Posted on 06/20/2013 5:33:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
A sneering group of MSNBC hosts and analysts on Thursday berated Sean Hannity for his "mindless" anti-government attitude, mocking him as "pathetic." The Fox News host gave an interview to Playboy magazine in which he dismissed much of the federal government as "dysfunctional." Ex-Newsweek editor Howard Fineman, who has bragged about "steering clear of partisanship," slammed Hannity for having a "deliberate lack of self-awareness [that] is just stunning."
Speaking of the federal government, Fineman continued, "One of the reasons why the system is so dysfunctional is because of the mindlessly accusatory nature of what he...what they [conservatives] do." The journalist, who has prided himself on "keeping an even keel ideologically," accused Hannity of being "an enthusiastically, vigorous user of that style of rhetoric and politics and it's one of the main reasons why things aren't working." Fineman exhorted viewers, "Wake up! Wake up!" [MP3 audio here. See video below.]
Petty MSNBC Crew Mocks 'Shameless,' Mindless,' Stunning Sean Hannity
Time columnist Joe Klein excoriated Hannity: "There are an awful lot of scared people out there in this country right now. He preys on them, just as Rush does and the others. He's shameless."
Perhaps one reason the MSNBC crew had such anger for the Fox News host is that in the Playboy interview, Hannity mocked MSNBC's low ratings.
A transcript of the June 20 segment is below:
12:55pm ETALEX WAGNER: What do Donna Summer, Braveheart, the Grateful Dead, Angelina Jolie, meditation and the Passion of the Christ have in common? They're all a few of Sean Hannity's favorite things. In an interview with Playboy this month, Hannity talks politics, pot smoking and Obama the Muslim. Joy, because we never tire of talking about how people are convinced President Obama is a Muslim.
JOY REID: That's right.
WAGNER: Hannity plays playboy, "Obama did grow up in Kenya and he told the New York Times he went to a school there and one of the beautiful things on the planet is Islamic prayer at at sunset. He went to a Muslim school in Indonesia or wherever it was. Kenya. I forget. Now you've got me. I think it was Indonesia." The problem with this is it's still in the water supply.
REID: Not only that, but he's got no geography education in, like, school because
WAGNER: Indonesia, Kenya. Whatever. It's pathetic.
REID: Indonesia, Kenya.
JOE KLEIN: Television should be an educational tool. Let me say to Sean, Indonesia is Asia. It's just off of Asia. It's an archipelago of a lot of different islands.
WAGNER: Do we have a map?
KLEIN: And Kenya is in Africa, so they're, you know, very, very far apart and very, very different cultures.
HOWARD FINEMAN: I think you lost him You lost him at archipelago.
KLEIN: A bunch of islands.
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: He doesn't read the articles, so he's not going to read the maps. He's looking for other pictures.
WAGNER: Oooh! Going there. Playboy. I do know just because someone thinks, Howard, that Islamic prayer is beautiful at sunset doesn't actually mean they're a Muslim.
FINEMAN: No. I mean There are many things that strike me about this. One of them is he says, "I don't know why people put faith in government. The system is dysfunctional. It doesn't work." That's like somebody saying, you know, "this bicycle that I just stuck a, a, a--"
WAGNER: Twig in the spokes of.
FINEMAN: "Twig in the spokes of won't go anywhere." I mean, the lack of sort of self-awareness, deliberate lack of self-awareness is just stunning. One of the reasons why the system is so dysfunctional is because of the mindlessly accusatory nature of what he--
WAGNER: People like Sean Hannity!
FINEMAN: --what they do. What they do. Listen, nobody is innocent in all this, I will grant that. But he is a, for better or worse, he's an enthusiastically, vigorous user of that style of rhetoric and politics, and it's one of the main reasons why things aren't working. Wake up! Wake up!
KLEIN: The reason for it. The reason is there's an audience for it.
FINEMAN: Of course. I know that.
KLEIN: There are an awful lot of scared people out there in this country right now. He preys on them, just as Rush does and the others. He's shameless.
I’m not the biggest fan of Hannity, but I’d consider getting criticized by that group of clowns a badge of honor.
Howard Fineman keeping an even ideological keel...bwahahaa! Oh gosh, stop it Howie! You take the comedy just too far!
Joe Klein’s articles aren’t worth picking up dog doo with. He’s a hack.
>> Sean aint very bright
It’s not that he isn’t bright — he’s impatient and often disinterested in other opinions giving the impression he’s dense.
“deliberate lack of self-awareness [that] is just stunning.”
What the hell does that even mean?!
No offense to you or anything, but I think if MSNBC and its hosts were never again mentioned in FR thread titles, they would all eventually be completely forgotten. Why give that channel free publicity? I have a difficult time believing anybody here wastes their time watching that imbecility on parade, and apparently hardly anybody anywhere watches that channel. I am certain nobody here gives the slightest rat’s ass what any of those people have to say about anything, so why the daily threads?
I’m even embarrassed to be bumping the thread with this post, but I had to get that off my chest.
FRegards,
LH
Howard Fineman, Who Once Slammed ‘Werewolf’ Rush Limbaugh, Absurdly Denies Liberal Bias
August 08, 2012
Journalist Howard Fineman, who previously slammed Rush Limbaugh as a “werewolf,” who knocked Rick Perry and Sarah Palin as stupid, who smeared Tea Partiers as “secessionists,” touted his non-partisan credentials on the website of the liberal Huffington Post. Fineman absurdly proclaimed, “I’m pretty well known for keeping an even keel ideologically and for steering clear of partisanship.”
Fineman, who once lectured Mitt Romney to tell Limbaugh, “stuff it,” added, “I’m old-fashioned, even out of date, in this deconstructionist era, in which everyone is assumed to have an ulterior — political — motive. I don’t. I really don’t.” Fineman’s defense came after a public squabble with Limbaugh. The radio host derided the journalist for tweeting of the Olympics: “Brits long ago lost their empire, powerful currency. They’ve got social strife, but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.”
Hannity never said that, the MSM lies.
That’s what these idiots think conservative broadcasters say.
Need a fact, make one up
I have no doubt that if hes anything he’s a moslem.
But I think he probably supports an serves them more because so many hate America like he does.
Frankly, I think hes more of a Nihilist serving no one but himself.
Jan 3, 2013
Howard Finemans tweet last night, in which he said Florida = thugs and dumb, writes former Florida Times-Union columnist Abel Harding. Many would argue the word is modern code for the n-word. Just another example of why journalists must be cautious on social media.
http://jimromenesko.com/2013/01/03/howard-fineman-apologizes-for-thugs-tweet/
Hilarious! Howard Fineman Blames Republicans For Obamas Plummeting Poll Numbers
April 23, 2011
Huffington Posts Howard Fineman blames the publics perception of Republicans in Congress for Obamas abysmal poll numbers. He claims they are dragging Obama down with them.
I thought Rubio was filling in on Fox Pro Amnesty News !
Hannity killed his limited credibility pushing Rubio -Rove Amnesty crap .
He is bought off troll now
Hey now, they can't say that about Hannity.....only WE can say that about Hannity.
I get the same impression.
There’s a fight coming that is going to affect every American. I don’t see the left winning and it will take decades to recover from it.
Why are they picking on Hannity?
He is the best friend they got trying to get Rubio’s amnesty passed.
Because they ARE stupid.
Ignorant, too. And doubly ignorant of what they're stupid about.
Yet, they've all gone to "the best schools".
2nd sentence in the article posted here at the top.
Thanks Kaslin.
MSNBC’s Sharpton: GOP ‘Will Stop at Nothing to Tear Down the Poor’
NewsBusters.org | June 20, 2013 | Brad Wilmouth
Posted on 06/20/2013 4:48:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
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