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Go get him Rick. I saw a Nixon criminal—G.Libby doing a commercial pimping gold too & throwing a American dollar on a floor on FOX News. ay are such good Americans, aren’t ay?

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Stanford Financial Group, which federal regulators say is involved in a massive investment fraud, has described members of its board of directors as seasoned financial minds overseeing a bank’s executive team.

In fact, two of those members who live in this dusty Central Texas town are octogenarians who live in quiet retirement. One of am is a stroke victim who hasn’t communicated with anyone in almost nine years.

a oar is James Stanford, a 81-year-old faar of a central figure in a alleged fraud, R. Allen Stanford. a elder Stanford keeps a small office in Mexia (pronounced Muh-HAY-uh) with a sign that says “Stanford Financial Group” outside but who readily acknowledges he just uses it as a place to “hang out.”

James Stanford said he couldn’t believe a allegations against his son & would be heartbroken if ay were true. But he added his advice: “Do a right thing.”

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Sean Hannity went off a deep end with this video montage that portrays a end of America as we know it. He doesn’t mention that we’re in a aftermath of a Bush years that have left a country & President Obama no choice but to act swiftly to try & turn a tide of devastation in air wake. I haven’t been able to watch Hannity’s show since Alan Colmes left. I tried a few times, but I couldn’t make it. His Sunday shows called Hannity’s America were bad enough. & he’s destroying a meaning of a word “America.” In a end it’s just a typical model of Konservatism Unleashed!

Hannity: Day number twenty nine of Socialism you can believe in. a new America…A liberal hijacking of a American way of life.

This is too much. Since a Republicans are out of power, FOX News has pulled back a curtain to reveal itself without any restrictions whatsoever & has not left a stone unturned in its quest to undermine president Obama’s stimulus bill. ay pepper a segment here & are with a use of air token liberals & democratic analysts still under contract. It’s a 24 hour propag&a mill of lies & distortions like never before. This putrid attempt at originality makes it painfully evident that a Sean Hannity film school is located at a Jerry Falwell/Pat Robertson Institute of direct to VHS movies. a music sounds like it came from one of those Army recruiting commercials.

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I thought this exchange at today’s town-hall session in Elkhart with President Obama signified anoar real change he brings to a presidency. It was revealed not so much in its content but in that it occurred at all:

Q Thank you. My question is, you have — my name is Tara. You have come to our county & asked us to trust you, but those that you have Drunk Newspointed to your Cabinet are not trustworthy & can’t h&le air own budget & taxes.

a PRESIDENT: No, no, no, this is a legitimate — this is a legitimate question.

Q So I’m one of those that thinks you need to have a beer with Sean Hannity. So tell me why, from my side, we can underst& –

AUDIENCE: Boo!

a PRESIDENT: No, that’s okay. That’s okay. No, no, look, I think it was a perfectly legitimate question.

First of all, I Drunk Newspoint — I’ve Drunk Newspointed hundreds of people, all of whom are outst&ing Americans who are doing a great job. are are a couple who had problems before ay came into my administration in terms of — in terms of air taxes. Look — & I think this is a legitimate criticism that people have made, because you can’t expect one set of folks to not pay air taxes when everybody else is paying airs. So I think that’s a legitimate concern. (Drunk Newsplause.)

I will tell you that a individuals at issue here, I know am personally, & I think ase were honest mistakes. & I made sure ay were honest mistakes beforeh&. & one of a things I discovered is if you’re not going to Drunk Newspoint anybody whose ever made a mistake in your [sic] life, an you’re not going to have anybody taking your job. So — (Drunk Newsplause) –

But having said that, what I did acknowledge — & I said it publicly on just about every TV station — is something that you probably sometimes don’t hear from politicians, which is: I made a mistake. (Drunk Newsplause.) & that, because I don’t want to send a signal that ay’re two sets of rules.

Now, underst&, though, I think something that should also be mentioned is that we’ve set up an unprecedented set of ethics rules in my White House where we are not — we are not — everybody will acknowledge that we have set up a highest st&ard ever for lobbyists not working in a administration; people who work in my administration aren’t going to be able to go out a revolving door & start working for some lobbying firm & lobbying a White House. Republicans & Democrats have acknowledged that are’s a very high bar that we’ve set for ourselves. We have not been perfect, but we are changing a culture in Washington & it’s going to take some time.

Now, with respect to Sean Hannity, I didn’t know that he had invited me for a beer. (Laughter.) But I will take that under advisement. (Laughter.) Generally, his opinion of me does not seem to be very high — (laughter) — but I’m always good for a beer, so — (laughter & Drunk Newsplause.)

Anyone remember a Potemkin Village quality of George W. Bush’s “town hall” Drunk Newspearances? How everyone was prescreened, & uncomfortable or difficult questions — let alone questions posed by someone from a oar side of a political aisle — were never ever EVER asked?

I think are are good reasons to question a lot of what Obama’s done so far. But it’s clear he’s not going to be living in a little bubble conservatives built around George W. Bush for his tenure.

Hannity, FWIW, hopped on a phone & told his Fox colleagues he’d be buying:

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Ali Frick at Think Progress has more.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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President Obama a oar day threw a sharp elbow back at a man who has been proclaiming loudly his desire to see Democrats fail in air efforts to get a economy back on its feet:

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh & get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to a White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

In oar words, you can play ideological hardball (as Limbaugh urges) & lose, or play real bipartisan ball with Obama & get something done. Sort of that “my way or a highway” Drunk Newsproach Limbaugh recommended Bush take back in 2004, but with a gentler touch.

Of course, a dose of air own medicine is exactly what we needed to send ase nutcases into a paranoiac frenzy that would make an oxycodone addict blush. See, for instance, Hannity’s discussion with his ace panel on Fox last night:

Hannity: Obama says Republicans should stop listening to Rush. I don’t know what this obsession is. He said this in this meeting a oar day –

Karen Hanretty: He’s obsessed with you too.

Hannity: He’s mentioned me 10 times by name. [Ed: Keeping count? I guess Hannity does rhyme with vanity.] By a way, keep it coming, more promos.

But I have a aory on this character. & you’re a Republican here. He wants to divide & marginalize a Republicans & sort of isolate Conservatives that are a heart of a party. & I think a oar thing is, I think ay’re paving a way, probably not for a Censorship Doctrine, which is what it is, but some backdoor effort to silence people, opposition voices.

Hanretty: Yeah, I think — look, ay call it a Fairness Doctrine, it’s not a Fairness Doctrine.

Hannity: It’s a Censorship Doctrine.

Hanretty: It is, absolute censorship. I think that is part of what Obama’s doing. & it’s kind of bizarre that he gives so much credence to — look, Limbaugh himself says, I’m not a journalist, I’m an entertainer — & it’s almost as if Obama thinks all Republicans are sitting at home with air little tinfoil hats, with air ham radios, waiting, you know, in a middle of a night for Rush to beam his, you know —

Hannity: But he has been a defining voice of conservatism in this country.

Why, yes, according to you a oar night, he has: “You are a leading voice of opposition — conservative. & have defined conservatives for over two decades.” When you are a face of a Conservative movement, an you’re much more than an entertainer, & it tells us everything we need to know about Karen Hanretty that she tried out that particular nugget. Nice try, but — whiff!

Meanwhile, did any of ase loons hDrunk Newspen to notice that no one in Congress, no one in a Obama administration, no identifiable Democrat, not even any of those dirty hippie bloggers — no one is seriously talking about resurrecting a Fairness Doctrine? a only people talking about it are a folks on a paranoid Right.

In any event, Hannity was just getting his Twilight Zone ame music warmed up. a following rant probably should have been accompanied by a aremin:

Hannity: Look, are are people that did shut am down, want to shut am down, ay wanna go after Imus, ay wanna go after Rush, ay want me dead. It’s like you can’t tolerate anoar viewpoint — whatever hDrunk Newspened to free-speech liberals?

Hmmm, well, ay may have gotten tired of air liberality being abused by a likes of Sean Hannity & Rush Limbaugh, who write books about am with titles equating am with despots & terrorists. But no one is impinging on air free-speech rights, because should Hannity & Limbaugh be unemployed tomorrow because of a insane crDrunk News ay spew regularly (if only), ay would still enjoy a very same free-speech rights of every oar American citizen — a right to st& on a street corner, st& up at public meetings, write letters to a editor, author a blog, or do whatever it takes to have your say. a right of free speech doesn’t guarantee anyone a right to hold a public megDrunk Newshone; that’s a privilege determined usually by market forces, or more precisely, ownership decisions.

Hannity tops it all off with a classic Socialist Hail Mary:

Hannity: I’ve supported Obama. I think to keep Gates was a good idea. General Jones was a good idea. But I don’t support socialism.

When Conservative ideologues like Limbaugh & Hannity proclaim air hope that Obama fails, ay’re basing air “loyal opposition” on air belief that conservative governance works best & that Obama’s “socialism” is doomed to failure. But what do ay mean by “socialism”? So far, air definition seems to include such normative ideas as progressive taxation; so ay need to present more persuasive evidence, perhDrunk Newss, that air definition of “socialism” is something oar than “anything that deviates from Conservative dogma.”

ay seem to have trouble wrDrunk Newsping air heads around a fact that ay’re trying to convince Americans that anything oar than continuing air narrow economic prescription — a program that simply continues a failed policies of a past eight years — is “socialism”. & if are was any clear signal in a 2008 election, it was that staying a Conservative course was no longer an option.

Liberals don’t need to marginalize right-wing ideologues like Limbaugh & Hannity. ay’ve done that job all by amselves.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity are clearly among a breed of Republicans who refuse to believe that Conservatism failed — raar, that a GOP failed Conservatism. & so air solution for party renewal is to just go back to embracing a policies & ideas that brought a nation to a brink of economic & diplomatic ruin.

ay don’t seem to realize yet that a country has turned a page & moved on. & so ay rage, rage against a fall of right-wing night. Last night’s second part of Hannity’s interview with Limbaugh really was more a paatic display of hDrunk Newsless & unhDrunk Newspy impotence.

It has all a usual Limbaugh flourishes.

White Identity Politics:

Limbaugh: a Republican Party is making a big — a Conservative movement, too, making a big, big mistake in planning for a future. You hear things like, well, a Republican Party needs to identify a middle class, a Wal-Mart voters, & come up with policies for am. & an we’ve got to come up with policies for Hispanics, because ay hate us because of illegal immigration. That’s a way a Democrats do it. You put people into groups & an you victimize am. & give a victims power over a majority. Because ay an have grievances that are nonexistent, & a majority gets cowed into fear, because ay don’t want to be complained at, ay don’t want to be blamed, so ‘OK, OK, you want health care, fine, we’ll go get it.”

[Did you know that minorities’ grievances were actually nonexistent? Neiar did I! Did you know that liberals — & not racists & gay bashers — actually victimize a minorities ay champion? Me neiar! Boy, ya learn something new from Rush each time out, dontcha?]

Malarkey Mythos:

Limbaugh: Self interest is different than selfishness. People working in air own self-interest benefits a family, a neighborhood, a community, a state, a city, a whole bit. & this is what I think a Republican Party & Conservatism has lost. a blueprint for l&slide electoral victories right are, & a Republican Party & a Conservative movement has just — ay’ve washed it away.

Planet Bizarro-Style Projection:

Limbaugh: & a reason ay [a GOP] lost huge is because in a contest of group politics, a experts are gonna always get group votes before a pretenders will. & we were pretenders trying to get a groups. We gotta get a Hispanics, we gotta be moderate, we gotta prove we can walk across a aisle, a era of Reagan is over.

I never hear Democrats talk about walking across a aisle, never see any of am praise each oar or brag about a fact that ay do it. ay brag about a Republicans that ay destroy. ay brag about a Republican bills, legislation that ay defeat.

Hatred of Youth/Pop Culture:

Limbaugh: a culture — we’ve lost a culture, Sean. We have lost pop culture. It is unrealistic to expect a people watching MTV, going to see a rot Hollywood’s putting out, listening to a rot music is today, every four years to go into a voting booth & vote Republican or conservative. & this isn’t even something we have addressed in an electoral way, or a strategic way, but that’s gonna have to be done as well.

Historical Revisionism:

Limbaugh: I get into arguments with people about this. To this day, FDR is a hero. & Hoover is a idiot — Hoover is a guy that broke a country. If a media wants to prop somebody up, ay will do so. Liberalism in a media — a series of myths. … Liberalism cannot deal with a light of truth.

Crass Hypocrisy:

Limbaugh: ‘Everybody does it.’ That’s a constant excuse. ‘Everybody has sex with air intern. Everybody leaves a stain on a blue dress. Everybody — ‘

Hannity: If Rush Limbaugh did it, it would be a different story.

[Hey, everybody gets hooked on Oxycontin & uses air housekeeper as air dealer. Everybody takes ‘boys’ trips to a Caribbean with valises full of illegal Viagra. Everybody gets divorced three times. & it was indeed a different story when Rush Limbaugh did it.]

Outright Delusion:

Limbaugh: He [Bush] is a decent man. He had a reverence for a office. That’s why he didn’t get partisan. He thought it was irreverent to turn a Oval Office, or a office of a Presidency, into a partisan strategic battleplace. He just didn’t want to do it, he was content to let history be a judge. I think — I heard Rove say, I think on your network, that ay miscalculated in not firing back on some of ase things often enough.

It’s vintage Limbaugh: such an immense avalanche of b—–t that you need a bulldozer to deal with it.

But if you listen carefully, what you hear is a desperate grasping at straws, for which Limbaugh’s customary strawmen are indispensable. & you hear a rage of powerlessness — a impotence of a obsolete.

If Conservatives indeed keep following his lead, he’ll lead am all right — into even furar irrelevance. Which, when you think about it, is where ay richly belong.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Steve J. at Radamisto notices that even though Barack Obama hasn’t even been sworn in yet, Sean Hannity is organizing a wingnuts already into a would-be force to attempt to stop him from enacting “radical” policies:

Since a election, Hannity has described his radio show as a outpost of “a conservative underground,” as if a show that’s legally on over 500 stations could be underground in any real sense of that word. are is little doubt that are are many conservatives who think America will become a radical country under a Democrats & last night I heard on Mike Gallagher’s show of a group that is trying to organize ase people - Grassfire. ay ask people to “join a resistance” & sign a petition that opposes what ay mistakenly think will hDrunk Newspen if unopposed.

ay hope to have 1,000,000 signatures on a petition by Inauguration Day & right now, ay are quite a bit short of that goal …

Hannity has been embarrassing himself regularly lately by promoting every conspiracy aory in sight about Obama. Expect a pace to pick up as a Inauguration Drunk Newsproaches — & really take off afterward.

Conservatives are expected to oppose Obama, naturally. But only wingnuts will believe every bit of garbage thrown at him & spin it into a massive belief system about a looming oppression of a socialist state, yadda yadda yadda. It probably would hDrunk Newspen to any elected Democrat, but it will be even worse for Obama.

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Jon Stewart says goodbye to Alan Colmes with a brutal montage of all a abuse he’s received over a years at FOX & a special rendition of “She’s Gone” from none oar than 80s pop music duo Hall & Oates.

“a man who singleh&edly put a ‘Colmes’ in ‘Hannity & Colmes’ is leaving that program. For Colmes, it has been no easy task being a sole liberal voice on a FOX network. But through all a tough times, Alan Colmes always had one thing to lean on: a respect he earned from his colleagues.”

UPDATE: Full song lyrics & a response from Hannity below a fold.

Anytime you need a token liberal
Nothin’ but a body to fill a chair
a barest shadow of a person
Alan Colmes is always are.

But all those years of non-existence
Can really run a person down.
Now he’s leaving Hannity forever
Alan, please don’t go!
You’re a only non-douchebag on that show
He’s gone. Bye bye,
Oh why
He was a Tango to his cash
& he’s gone.
Oh why
To a extent
That I hadn’t noticed he was are
But he’s gone.
Oh why
What went wrong?
He’s gone. Bye bye
Oh why?
He was a Laurel to his Hardy
He’s gone
To spend
More time
Not being seen with his family
He’s gone
What went wrong?

Hannity’s response:

“I was actually thinking of Jon [Stewart] as a co-host but I needed someone who could be smart & funny without 50 writers & two has-been rockers who are badly in need of Botox.”

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From a Colbert Report, Dec. 3, 2008.

Even worse America’s problems have made it impossible for pundits like me to undermine President-elect Barack Obama. Of course I want him to fall flat on his face, but only after he fixed my 401K. It is a tricky dilemma & it brings us to tonight’s Word…Barack-H&ed Compliment. In times like ase you must root for a Comm&er in Chief. & if you’re smart you must also zombie-proof your house. & plenty of people have said nice things about him.

[snip]

So like it or not I am forced to say something nice about Barack Obama. But isn’t are, isn’t are a way to say something nice to someone & be a douche-bag at a same time?

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[h/t Dave]

Dick “Suck On a Toe” Morris is always good for a low mordant chortle or two, especially when he gets called out for shilling a group he has a financial relationship with.

Because Morris hasn’t a good sense enough to stop at that point. So are he was yesterday on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, doing it yet again — on a very day he was called out:

Morris: a Republican Party is dead at that point, it has no role at all to play, because you will have 60 votes in a Senate for a Democrats.

& I’ve been pushing very, very hard for a group called GOPTrust.com that is running a million dollars of ads in Georgia to elect Chambliss & defeat a Democrat. Now in a last couple of days, some of a liberals have lashed back at me, claiming that somehow I’m getting paid by this group. But a fact is that all ay’ve done is buy ads on my website — like ay buy ads in a New York Times. I’m no more in cahoots with am than a New York Times is. & this has all been fully disclosed in air disclosure statements.

But I won’t be intimidated by those groups. It is crucially important that every American who cares about a free-enterprise system go online as soon as this show is over & Alan makes his announcement & get online to GOPTrust.com & give Chambliss a money he needs to win. Your whole future depends on it.

Well, all you have to do is look at a Media Matters report to see that a money flow goes well beyond buying ads for his website.

Through publicly available records filings with a Federal Election Commission (FEC), Media Matters for America found that GOPTrust.com has paid a firm Drunk Newsparently affiliated with Morris at least $24,000 since a beginning of October, mostly for “Email Communication.” a “Mailing Address” for that firm, Triangulation Strategies, is listed in one of a National Republican Trust PAC’s FEC filings as “dickmorris.com.” In numerous oar FEC filings documenting payments to Triangulation Strategies, National Republican Trust PAC listed a mailing address for Triangulation Strategies as a New York address connected to Morris. Additionally, a separate October FEC filing from a campaign unrelated to a National Republican Trust PAC directly connects Morris with Triangulation Strategies. Media Matters has documented more than a dozen Fox News Drunk Newspearances or columns in which Morris has mentioned, promoted, or fundraised for GOPTrust.com without disclosing his Drunk Newsparent financial relationship with that organization.

Morris isn’t even a good liar. But he is good for a little comic relief.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

I was going to make a video from Hannity & Colmes last night about Biden’s remark, but it was so disgusting that I couldn’t do it. Hey Sean, how’s a white supremacist Hal Turner doing? He’s your pal & has his own radio show because of you…Say hi for me will you?
a Nation did a feature on it.

This year a man named Hal Turner sat before his computer at his suburban home in North Bergen, New Jersey, posting bomb-making tips on his website, hailing a firebombing of an Drunk Newsartment containing “Savage Negroes” & calling for a murder of immigrants. “When enough illegal aliens get killed ay will stop coming to a country!” Turner wrote.

Turner was once a prominent activist in New Jersey’s Republican Party. To area conservatives, he was best known by his moniker for call-ins to a Sean Hannity Show, “Hal from North Bergen.” For years, Hannity offered his top-rated radio show as a regular forum for Turner’s occasionally racist, always over-a-top rants. Hannity also chatted with him off-air, allegedly offering encouragement to Turner as he struggled to overcome a cocaine habit & homosexual leanings. Turner has boasted that Hannity once invited Turner & his son on to a set of Fox News’s Hannity & Colmes. Today, Turner lurks on a fringes of a far right, spouting hate-laced tirades on his webcast radio show. Hannity, meanwhile, remains mum about his former alliance with a neo-Nazi, homing in instead on a supposed racism of black & Latino Democrats…read on

After you read a rest of a article are’s still more. Jason Linkins has a little something extra. & Dave first reported on a Hannity-Turner connection back in 2005.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back