges?”
As a lukewarm Hannity fan Im having a real problem with that too. I love how he supports the troops but wth is he thinking on abortion?!
No, its just that Fox News is shilling for an all Noo Yawk election (Rudy vs. Hillary).
I completely understand but totally disagree, Hannity’s from NY, so is Rudy, Hannity’s Catholic, so is Rudy (in name only), Hannity is semi-soft on homosexual “rights” and Rudy is in complete agreement with them, other than those issues, Hannity can be taken semi-seriously on most conservative issues but not on his promotion of Rudy.
I quit listening to Sean when he started drooling over Rudy.
He is a lapdog for the RNC, and I am a conservative. It is here that we parted company.
As a NYer, who works in NYC, I'd guess he's appreciative of how Rudy transformed NYC as well as his handling of the 9/11 aftermath...
Gives another interpretation for CINO, doesn’t it?
Hannity likes to brag about how he is “passionately pro-life”, but he continues to gloss over abortion as though it’s just another issue. If you truly believe that abortion is the killing of innocent, preborn babies, then how do you gloss over it and talk about it as though we were talking about term limits or something like that, and support a man who supports this atrocity? You can’t be “passionately pro-life” and support Giuliani.
My personal take is that they already had the choice to engage in the activities that led to the pregnancy. What ever happened to responsibility and accountability?
Evidently. I haven’t listened to Hannity for quite a few years.
Actually, I just got a fund raising letter today from Human Life International in which Fr. Eutener says he was invited to appear on Sean’s show, and he ended up smacking him down.
At one point, Sean asked Fr. Eutener if he would give him Communion, and he responded, “No.”
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