John A. Farrell

Hannity’s Audience of ‘Tim McVeigh Wannabes’

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By John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

During a recent show broadcast from the Reagan presidential library, Fox newsman Sean Hannity mischievously identified his audience as "Tim McVeigh wannabes."

At which point, his audience applauded.

McVeigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma City. More than a dozen of his victims were tots, in a daycare center.

This photograph broke our hearts.

Hannity made this remark to ridicule concerns that some right-wing nut-job, egged on by the conservative entertainment industry, will engage in an act of domestic terrorism.

I sure hope he is right.

Tags:
national security terrorism and the military,
Sean Hannity,
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We don't need domestic terrorists, whatever their party. We have plenty enough problems without rightwing shock jocks like Hannity trying to make money off spreading hate. What we have is a jerk on hateradio and hatecable practicing the worst kind of Yellow Journalism, stirring up passions with distortions and inaccuracies to arouse violence. Unlike Yellow journalists of the past who wanted to start foreign wars, we have people like Hannnity trying to start a war from within by rallying around lies and distortions. This is one sleazy creep and who must desperately hate his country, to sell out the Constitution to get rich off spreading ignorance and distrust.

Hannity is doing the devil's work to evoke McVeigh to rally hate against the US.

Enough is enough.

Tom of IA 12:40AM April 07, 2010

Republicans supported civil right. Democrats more into KKK. How many times must you be incorrect. Two of your recent mistakes.

If you got something you want said here you say it. I have no interest. I will speak up if you say it wrong, which is likely.

Daring me to “research the new republican party and post it here mr. bill”. Why would I ? Not my thing.

Go back to talking about people’s families !

Bill Hedges of MO 10:55PM April 05, 2010

Man, dat one crazy name fer a white guy. So, you get yer leg all tingly when you see yer Messiah be talkin at the peeps? What you do with that tingly leg? Mebbe you be rubbin on it and what not.

Brer Fox of AL 4:47PM April 05, 2010

John A. Farrell

John A. Farrell

John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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