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June 4, 2009
Hussein!
On the road today, I was able to scan some conservative talk radio. This morning, Michael Smerconish's callers were screeching about the president's reference to his middle name in his Cairo speech and, this afternoon, Hannity's callers were all over it, too.
The basic line: "Why is the president allowed to say Barack Hussein Obama now, but during the campaign they didn't let anyone say it? WHY! WHY! My rubber pants hurt!"
I made up the wingnut rubber pants part.
Of course Smerconish corrected his callers with the same response I was simultaneously screaming at my radio: When crazies like Bill Cunningham, Ann Coulter and others referenced "Hussein" during the campaign, it was clearly an attack intended to fuel the bogus internet rumors about his lineage. When the president says it, it's just his middle name.
But Hannity was totally agreeing with his callers.
Filed under: Barack Obama Speeches || Middle East || President Obama || Wingnuts
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Posted By Bob Cesca | June 4, 2009 7:50 PM
Comments
Petty..petty...petty... bullshit. My wife leaves the room if I switch to Hannity just to flame out a little.
Posted by: Hielo in Mexico at June 4, 2009 8:02 PM
I've heard of studies showing that if pregnant women watch or listen to Hannity serious birth defects can occur as a result. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: ZIRGAR at June 4, 2009 8:09 PM
Besides the fact that when he used it, he was making the point that a man named Hussein won the US presidency despite the anti-American rhetoric being used by extremists. Whether he meant terrorist extremeists or right wing extremists, he didn't specify.
Posted by: Broadway Carl™ at June 4, 2009 8:10 PM
I saw Chris Rock on Oprah some years ago.
A white man stood up in the audience and asked why it was OK for Rock to use the word nigger, but not OK for white people to say it.
Rock replied, "Why do you want to say it?"
QFT
Posted by: cousinavi at June 4, 2009 8:12 PM
Why don't Nazi's make a stink about Obama having a hebrew first name?
I personally refer to him as Lightning Obama.
Posted by: Theghostsong at June 4, 2009 8:18 PM
Sean Hannity is a NYC dropout that has been fired from two shows already to date. In my opinion he has about as much credibility as OJ Simpson. Obama has been President for 130 or so days and he has done more for this Country and it's standing in the World than the Bush Administration could have dreamed. Not that they would have cared anyway. The Radical Right seems to have actual brain damage sometimes. It's to the point of wonderment to me. They love to criticize with no alternative solutions. They had 8 years to destroy our standing and our economy and now they complain at any efforts to repair it.
Posted by: Troy Johnson at June 4, 2009 9:48 PM
Smerconish isn't part of hardcore wingnuttia...Occasionaly, I listen to him, and he actually shows signs of critical thought(he also voted for Obama). Hannity otoh = watb
Posted by: Rico Von Katlick at June 5, 2009 8:34 AM
I suppose he wasn't fielding any calls about his "Great American" friend, Hal Turner?
Posted by: dino goposaur at June 5, 2009 8:35 AM
RUBBER PANTS! HA!
Bob you are Hilario!
Posted by: Rob Gomez at June 5, 2009 1:29 PM
