Talk:Hannity & Colmes

this site is a joke!!!!!!!!!!

The Lies of Sean Hannity Sometimes on Hannity & Colmes, Sean has a tendency to bend the truth.

On an August 25, 2003 episode of the show, Sean said, "It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state." Sean must not have read the Constitution very thoroughly, because the opening words of the First Amendment are "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

At least you got the 1st ammendment correct, but this ammendment does not declare that church and state must be separated. Sean Hannity is absolutley correct. The constitution never infers the church and state have to be separate! It specifically says CONGRESS shall make no LAW respecting an ESTABLISHMENT of RELIGION. This means the congress can't use it's legislative powers to create a religion that the people could be forced to attend against their will. I guess you people forget history - remember King George and most of Europe at the time with their state religions. The promise of religious freedom was a powerful reason many left Europe and came to the "new world". Congress intended to keep that idea alive. The liberals of this day want to supress religion and make those of us who are evangelicals out to be fools.

I deleted the header "lies of this site" since its un-necessarily inflammatory. Also to comment on your position, if as you declare is right, that Congress cannot force compulsory religion or attendance, how exactly does that mean there is NOT seperation of Church and State? Any law or action of the government that gives favoritism to a specific religion is effective establishment of a religion.

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Is nuetrality a rule or not on this site?
Is this site supposed to be nuetral? Jdhunt 16:16, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

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 * On an August 25, 2003 episode of the show, Sean said, "It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state." Sean must not have read the Constitution very thoroughly, because the opening words of the First Amendment are "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."	+
 * On September 18, 2003, Sean said on Hannity & Colmes, "I never questioned anyone's patriotism." However, earlier that year he asked Stanley Cohen, "Is it you hate this president or you hate America?" 	+
 * On September 19, 2003, Hannity said, "Colin Powell just had a great piece that he had in the paper today. He was there [in Iraq]. He said things couldn't have been better." The paper Hannity was referring to, written by Powell, said, "Iraq has come very far but serious problems remain..." ('Serious' Problems in Iraq - Powell).

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 * Before Colmes got the gig as Hannity's sidekick, Fox staffers referred to the show as "Hannity and Liberal To Be Determined." After auditioning several left-wingers for the show, Hannity decided he wanted Colmes, and the name of the show was changed.


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Alan Colmes Other interesting tidbits seem to contradict Fox's portrayal of Colmes as a "hard-hitting liberal."
 * For example, in early 2003, the show featured author Tammy Bruce promoting her book, The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values. Hannity, of course, fully supported her confusing logic, stating, "But literally, the left is responsible for this." Bruce responded, "Well, as I show in the book, it's the left having gone so far to the left." One would think "a hard-hitting liberal" would probably have some sort of retort for such an unfair and rash generalization. However, Colmes response fell a little short of what most would call "hard-hitting liberalism": "I think in some respects you're right."


 * Colmes, unlike other "hard-hitting liberals" such as Al Franken and Michael Moore, seems have more respect from conservatives than from his fellow liberals. This could be because of his excessive pandering to the right, which may have alienated his left-wing comrades, but has given him the respect of many leading conservatives. Among them are Newt Gingrich ("You are my favorite liberal to argue with"), Senator Orrin Hatch ("You're great for a liberal"), and the Christian conservative leader of Focus on the Family (which is quite popular in my southern-to-the-core hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee), Dr. James Dobson ("He's my favorite liberal").


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Miscellaneous Info
 * Sean isn't too fond of the American Civil Liberties Union. He stated this very clearly: "... I don't like the ACLU" (Foxnews.com Hannity & Colmes: Is the Nation Any Safer?). In his first book, he describes his break into radio at the University of Santa Barbara: "The left-wing management had zero-tolerance for conservative points of view. And I was promptly fired. Once my voice was silenced, my destiny was set--do or die, I'd make my career in radio." When this happened, who came to Hannity's aid? None other than the Santa Barbara chapter of the big bad ACLU, who wrote letters to the University of Santa Barbara, telling them that firing Hannity was a breach of his free speech. The University did offer Hannity his job back, but he declined. This fact is conspicuously absent from his book.


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 * For a good picture of how other liberals view Alan Colmes, read chapter 14 of Al Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. In it, Al describes Colmes as "Sean's liberal on-air punching bag," and says, "Sean is the alpha-male to Alan Colmes's zeta male." Throughout the book, Colmes' name appears in a small typeface.
 * Sean Hannity has two books: Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Against Liberalism and his newest, Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism. Alan Colmes has one book: Red, White, & Liberal: How Left is Right & Right is Wrong.
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