Now that it’s no longer expedient for Sean Hannity to cozy up to lawbreaking rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed posse of federal-government haters, and with his previous BFF, George Zimmerman, now not looking so good, Hannity has found a new armed extremist to champion: a vigilante killer who was convicted for executing unarmed teenagers after they broke into his home.
The AP explains the case of Byron Smith, a 65-year old Minnesotan who was convicted of murdering two unarmed teens, Nick Brady and Haile Kifer. Smith set a trap for the suspected burglars by moving his car to make it look like he wasn’t home. Then he waited in his basement with two guns, food and water, a book and a recording device.
The audio, which was played several times in court, captured the sound of glass shattering, Brady descending the basement stairs and Smith shooting Brady three times. Smith can be heard saying, “You’re dead.” Prosecutors said Smith put Brady’s body on a tarp and dragged him into another room, then sat down, reloaded his weapon and waited.
About 10 minutes later, Kifer came downstairs. More shots are heard on the recording as Kifer screams. Smith says, “You’re dying,” followed soon by the sound of another gunshot, which investigators said Smith described as “a good, clean finishing shot.”
Hannity played an excerpt of Smith saying, “I felt like I was cleaning up a mess, not like spilled food, not like vomit… not even like diarrhea. The worst mess possible and I was stuck with it. …They weren’t human. I don’t see them as human. I see them as vermin.”
This Mr. Smith is Hannity’s latest hero.
Regular guest Bernard McGuirk said, “Look, the guy should get a Medal of Freedom for what he did.”
Hannity was a bit less effusive. “I don’t like what he said,” Hannity said, as if that were merely a minor detail. “They broke into the guy’s house! …How could it be premeditated when they broke into his house?”
Geraldo Rivera, another guest, was so disgusted, he stood up and shouted, “What about the coup de grace? He (Smith) walks over to the girl, after she’s shot, he puts the gun under her chin and blows her head off!”
“Somebody breaks into Geraldo’s house… What are you going to do? What are you going to do?” Hannity asked, obviously unconcerned about any excessive use of force.
“If I shoot them, am I gonna go there and then… am I going to shoot the kid, the girl, under the chin?” Rivera shouted.
“It’s easy to say after the fact. I wouldn’t,” Hannity insisted. But he later said to Rivera, “But you would shoot, wouldn’t you!”
“If someone came into my house, you’re damn right I would shoot!” Rivera said.
“There you go. We win you over!” Hannity exclaimed, either oblivious or uninterested in Rivera’s point.
Watch Hannity take up this vigilante's cause below, via Media Matters.
Also, just because people don’t say anything does not mean they are not interested.
Hope you can solve your internet problems and be back with your radio notes before long!
Everything Sherman says is spot on.
Nixon trainee Ailes does not want any of his talent talking to Sherman. Legs Ailes, a.k.a. Megyn was caught telling him at an event.
Ailes can dictate what Fox “News” employees do inside this horrid skyscraper, but this clown has no say what regular employees do on their own time. He can stuff it.
The latest cable news ratings. It doesn’t look good for Hannocchio. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/05/02/cable-news-ratings-for-thursday-may-1-2014/259693/
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/category/ratings
Hannocchio’s radio show ratings. Not good news for the old hack.
http://rbr.com/savage-vs-hannity-winter-2014/
Hannocchio is a backstabbing individual who has burned all of his bridges. If the suits at Premiere Radio Networks were smart they would cut their losses, and give him the boot.
Other conservative hosts-not his friends-can’t stand him. They know what he’s really like behind closed doors. Insiders talk about him behind his back.
Hannocchio doesn’t belong in broadcasting, he belongs in psychotherapy for narcissistic personality disorder.
Don’t give up Joe. We need all hands on deck. These frauds’ ratings are declining due to the fact that the masses are learning the truth about them.
FYI, Hannocchio is branching out to do more films, and guest appearances on other television shows.
He plays himself-such a hard role-in a faith-based film that is coming out May 16. Based on what we’ve seen, his cameo should have been on the cutting room floor.
Thanks for that, Dave. This is the sort of outcome that encourages me a lot about the USA. That man had developed a totally deluded conviction that he could set an ambush for the thieves instead of calling the cops. Thanks to a jury of his peers who took 2 hours to go over the evidence (no time for any discussion: everybody agreed from the start), he’s now got lots of time to reflect on why he was so wrong to think he could get away with it. Many thanks to the Minnisotans on that jury.
We should, all of us, give maximum space to this perfect example of what can and should happen to the weak-minded persons who go berserk.
Hannocchio is so desperate to pump his sagging, in-the-toilet, ratings that he’ll latch onto anyone and anything. I don’t know what the teevee numbers are, but just take a look at this piece on radio numbers by Eric Boehlert:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/rush-limbaughs-california_b_5247391.html
While this post focuses on gasbag Limbaugh, keep in mind that Limbaugh and Hannity both moved to the same weaker stations (in most markets) last January in the big radio switch. The ratings really don’t rank individual shows, but anyone can see that far, far fewer people are listening to their new stations.
I had predicted that here in NYC, Slanthead would loose some listeners by going to WOR-AM, but these results are really devastating! In fact, WOR is probably thrilled anytime they can pre-empt Hannocchio (and Limbaugh) with Mets baseball. Some weeks back, they put on a basketball game. If they could broadcast a bowling tournament, I’m sure they’d grab the chance. Maybe even a tiddly-winks match!
Ratings aside, it’s so easy to see why Slanthead would “adopt” this killer. He’s long preached that protecting one’s home trumps any other human and constitutional right. Long ago (when his radio show was strictly local here in the city), Hannity would constantly brag about the arsenal he was assembling in his (first) North Shore mansion: “They’re not gonna get my wife and kids!”
Hannocchio never quite told us who “they” were — maybe it was residents of Hempstead and other “ghetto” communities in central Nassau County. Maybe “they” referred to little brown day workers who were starting to “threaten” the good, white Amerikans on Long Island.
I haven’t been here on Newshounds for over a week, been having connection problems. And probably won’t be around much for a while. Just as well, as I’m sure I won’t be missed. It’s only Antoinette and a few others that are, like me, concerned with the deranged, sick mind of Slanthead. Most of the others would rather have endless debates on the issues, and show their research skills, not the FNC personalities.
Well, Sean, I’ll be glad to tell you. HE SET IT UP TO LOOK LIKE HE WAS GONE AND THEN HE SAT WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO BREAK IN. That, you schmuck, is just about the textbook definition of “premeditated.”
In fact, here’s the Merriam-Webster online dictionary definition of “premeditated”: “Done or made according to a plan; planned in advance.” Not enough? Here’s a bit more: “Characterized by fully conscious willful intent and a measure of forethought and planning.”
So, what part of the MW dictionary definition of “premeditated” does not apply to Mr Smith’s actions?
Looks like the odds weren’t ever in Smith’s favour, so Fox News and the NRA have to work twice as hard to protect him. And how nice- They let the host with the reputation for being a violence obsessed sociopath that isn’t Glenn Beck go first. It’s like they need to test the water on this one, or something.
Based on his troubling mindset, Bundy fan Hannocchio should never be allowed to own firearms. He’s a short-tempered, thin-skin man with no patience.
He’s a sick man, and his enablers know it.
