Hannity Debates Occupy Protester, Follows Up With Three Attacking Guests

Apparently, bullyboy Sean Hannity just couldn’t take a chance that his audience might not hate OWS protester Harrison Schultz. Because in the very next segment after what was billed as a “shoot out” between Hannity and Schultz, Hannity stacked his “Great American Panel” with three like-minded conservatives and all four of them spent the next five minutes trashing Schultz and the Occupy movement. UPDATED WITH VIDEO OF PANEL DISCUSSION.

The debate between Hannity and Schultz was enjoyable enough. Schultz was feisty and smart and was never intimidated despite Hannity’s repeated attempts to smear and demean him. Hannity also didn’t allow Schultz to finish answering one question before firing another one at him - without really listening to the response.

Hannity clearly viewed the entire thing as little more than an opportunity to showboat. Near the end of the “interview,” Hannity said, “I have a suggestion for you… You’re 29 years old… Stop wasting your time at Occupy Wall Street. And here’s a novel concept: Get up at 6 AM, shovel some coffee down your throat, hit the pavement, find a job, get to work, stop whining, stop complaining, stop blaming and get your (bleep) out of bed like everybody else in America and get to work.”

Hannity closed the segment with a classy, “I’m glad to say good-bye. See you later.”

I guess he was too worked up to offer up his rice and beans recipe and shopping tips for poor people.

Schultz definitely didn’t do himself any favors, though, in not having a better grasp of Hannity’s shtick in advance. If he had, he could have thrown Hannity’s hypocrisy right in his face about not whining, complaining and blaming. Is there a single episode of Hannity that he doesn’t spend the majority of the hour doing exactly that? Or Schultz could have pointed out how out of touch Hannity is with the problems of the working poor. There are plenty of people working full time who still struggle to make ends meet and live without health insurance, for example.

But rather than move on to another subject – like maybe accusing President Obama of being a racist or a radical or a socialist – Hannity spent the entire first part of the all-conservative Great American Panel piling on to Schultz. They even worked in a smear of Nancy Pelosi while they were at it.

Four against one – another example of what Fox News calls “fair and balanced.”

Update: I inadvertently left out the video of the panel discussion following Schultz' segment. Here it is now.

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Louis Mazzei commented 2012-05-08 22:05:43 -0400 · Flag

Woman on left-“Just watch what’s going to happen soon in Chicago in the upcoming days”-indeed

Ellen commented 2012-05-05 01:20:06 -0400 · Flag

It wasn’t just unfair because of the four on one but because the last three made the pile on without Schultz having the benefit of being able to defend himself.

Ellen commented 2012-05-05 01:01:26 -0400 · Flag

Michael Schmitt, excellent points… especially re Bo Dietl segment. It looks like Armageddon didn’t happen so Hannity had to try and make one!

newzhound commented 2012-05-04 21:45:36 -0400 · Flag

Sam Whitney: Of course you are! Funny how every tough talking fool on the Internets just happens to either be in the military or is a vet.

We ought to name this “Jackson’s Law” – after Stonewall. Only, in your case, it would probably be a different Stonewall. NYC. Mid-1960’s, wasn’t it?

Thx4 Fish commented 2012-05-04 17:52:59 -0400 · Flag

Sean is only 50? Yet he sounds like a 75 yo geezer! I have to admit Schulz called it right: Watching a Hannity interview is entertaining in an explosive,ugly way, but in no way informative. Also its disturbing that Sean likes to say ‘defecate’ a lot.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-05-04 17:20:43 -0400 · Flag

Yeah, sam whitney a real tough guy. Calling people who he disagrees with “domestic terrorists”. And why? They’re not armed. They’re not threatening anyone with violence. They’re not hatefilled, violent, racist pigs like you find at the FokkksNashun cesspool. Nope. sam calls them “domestic terrorists” because he’s heard his masters call them “domestic terrorists”. Imagine that. A real tough guy allowing himself to be led by the nose by his neocon masters. Real tough.

Aria Prescott commented 2012-05-04 16:30:30 -0400 · Flag

Alex: You get a Brownie point! With very few exceptions, the real story is nothing like what Fox News and Strahnahan say.

The one that gets me is the Mission District violence here. Between 150-200 vandals do mass damage to 30 stores, and the police are more interested in a vehicle violation.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/01/BAQF1OBH55.DTL

The vandals are believed to be agent provocateurs, though no one knows who they did it for. There’s a lot of possible leads that point to employees of Breitbart TV and the bay Area Tea Party, but the cops won’t even get up to see if those are real or just finger pointing.

Then again, they actually escorted some of the vandals, so I don’t think arresting them is a priority anyways.

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-05-04 15:32:45 -0400 · Flag

Yup, it takes a real brave, tough guy to advocate the killing of unarmed people by the very outfit he professes to belong to. Tell me, Sam, you kick dogs and cats too? Or more precisely, when did you stop kicking dogs and cats?

Sam Whitney commented 2012-05-04 15:12:09 -0400 · Flag

Newshound, I serve my country in the U.S. Army so yes I am rough and tough unlike you and your ilk.

Grrt Will commented 2012-05-04 15:11:13 -0400 · Flag

@Sam Whitney: You mad, bro? Yeah, you mad.

i think sam whitney is a pretty cool guy. eh talks tough on the internet and doesnt afraid of anything.

newzhound commented 2012-05-04 14:53:25 -0400 · Flag

Antoinette: The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is now claiming George Zimmerman is a victim of a “high tech lynching.”

newzhound commented 2012-05-04 14:51:40 -0400 · Flag

Sam Whitney: You are remarkably rough and tough on the Internet. Sitting there in your underwear and bunny slippers, ready to really kick @ss. Everyone here is just so impressed!

Colin Hughes commented 2012-05-04 14:29:34 -0400 · Flag

Craig, whether it’s a fist-fight or a debate, 4 on 1 is still unfair, especially if the four won’t let the one get a word in edgewise. Because for each perspective from the ows side, there would be four opposing perspectives from the Fox pundits. Of course you obviously aren’t going to realize that, no matter what I say, but I thought I should point that out.

Antoinette commented 2012-05-04 13:39:52 -0400 · Flag

Busted! The “legendary” Pat Boone is good friends with Jesse Lee Peterson of BOND. He attended Peterson’s BOND dinner in Los Angeles three years ago. It’s known for years Boone was a conservative.

Rupert Murdoch Employee of the Year High End Hannocchio is a spoiled brat, always wanting to get things his way. My way, or the highway.

Occupiers will have a field day this summer with these fraudulent conservatives. Wait and see.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-05-04 11:43:22 -0400 · Flag

This is typical of kkklannity and POS borally. They get smacked down by their “e-vile librul” guest, and their fat asses hurt so bad that they bring on their “panel” to soothe their hurty fat asses and attack and smear the guest who isn’t there to defend themselves. And they also get in a few smears and lies about President Obama and other various democratics.

kkklannity’s gotta keep his stupid sheep (see “Craig” comment below) believing that he’s more superior than his “e-vile librul” guests, ya know…make them think that the “e-vile librul” guests are “twits” and “losers”.

zaglossus commented 2012-05-04 11:10:17 -0400 · Flag

This interview encapsulates a lot of what is offensive about Sean Hannity.

Ellen commented 2012-05-04 11:08:25 -0400 · Flag

Yikes, I was so tired, I forgot to upload and post the video of the panel discussion following this one. I’m uploading it now and will post it as an update soon.

Sorry about that!

truman commented 2012-05-04 11:06:44 -0400 · Flag

All that KKKlannity was lacking was body-language expert Tonya and “Dr” Keith Allblow to throw some more shit into the mix.

Grrt Will commented 2012-05-04 11:00:48 -0400 · Flag

Holy crap! He was so desperate to disparage Schultz that he went all over the place, never consistent within any ten-second time-frame. It was like watching an obnoxious cornered wolf in action, throwing around defamation, character assassinations, and outright defilement of fact constantly in an effort to get Schultz away from him.

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-05-04 10:48:05 -0400 · Flag

Gang banging, seannie poo style.

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