Hannity's Enemy of the Week

[Goltzy]

Nobody has questioned anyone's rigth to say anything. It's rather a matter of what is prudent, something the likes of Fonda do not understand. She proved that when she went to Hanoi.

By calling those who dissent traitors and enemies, you are in a way questioning their right to express their patriotism in whatever way they please. There is no freedom in what they say because you (plural) have now condemned said expression. in order for there to be freedom, their cannot be hatred spewed at them for choosing to walk another way.

There was more to my reponse than the last added quote from Chomsky, by the way.

 

[MachZer0]

By calling those who dissent traitors and enemies, you are in a way questioning their right to express their patriotism in whatever way they please. There is no freedom in what they say because you (plural) have now condemned said expression. in order for there to be freedom, their cannot be hatred spewed at them for choosing to walk another way.

Aren't you doing the same thing by questioning my right to express my disdain over people like Fonda

There was more to my reponse than the last added quote from Chomsky, by the way.

When many people quote Chomsky, the rest of what they have to say is predictable.

 

[JustOneWay]

Aren't you doing the same thing by questioning my right to express my disdain over people like Fonda

So, do you believe it is in their right to say what they will about our government, and there should be no repercussions (legally) to those who speak out against the government?

 

[MachZer0]

So, do you believe it is in their right to say what they will about our government, and there should be no repercussions (legally) to those who speak out against the government?

Yes, just as I have the same right to speak out against them for doing so. It's not about law (yet) but rather about prudence.

 

[USincognito]

My Enemy of the Week is Osama bin Laden. As he should have been for everyone, every week since 9/11 until he was captured or killed.

 

[USincognito]

It's nice that the Hannitys and O'Reillys and Frankens are taking the time to identify people wholly with one or two of their actions, and to use labels with maximum emotional impact. We consumers just don't have the capacity to deal dispassionately with discrete facts.

As we have seen, purely emotional arguments are the backbone of rational political discourse. Thus, we need to be told who we should be mad at, not what we should disagree with.

Quoted and limed for truth.

 

[Norseman]

Could NeoCons even exist if they couldn't?

Can a fish live without water?

 

[JustOneWay]

My Enemy of the Week is Osama bin Laden. As he should have been for everyone, every week since 9/11 until he was captured or killed.

Very good point. It really has become a righty/lefty slugfest. Olbermann's worst person....Hannity's enemy of the state....Limbaugh's consistant liberal bashing....Frankin's less than humorless attempts at right-winged bashing. It goes on and on.

The worst person and the enemy of the week is bin Laden and his ilk. Those who actually harm the country.

 

[MachZer0]

I'm going to go out on a limb and name Jane Fonda as Hannity's Enemy of the Week. She deserves it (and fits the bill) more than anybody I know.

 

[Nathan Poe]

I'm going to go out on a limb and name Jane Fonda as Hannity's Enemy of the Week. She deserves it (and fits the bill) more than anybody I know.

Osama who?

 

[TeddyKGB]

Yes, just as I have the same right to speak out against them for doing so. It's not about law (yet) but rather about prudence.

Prudence just hasn't been cool since George Bush I claimed to have some of it.

 

[MachZer0]

Osama who?

The context of Hannity's Enemy of the Week is about Americans, but nice try

 

[JustOneWay]

The context of Hannity's Enemy of the Week is about Americans, but nice try

He say the criteria was that one must be American?

I bet that eventually Soros will be the enemy on Hannity's show

 

[USincognito]

He say the criteria was that one must be American?

Yes, Hannity thinks there are enemies amonst us who hate America and want to destroy this nation from within.

Personally I think he's crazy or really overdoing the hyperbole with that, but as Teddy pointed out earlier, it's not emotionally loaded enough to say you disagree with someone these days, now they are "the enemy."

It's almost Orwellian.

 

[MachZer0]

Prudence just hasn't been cool since George Bush I claimed to have some of it.

When did he do that?

 

[trunks2k]

It's almost Orwellian.

Just almost?

Really, I can handle "dumb person of the week" or something of that extent. But "enemy"? That type of rhetoric just frightens me.

 

[USincognito]

Just almost?

Really, I can handle "dumb person of the week" or something of that extent. But "enemy"? That type of rhetoric just frightens me.

Well, that's only because you hate America.

And you're right it is completely Orwellian because "the enemy" is used to refer to the Islamofacistnaziterrorists (or whatever the word de jour is) and to people who disagree with initiating or continuing the war in Iraq. Thus they can say with a straight face that "if you're not with us, you're with the terrorists" because they conflate both as "the enemy."

 

[JustOneWay]

Yes, Hannity thinks there are enemies amonst us who hate America and want to destroy this nation from within.

Personally I think he's crazy or really overdoing the hyperbole with that, but as Teddy pointed out earlier, it's not emotionally loaded enough to say you disagree with someone these days, now they are "the enemy."

It's almost Orwellian.

I agree, Hannity overuses the hyperbole to compensate for his lack of data. You cant really argue about Hannity's enemy of the week choices because it is subjective to his opinion. In the end, the enemy of the week is smeared based on a political difference.

 

[MachZer0]

I'm going to go out on a limb and name Jane Fonda as Hannity's Enemy of the Week. She deserves it (and fits the bill) more than anybody I know.

Hanoi Jane. I nailed it!!!

 

[TheBellman]

Hanoi Jane. I nailed it!!!

I don't understand how you can hate those who disagree with you so much.