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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Facts are for freaks!" . . . Please come CAPTION Sean Hannity!!!!!
Sean ("I was the greatest thing my Mother ever did!" Hannity is saying: "Some liberal wack job just told me that I'm jumping to conclusions with this story. . . . He told me to check my facts. . . . Talk about jumping to conclusions!!!! . . The facts are absolutely correct. . . . They came from Fox: before the Chattanogga shooting, a suspect Twitter account warned of the horror to come. . . . When I look at it closely, it has Obama's fingerprints all over it. . . . It's like he had a guilty conscience and tried to warn us. . . . Now whether he initiated the Tweet or ordered it, I'll let you decide. . . . The only part of that that might be hard to believe is the part about Obama having a guilty conscience . . . 'Jumping to conclusions,' indeed!"
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Above CAPTION based on the following Media Matters story with a Fox clip:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/07/16/fox-runs-with-bogus-isis-link-to-chattanooga-sh/204452
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)for a couple of weeks, I'll allow myself to take a laxative. But that can be painful when my hemorrhoids flare up. That's when I reach for my fast-acting Preparation H Red Label, for when you're all out of time."
underpants
(182,861 posts)Sure their was a 0 that we were ignoring, those "space holders" we're created by Arabs you know, and time zone but that's not what's important here my friends. What's important is that we flooded all your news sources with the story for hours before the Grand Poobah sort of kinda walked it back. That was on so late in his broadcast that you were nodding off thinking about the last blonde you saw on O'Reiily's show.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)use of unconsidered information, not Hannity trying to tie Obama to it. That made the CAPTION "bleary," with two objects. The first (as you have it and as I should have had it) is that when something fits their general scenario or narrative, they'll be so eager to embrace some errant information that they will not even think to check it. For this, they are open to direct and scathing satire concerning the current reporting. This would have made a fine CAPTION!
The second is Hannity's (and others') desire to tie Obama to everything. For that they're open to satire but not because of the current case. The second would have made a decent little CAPTION on its own, but putting them both together bleared the edge, made people think "that's not fair" since the current incident had be established already.
There's a lot in satire and humor. A lot to think about. But I write these things without so much logical thought as with my comic heart. It's just that when you think about it . . .
(By the way, to know comes from the Arabic medieval philosophers and mathematicians, confirms what I've already long known.)
underpants
(182,861 posts)Your subject was perfect IMHO
libodem
(19,288 posts)This is just like sitting on a tack. Oh, god, my laxatives just started to kick in. Keep smiling.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)"Would you believe me if I told you Obama was the real mind behind Osama Bin Laden? . . . That he posted directives and Bin Laden faithfully carried them out? . . . Would you believe me if I told you what Obama did when Bin Laden was no longer useful? . . . . Just wondering. . . . "