Discussion for article #221885
Astounding in his lack of self awareness. Next time you get robbed Hannity, it will just be the guy exercising his right to liberate your stuff because he doesn’t recognize the laws as valid .
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Stewart and many others usually love people who ignore federal law and refuse to budge when told to. That’s why so many illegal aliens are still here and more are coming.
But just let one American Rancher stand up to the feds to protect his family business, and feds call out the snipers.
How messed up is that?
OK, so here is how Hannity thinks:
- Harry Reid said that the Bundy supporters – who pointed guns and threatened to shoot United States law enforcement officials – to domestic terrorists.
- Therefore, Jon Stewart – who made no such statement – should have gone back in time to ask President Barack Obama about his relationship with a 60s radical that had already been covered in the press during an election two years previous.
- Profit!
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Huh? The rancher [quote=“Santiago6, post:3, topic:2090”]
(stood) up to the feds to protect his family business, and feds call out the snipers.[/quote]?
He refused to pay grazing fees for using public lands – that’s lands you and I and all other Americans own together – that everyone else pays, and when the government came out to impound the cows that were illegally grazing on our land Bundy and his friends came out and pointed guns at the law enforcement officer.
That’s like a car dealer parking his inventory in the local Little League field’s parking lot so no one else can park there, then threatening to shoot the local cops when they come to tow the cars away to the impound lot.
Bundy could have paid less than $4K a year and there would have been no issue. That’s a flipping bargain for grazing rights to the land, but he refused to pay it because he wanted to graze as many cattle as he wanted on lands he didn’t own.
I fail to see how ANYONE can defend that.
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The American Rancher you’re talking about recruited a large number of heavily armed insurrectionists to protect his sacred right to steal from the American taxpayers and retain an unfair competitive advantage over neighboring ranchers who actually obey the law and pay their grazing fees (which are, incidentally, ridiculously lower than grazing fees charged by private landowners).
But argle bargle scary brown people blargh so let’s troll out praise for the thief.
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Remember when Hannity was so upset when law enforcement beat and pepper sprayed members of Occupy Wall Street all over the country? Remember when he said the response of the government was not proportional.
Me neither.
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I don’t understand Hannity’s retort at all, probably because there is no reasonable way for him to respond, and his target audience isn’t concerned with him making actual sense.
If his point was simply the lack of “proportionality” of response to a protest, wouldn’t you think his original piece would have spent some air time on that point? And if that is such and important point (that the Feds brought way to much firepower to enforce an action that he supposedly believes is an understandable, lawful action) shouldn’t he be surprised at the outcome?The “disproportionate” show of force and resolve was not enough to get the law breaker and his defenders to comply anyway, and no criminals or vigilante posse members were harmed in any way, right?
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Hannity is trying to defend the indefensible. To most of us out here, he don’t make sense. But in that Fox News bubble, I guess it does. The most hilarious thing he does is somehow someway come up with this happened in Nevada, Bundy is from Nevada, Senator Reid is from Nevada, Bundy is right, but because of right wing politics being as they are, and the fact that on Fox News there is this constant need to hate on Senator Reid, then according to them, it’s Senator Reid’s fault. How they come up with that boggles the mind.
Anyways, the dust will settle soon. Fox News and Hannity will forget this and move on to something else. All the armed militia from Utah and Arizona and other places will end up going back home. Then justice can proceed.
To clarify, these laws have been on the books since the 1930s. And all ranchers know about them. And they abide by them. They DO NOT side with Bundy on this issue. Nice try, but not gonna work.
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Throughout the entire segment of Hannity’s segment, one thing he did NOT do was refute Stewart’s point that Hannity’s position whether it is ok to comply with the law depends on the POLITICAL LEANING of the person.
Now, for Hannity to accuse Stewart (or ANYONE, really) of hypocrisy, that’s pretty rich…and amusing… The guy who spent 5 shows hammering on spring break, but who TOOK PART in it during his younger days!
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Hannity is nothing more than trying to be little rush . As a repuk he is defending a taker and a cheating law breaker
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"Can I make my position any more clear to Mr. Stewart?" he said. "I stand for proportionality..."
Ohhhhhh, I’m betting Stewart and his writers are gonna have a TIME with that last statement. Neither Shammity or O’Liely get it when it comes to Stewart and the soon-to-depart Colbert: Maybe they think they can (put them down/squash them/minimize them) by lecturing them from their respective soapboxes, but all they’re doing is giving their “targets” more of the same pompous, hypocritical ammunition.
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Bundy refused to pay $1.39 a head for grazing rights and so LOST any legal standing he had. HE broke his lease with the BLM. He has ignored the fee for 20 years. And has had many days in court over this. The Gov’t has been more than patient. This is like you renting a room in your home to someone and then they refuse to pay or move out and assume your house is now theirs.
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Mr. Hannity, when you are arguing with a comedian, you are losing.
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Something tells me tonight’s Daily Show will be a lot of fun to watch. Hannity is in way over his head here.
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“The Fox News host played back Stewart’s segment that sought to portray him as “hypocritical” on the Bundy Ranch standoff on his show Tuesday night, saying the comedian was “kind of obsessed” with his show.”
How can you blame any comedian for being obsessed with Sean Hannity?
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My God, he is a stupid person.
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My favorite analogy so far.
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Ode to Sean Hannity
by John Cleese
Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity
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But - I thought Seanny boy was also a comedian (at least in effect, iof not intent).