Friday, October 31, 2008

Sean Hannity makes me mad

So everyone knows that it is almost election day. Now for starters I can't wait for it to come just so it can be over with. Now I would consider myself to be a pretty well informed person when it comes to this election. I try to get my information from several different sources because no matter how you look at it every kind of news coverage is biased in some way. I don't believe that there is nor will there ever be a completely unbiased news network.
I also am not going to vote this election for several reasons. One being that I don't feel like I could support either candidate. I don't agree with several view points of both candidates. I also just down right don't trust any politicians. If they are going to lye to me then I am not going to support them. And they ALL lye.
Anyway having said that I wanted to talk about a well known far right radio host named Sean Hannity. I happened to be listening to his show while I was helping my dad farm today and he was doing this thing where he had a lady on the phone with him who was outside Madison Square Garden and she was picking people "at random" to talk to Hannity. It was pretty obvious that they were looking for uninformed Obama supporters, one of whom was drunk. So Sean would ask them some basic questions about the election like who are the two major candidates. Then he would ask them who they are voting for and all of them were voting for Obama. So then he asked them why do you think that Obama is qualified to be president. And of course they couldn't answer because the only reason they were voting for Obama was because they had seen his ad or heard him talk on the campaign trail. Which no politician says anything of substance on the campaign trail its all propaganda.
Anyway so then he would ask these people if they thought that it was a good idea to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. He would pretty much ask this same question and change it a little every time until he was asking them if they agreed with the following quote: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." which is of course a quote from Karl Marx. And of course they agreed with the quote and they didn't know who Karl Marx was. So then Hannity would thank them for being on the show right after he reminded them that election day was this Thursday. Then he would claim that he had just proven that Obama supporters were Marxists.
Now I have a lot of problems with the media on both sides of debate over the two parties. However I just happened to hear this broadcast and it made me so mad. First of all, Hannity is claiming that these are random people off the street which they were not. Then he can just get them to say whatever he wants by asking them the right questions that he knows how they will answer. And then on top of that he tries to tell them that election day is on Thursday.
I don't know I just wanted to share this cause I thought it was completely outrageous. Let me know what you think. I tried to find this braodcast online so you could hear it but I have not found it yet. I will put a link here if I do find it.