After endlessly criticizing Democrats for “politicizing this war” and more specifically the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Sean Hannity — as I railed on Tuesday — has been pointing folks to his website where he’s proudly featured links to the Nick Berg beheading.
As if that’s not both hypocritical and horrendous enough, he’s been playing the audio from the beheading on his radio show – over the public airwaves! (FCC are you listening?) – for the last two days.
Does this guy have any self-respect left? Or entirely too much of it?
“Let Freedom Ring” indeed…
Republican weasel MO:
Use person for propaganda when it suits your purpose…
Destroy them and their family when they don’t.
Case in point…
"[A] petition was posted on the Free Republic website. The introductory and subsequent comments on that list suggest that the purpose of the posting was to encourage people to harrass the individuals on the list and to circulate their names to agencies and individuals that might take action against them.
Nick Berg’s father, Michael Berg was on that list and he named Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc. as an affiliation. According to his family on March 24, 2004 — approximately two weeks after publication of the enemies list on the Free Republic website — Nick Berg was detained by Iraqi police who handed him over to US forces, he was then held until April 6 when he was released, the day after his family had filed a lawsuit in Philadelphia federal court. Nick Berg was not heard from again after April 9."
– American Politics Journal
oops…rest of quote from APJ
"Now, Michael Berg is already in hot water with the Freepers — and his comments to the Associated Press, wherein he blames Bush and the right wing for his son’s death, aren’t going to make them any happier.
Just you wait.
The denizens of Free Republic ferociously turned on Jessica Lynch on a dime when she dared puncture the racist garbage they had spouted about how her Iraqi doctors cared for her.
I suspect that they’ll revive their enemies list and make sure that Michael Berg’s name is still on it.
Which is one hell of a way to honor the memory of Michael Berg’s son."
Yeah. I saw that item. (Though not on Free Republic directly from where I was permanently banned after posting one time…so much for the "Free" part.)
Something doesn’t pass the smell test on the whole Berg sitch though. There was a report today that Zacarais Moussaui (sic) just happened to have used Berg’s Email address at one point when they were both in Oklahoma. The source (I believe it was the FOX NEWS crawl) claimed that it was "unbeknownst" to Berg.
Seems a mighty improbably coincidence that "the 20th hijacker" just happened to have hacked Nick Berg’s Email account several years ago, no?
Something definitely doesn’t smell right here.
Oh yeah…
One thing Jack Boot Hannity forgets to mention is that almost all of the prisoners in our custody WERE INNOCENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But hey, they’re all sand niggers just the same, right?
I have no idea who Brad Friedman is. I gather he is just another in a long line of comedians who just aren’t funny so they decide to get into left wing politics to save their careers. As for the comments on hannity listen good. Hannity aired the audio of the Nick Berg slaying to make sure people understood just what kind of scumbags are out there looking to kill both you and I because we are americans. If nobody shows that video or plays the audio of it, it’s too easy for many americans to just go on with their lives and forget the threats that are out there. Then again, look who I am writing to. I am sure in your mind the Iraq prison pictures are much more important. You don’t mind them being shown….
I’m sorry you feel the way to win the war on terror is to fight for posession in the gutter. But the ONLY reason to invade Iraq that was even remotely plausible…"we are good and they are evil" loses traction when our SOP is to detain people off the street in sweeps, tie bags around their heads for 72 hours, stomp on their hands and feet, let guard dogs tear into them, handcuff them and beat them with night sticks force them to engage in oral sex, deprive them of sleep, FIND NO EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING and then say "oops, my bad".
But, hey Jesus taught us to hate they neighbor and stoop to the level of those that hate us, right? This IS what this about, right John? Your Jesus is better than those Mongrel Sand nigger’s Allah? Right? I see the love of Jesus pumping through your veins as you wish in your heart of hearts that Bush would just Nuke the whole area.
"Amrica Akbar", right John?
PS…what do you do? And why should anyone care about your opinion? Where’s your blog?
Sean Hannity, FOX News and the current administration are all weapons of mass deception. The lies that have been told to the American people and to the rest of the world concerning the attacks on September 11th, 2001 that has some how lead us to invade a sovereign country that had absolutely nothing to do with those attacks, are Treasonous at best.
The war in Iraq is just another way to keep American’s minds off of what really happened on September 11th, 2001. There is evidence of explosives other than jet fuel being used at both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and yet we are told that the investigation into 911 is complete, (911 Commission Report) and nobody is at fault.
In the year prior to the attacks, NORAD scrambled jets to intercept aircraft 67 times…In all 67 instances, not one aircraft got away, and yet we are to believe that on September 11th, 2001, not one, not two or even three, but four commercial airliners managed to evade detection until they had reached their ultimate targets?
It amazes me that we impeached a sitting president for lying about oral sex, spending over 41 million dollars of tax payers money to find out every lurid detail, right down to the infamous cigar, but we allow legitimate questions surrounding the attacks on September 11th, 2001 to go unanswered.
We are one-the flowers of one garden. Communication is so important at this time.