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The Spectacle Blog
Last night I was privileged to participate, along with a number of colleagues in the conservative media, in a taping of tonight’s Hannity TV special vetting President Obama.
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online, David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner, radio host David Webb, journalist Erik Rush, Dr. Alveda King and the Daily Caller’s Michelle Fields take star turns dissecting Obama’s much un-examined autobiography Dreams from My Father, with the rest of us discussing as the show moves along.
Take a look tonight on Fox at 9pm.
And yes…in this space we will be returning to the subject of Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama — and the Romney campaign — next week.
Thanks again to our host, Sean Hannity. He is fearless. Which, of course, is exactly why Mr. Obama seems to be obsessed with Hannity, attacking him in the latest version of Dreams from My Father. At the conclusion of the book’s re-issue is the inclusion of an excerpt from Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope in which Obama snarls:
When I see Ann Coulter or Sean Hannity baying across the television screen, I assume that they must be saying what they do primarily to boost book sales or ratings, although I do wonder who would spend their precious evenings with such sourpusses.
Coulter and Hannity as “sourpusses”? This is the laughable description of a deeply irritated president who is used to nothing but the kind of adoring coverage he gets from the mainstream media, where anchors like Chris Matthews get a “thrill” going up their leg whenever Obama speaks.
So tune in to Hannity tonight. We’ll all be baying across the television screen together. Aroooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
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Bob Grant| 5.18.12 @ 4:55PM
"...BAYING across the television screen..."???
Another reason to despise this man. He just reeks of arrogance.
Conservative Not Republican| 5.19.12 @ 11:04AM
Jeez. After "Obozo" gets reelected this fall we get four more years of Lord and Hannity's incessant whining, bitching and moaning. The GOP had 8 years under Bush to do something good for the country (like return power to the states) and all they did was grow the Federal Government at the expense of individual Americans, make the US pariahs around the world, increase the size of the American Empire, destroy small towns by sending small town boys off to war to die, and increase our reliance of Middle East oil. Obummer is just more of the same, but talking heads like Lord and Hannity think he is the reincarnation of Stalin/Satan. Spare us your lightweight, GOP-subsidized electioneering. You are nothing but GOP campaign hacks.
beebop2| 5.19.12 @ 5:40PM
I tell you what -- you punish yourself and leave the rest of us out of your hair shirt fantasy. If you are even REMOTELY considering a vote for 0bama, there is no hope for you.
Conservative Not Republican| 5.20.12 @ 10:24AM
About what I expected from an idiot.
Conservative Not Republican| 5.20.12 @ 10:27AM
I will not vote for a president until we are offered a real choice. Not Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum, but someone brave like Ron Paul who was actually going to make a difference by returning power to the states and ending the American Empire, but of course you Republicrats prefer Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum, so welcome to it.
beebop2| 5.20.12 @ 11:22AM
I didn't realize that I was trying to engage a Dr. Paul supporter in conversation.... silly me. Won't be making that mistake again.
Ryan| 5.21.12 @ 10:37AM
I have some similar views, but at minimum will show up to the polls and at least pull a lever for a third party.
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:19PM
And you are nothing, period! Maybe an idiot, who knows.....who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!
jimbob39| 5.18.12 @ 5:42PM
"...take turns dissecting Obama's much un-examined autobiography Dreams from My Father..." Have you not heard of Jack Cashill and his book Deconstructing Obama which throughly examined Obama's book? Hannity should have had Cashill leading the discussion.
Jeffrey Lord| 5.18.12 @ 6:00PM
jimbob...
The liberal media refused to touch it.....while grilling George W. Bush to a fare thee well...the usual double standard
Questions| 5.18.12 @ 6:23PM
No vetting of obamination could be considered complete without a full airing of the findings and conclusion of Jack Cashill.
Moreover, what's the use of reading from the book without first examining whether obama wrote the thing or not? When ALL evidence strongly suggests that Ayers wrote the thing, and that obama didn't have it within him to write so much as a single paragraph thereof, shouldn't the first order of business be a thorough airing of the details of his findings?
USSAlabama| 5.18.12 @ 11:04PM
He (Obama) also plagiarized a poem at Occidental College. One written for him by his pedophile communist 'mentor', Frank Marshall Davis.
He hasn't 'written' a book or anything else. He is a fraud and it is time *everyone* knew it.
The lit. agents biography /had/ to have been supplied BY him. How could she say there was a 'fact checking' error? What fact would anyone check unless he had provided it? America at large is just not that dumb as not to realize that. Equal to Elizabeth Warren advancing her fortunes on a fabricated minority status.
He told Rev Wright that the truth is what a politician says it is . . . Well, not anymore.
beebop2| 5.19.12 @ 6:30AM
I worked for a literary agency in the department that offered speaking services. The "one sheet" for each author was a compilation of statements they sent via email (granted, that did not exist during the time under discussion), edited to address the main speaking points. Not one was ever completed, posted online or distributed without very hands on author participation. And? None of the writers we represented had the staggering ego possessed by "writer" Obama ...
Luis Stecca| 5.19.12 @ 3:11AM
Hannity should have had Joe Arpaio or Mike Zullo
leading the discussion...
Clint| 5.18.12 @ 5:51PM
Now That's World Class Hypocrisy From The Guy,Who Spends His Nights With The First Sourpussy.
Oldefarte| 5.19.12 @ 4:16PM
'.....Breitbart.com ....Ron Paul, Sheila Jackson Lee Agree: Civilian Courts for Terrorist by AWR Hawkins 1 day ago Treating terrorism like a crime instead of an act of war is not a good idea, and the public knows it. Thus, when Attorney General Eric Holder wanted to treat it like crime and try KSM in New York, the American people expressed outrage. Everyone except the died-in-the-wool Clinton sycophants knew that Bill Clinton spent his presidency treating terrorism like crime, and what did we get? We got 9/11.
Nevertheless, an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, being pushed by Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.), promises to give foreign terrorists held by the U.S. access to civilian courts within the U.S., instead of military tribunals. Moreover, the amendment would not only “implement an unprecedented reversal in longstanding U.S. policy by requiring that terrorists be prosecuted in civilian courts… [but] would also allow them to be housed among general inmates in American prisons.”Perhaps the most important thing to note in this legislative discussion is is that Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) support it. If you write a piece of legislation dealing with foreign policy and either of these two titans sign on, you know you’ve made a mistake.
The bottom line: Legal rights for terrorists is never a good idea, for it goes against the grain of common sense and it runs counter to legal precedent and military tradition in this nation. It is also an affront to our brave troops who risk life and limb to capture these combatants and bring them to justice......'
Clint| 5.19.12 @ 10:43PM
Listen To Your Mittens, Israel Firster Smear Bund, Fart Pampers.
Mitt Romney Responds to Question about Bradley Manning / War Crimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EtmGted3D0
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:00PM
WTF does the Manning issue have to do with holding civilian trials in NYC for these terrorists, dumbars????????????
Clint| 5.19.12 @ 10:56PM
Now, The Rest Of The Story.
" Rep. Ron Paul has joined the next battle over terrorism-detainee rules.
The Texan made a surprise appearance at a House press conference in support of a bipartisan amendment to the defense authorization bill, which hits the House floor today, that would ban indefinite and military detention of anyone captured on U.S. soil, regardless of citizenship.
“I do not believe a republic can exist if you permit the military to arrest American citizens and put them in secret prisons and be denied a trial,” Paul argued.
The amendment, cosponsored by House Armed Services Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., with the support of Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., promises to reopen the decade-long debate over whether to prosecute terrorism suspects in federal civil courts or within the military…
Paul, with just a bit less fire than he showed in this year’s presidential debates, asserted that if 9/11 planner Khalid Sheik Mohammed had been tried the same way the World Trade Center bombing terrorists were tried in 1994, he could have received a death-penalty conviction “10 years ago.”
“The system works; we should not be so intimidated,” Paul said. “This cannot stand.”
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 3:55PM
There's no REST OF THE STORY. It is what it is, and ya boy is in in the sack with this PIG. It's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. Maybe she likes his TOO SHORT SHORTS, huh??????
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 3:58PM
PS: They were pushing this civilian court in NYC crapola along with the Muslim community in order to make a monkey-trial situation in Ground Zero's backyard, in order to humiliate the families of the victims. Anyone wanting these trials held in this country is a traitor!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:24PM
PS: Talk about [apparently] ".....The Guy,Who Spends His Nights With The First............."
W| 5.18.12 @ 5:59PM
Hannity is fearless, unlike O'Reilly who is an overrated loudmouth Obama fanboy. O'Reilly got angry and upset only this week when some silly poll said a majority of Dems believe we do not need a "rich class." So he is upset because they do not appreciate how much he pays in taxes. With his audience he could have devastated Obama if he was a real journalist and presented the facts, like Hannity has done.
Questions| 5.18.12 @ 6:24PM
O'Reilly is a blowhard regurgitating conventional wisdom. Why anyone bothers listening to him anymore is beyond me?
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 5.18.12 @ 7:21PM
Well I've got an answer to that question, Questions!! I only watch O'Reilly because he's the warmup act for Hannity (You see, I have a very hard time using my remote control, so I kind of just leave it on FOX all night long, instead of flipping around all those damn channels). I hope Hannity talks about the rumors that Obama didn't write "Dreams from my Communist Father" too, and that most likely Bill Ayers, the Terrorist did (hey, what are friends for?). Because from what I can tell, Obama doesn't have the talent, or attention span to have untaken such a task!!
Questions| 5.18.12 @ 7:38PM
Forget about O'Reilly, watch the MLB network instead.
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:26PM
He may have written the TITLE!!!!!!!
Questions| 5.18.12 @ 6:20PM
So when is Larry going to make his appearance, in all of this vetting???????????????
Jake| 5.18.12 @ 9:46PM
I bought a used copy of Dreams .
What struck me over and over was Obama's overwhelming and undisguised
dislike of " white folks."
If a white politician wrote a book and made audiotapes where he constantly denigrated and stereotyped black people .. excuse me black folks ,
he would have been ridden out of town on a rail by the media.
As he should have been.
Obama's cocaine use and love of socialism are also happily described in the book.
" Dreams " should have exploded all over the 2008 campaign , it would be a career ender for a Republican politician.
Hannity is doing the work the MSM has refused to do for years.
Good for him.
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:28PM
Are you saying that a white guy writing such a book would have been.......ZIMMERMANNED??????????????
grossly impolite| 5.18.12 @ 10:08PM
I call him Bill Oaf Reilly.Talk all you want about his charities. Charity is good. The best charity is the kind you don't take off your income tax. Or brag about at aevery opportunity. I'll bet he is a 10% tipper.
Any show that carries a credit line of who furnishes his "clothing" reeks of cheapskate to me.
Look up "nouveau riche" in the dictionary - you will see Oaf Reilly's picture.
He is also a bully and a loudmouth and he uses "I" when he should use "me" and he adores mispronouncing "reportage" as repportahje. And homage, O-mahhjje... In the United states we pay hom -ij to . . . You are not in France, Bill. It is like hearing the plumber with the butt-crack asking you to please pass the Deeesjhawwn.
Isn't enough that we have Obama and Pah kee stahn? I didn't hear him calling Paris Pah-ree when he was there. Same rule applies.
grossly impolite| 5.18.12 @ 10:22PM
Make that "Ommij " for homage. Not easy to phonetically spell pronunciations. In a normal Webster's New World you won't find "Oh-mahjjj"
as a pronunciation for homage. Off the subject, as usual.
One last thing. I think he is a self-promoting coward. My uncle called men like the Oaf "mug wumps" - sit on a fence with their mug on one side and their wump on the other.
But otherwise, Ms. Grossly, how do you like him?
martin j smith| 5.19.12 @ 7:41AM
Is it Obama's associations or the Economy or is it really both ? Romney claims he wants no part of attacks on Obama's personal history yet--ironically by talking about it he invites curiosity and of course
is there not a connection between Obama's "record" and his associations and other personal history. Whether by design or not Romney could be rather clever because anyone with half a brain knows that Obama an ideologue and his history
is completely ties to his ideology. Of course Romney may say Look just focus on the results--yet those who contemplating voting for Obama--many have no clue of who he really is--
in the end I think it will be a big Anti_Obama,Anti-Socialism or Communism vote
which Romney better recognize fro m one.
Oldefarte| 5.19.12 @ 11:35AM
Try this for "baying":
'.....Times 24|7 The Skinny WashingtonTimes.com
Wright says Obama considered himself Muslim BlogsFox News by: Fox NewsFriday, May 18, 2012
"When I asked the Rev. Wright about this whole question of Islam and Christianity, he said, well, you know, Barack Obama was steeped in Islam," author Ed Klein said. Photo Credit:AP Fox News host Sean Hannity: Here is author Ed Klein. We will do what the mainstream media will not do, we will play the tapes of his recent interview with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. ...
KLEIN: Do you think he ever thought of himself as Muslim?
WRIGHT: Yes. ...
HANNITY: What do you think of that?
KLEIN: Well, I was very interested in another part of that, as well, which is, when I asked the Reverend Wright about this whole question of Islam and Christianity, he said, "Well, you know, Barack Obama was steeped in Islam. He knew a lot about Islam from his childhood. But he knew very little about Christianity. And I made it easy for him to feel not guilty about learning about Christianity without turning his back on his Islamic friends."...........'
dee| 5.19.12 @ 8:32PM
If Hannity hates President Obama so much why don't he run for President. It is a disgrace to decipher his book no other President has been treated this way not even Clinton.
Why is he afraid to leave his desk and go on other network shows so he can be vetted. Who cares about Wright and remember the President came from the womb of a white woman so where is the racist overtones toward whites. This stuff is troubling and divides the country. Maybe the Secret Service needs to interview Hannity for spewing this type of rhetoric that is dangerous to our country.
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:08PM
BS.....everything about him is a fraud and dishonest. He's a inept street merchant/community organizer who never should have been elected POTUS since he's unqualified and is driving this country over the financial cliff to bankruptcy. It's the truth, so get use to it. The fact that Wright tells it is evidence of his former protege's dishonesty since no one else knows him like Wright does. You brainwashed liberals can't handle the truth being told about him since it hurts naturally!!!!!!
dee| 5.19.12 @ 8:47PM
Hannity also needs to remember what happen to the other man that was spewing hatred about President Obama and other people. May I remind him of Brietbart who had a massive heart attack God does not like ugliness and you reap what you sow.
beebop2| 5.20.12 @ 11:24AM
Are you threatening an American because they have a difference of opinion from yours? I love the kind of "change" 0bama supporters have brought to the political dialogue. Thuggery.
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:09PM
Are you saying that possibly he had something to do with Braitbart's death???????
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:10PM
Are you insinuating that his heart attack was possibly DELIBERTLY CAUSED???
Oldefarte| 5.20.12 @ 4:17PM
Dee, the following is right in line with your posts:
'...... by Ben Shapiro 3 hours ago A YouTube video uploaded on Monday afternoon apparently shows a schoolteacher from the Rowan-Salisbury school district in North Carolina informing a student that failing to be respectful of President Obama is a criminal offense. Breitbart News has uncovered that the student is a high school junior, and that the teacher is apparently one Tanya Dixon-Neely.The video shows a classroom discussion about the Washington Post hit piece about Mitt Romney bullying a kid some five decades ago. One student says, “Didn’t Obama bully someone though?” The teacher says: “Not to my knowledge.” The student then cites the fact that Obama, in Dreams from My Father, admits to shoving a little girl. “Stop, no, because there is no comparison,” screams the teacher. Romney is “running for president. Obama is the president.”The student responds that both are “just men.”The teacher yells -- literally yells -- that Obama is “due the respect that every other president is due … Listen,” she continues, “let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.” She yells over the student repeatedly, and yells at him that it's disrespect for him to even debate about Romney and Obama.The student says that he can say what he wants.“Not about him, you won’t,” says the teacher.The teacher then tells the student – wrongly – that it is a criminal offense to say bad things about a president. “Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush? Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”The student says that it would violate First Amendment rights to jail someone for such sentiments. “You would have to say some pretty f’d up crap about him to be arrested,” says the student. “They cannot take away your right to have your opinion … They can’t take that away unless you threaten the president.”Clearly, the student should be teaching the class, and the teacher should be reading the Constitution more often.The school district classified the exchange – which is obviously just another case of a pro-Obama teacher shoveling her views down students’ throats – a “learning experience.” It isn’t. It’s political intimidation, and it’s just another example of how the American public school system has become an indoctrination tool for the left. This teacher should be suspended or fired forthwith, if only for incompetence.
UPDATE: Breitbart News has received information that the YouTube video was shot by a friend of the bullied student. According to our source, the student had asked his friend to record the discussion to "prove to his parents what he has been trying to tell them for some time. The teacher in this video has a long history of pushing a liberal agenda, by shouting down students. She is very intolerant of other points of view that she does not share. The atmosphere at this school is not very conducive to opposing views."
The source continues, "The student's parents have since taken him out of school and had him registered at another nearby school."........'
Nancy in NC| 5.21.12 @ 9:13AM
But they would never ever remove the teacher.