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Hannity Debates Occupy Protester, Follows Up With Three Attacking Guests

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on May 04, 2012 · Flag

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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
Lakeview Greg commented 2012-05-04 10:48:05 -0400 · Flag
Gang banging, seannie poo style.
radpat_USA commented 2012-05-04 09:34:24 -0400 · Flag
Only in the reality that exist in front of a television tuned to Fox News do the odds favor four rightwing loons vs one thinking American.
Craig Brockman commented 2012-05-04 09:22:20 -0400 · Flag
Hey Joe – 4 vs. 1, it is fair if the one can back up his rhetoric – does it matter how many he goes up against? It’s not a fist fight, just a battle of wits. Your guy thought it was the battle of the “Twits” that’s why he showed up! Once again – YOU LOSE!
NewsHound Alex commented 2012-05-04 06:23:34 -0400 · Flag
Wasn’t it determined that the “Occupy protestor” who defecated against a police car was a crazy attracted by the activity and free food and not a protestor at all?
Aria Prescott commented 2012-05-04 03:35:12 -0400 · Flag
Michael, Google a guy named Lee Strahnahan… Dude’s a Breitbart legacy, Fox Nation, as well as a few Fox News hosts (including Hannity) swear by him. Remember all those phony rape testimonies?

That was him- he shut it off like a light after that real rape happened in Philly and the rapist outright said he picked an occupier because he hard OWS allows it.

Fox News still accepts everything he turns in, though- he hired agent provocateurs to tear apart a cafe in San Francisco so he could frame OWS for it earlier this week. No word on his legal status.

Yeah, I keep some pretty damn good tabs on this stuff.
Aria Prescott commented 2012-05-04 01:46:01 -0400 · Flag
Hey Hannity, can we see you condemn Phoenix Jones?

Oh, wait- after his little stunt with the pepper spray, he was unmasked to reveal Seattle Tea Partier Ben fordor.

I guess this kind of behavior really is acceptable from the Tea Party- even members who dress in costumes too stupid for the Turkish “Watchmen” ripoff.
Joseph West commented 2012-05-04 01:39:38 -0400 · Flag
Four against one – another example of what Fox News calls “fair and balanced.”
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Most honorable people call that “bullying.”
NewsHounds posted about Hannity Debates Occupy Protester, Follows Up With Three Attacking Guests on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2012-05-04 00:49:33 -0400
Hannity was apparently so worked up, he forgot to give out his rice and beans recipe and shopping tips for the poor!








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