Debbie Schlussel says Sean Hannity is ripping off the children of dead soldiers
Conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel has written a damning blog post claiming that Sean Hannity and his Freedom Alliance charity are ripping of the children of dead soldiers by holding “Freedom Concerts” across the country, claiming that the money raised at these concerts goes to pay for scholarships when in reality, most of the money goes into Hannity’s back pocket.
Imagine that.
From Debbie Schlussel:
In fact, less than 20%–and in two recent years, less than 7% and 4%, respectively–of the money raised by Freedom Alliance went to these causes, while millions of dollars went to expenses, including consultants and apparently to ferret the Hannity posse of family and friends in high style. And, despite Hannity’s statements to the contrary on his nationally syndicated radio show, few of the children of fallen soldiers got more than $1,000-$2,000, with apparently none getting more than $6,000, while Freedom Alliance appears to have spent tens of thousands of dollars for private planes. Moreover, despite written assurances to donors that all money raised would go directly to scholarships for kids of the fallen heroes and not to expenses, has begun charging expenses of nearly $500,000 to give out just over $800,000 in scholarships.
Debbie Schlussel seems to have all her facts in order, not that I need a whole lot of convincing that Sean Hannity is a crook who exploits dead service members and their children for personal gain. Schlussel has combed over Freedom Alliance public tax records (which I am assuming are IRS 990 forms) for the years 2006 through 2008 and has discovered all sorts of scummy behavior on the part of Hannity.
It’s hard for me to describe just how much I dislike Sean Hannity. It’s not because he is a conservative. My parents are conservatives and I love them lots and lots. No, I dislike Hannity because he is a lying liar that lies about stuff. Plus, I don’t like the way he makes a fortune exploiting people’s patriotism.
Microsoft wants to make Bing the official search engine of teabaggers and birthers everywhere
Microsoft is in talks with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to de-index every News Corp owned entity from Google and allow Bing, the new search engine owned by Microsoft, to become the only search engine for News Corp properties. This would mean that if you wanted to search for something on Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, or the New York Post, you would have to go to Bing, not Google. The same would apply to 20th Century Fox, Fox, Fox Sports, FX Networks, and a host of other entertainment and sports networks.
According to the Financial Times, News Corp isn’t the only media company approached by Microsoft to make Bing the exclusive search engine.
I cannot help but believe that this is a really stupid idea. Not just for News Corp, but for Microsoft too. A deal like this wouldn’t stop anyone from using Google to find News Corp related content. For instance, say Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck say something incredibly stupid on Fox News. If went to Google and performed a search of what they said, you might not find anything that directly links to Fox News, but you would still find a plethora of web content related to whatever Hannity or Beck said. Microsoft may pay News Corp money to de-link from Google, but that’s not going to stop bloggers and others from linking to News Corp entities.
These bloggers and others would simply move to the top of the Google search results.
A move like this would also hurt Bing’s credibility. I’m not sure being the official search engine of Fox News is anything to be proud of.
President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Hardcore teabagging Republicans already believe that President Barack Obama is just like Adolf Hitler because he wants every American to have access to quality health care. How on earth are they going to take the news that President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?
They are probably drawing little Hitler mustaches on his face at this very minute.
I’ll admit that I like the man and that I voted for him to be president. In fact, we still have an Obama-Biden bumper sticker on both our cars. I think he’s doing a somewhat good job as president. Granted, he hasn’t started pulling combat troops out of Iraq like he said he would, but I have faith that he will get around to doing what he said he would do about Iraq.
I’m just not seeing what he’s done to warrant winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Read the full article »
I am worried about Rush Limbaugh
I guess Rush Limbaugh sat down with Sean Hannity and the two talked about how bad things are now that we have a socialist from radical Islamic jungles of Hawaii as our president. Rush reportedly said that he hopes president Obama fails. He also made some kind of weird reference to bending over and being sodomized.
I don’t really understand the reference, but I don’t watch Fox News.
When I saw the clip on the news, I was surprised just how bad Rush Limbaugh looked. He looks unhealthy. He looks puffy and pasty. He looked much better when he was an out of control drug addict. Maybe he should go back to inhaling Oxycontin and Vicodin like it’s Pez candy. Sure, his drug addicted resulting in his loss of his hearing, but at least he looked halfway human.
He looks really bad. This should be Rush’s golden time. Instead of having to spend his three hours a day on the radio excusing the blunders of George W. Bush, he’s got a charasmatic black liberial president to set his sights on.
Rush needs to turn that frown upside down and maybe get a little Sun. He lives in Florida, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at his pasty face.
The one thing I don’t want for Christmas
Contrary to what it says, this would not be the perfect Christmas gift for me. In fact, I can’t think of anything I would want less then a ticket to see Hannity and his band of losers perform at a concert.
I don’t understand people who will only allow themselves to be entertained by performers that share their specific narrow political viewpoint. Talk about limiting yourself. People like Charlie Daniels and Billy Ray Cyrus take advantage of people like that.
I’ve never heard of Michael W. Smith, but I’m sure he does this too.
When did Charlie Daniels start to look like Santa? Maybe he should avoid wearing red. And what is Oliver North going to do at a concert? Testify under oath? He should be in prison.
Meet the man that convinced many that Obama is a Muslim
The New York Times profiles Andy Martin, the man that convinced many ham & eggers that Barack Obama is a Muslim. The fact of the matter is that Obama is a member of Team Jesus. He is a Christian. He has never been a Muslim.
I learned a long time ago from an old Davey and Goliath episode that taught to not trust anyone with two first names. It’s a rule that has served me well over the years.
The article states that Andy Martin graduated law school, but but his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked because of well-documented psychiatric problems. Who knew you couldn’t be a lawyer if you were raving psycho? Just because he never went on to become a lawyer doesn’t mean that he doesn’t know his way around a courtroom. He is kind of infamous for filing many frivolous lawsuits. In fact, he was once featured on a CBS News program 48 Hours in 1993 devoted to the subject of frivolous lawsuits.
The guy’s not only bat-shit crazy, he is extremely antisemitic. He once called a judge a “a crooked, slimy Jew” and he made some weird comment that every passing day, he feels less and less sorry that that Holocaust took place.
Even though Andy Martin is too crazy to be an Illinois lawyer, he’s not too crazy to be an expert guest on Fox News. He recently appeared on a show hosted by Sean Hannity entitled Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism. It was on this program that Andy Martin was identified not as the racist kook that he is, but as an “author” and a “journalist”. [New York Times]
Is Randi Rhodes an alcoholic?
Air America has suspended host Randi Rhodes for offensive comments made about Democratic Presidential nomination candidate Hillary Clinton and former Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She referred to Clinton as a “Fucking Whore” and made the comment that Ferraro was David Duke in drag.
She didn’t make these comments on the radio. She said them at an Air America event in San Francisco.
Was she drunk? Do a Google search for photos of Randi Rhodes and a good majority of them show her holding a drink of some kind. She has also been involved in some stuff off the air that would make a lot more sense if she was constantly blitzed. Things like calling Clinton a derogatory, sexist name. There was the time in 2007 when she had been drinking all day at a Irish pub in New York City and blacked out and hit her head. She initially informed Air America that she was mugged. It was then said by some liberal bloggers that she had been attacked by a right-wing hit squad. The whole thing was more then a little goofy. She was off the air for a few days because of it.
Listening to Randi Rhodes speak is a lot like listening to fingernails on the chalkboard. She speaks with a heavy Brooklyn accent that seems to be, well, amplified for effect. It’s so bad it sounds fake.
She also often has her facts completely wrong. I once heard her refer to the Iran-Contra scandal as though the hostages involved were the 52 American hostages taken in 1979 when the Shah of Iran was overthrown and the American Embassy seized. It’s that type of gross factual inaccuracy you would expect to hear on Sean Hannity.
My hope is that the suspension turns out to be permanent. In the world of talk radio, suspensions usually are.
Sean Hannity and Neal Boortz agree that teachers are more dangerous then terrorists
A least the uppity ones that join unions. This from Think Progress:
Last night on Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes, right-wing radio host Neal Boortz claimed that teachers unions are “destroying a generation” and are “much more dangerous than al Qaeda.” He stated, “Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring in a nuke into this country and kill 100,000 people with a well-placed nuke somewhere. Ok. We would recover from that. It would be a terrible tragedy, but the teachers unions in this country can destroy a generation.” Sean Hannity agreed, noting, “They are ruining our school system.”
Neal Boortz? I’m still not convinced he is a real person. Part of me thinks he is a fictitious character created for the sake of comedy.
I wonder what the troops would think if they heard what Sean Hannity and Neal Boortz had to say about the enemy they are fighting. That al Qaeda are a bunch of pussies compared to unionized teachers. I’m tempted to say that they would be demoralized, but I have to believe they would simply think that Hannity is an idiot. I doubt the troops have ever heard of Boortz.
The New York Times makes Sean Hannity whimper like a little girl
I was driving home from work today and decided to listen to Sean Hannity. I was listening to XM Radio and CNN was on yet another commercial break. I noticed immediately at Hannity was quite upset about something. The tone of his voice was even more shrill then normal. It seems there is a new weekly TV show on Fox News entitled “Hannity’s America”. Alessandra Stanley from the New York Times watched the show and then wrote about it.
Sean Hannity didn’t like the article. Go figure.
When I got home, I read the article. I thought Sean Hannity’s reaction to the article was funny. The actual article was hilarious.
Underneath the flag-waving swagger, Mr. Hannity’s show is riddled with leftist subliminal suggestion and degrading, un-American images of violence and pornography. Last Sunday Mr. Hannity toured the Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada and stood over two prostitutes lolling on a bed in skimpy lingerie, their hands placed between their legs, and asked them if they believed in God.
The Bunny Ranch? You have to hand it to him for finding a way of incorporating prostitutes into his show. Who knew that Hannity’s America included prostitutes.
But it’s the sex and violence that suggest that Mr. Hannity harbors a secret plan to undermine American moral fiber. Despite President Bush’s assertion that the execution of Saddam Hussein was botched and disgraceful, Mr. Hannity repeatedly flashes some of the more gruesome video images of the hanging, pictures so ghoulish and unsettling that they could well be the fare for a snuff film.
First Hannity shows prostitutes rolling around a bed, then he shows the Saddam Hussein snuff film. I think to many Republicans, the crappy cell phone video of Saddam getting killed is a form of pornography. That strikes me as being quite off. Most Republicans worship Ronald Reagan and Reagan was really quite fond of old Saddam Hussein. May he not rest in peace.
Sean Hannity is a tool. He wraps himself in the American flag and dishes out disparaging comments about the patriotism of Americans that hold views different then his own. Americans like me. He does this not because it is what he really believes. No, he does it to make a buck.
Hannity’s fake patriotism has made him millions of dollars. He loves to chastise people like Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, and the Dixie Chicks because of their political views. The thing that separates these people (and others like them) from Sean Hannity is that they have never made a buck off their political views. Like he does. In fact the complete opposite is true. They often lose money because of their political opinions.
Just ask the Dixie Chicks.
Sean Hannity loves America so much that he is spending the holidays in Europe
I was listening to right-wing radio talk show host Sean Hannity yesterday while driving home from work. He was talking about his working vacation to Europe this holiday season. He and his family are going to London, Paris, and Rome where he will conduct town hall like meetings with Europeans entitled, WHY EUROPE HATES AMERICA. Something like that. I might have the name wrong, but I don’t think so. He pointed out that Paris and Rome ought to be interesting since he doesn’t speak their language, but “they all speak English over there.”
He then went on to do some French bashing. I guess this is still a popular activity in Republican circles. I wouldn’t have thought it was. Sure, they seemed to have fun renaming French fries “freedom fries” when France questioned the rational of invading Iraq. Imagine that. I just didn’t know that Republicans were still bashing the French. You usually don’t make fun of someone when it turns out that they were right and you were wrong.
He then went on to talk about how “we” liberated “them” from the Nazis back in World War Two. That “they” would all be speaking German if we didn’t go and save them oh so long ago. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought Sean Hannity had personally lead the Allied invasion of Normandy. Storming the beach with a Thompson submachine gun in each hand and cutting through the barbed wire with nothing more then his teeth.
In reality, Sean Hannity refused to serve in the military.
I always get a kick out of people that refer to historical things in the first person. Of course people like Hannity only do this when it concerns something they deem to be positive. Though you will hear Sean Hannity take credit for winning World War Two, you wont ever hear him say we owned slaves or that we distributed smallpox infected blankets to Indians. The word “we” will never be used when talking about these bits of American history. People like him only take credit for the good and distance themselves from the bad.
I also found it funny that Sean Hannity would insinuate the Nazi Germany would still occupy western Europe today if it wasn’t for the Allied forces. As if Russia was not marching closer to Berlin each day the war went on. Germany would have fallen even if the Allies had not hit the beaches of Normandy. The French wouldn’t be speaking German today, they would be speaking Russian.Then again according to Hannity, everyone over there speaks English.
Maybe Sean Hannity ought to read a history book.
The all-volunteer military
President George W. Bush said something that I found interesting. He had this to say at a rally for one of his Republican stooges:
“The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots — and Senator Kerry owes them an apology.”
First he implied that our service members are in Iraq because they volunteered to go to Iraq. That’s simply not true. Just because they took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies doesn’t mean they volunteered to go off and make Iraq a democracy.
Bush also said that members in the military are serving because they are “patriots”. That is simply not true. Most join the military for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with patriotism. Whatever that word even means these days. Sometimes I think it has been turned into something to do with magnetic yellow ribbons and boycotting the Dixie Chicks. To listening to Sean Hannity and getting as many tax breaks as you possibly can.
A majority of the people that enlist in the military do so because of need. Some join for the job training. Some join for help paying for college. Some join for the medical benefits. Others join because they simply want a steady paycheck. Some join for all of these reasons.
If a kid has the means to go to college or to obtain a well paying job, he or she will be far less inclined to enlist in the military.
If anyone owes the troops an apology, it’s George W. Bush. He sent them to invade a country under false pretenses. Thousands of young men and women have been killed or permanently disfigured because of weapons of mass destruction that never existed. Whoops. The fact is that Bush sent our military to invade and occupy a country for false reasons. His huge whopping mistake he himself refuses to admit.
He has no business demanding Kerry apologize for anything. It’s embarrassing. I don’t know if he knows this, but John Kerry is not even running for re-election.
Sean Hannity does not want me to vote
Right wing radio talk host and Fox News personality Sean Hannity is encouraging Democrats to not vote. That’s right. He is actually trying to discourage Americans who are Democrats from voting in the upcoming national elections.
This is what he said last week on his radio show:
Now, one other thing here. You know what? I think some of you need to stay home on Election Day. What? That’s right. I think — I know it sounds terrible. I don’t want everybody to vote; I want well-informed people to vote. … look, I think for some, I think you’ve gotta accept — and I want you to stay home on Election Day because you must accept the fact that your party has abandoned you. You’ve gotta accept the fact that your vote doesn’t matter anyway. So all you Democrats, stay home. So, you know, why don’t you stay home on Election Day?
Unbelievable. As though being a Democrat means you are not informed on the issues. My personal experience tells me the opposite is often true. I read books. I read newspapers. I read magazines. I watch the Sunday morning news programs. I stay informed.
I am a Democrat because I am well informed. What does Sean mean when he says that, “your vote doesn’t matter anyway“? That’s creepy. Does Sean know something that the rest of us don’t know? I guess we will find out.
I wish everyone would vote. Not just people who think like me. It doesn’t matter to me if they agree with my positions or not. The less people that vote, the less of a democracy we have. That’s not good.
Sean Hannity is an asshole.
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