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May 6, 2009
Hannity's Liberty Tree
This is hilarious and a little scary.
I seriously don't believe that Hannity is provoking any lynchings, but it certainly can be implied. The other thing is this: suddenly the far-right is all about liberty? Ask Sean Hannity if he supports liberty for same-sex couples. No one cheerlead the unprecedented expansion of unitary executive power under Bush and Cheney more than Hannity. I seem to recall the Republicans, and especially the wingnut right, going around saying things like:
"Our civil liberties are worthless if we are dead! If you are dead and pushing up daisies, if you're sucking dirt inside a casket, do you know what your civil liberties are worth? Zilch, zero, nada."
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Posted By Bob Cesca | May 6, 2009 8:50 AM
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Your comments tie in with an excellent piece on Alternet The Far Right's First 100 Days: Getting More Extreme by the Day. It's worth the read.
Posted by: ceu at May 6, 2009 9:17 AM
As if the sappy music wasn't enough, the absolutely horrible writing being so obviously read off his teleprompter was truly heinous. I would think he could have hurt himself straining so hard to make that metaphor anything other than laughable.
We should help them start a movement of planting liberty trees across the country. Every day, in every state, the goal, one million liberty trees planted to show us all how much freedom they're losing. Who couldn't love some trees being planted?
Posted by: camel54 at May 6, 2009 9:28 AM
You know, it seriously irks me when I witness obvious duckspeaking conmen attempting to be studious, especially that vain prick.
Posted by: Lexaburn at May 6, 2009 10:50 AM
Did I get that right?
They added a fourth root- because life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness somehow seemed incomplete without redundantly adding freedom.
Apparently it's a given that the audience they're playing to doesn't understand the word liberty.
Posted by: Dan in Deutschland at May 6, 2009 11:24 AM
I wasn't aware that apples grew from elms or tulip poplars, but apparently Hannity knows a good many things I do not.
Posted by: TheFightingQuaker at May 6, 2009 11:37 AM
Free speech is a fine thing, but I think there should be regulation for a "news" channel when it comes to intentionally misleading and enabling audiences.
If False News were an alternate reality TV channel, it wouldn't be anywhere near as ridiculous and half as sucessful. Thats actually what it really is, but its labeled as "news."
Posted by: J M Ashby at May 6, 2009 2:09 PM
Does that include a woman's freedom to do with her uterus whatever she wishes? Why does Faux News hate the unborn?
Posted by: Kdog at May 6, 2009 2:18 PM
