Hannity denied the facts to defend Congressman Gibbons

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Hannity denied the facts to defend congressman Gibbons

In an interview with Nevada State Democratic Party communications director Jon Summers, Fox News host Sean Hannity denied that Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV) plagiarized the text of a recent speech and that Gibbons's speech had suggested that opponents of the Bush administration's policies "ought to be used as human body armor." In fact, news articles published prior to Summers's appearance on the March 3 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes confirmed that Gibbons repeated large portions of a copyrighted 2003 speech by Alabama State Auditor Beth Chapman. And Gibbons did suggest that antiwar and pro-choice advocates should be used as "human shields" in Iraq.



When Summers said that "Gibbons came out, and he said that anyone who opposed this administration's policies, anyone who disagreed with his opinion ... ought to be used as human body armor," Hannity repeatedly stated, "That's not what he said," as Summers spoke. As the Daily Free Press reported, Gibbons used the term "human shields," which mirrored a portion of Chapman's 2003 speech, in which she said that if antiwar and pro-choice "movie stars say they want to go to Iraq and serve as human shields for the Iraqis, I say let them buy a one-way ticket and go."

In fact, Gibbons took most of his speech from Chapman's text. As the Daily Free Press first reported nearly five hours prior to the March 3 broadcast of Hannity & Colmes: "Chapman's speech is 21 paragraphs in length, of which Gibbons used 15 paragraphs word-for-word in his Lincoln Day address." The Daily Free Press further noted that "Gibbons did not mention that the speech had been written and previously delivered by Chapman" and that Chapman said that Gibbons "had not requested permission to use her speech." Chapman also told the Daily Free Press that Gibbons "apologized today for using large portions of her speech." Nonetheless, when Summers stated that Gibbons' speech was plagiarized, Hannity said that was just an "allegation" and accused Summers of "playing politics."

In concluding his interview with Summers, Hannity said: "All right, Mr. Summers. Thank you for joining us tonight and sharing your talking points over and over." For examples of Hannity delivering Republican talking points, see http://mediamatters.org/items/itembody/200407080011 & http://mediamatters.org/items/itembody/200411170004

— A.S.

Posted to the web on Friday March 4, 2005 at 6:03 PM EST

from reality?

... and then consistently spouted talking points himself about statements from Dean and Byrd.

Does Hannity ever listen to himself? I mean really listen?

no matter what they said or did. If a Republican congresspuke were conclusively proved to be a serial killer or a child molester he'd think of some reason why it was really OK for them to do that. The guy is the worst kind of scum.

......but not the Hannity angle. Honor among thieves?

Conservative Idiot of the Week.

get their acts together. The last few times I watched the show and listened to him on the radio (disinfectant needed) the Dems refuses to answer his absurd, baiting questions and have been staying on their talking points, and he is left saying to them, over and over, "Now, I'm going to ask you one more time, and give you one more chance to answer the question," and then the Dem refuses to answer, and gets his talking points out.
It has actually been enjoyable watching his show as his frustration grows and grows now that the Dems are on to their unintelligent tactics, and obviously organizing on the best way to respond. They have had great discipline it staying on point and actually acting like the little man with the pointing pen is not even there.
And Colmes has actually been smiling. :)

We have no answer to this other than here. That is why the will continue destroying us. We can`t stop it.