Poor Sean Hannity

King ^ | April 22, 2003 | Charley Reese

[cicero's_son]

Colmes is wrong 90% of the time but I like his style more than Hannity who just likes to scream and name call. At least Colmes debates without the emotion a liberal tends to debate with. Funny its Sean who gets all worked up and emotional.

Yup.

Hannity is a disaster in the making for the conservative movement. We'll rue the day we made him one of our champions.

[Guenevere]

Charlie Reese's writings are slop!

[frossca]

This is not a left/right, liberal/conservative issue.

It shouldn't be but the left and the media made it one. This is all they have to hang there anti-war (Bush) hat on (other than not yet finding any big drums with "WMD" stamped on the side.)

In all this brouhaha about the museums I have yet to hear or see anyone mention the human shields. Since they were so interested in protecting the people and culture of Iraq, where were they when all this was happening?

[AppyPappy]

Charlie Reese is a girlyman

[Puppage]

the looting of that museum was a tragedy

I absolutely agree. However, how many US lives would have been expendable in order to have prevented it? It was also the work of professional thieves who just waiting for the chance to steal.

[Guenevere]

#13...Don't even bother to get your ire up over this hasbeen!

He's a vicous, meanspirited nobody who thinks he has something worthwhile to say.

If you've seen him lately, you will see his body reflects the sour, overindulged person he has become.

He's repulsive!!

[plain talk]

Oh really? He has written that the Bush administration is "by far" worse than Clinton's and that N. Korea has every right to have nukes. The guy is a complete idiot.

[AppyPappy]

I'm not on the Left, but I think the looting of that museum was a tragedy.

A tragedy is when a child dies. That was a robbery.

[KeyBored]

"After all, [Pres. Bush] brags about not reading."

If Charlie Reese has a fault to some, it's that his writing reflects one who is TOO enamored of the Constitution. (Personally, I don't agree with this because one CAN'T be too enamored of the Constitution.)

He's like the elderly uncle who lives in the next town - cranky, and always seeming to find fault and reasons we shouldn't do what we want to do. As with anyone, sometimes he'll be right - sometimes he'll be wrong. But count on one thing - when Reese writes a column it has been well thought out. He's hard to pigeonhole as a liberal or a conservative - and maybe that's not a bad thing.

I DO wish he would lay off one of the favorite tactics of the left however - the "Bush is an idiot" ploy. (See quote above). IMO his writing and any points he makes risk being lost when he does it.

[arasina]

There are a lot of issues to discuss about this Museum of Antiquities and Sean Hannity and Charlie Reese, but I'll let ther rest of you do that. I'm just wondering about two things:

• What the heck was this museum doing in IRAQ in the first place? I mean, it isn't exactly a prime tourist spot and Saddam didn't have respect for any museum unless it contained thousands of likenesses of him.
• Why didn't the curators follow their 48-hour evacuation plan when the first tanks crosssed the border into Iraq?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Even if the theft were not an inside job, (which it now appears that it was), why is it the reponsibility of the US military to protect and defend the heritage of the Iraqi people? After WWII, the Japanese people didn't loot their museums, neither did the Germans. The US military was working securing the future of the Iraqi people. It should have been up to the Iraqi people to respect and defend their own heritage.

[dwilli]

God help anyone who depends on Sean Hannity to give him or her daily intellectual stimulation.

[Dr.Deth]

Sean is right, it's just the grasping of the left. If we protect the museums instead of the oil wells, then they decry the 'environmental holocaust' of having them set ablaze.

Sorry Charlie, must be some bad tuna you ate. "Heads I win, tails you lose" went out with the monolithic left-wing media bloc of the 70's, 80's and 90's that ensured such things.

[Dr. Luv]

I disagree with almost everything this guy has to say. In one respect however, he is absolutely correct:

"That museum is one of the five greatest museums on Earth. It contained treasures that are the heritage of mankind. There are 140,000 U.S. military personnel in Iraq. We've protected all the oil fields, north and south. Do you really believe we couldn't have spared two fire teams to guard the irreplaceable artifacts of the beginnings of Western civilization?

We could have and we should have. As conservatives, we need to be big enough to admit our mistakes and this one was a doozy...

[Miss Marple]

I didn't hear the show, but I would imagine Sean's comments were much as you said. I do not hold the military responsible in any way for the museum thefts. I wish that it hadn't happened, but I am convinced that most of the valuable items were removed before the US Army reached Baghdad, and the looting was of mostly office furniture and the like.

However, it would be better for our side if people like Sean would take a less belligerent posture and point out the facts and suspicions about the thefts, rather than simply acting like the items were valueless.

Charlie Reese, on the other hand, is totally consumed with attacking the President at every turn. I cannot remember the details of his column just prior to the war, but it was so bad that I cancelled our local county paper over it.

And he isn't fooling me one bit. He, along with several others in the press, had their "Bush is to blame for the deaths of thousands" columns all ready to print.

[J. L. Chamberlain]

It's not a question of patriots versus traitors, as the morons among the neoconservative crowd try to paint every human being who refuses to click his heels and salute their guru, Richard Perle, and their emperor, George Bush.

The slide of mainstream Repubilcans into neocon stupidity has been disgraceful. Hopefully they will awake soon.

J

[AppyPappy]

God help anyone who depends on Sean Hannity to give him or her daily intellectual stimulation.

God help anyone who uses a strawman to give him or her daily intellectual stimulation.

[sirchtruth]

I'm not wrong.

Ok, then you didn't put your quote of what Sean said in context.

I don't get to listen to Sean every day, but I do know the intent of what he said.

BTW, it's aweful what happened, and I am only sorry that Iraq's did not protect the remnants of their heritage better.

[bullseye1911]

If we don't elevate the level of intelligence and integrity of our government, we are going to end up floating on the cesspool of history.

Sorry Charlie, we took care of that in 2000!!

[MrsEmmaPeel]

As conservatives, we need to be big enough to admit our mistakes and this one was a doozy...

How so? See post #31.