Hannity: “Thank-you! Who the hell is Edward R. Murrow?”
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
The comedy writes itself!!!
I’d bet that intellectual giants like Page and Hannity jerking each off on national TV got Murrow spinning in his grave like a Niagara Falls turbine.
Either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. We report, you decide.
Carter Page, The Muscovite Hannidate.
Murrow? I don’t think so – more like Joe McCarthy, or Joe Goebbels, or other skilled practitioners of the propaganda arts.
Even reading the interview – Hannity is skilled at calling out “lies”, without bothering to articulate a single statement that wasn’t thoroughly true.
As long as there’s a Fox News willing to pay people to lie regularly, and politicians willing to tolerate it, democracy hangs on a thread.
This motherfucker is almost - almost! - as delusional as Trump and his FoxNews boosters.
Page honestly believes Trump and Hannity and the Nunes memo are going to save his ass, but I believe Mueller probably has Page’s balls nailed to the table. I just hope dear Carter keeps talking, though, especially in the echoing RW media bubble of FoxNews and the rest, so he keeps saying whatever comes into that intellectually-deprived head of his.
Page’s actions, though, really show how deep these people are in the bubble of the RW infosphere. It’s like no other news penetrates - not the Dem response memo, Mueller’s indictments against Gates and Manafort. Nothing. And they keep hanging on to already disproven talking points and conspiracy theories.
Oh, and Carter: when they come to arrest you, wear that sexy red hat, you hot fucking hunk, you!
The Saga of Carter Page, in general, is too surreal for theater.
Hannity to Page: “Thanks. You’re a regular Alger Hiss yourself.”
At this point, my only conclusion is that the motherfucker is trolling us. The only person he thinks he has fooled is in the Oval Office.
Page: “I don’t know, but someone told me it would sound good.”
The same guy who told Dan Quayle that it would be a good idea to say he was the same age as Jack Kennedy when Jack Kennedy got elected President.
The circle jerk continues to grow.
There’s only one historical figure you’d want to compare Carter Page with:
‘you have been the Edward R. Murrow of this whole process’ - And Trump is the Lincoln of Presidents.
Really?
I didn’t watch it, so I am going to envision it. Carter sitting there looking like his BVDs are pinching something too tight. Watery, wide open eyes. The meal worm grin on his face. The wetting of of himself as he earnestly elevates Hannity to Murrow status. The puddle of pure excitement on the floor as Page is thinking, someone is paying attention to me, somebody is paying attention to me!
Who will finally be the reincarnation of Joseph Welch (Have you no sense of decency, sir?).
Murrow signed off his newscast with “Good night and good luck.” How ironic his insight still resonates today.
Oh, and Mr. Hannity. Fuck off and go away. That goes for you, too, Page, but you’ll be in the fed pen soon enough.