Tuesday night's Hannity show on Fox News featured one of the most disrespectful guests that I have ever seen on a news program: Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Hannity invited him on to the show to ask what I can now only assume would have been some serious and legitimate questions about the mounting debt, sequestration and who really is to blame for this latest manufactured crisis in Washington.
What ended up happening was Ellison used his on-air time, which was graciously given to him by Hannity (Hannity could have picked any one of the hundreds of representatives in Congress to interview and yet he selected this guy), to completely trash and make false claims against Hannity, Conservatives and the Republican Party through an obviously rehearsed rant. Let's take a look at how much of a fool Ellison made of himself on Tuesday:
1. Claimed Hannity is an unethical, immoral journalist who is just a big talking head for the GOP.
Oh how I find myself laughing! Has Mr. Ellison seen MSNBC or CNN anytime within the last 4 years or is he really just that ignorant and stupid? Did he notice that over the last 18 or so months MSNBC has been caught in 5 massively unethical edits that targeted Republicans and Conservatives and finally culminated with the removal of News President Steve Capus?
The sad thing is that he probably did notice all of those incidents. Except in his mind it's totally okay to slander a Republican but God forbid you dare to tell the truth about Obama! Do that and in Ellison's mind you're a liar, you're unethical and you're probably a racist, too.
2. Outright lied and said the GOP is to blame for the sequester and not Obama when it was OBAMA'S idea all along after a bipartisan budget deal collapsed in August 2011.
Every time Hannity tried to get a serious word in about the sequester, Ellison just went into rant mode about how it was "all the Republicans' fault!" Really Ellison, you're still going to stick with that?
There was a bipartisan plan in place for spending in August 2011. Ellison should know that because, as he insisted over and over again on Tuesday night, he "was there". It was Obama who blew that plan up at the last minute by asking for 50 percent more in tax revenue then was agreed upon. Obama's solution which he proposed himself and then signed into law? The sequester. There should be no passing the buck! This has been all Obama from the start.
3. Refused to discuss Obama's $6 trillion addition to our national debt.
When Hannity FINALLY got Ellison to calm down enough that he could ask a question about the $6 trillion Obama has added to the national debt, Ellison didn't want to hear any of it! He just raised his voice again, stuttered some and then went to "Let's talk about the $10 trillion before that!". No, let's talk about Obama, Mr. Ellison. Let's talk about the president who in just 4 years has run up 60 percent of the debt of the first 43 presidents COMBINED.
Ellison was all too happy to talk about how Bush ran up $4 trillion in debt in 8 years, but when it came to discussing Obama's first four years, that was a huge no-no Tuesday night.
I didn't watch the interview live but I saw it in full later Tuesday night. I still can't get over the irony of the whole six and half minutes. For a Democrat to go on a national cable show before roughly 2.5 or 3 million viewers, lie his rear end off and then call Hannity a liar was absurd and comical. Add to this ABC's unethical edit of Michelle Obama just that morning to stop her from looking like an idiot during her segment on Good Morning America and it only gets better.
I have to give Hannity credit for how long he let that segment drag out and for how composed he was able to keep himself. He invited Ellison on to the show for a serious interview with legitimate questions about our government and Ellison ruined it and made a huge ass of himself in the process. I wouldn't have had the tolerance Sean had for that raving lunatic.
Jimmy Williams
(Note: Although the link I provided is from World Net Daily, I did see this story in several other places first. The WND link just happened to be the link I had easiest access to at the time I wrote this post)
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