Ok, so why not listen to a guy who has served as a Navy SEAL, gone through the SERE training, and served as a Governor of a decently populated state? What does Sean Hannity know more than Jesse Ventura? I wish he could have actually body-slammed Hannity. It was a TV moment I would have paid to see.
But my bigger point of posting about this video: Why does Sean Hannity get to spew his filth on national TV? Why does he get to tell the news and put his opinion on the airwaves when it is clearly wrong? When he clearly doesn't have a grasp of reality? I have this criticism of all cable news shows, including the ones I watch on a daily basis. It is unfortunate that these people are not held accountable for what they say more and that TV shows are based on ratings and not substance. It is a shame that Sean Hannity can say the stupidest things in the world (President Bush "inherited the negative impacts of 9/11") and continue to make money because those statements rev up a base that feels the same way, watch his show, and make him the number one cable news show. It is also unfortunate that he can convince the people who watch his show that what he says is golden truth.
I'm glad he got his ass handed to him by Jesse Ventura. However, it's too bad it won't do anything to change Hannity. He is going to continue to pollute the airwaves with his propaganda and utter falsehoods. Can we do something about that? Perhaps he'll drown if he ever mans up to Charles Grodin's and Keith Olbermann's challenge to be waterboarded for charity.
Oh, if we can only be so lucky!
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While I agree that people like Hannity, Limbaugh and other left wing tv personalities are full of hot air, last I checked, TV is there to make money #1, people who want substance listen to NPR..and even then it's not a completely reliable source. So in response to your question about why people like Hannity get to have a TV show, for the same reason that Simon Cowell has the highest rated tv show in America. Last thing we need is government (or whoever) to start further censoring what we can/cannot watch on television. Blame it on the viewership, the only reason that people like Hannity or Limbaugh or Oprah are so popular and have so much power, is because they find idiots who listen to them.
Tell you the truth, I didn't hear anything shocking here. Just another instance of two demagogues shouting slogans at each other. I don't think Ventura is more innocent than Hannity in this respect. Both are too partisan (at least here) to be able to have anything resembling a real discussion.
The solution, as it happens, is not to listen to politicians and partisan journalists arguing about any of the more fundamental aspects of the Democratic-Republican divide. It's been done too many times before and if someone was going to be convinced he would already have been.
Or kill him.
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