I listened to it too, and I am a Hannity fan, but as an interviewer... Hannity has an axe to grind and he pushes and pushes with it. The senator said he:
1. Didn’t read the entire bill
2. Didn’t read the Heritage Paper
Hannity didn’t lighten up but wanted to emabarras the Senator.
He did this last night with a radio talk show host. Can’t remember his name. His point was that Hillary should be asked about her husband’s mistresses in order to get the female vote as the neglected housewife etc. The radio guy said, she would be better off not to answer those questions, but to say, “Im running not my husband.” Hannity would not let up but kept asking.
In short I don’t blame the Senator for hanging up. Hannity did not conduct a good interview but a trap.
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I disagree with you comment. As a senator he is supposed to know what is in the bill before he votes on it-or decides he is in facor of it. Who has not read the headlines across the internet/papers etc on what this bill will cost the US taxpayer? It’s been posted everywhere. He sounded incompetant at the very least.
What was the trap, enlighten us pls.
To show the Senator doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground?
He didn’t WANT to embarras the senator... the senator did that on his own. IF you are going to be interviewed and you have even an inkling of an idea of the host or content of the show, you should at the very least be prepared to give some rational answers. This senator sounded like a bonifide usda approved idiot- and Hannity had nothing to do with that.
Only a trap because the Senator was not telling the truth or at least trying to avoid telling the truth. If he stated that he had not read the bill or that he had not done a cost analysis, he wou8ld not have gotten into this argument. It was only when he tried to equivocate and then attack Hannity with diversions that the interview went South...
Senator V is an “L”
And I am NO Hannity fan, and the questions could have been better, but Voinovich sank himself, BEFORE and WITHOUT Sean's questions:.
He sounded stupid on the Fairness Doctrine, and he was clueless on the fate of an amendment he had just VOTED for.
I completely disagree. It is a Senator's primary job to actually read and understand the legislation he/she votes for. I would add that the good Senator has duty duty to the American people to analize the costs of any bill that crosses his desk. This is usually done in committee. This bill never went through committee.
Voinavich showed beyond a shadow of a doubt what a clueless, uninformed, out of touch political elitist that he truly is. I'm ordinarily not a Hannity fan. However, in this case I applaud him for exposing this self serving elitest.
If asking informed, pointed questions about legislation currently on the table and expecting informed, pointed answers is a trap then we need a bunch more traps......
A trap? Since when was expecting a Senator to know and understand legislation he’s voting on a trap? Hannity asked fair questions. He asked pointed ones when it was obvious the shuck and jive was on. How can you defend the clearly uninformed and arrogant mutterings of an elected representative to our federal government?
This was no trap, if there had been intelligent, thoughtful answers things would be looked at differently, even IF we still disagreed with what was being said. There was n-o-t-h-i-n-g remotely intelligent that the Senator uttered - not one damned thing.
That he did and he caught a great big stupid rino rat! Now throw his carcass in the garbage where it belongs.......
But number 1 is the entire point. Why is the Senate voting on a bill which most Senators have not seen?