That Hannity drivel is front page news at FOXnews.com!?!?!?

it's the top story all of a sudden? wtf? is anybody else buying this? and how long until drudge gets it?

now do we have a scandal on our hands?

whatever happened to leakgate?

http://www.foxnews.com/

WASHINGTON — Fox News has obtained a document believed to have been written by the Democratic staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee (search) that outlines a strategy for exposing what it calls "the administration's dubious motives" in the lead-up to the war in Iraq

The memo, provided late Tuesday by a source on the Committee and reported by Fox News' Sean Hannity, discusses the timing of a possible investigation into pre-war Iraq (search) intelligence in such a way that it could bring maximum embarrassment to President Bush in his re-election campaign.

I like the idea of "maximum embarrassment".

If they will not impeach him can they at least take away all the benifits of former President like lifetime paychecks and secret service etc..?

subjected to in recent history? It's only fair.

and in another thread that even the odious Fox cannot sustain it's pathetic shallow reporting of Iraq if it wants to remain a 'news' station.
If it continually beats out the Washington line it risks becoming boring to it's own target audience of unthinking dittoheads. It will need sensationalism to survive and the only sensational stories for the future are to expose the lies of the Bush administration.

:puke:

After all the crazy investigations the r's have started?? Even if this were in the party platform I wouldn't be upset about it.

who must have supplied these stolen documents to Hannity in order to cover for the real story that began this weekend on CNN when he sandbagged minority chair Jay Rockefellar by announcing that the WH had decided to come forward and present to the committee all the classified national security briefings they had requested. It was the first time Rockefellar, speaking with him live on split screen, had heard of it, even though Roberts said he was told by the WH on friday. Rockefellar's skepticism was well placed since just today, Roberts releases a statement that -- what do you know -- the WH was still refusing to release all the requested documents, either stonewalling or trying to stall the investigation into next year. So, later today, Hannity unleashes this incomprehensible "scandal" fueled by Sen. Roberts, which seems to serve no other purpose than to prevent him from answering what happened to his promise of getting all the WH documents he had made just the day before.

The worst side effect of following some news stories too closely is that you come away realizing, underneath all the glib catch phrases and high-sounding justifications, just what scummy bs con artists they are.

I saw that exchange with Rockefeller as well.

if it's deserved.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

but we all know that anyway. His penchant for sensationalizing anything that makes progressives look foolish is well known. What he failed to say, is that this is politics a s normal. NOTHING is done in politics by accident. It is all planned, and except for the occasional gaff by a politico that goes off script, it is ALL calculated for maximum effect.

this is unfortunate, but it is reality. With Hannity...as with all the RW pundits, they fail to accept the fact that every time Clinton took a leak, they felt obligated to report it as if it were a world shattering event. Hannity, (with the exception of Scarborough), is the lowest element in journalism/infotainment, he is a bottom feeder, sucking the mud, looking for something of substance.

:kick:

I see no reason to feel guilty about supporting an investigation of the incumbent administration's Iraq intelligence activities. Partisan hacks like the people at Faux News should be made to live with the fact that their pet politicos can be held accountable for their actions.

As for the timing, I remember that right-wing Republicans continued their partisan vendetta against former president Clinton while he was trying to deal with the East Africa embassy bombing. Right wing hacks can fiddle their doleful tunes with the violin and the onion-filled crying hanky someplace else.

It's alright to break the law so long if you do it in an election year.

to Hannity on the radio for 2 hours yesterday - first time in weeks and by far the longest I've ever been able to stand it. He was just so full of himself. He started out on the great conservative talk-radio triumph with CBS, then he broke out this stupid memo and went wild. The difference between his radio and TV personalities never ceases to amaze me. He seems much saner on TV. On the radio, you can hear him spitting and snorting. He's even louder and more self-aggrandizing than Rush.

Anyway, he went on about the memo for over an hour (and I assume to the end of the show), and I sat there and thought damn - if only these people got angry about actual crimes and lies and stuff like that, think what they could do. But no, they're making the world safe for Reagan worshippers.

inanity: 1: the quality or state of being inane as a: lack of substance : EMPTYNESS b: vapid, pointless, or fatuous character : SHALLOWNESS 2: something that is inane
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---(mostly) from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition

Amazing.

I'd be all for looking into this 'scandal' in depth. Lets look at whether the Democrats were justified in talking about "the administration's dubious motives" for the next 12 months or so. Lets talk about whether the President lied or not until Nov 2004.

And this is supposed to be scandalous for Democrats?!?

Actually, what has me most worried about Hannity's latest 'inside scoop' is that I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE THINKS THIS MAKES DEMOCRATS LOOK BAD! And THAT worries me, since I fear either my cognitive dissonance has finally peaked to where I just can't relate to US culture anymore (bad, since I've lived here my whole life), or Hannity and the segment of the country he represents has gone stark raving mad...(wanna bet on which one I think it is?).

So, I'll walk through this real slow again, and maybe I'll understand it.

Hannity says that the Democrats are bad, because they are going to expose the administrations dubious motives in the lead up to invading Iraq. And that somehow reflects poorly on Democrats to the level of a scandal. Oh, AND they are trying to win the Presidential election, and that's somehow scandalous too.

Nope, I still just don't get it.

:shrug:

...but not the information itself? I feel like the bizarro Jerry episode on Seinfeld.

- The act is alright, but the release of the information is wrong.
- Linda Tripp gets $600,000 for someone violating her privacy, and the only reason she's in the news anyway is because she secretly taped someone without their permission...

Since I'm a fundraiser, I'm not going into work today. I strongly feel that rich donors are going to bill me for having the right to work with people who need our help...

While we're at it, can we reverse that Chicago Cub series too?

Hannity - only in America...Geesh...

is somehow nefarious?
A political party trying to win elections? What a scandal.
Investigating if the misadministration lied? Give 'em the chair!!!!

Tempest in a teapot (Hannity trying to inflate his importance - more so that Rush is AWOL)

ALL BY HIMSELF! If you are going to surround yourself with evil crooks then you better be ready to answer some questions! It is like I tell my kids " you can do this the hard way or the easy way, it is up to you". Apparently Mr. Honor and Integrity wants to do it the hard way. That's OK, hopefully we will see what it is he is hiding.

I've yet to read the actual text of the memo anywhere, nor seen any verification that it is a legitimate document.

The bits I've seen quoted do NOT say what they are claimed to say, namely, that democrats in the intelligence committee planned to launch an investigation when it would most harm President Bush's 2004 campaign. THAT was implied by the announcer, not the text of the quote.

Anyone have a link to the memo's text?

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102258,00.html

In my opinion, the writers of this memo are looking at how to best bring about a full investigation into the issue of how the case for the war against Iraq was developed, NOT on how to best leverage it against the Presidents 2004 campaign.

Read it yourself and see what you think. I think it's being highly misrepresented.

Thanks for calling attention to the Chimp's lies, Seanster.

They can't report on the real news so they have to attack us.

The real news is the economy and Iraq.