Hannity's Favorite Question Answered
Reported by Deborah - October 6, 2004 -
Hannity repeats the same question about John Kerry to all his guests.Was John Kerry right to support a nuclear freeze when Ronald Reagan was fighting the evil empire? If the guest answers yes, Hannity finds a way to silence any explanation. Tonight Geraldine Ferraro, who was serving during that time, managed to answer, at least partially, before Hannity changed the subject.
10/6/04
Hannity likes to use this question to illustrate Kerry's weakness on defense issues. Recently he has added the phrase "voted on the wrong side of history" to accentuate his point. He has used this question recently with every guest that has come on to discuss the election.
To his surprise, Ferraro stated that she also voted for the nuclear freeze during that period because it was a bilateral freeze requiring both the USA and the Soviet Union to stop producing nuclear weapons. Ferraro explanation went on to make the vote sound like it was a very reasonable choice for the time.Ferraro also stated that the Soviet Union fell because it was broke from the arms race. Hannity was not able to digest this information, immediatly defending his fantasy of Ronald Reagan.
He quickly turned his attention to Dick Armey to get the feedback he wanted.
"John Kerry didn't have the wisdom. He was on the wrong side of history."
comment: I have been watching Hannity use this question for months and it is infuriating that his guests have not been prepared to answer it properly. Having lived through that time, the nuclear freeze was one of the sane actions taken to create peace and stability in the world. How many times over can the world be destroyed? Yet during that time, the nuclear arsenal kept growing on both sides.
More important to this issue, Dr Helen Caldicott sponsored a well recieved campaign to inform people about the realities of a nuclear exchange and the impossibility that life on this planet would continue since some people were still trying to fool themselves about survival up to this point. John Kerry's vote for a nuclear freeze is a sign of wisdom on the right side of history.
