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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:42 PM
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Poll question: Should President Obama Sit down for an Interview/Beer with Wingnut Sean Hannity?
I think Obama should do the opposite of what Bush did, and do interviews with Fox News (While Bush treated MSNBC and anybody else really like they had the plague).
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:44 PM
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1. Hannity will only appear lesser for it.
And this is not coming from a cheerleader, but Obama has far more gravitas than Sean dumbass.
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damonm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:52 PM
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10. Yes, as part of his campaign to make the GOP destroy itself.
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ThisThreadIsSatire Donating Member (697 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:46 PM
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2. Yes, but only if Sparky's buying. n/t
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:47 PM
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3. Hannity has already bought some "The Great American Beer"
I can only imagine the wingnut who creates that.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:47 PM
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4. Fox should not be treated like a legitimate news organization. n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 01:04 AM
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21. This is probably the most important point.
If Obama does talk with Hannity, he should treat it with the same level of importance as he did when he visited SNL or The View.

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cyborg1966 Donating Member (41 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:49 PM
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5. Hannity would just look foolish
This question came from Mr. Obama's appearance in Elkhart, Indiana. Elkhart is only a few miles from where I was born, and one of the few places in Indiana that isn't rabidly Republican. I lived in Indiana until almost two years ago. I'm still in shock that Obama took Indiana, even by the slimmest of margins.

Obama would make Hannity look truly foolish. However, he should accept the invitation. If Rush Limbaugh would ever issue a similar invitation (when pigs fly), he should accept that as well.

However, I don't see it happening. The AM radio loudmouths and Faux Propaganda Channel aren't equipped for someone refuting their BS as intelligently as Obama would.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:51 PM
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6. No, Hannity is a pathological liar and human waste.
Human waste should not be given the time of day. Other human waste blindly listen to him and are an unredeemable menace to our country.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:51 PM
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7. Other: Who cares.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:52 PM
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9. Ignore thread is your friend.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 09:58 PM
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22. No, I want to participate in the thread and give my opinion that the issue doesn't matter at all.
:hi:
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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:52 PM
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8. Obama made Orally look like an idiot
when he went on that loser's show. Why not give the Hammity the same treatment?
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:54 PM
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11. I would love to see Obama go beer-for-beer with Hannity
Get Hannity completely stewed on camera, then ask him how his portfolio's doing this month.
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:56 PM
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12. No, why legitimize him
just ignore the little piss-ant. x(
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 10:06 PM
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13. Only if Hannity has been run over by the beer truck first.
Screw Hannity and all the other RW whores that get their kicks by back stabbing the President.

Let them get the scraps.
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drmeow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 10:18 PM
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14. If I thought it would do any good
I'd say yes. But I don't think it will do any good so ... no. If he did go on the show, I would say ONLY if it is live. No taping and opportunities for editing.
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GP6971 Donating Member (131 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 10:26 PM
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15. I say no......Obama's remarks
would only go way over the head of the typical Fox viewer. No way they could accept his views let alone understand them.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:04 PM
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16. No. He's too stupid. nt
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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:31 PM
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17. Madrassa
Edited on Tue Feb-10-09 11:33 PM by Juche
I remember a long time ago when Obama was boycotting Foxnews because they were lying and saying he attended a terrorist madrassa as a kid.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/04/obama_to_nix_fo.html

"ABC News' Jake Tapper Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, will be the second Democratic presidential candidate to boycott a proposed debate to be broadcast by Fox News Channel.

"CNN seems to be a more appropriate host," an Obama campaign aide tells ABC News.

Obama and Fox News Channel have had frosty relations ever since January, when the channel hyped and repeated untrue allegations that Obama had attended an extremist Islamist madrassa as a child living in Indonesia. (More on that here).

Former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, was the first to formally boycott the Fox News debate, which is sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, of which Obama is a member."




Sad that he is now giving credibility to FoxNews. I can understand the concept of different opinions (I don't mind if Fox is conservative) but it is not only conservative, but it is full of lies, half truths and they pretend they are fair and balanced. that bothers me. If you want to be conservative, then fine. I don't feel the same way but it is a free country. But be intellectually honest in your debates and in where you stand. Don't lie and say the new deal failed one minute, then pretend to be fair and balanced the next. Don't lie endlessly about history and policy, then lie about where you stand. Be honest in your views.

Obama should interview with an intellectually honest journalist, not a guy who media matters labeled 'misinformer of the year' in 2008 because he said more factually incorrect, misleading things than anyone else in the media.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812170007


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LeftofU Donating Member (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:37 PM
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18. Screw that wing nut.
If he feels compelled to talk the jerk offs who where wrong and lost the election, can't he find one that, at least has the appearance of integrity?
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4lbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:44 PM
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19. No, because then that one hour program will have its highest ratings ever and be a financial boon to
Fixed News.

Can't have that.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 12:54 AM
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20. Screw Faux news, let them rot on the vine.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 10:08 PM
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23. Not a fucking chance in hell
He is not a journalist. He an extremist propagandist. It's not like meeting with Ahmadinejad who is a legitimate leader of a country. That self-absorbed narcissistic pile of shit deserves no recognition whatsoever, or anyone else on Faux.
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