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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.

• The person that created the anti-Clinton “Vote Different” YouTube ad styled after the old Apple 1984 ad has been identified. He used to work for the company that does Internet work for the Obama campaign. He wrote a post over at at The Huffington Post explaining his motivation for the ad. Big shocker, he is an Obama supporter. Who would have thought that? He also explains that he made the ad without his employer’s knowledge. In fact he was fired for making the ad.
• Elizabeth Edwards once again has cancer. It’s incurable, but it’s treatable. I’m not sure I understand that, but I usually don’t understand medical things until I see it in an episode of House. Her husband John Edwards will continue his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination. You would think with his wife facing such a serious medical problem, he would want to focus on her instead of his pursuit for third place.
• Once again, that longed haired hippy Sanjaya Malakar escaped getting kicked off American Idol. When will he finally get voted off the show? Do I have to pick up the phone and actually vote for someone? Someone who’s name is not Sanjaya? His singing was so bad this week that he actually made a retarded girl cry. If this keeps up, I will begin to doubt the musical integrity of the show. I do not like Sanjaya Malakar.
• Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy has weighed in on the topic of gay marriage. He says that he and Jesus are against it. That’s ironic, because many gay people in committed relationships think the Colts suck.
• Apple launched their newest product today. It’s something called Apple TV. Oddly enough, they chose not to put a pretentious lowercase “i” in front of the name. Apple claims that it will enable you to put audio and video content from your iTunes library to your widescreen hi-def TV. It will allow you to watch movies, TV shows, podcasts, and porn pictures from your computer. It uses wireless to sync up to 6 computers to your TV. It costs $299. If you have a video iPod, you can simply buy a patch cable from Apple for less then $20 that allows you to basically do the same thing.
• The SCI FI Channel has increased its episode order for the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica to 22 up from the original 13. If you ever wanted to realize just how much the last ten plus years of Star Trek sucked, watch an episode of Battlestar Galactica.
• Sean Hannity first challenges the mayor of Salt Lake City to a debate on Iraq and impeachment, then chickens out. Hannity being the douche that he is then blamed the mayor as being the one to back out.
• Speaking of Sean Hannity, has anyone ever seen Hannity and Nathen Lane at the same time? Those two look so much alike that I’m starting to think they might be the same person. Look here to see a comparison.
• A study shows that 75% of all Blogspot blogs are spam blogs. That’s a shame because many of them are very good.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.