Audio Archives: Brad Guest Hosts 'Malloy Show'
Interviews with Edmonds, Asner, Rowley, many more...
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Latest Featured Reports | Saturday, July 4, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: PALIN RESIGNS AS 'ICEBERG SCANDAL' SAID COMING
Alaskan sources tell The BRAD BLOG sudden resignation is 'damage control' for scandal 'not of family nature'... MORE: Federal embezzlement investigation related to materials used in Palin's house may bring indictments soon, according to AK sources...
End of the World Edition!
Brad & Desi's LISTEN: CA wins for a change; Where's the beef? Recalled!; EPA suppression? Really?; PLUS: WINGNUT MELTDOWN!
Previous GNRs: 6/30/09 - 6/25/09 - Archives...
NYTimes Fails to Correct Erroneous Endorsement of Holt Election Bill
One week later, and still no correction to huge error. Was the 'paper of record' misled by the bill's Democratic author?
Disbar Complaints For Two CIA Attorneys
Authorized/oversaw torture techniques resulting in death...
Coleen Rowley: How CBS '60 Minutes' Killed My Iraq Warning
The FBI's 9/11 whistleblower writes about being ignored yet again...

Help Restore Justice at Justice
Sign on to VR's campaign demanding accountability at DoJ.
Brad's Upcoming Appearances
(All times listed as PACIFIC TIME unless noted)
Media Appearance Archives...


By Brad Friedman on 5/28/2004 12:13PM  

So late last night / early this morning, while listening to Air America, I was alerted to a web poll being run over on Hannity.com asking "Who should be President of the United States?"

I stopped by, voiced my opinion, and saw that the results of the unscientific web poll to that point --- with some 11,000+ votes cast --- was about 65% Kerry, 33% Bush, 2% Nader.

This morning when I woke up, I checked it again. It was then at 75% Kerry, 22% Bush, 3% Nader.

Checked back about 20 minutes later to find that "This poll has been disabled."

So presumably, there's a kink in the well-oiled GOP Media Spin Machine. Was the poll taken down because it was soiled after Air America alerted listeners to it's existance? Presumably, Hannity either did, or would have told his 10 million or so (largely Republican) listeners to stop by and vote on his web poll and then reported the Fair and Balanced results later on his show.

Yet the "inconsequential", "failing", "nobody listens to it" Air America informs it's American listeners about the poll which resulted in numbers --- I guess --- that Sean didn't care for. So the poll comes down.

It's a rather small point, nothing as outrageous as repeatedly playing the uncut audio of an American screaming in horrific agony as his head is sawed off "live" on the air (as I reported in "Sean Hannity: American Shame") but it does serve to illustrate the desperate and deceptive Anti-American nature of the #2 GOP Spokesperson who is given free reign on the Public Airwaves coast-to-coast across the nation.

Perhaps it's time for another look at the FCC's "Equal Time Rule" which is seemingly now wholly ignored as it applies to the political propoganda being shovelled out under the guise of "entertainment" on America's Public Airwaves. I'm not holding my breath.

UPDATE: After listening to the first two and a half hours of Hannity's show today, he has not made one mention of his aborted poll. Down the memory hole, I guess...

Buzz this story!


READER COMMENTS ON
"Sean Hannity: Smug Deceptive Hypocrite"
(15 Responses so far...)

COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
... Sam Haverfield said on 10/3/2004 @ 10:43 am PT...


:)


COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
... Sam Haverfield said on 10/3/2004 @ 10:45 am PT...


:)Hooray for Sean, A voice heard that sheds light on the dark pages coming from the left side


COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
... Dave said on 3/12/2005 @ 6:24 pm PT...


HI THERE I LOVE BUSH I THINKE HES A GRAET PRESDIENT


COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
... TODD STUCKEY said on 4/17/2005 @ 7:50 am PT...


YOU ARE SO DUMB. PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE
LOCKED UP. YOU ARE WHAT WE CALL IN THE SOUTH A JACKASS. YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT PEOPLE WHO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY. YOU GET MAD ABOUT THE PRESIDENT INCREASING SPENDING FOR THE TROOPS AND GIVE THEM A PAY RAISE SO THEIR FAMILIES WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE ON WELFARE. IT SEEMS TO ME YOU WOULD BE HAPPY IF WE JUST DID WAY THE MILTIARY. SO IF WE GOT ATTACKED I WOULD WANT JACKASSES LIKE YOU TO ROT IN HELL.


COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
... Peggy Lenke said on 7/31/2005 @ 5:14 pm PT...


:cry: I am so happy I found your Blog, Brad. I for one can hardly tolerate Sean Hannity. Yes he is one of the biggest smug Hypocrites on the airways. The other is Rush Limbaugh. They are pompous, deceptive brainwashers only a Dito head who cannot think for them selves could listen to their bloviating, without becoming ill. God help America if these guys can captivate so many people. I'm a DEmocrat a Christain, I love the U.S. and I'm sick and tired of being insulted by Sean and Rush!!!
Keep up the good work Brad Peggy


COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
... noe said on 8/3/2005 @ 10:46 am PT...


Sean is a great guy. Yeah!!!


COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
... derek said on 9/13/2005 @ 4:09 pm PT...


YOU ARE SO DUMB. PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE
LOCKED UP. YOU ARE WHAT WE CALL IN THE SOUTH A JACKASS. YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT PEOPLE WHO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY. YOU GET MAD ABOUT THE PRESIDENT INCREASING SPENDING FOR THE TROOPS AND GIVE THEM A PAY RAISE SO THEIR FAMILIES WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE ON WELFARE. IT SEEMS TO ME YOU WOULD BE HAPPY IF WE JUST DID WAY THE MILTIARY. SO IF WE GOT ATTACKED I WOULD WANT JACKASSES LIKE YOU TO ROT IN HELL.

this guy must have a brain tumor. i think hes a little mixed up. :D


COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
... Rich said on 9/17/2005 @ 6:18 am PT...


The old adage "show me your company and I'll tell you what you are"

Hannity "Friends"

Dick Morris - Sex Scandal (crossdressing).
Pat Robertson - Bilking people under name of Christ
(you know the deal he closes his beady eyes he saysGod is healing them of a cold or whatever common ailments and then tells person to call in so he can get there names and bilked them.)
Ann Coulter - Plain old nasty Dyke Bitch!!
Ollie North - Question his Iran-Contra actions!!!
Newt Gringrich - Having his wife signed Divorce papers the moment she got out of surgery.
Zell Miller - an angry old man!!!
Rush - pill popping a**hole.
Brownback - Theocratic Bin Laden


COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
... albert johnson said on 10/6/2005 @ 1:57 am PT...


IF MR. HANNITY WOULD STOP TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE COMENTS AGAINST THE BUSH MAN,HE MIGHT CHANGE HIS WAY OF THINKING. OH WAIT, HE'S GETTING PAID TO MUCH BY THE G.O.P. .


COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
... H. Kherev said on 10/18/2005 @ 5:25 pm PT...


Open letter to Sean Hannity:

Sean,

I rarely can listen longer than five minutes to your AM-talk radio program before changing the channel or actually turning the radio off.

It's long past time that all people of good will and having historic American values organize campaigns against the advertisers that sponsor your horrible behaviours.

I've no idea whether the 'Mr. Cringle' at whom you were ranting and canting, and filibustering over, is in personal behaviour an asset to the United States or not. In a truly free country this decision is neither in your or my purview. But nobody hearing your ad hominem attack on him could do anything but sympathize with him and his conferees.

The issues in Toledo have nothing to do with Cringle, or with 'white' racial separatists. The people -black, white, brown and yellow- who are suffering in Toledo are doing so due to the 'black' gangs who render the streets unsafe and who drive down property values. Another caller was quite correct in citing 'white flight' as hollowing out America's cities, although it's not just 'whites' who are fleeing.

A flight of the middle classes and of those aspiring to middle class status from urban locales has a knock-on effect of increasing America's petroleum and other energy uses. That then drives up the cost of employing Americans, for the employees next need more money to live. Perhaps you're getting payola from those obscene oil-company profits?

The immediate issues in Toledo and other urban centres have nothing to do with any false ideal about equality. Equality is at best a legal fiction, for in the real universe it doesn't exist, and the French cry of "Libertè, Egalitè et Fraternitè' was very defective. A daily and omnipresent Equality cannot be delivered via State action.

Liberty cannot exist where a government is committed to using force to 'guarantee' equality. Fraternity must certainly disappear where people are forced, not persuaded via moral suasion, to show a fraternal spirit.

The issues in Toledo and like urban locales aren't religious in any sectarian sense either. The black caller who tried to get you to acknowledge the oppressive behaviours of the governments of the United States, local, state and federal, was treated to an astonishing display of intellectual dishonesty.

The incarceration and murder rates of the U.S.A. is comparable to the worst of the Communist horror States for reasons, and these reasons have nothing to do with the availability of weapons. Afghanistan under the Taliban featured automatic carbines (AK-47s etc.) in nigh every abode and hovel, but the murder and general crime rates were far below that of the U.S.A. The Swiss are heavily armed, and are divided into Francophone, Germanic and Latin tribes, but they haven't the violence of Americans.

The problems in Toledo are caused by the centralized control and hypocrisy of American governments. That tyranny is generating an underclass, not all black, that is similar to the slaves who staffed the latifundia of ancient Rome. Except the slave-masters and -mongers of America feel no obligation whatever to anything except Egregious Profit.

You are so disgusting that after you die that your remains will need to be disposed of as toxic waste.

Kherev


COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
... John tinns said on 10/24/2005 @ 6:39 am PT...


If it was, as you said, an unscientific poll, what is your point? Why would Air America tell you abou it?
Why would a buch of folks that listen to Hannity cast a vote for Kerry over Bush?
Obviously Air America told a buch of people about it to get them to say Kerry, and bet that you were one of them, right?
Hannity was wrong since he figured it would give Bush as the winner since, again, Conservatives listen to his show.
Love your pix with the fag in your mouth, no pun intended. Maybe if you ever tip the scale at 300 plus you could post a pix with you stuffing a cheeseburger in your mouth.
I do thank you for letting me air my views.
Your a real American my friend!
Duker


COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
... ken said on 10/31/2005 @ 8:54 pm PT...


you are such a moron. someday you pull your head out of your ass long enough to recognize what a chump you are. libs....


COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
... us conservatives said on 12/8/2005 @ 2:20 pm PT...


:laugh: Where do I start with so much untruth? So much that I won't justify it with any comment... :hehe:


COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
... Deni said on 3/24/2006 @ 2:10 pm PT...


Sean is a moron. It's not about supporting the troops or loving Bush, it's about respect of the truth. Its one thing to send our troops to get Osama bin ladin in Afganastan to kill the terrorists, but why did he attack Iraq? Lets get our troops out and build up our own country. Thousands of homless and sick americans are dying on the streets in American cities, lets help them.


COMMENT #15 [Permalink]
... Iwouldntbother said on 4/22/2006 @ 12:26 pm PT...


It's amazing how naive you & most of the posted comments are. Hannity has most of it right yet you don't have the common sense (nor the humility) to see it. How comic, yet how sad.


-=- Comments on this item are now closed. -=-


-->
VotersUnite.org's Daily Voting News 'Daily Voting News'
for July 2-3, 2009

by Ellen Theisen

Co-Editors: Dave Klein and John Washburn

While the goals of the U.S. and the Philippines seem to be the same regarding elections --- fair and fraud-free, their methods are diametrically opposed. The Philippines is desperate to get away from paper ballots and automate their elections, and the U.S., having been there done that, is heading in the opposite direction.

Happy Independence Day! We're taking the weekend off....

Click for links to all of today's notable voting news headlines...

Support The BRAD BLOG
Please visit our advertisers




Spend your advertising dollars wisely! And support the good guys at the same time! or Advertise with the good guys! We're it!





Greg Palast Investigates - a New Film on DVD







OTHER SITES

Support The BRAD BLOG
Please visit our advertisers
Brad Friedman's
The BRAD BLOG



Go to front page...

Recent Entries

Archives
Important Docs
Categories

A Few Great Blogs
Political Cartoonists
Special Coverage Pages...

· Make The BRAD BLOG your Homepage!
· Add The BRAD BLOG to favorites/bookmarks!
· Or syndicate The BRAD BLOG...
BRAD BLOG RSS 2.0 FEED Add to Google Add to My AOL
Add to My Yahoo! Subscribe in NewsGator Online Follow The BRAD BLOG on Twitter!

Please Help Support The BRAD BLOG...
One-time
any amount you like...
$
Monthly
any amount you like...
$
Or by Snail Mail
Make check out to...
Brad Friedman
7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594
Los Angeles, CA 90028

The BRAD BLOG receives no foundational or corporate support. Your contributions make it possible to continue our work.
About Brad Friedman...
Brad is an independent investigative journalist, blogger, author and broadcaster. He is the co-founder of VelvetRevolution.us, an expert on issues of election integrity, and a Commonweal Institute Fellow.
· Full Bio & Testimonials...
· Media Appearance Archive...
· Articles & Editorials Elsewhere...
· Contact...

Additional Stuff...
Brad Blog Named...
The 2008 Weblog Awards



Wikio - Top of the Blogs - Politics

Other Brad Related Places...
The BRAD SHOW On the Air! Via RAW RADIO!


Useful Tools...

Contact the Media
Admin
Brad's Test Area
(Ignore below! It's a test!)

All Content & Design Copyright © Brad Friedman unless otherwise specified. All rights reserved.
www.BradBlog.com