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Rep. Keith Ellison To Hannity: You’re A Shill For The Republican Party

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on February 26, 2013 · Flag

Rep. Keith Ellison had an epic confrontation with Sean Hannity tonight over one of Hannity’s mashup videos that purported to smear President Obama over the sequester. Or, as Hannity called it, "a Hannity highlight reel of President Panic in action." Ellison didn’t mince his words, telling Hannity, “Quite frankly, you are the worst excuse for a journalist I’ve ever seen.” Things went downhill from there until Hannity finally ended the interview.

Ellison said:

Quite frankly, you are the worst excuse for a journalist I’ve ever seen. …What you just displayed was not journalism. It was yellow journalism. It wasn’t anything close to try to tell the American people what’s really going on. I mean it’s just shocking.

…Every journalistic ethic I have ever heard of was just violated by you.

…You are a shill for the Republican party.  …You alibi them 100% of the time.

Hannity was surprisingly restrained, probably because he had a Congressman on the show. But finally, he said, “Congressman, you are a total waste of time.” And he ended the interview.

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Mark Jeffries commented 2013-03-01 15:28:35 -0500 · Flag
Oh, yeah a blog linking Investors Business Daily. That’s really credible, teabagger. And what makes you think that President Obama is Keith’s “hero?” Proud to be a racist?
Van Scheurich commented 2013-03-01 12:01:55 -0500 · Flag
Keith, read this and maybe you can grasp what your Hero is doing and then you will not be in the dark like you usually are! http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/01/bizarro-world-obamas-sequester-plan-labels-300-billion-in-new-revenues-as-spending-cuts/
Bemused commented 2013-03-01 11:22:02 -0500 · Flag
Uh, U mad? (aka many other names): This thread’s now on page two; what you’re supposedly asking for is available on two other threads on page one.

You’ve probably not even deigned to look at AAP’s post but do try to keep up with the others. They’re way ahead of you, dear.
always winning commented 2013-03-01 08:43:17 -0500 · Flag
The hilarious thing is ellen has to ban me to stop me from making her followers look foolish. I still havent gotten my links to FOX hosts calling Obama terrible names, though I posted MSNBCs doing that to conservatives.

Go ahead and lie and say you did, but its not on here. Theres links to bios and thats it.
Ellen commented 2013-02-28 14:18:21 -0500 · Flag
Please ignore Come On and any future sock puppets he may adopt. He has been banned and if he does manage to come back, he will only be here to distract and inflame. Don’t give him the satisfaction.

Thanks.
Aria Prescott commented 2013-02-28 14:01:28 -0500 · Flag
Come on is only seeing what he wants to see. AAP delivered a whole load of examples, he refuses to acknowledge the post. Then again, this is the same guy who his whole reply to me pointing out Newsbusters lies is “why’d you only write up one example?”

Even though he answered that better than I ever could when he refused to acknowledge that Maddow did indeed call ABC out on their edited clip, and Newsbusters even admitted it in their article.

But, just because I feel like seeing how much dumber he can make himself, let’s see him try to defend Fox News’ allowance of hate speech from their viewers.

http://www.newshounds.us/n_word_galore_on_foxnews_com_comments_05072012

http://www.newshounds.us/foxnews_com_readers_cheer_shooting_death_of_rapper_slim_dunkin

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/11/08/civil_tolerant_fox_nation_readers_discuss_murdering_ows_protesters.php

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/11/08/civil_tolerant_fox_nation_readers_discuss_murdering_ows_protesters.php

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/11/11/fox_nation_still_longing_for_occupy_protesters_to_be_murdered.php

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/11/12/fair_and_balanced_fox_nation_calls_occupy_protesters_savages.php

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/09/12/fox_nation_readers_want_to_kill_michelle_obama.php

For just a small sample- Fox News allows this talk from their viewers on a daily basis. In fact, Jesse Watters probably encourages both racism and violent sentiment, considering that he went on O’Reilly’s show and said that only black people commit crime in Chicago- twice.

BTW, since you’re being picky about what constitutes an insult, does the literally hundreds of times they called union workers “thugs” count? Their constantly slanderous portrayal of occupiers? How about when they said Rush Limbaugh was right to call Sandra Fluke a slut? Uppity black people? Beck, Hannity and Megyn Kelly called Obama a racist repeatedly, does that count? How about when Bush was president, and Fox News equated his critics to traitors?

Oh, wait- Of course it doesn’t… Just like it doesn’t count when someone points out that sites like Newsbusters and Town Hall lie constantly about MSNBC, providing examples of how they lied.

All media has slant, genius- But Fox News not only has no objectivity, there’s a case that gets stronger by the day that they just want their viewers to kill people they don’t agree with. And Fox Nation is a good gague for how close they are to getting that. I daresay an even better gague than the crimes already committed that can be tied to their hosts.
Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-28 13:57:33 -0500 · Flag
“Come on”,

Not sure where you’re getting the idea of anger from me. You may be confusing me with someone else. I don’t recall holding MSNBC’s hosts any less accountable. But you continue to avoid the central question I posed to you. Are you saying that the name calling by Hannity et al is okay in your book or just as you putti “over the top”?
come on commented 2013-02-28 12:49:06 -0500 · Flag
Vis55; wave that white flag baby. Wave it.
come on commented 2013-02-28 11:17:04 -0500 · Flag
And again Kevin; your outrage is likely aimed in one direction. I seriously doubt you go on websites to complain about the names liberals call conservatives.
come on commented 2013-02-28 11:09:51 -0500 · Flag
Kevin: I cant say ive ever heard one of them call him a douchebag or a Nazi. If you have links to them calling him names as bad as what Matthews calls conservatives then by all means post them.

And i was responding to a poster that said that the liberals at MSNBC rarely ever call conservatives names. Thats a lie. He also said he could give me 100 examples of FOX conservatives calling liberals names for every time an MSNBC liberal called a conservative a name. He clearly cant, I just like rubbing in the fact that he’s wrong. Always.
Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-28 10:53:36 -0500 · Flag
“Come on”,

You’re not seriously trying to say that Fox News hosts and featured guests like Hannity (and Malkin, Levin, etc) don’t call President Obama names, are you? I thought you had acknowledged this before. Your issue was that you were trying to turn the discussion into a comparison with MSNBC before we were able to have you get back to the point of the discussion.

While we’re on that discussion to finish this up, you do acknowledge that the name-calling by Hannity (and Levin and Malkin) as well as by Limbaugh in comments regularly embraced by Fox News are reprehensible, right?
come on commented 2013-02-28 10:24:03 -0500 · Flag
None of the links you’re posting show any FOX News people calling liberals names. None of them. Try again.
Anne-claire Souza commented 2013-02-28 10:21:07 -0500 · Flag
The KKKlannity /Ellison exchange has certainly ignited Worldwar 111,but hopefully after 175 comments and counting we have all vented and aired our opinions and, we can go on to other things.Most of us agree that KKKlannity is a racist useless biased Klansman and others think he is a “Great American”which of course is the joke of the Century,but it is what it is.So lets go forth and stop beating this “Dead Horse”,my mailbox can’t take anymore.
come on commented 2013-02-28 09:36:59 -0500 · Flag
Vis55: ill give you your links to Matthews calling Republicans names, but I want those 100 examples to every one i give you. Ill back my claim up. You wont.

Also, I give you links. You just refuse to acknowledge them because they prove me right and you wrong.

Douchebag convention: http://thehill.com/conventions-2012/gop-convention-tampa/247011-chris-matthews-gets-into-confrontation-with-gop-delegates

Comparing them to HAMAS: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/02/20/chris-matthews-who-previously-whined-about-too-much-hate-politics-co

Calling them Nazis: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2012/10/22/unhinged-chris-matthews-assails-conservative-birth-control-nazis

Evil: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2013/02/12/chris-matthews-dick-cheney-where-do-you-learn-be-evil

Nazis again: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2012/11/26/chris-matthews-outrageously-links-unhappy-conservatives-hitler

Segregationists: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/01/17/lazy-matthews-pro-gun-conservatives-are-segregationists-just-anti-ta

Bigot: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/01/11/msnbcs-chris-matthews-flat-out-declares-congressman-steve-king-bigot

That’ll get you started. By my count you owe me 700 examples with links. Get to posting.
come on commented 2013-02-28 09:28:44 -0500 · Flag
Bemused: which ones? The quotes or Chris Matthews calling Republicans names? I can provide links for either.
Bemused commented 2013-02-28 09:18:54 -0500 · Flag
@marilyn: In the struggle against wilful ignorance (which is never ever irrelevant) any event where a non-GOP guest can and does get a word in edgewise on Fox cannot be considered to be a waste of time (which may be what I think you wanted to write).

@come on: have spent the better part of the morning chasing down your supposed cases and haven’t yet found anything. Am tempted to conclude that you may have invented them.
come on commented 2013-02-28 07:50:29 -0500 · Flag
Vis55: The few times MSNBC hosts call conservatives names? The few times? Seriously? I could give you dozens just from Chris Matthews, not to mention the others on MSNBC that call Republicans names.

Matthews has called conservatives: racists, liars, douchebag convention, morons, idiots, nazis, dogs, pigs, nuts, compared the GOP to HAMAS, primitive, evil, compared conservatives to Hitler and Stalin, segregationists, bigots, ignorant.

This is just from ONE MSNBC host. So dont come with this “few times” lie.
come on commented 2013-02-28 07:15:37 -0500 · Flag
Mark: what truth? Ive yet to see ANY of you be able to dispute anything I posted. I noticed you dropped that “what racist democrats?” line real quick too. Im still willing to give you your list if you want.

In fact, none of you seem to want to tackle ANY of those quotes I posted from MSNBC hosts. Whats the problem?

Of course your response will be something NOT addressing any of that.
come on commented 2013-02-28 07:12:35 -0500 · Flag
Aria; again, the only one you responded to is one where Maddow showed a edited video made to look McCain look bad, and instead of showing the unedited video she showed the edited one and then used it to attack McCain with. How that is acceptable is beyond me. And all the others are true-direct quotes; nothing there is made up. You dont address them because it destroys your arguement that MSNBC doesnt deal in lies designed to attack the right.
Aria Prescott commented 2013-02-28 02:06:24 -0500 · Flag
Come on still has yet to post a response to the article where Tamara Holder is chastised for saying republicans are all fat slobs.

Come to think of it, I have yet to see him or any of his other names post on a thread where we gave Fox News credit. But to be fair… that kinda does undermine his lie that we won’t do that.
Bemused commented 2013-02-28 01:55:19 -0500 · Flag
come on wrote: “So far, the only people you go after is on the right.”

Nope: had you actually read the purpose of the site, you’d have realised we’re sharing our outrage at only one target, namely Fox News.

The fact that they’re a shill for the GOP is mere coincidence.
Bemused commented 2013-02-28 01:52:29 -0500 · Flag
Kevin wrote: “Unless the attackers of MSNBC here on this thread are simply conceding that Fox News’ hosts behavior is reprehensible by the same measure.”

I’d say that was smack dab in the middle of the bullseye.
Thx4 Fish commented 2013-02-28 01:42:53 -0500 · Flag
Well I thought my Mom was wrong about a lot of things… In come on’s world one wrong is bad but two wrongs just balance each other out.
Aria Prescott commented 2013-02-27 23:44:09 -0500 · Flag
And I notice you didnt address the rest. Should I add some more? Because there’s plenty of them.

I think I did that when I said that the one I addressed was the closest you could come to factual, and they were clearly hoping you couldn’t read past the headline.

Thanks for proving you can’t read comments, either.
Mark Jeffries commented 2013-02-27 23:04:26 -0500 · Flag
Truth hurts, doesn’t it, teabagger Fixed Noise intern?
come on commented 2013-02-27 22:58:50 -0500 · Flag
When you guys have the same righteous indignation for liberal media personalities calling republicans names then you’ll have a point. So far, the only people you go after is on the right.
Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-27 22:50:04 -0500 · Flag
I don’t know that Ellison “lied” or that his actions were “awful”. I believe he was honestly outraged by Hannity’s bad behavior during the introduction and he lost his temper. His points regarding spending and the sequester are essentially correct. Hannity has been spinning as much as he can on this subject and it’s been remarkable to see his notion that people will not remember 18 months ago.

But the question isn’t whether Hannity is over the top. It’s whether you can acknowledge that Hannity has said some reprehensible things about the President, and has done so repeatedly on his program, including during the introduction to this segment. Can you see that there’s a reason that people are less than pleased with his consistent behavior in this regard? Again, not to defend anyone else behaving badly. Just to note that Hannity’s conduct here hasn’t just been over the top but way out of line. You can get carried away or excited and not refer to the President as “President Crybaby” night after night. Hannity’s behavior has regularly been beyond the pale, as if he were in a competition with Rush Limbaugh in that regard.
come on commented 2013-02-27 22:38:19 -0500 · Flag
No doubt Hannity is over the top, and thats what makes this one so shocking; Hannity was the rational and calm one. The Congressmans actions were awful and he lied to boot. Hannity could have really turned that into a hate-fest but he was the only rational one in the interview.
Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-27 22:33:30 -0500 · Flag
“Come On”,

So you’re acknowledging that Sean Hannity’s conduct, including in his introduction to this interview when he repeatedly insulted the President (and thus provoked Ellison’s angry reaction, whatever opinions any of us may hold about that reaction), has been in fact reprehensible? Again, this is not a comparison with MSNBC – just a statement regarding Sean Hannity without trying to get into a comparative discussion of which network’s anchors insulted who when.
come on commented 2013-02-27 22:28:09 -0500 · Flag
No doubt, Kevin. I dont defend what Hannity does (and for once he wasnt the ASS this time) , but to pretend that ONLY Fox News leans in a political direction and MSNBC is somehow neutral is beyond absurd.
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