Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how incredibly demented InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.
No one is more eager to believe the cops’ crazy leaked story about Freddie Gray than Sean Hannity, because now he can blame Obama.
The Baltimore police’s outrageous leak to the Washington Post of an absurd explanation for how Freddie Gray sustained his life-ending injury was insane on its face. But not to Sean Hannity. Envisioning the already suffering Freddie Gray purposely flinging himself around in the back of the police van to break his own spine had the ring of truth to the Fox newsian. It has to be true! It was in a good newspaper, after all!
Hannity went nuts, pouncing on the report to attack, who else, Obama for his “rush to judgement” in the Gray case. Enter voice of reason Geraldo Rivera (yes, Sean Hannity has the ability to make Geraldo Rivera appear as the voice of reason. Quite a remarkable feat, actually.)
Rivera, who is primarily known for suggesting that black people’s attire is what gets them killed, did think something about the report was fishy. Namely, that it was crazy. He told Hannity that he doubted very much that the Baltimore protesters would buy it, either, saying, "They will not be convinced by the Washington Post report that this fellow died as a result of self-inflicted wounds."
This outraged Hannity. "So the facts be damned!" he bellowed.
That’s right. He said facts. Facts are those things that police say in Hannity’s world. No matter how nonsensical. Why was Rivera not on board with this?
Mainly Hannity just wanted to attack Obama, though. If the Washington Post report is true, Hannity said, which no one in their right mind thought for a moment, “That means the President of the United States has injected himself wrongly four times in four high-profile race issues. That makes him a four-time loser.”
Oh God. Shut up, Hannity, you million-time loser. We hear there's an opening on Clive Bundy's ranch for you…
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I don’t know. Clive Bundy just might consider Sean Hannity too extreme to allow on the property.
This is just one of six incredibly demented Republican moments from last week alone. Click through for the other five.
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Hannity has hubris overload methinkst.
1. I'm not sure I get it. What was refreshing? Gay sex? Burning in hell after having gay sex? Burning in hell without having gay sex as opposed to being on the Supremem Court? Any or all of those? I would say it was not a joke.
2. No matter how you try to update it or make it palatable, "You're beautiful when you're angry" is not attractive, it's not empowering, it has hints of sado-masochism (which of course can be consensual, but this imples forcing it on the object), and it is above all NOT hot. I would even call it anti-hot.
3. Even if Gray had been making noise, the most likely explanation for that was to request medical assistance. But over and above thet, there is conflicting testimony that Gray was absolutely silent (I would guess probably already dead). BTW, I wish someone would explain to n=me why all these people with Irish names (Hannity, O'Reilley, Ryan, O'Malley, I'm sure you can come up with more) are tring to make the irish people look like a tribe of sadistic idiots. If I were Irish I would be SO offended.
4. Did Payne actually say bootstraps? Has anyone ever told him that to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps one needs, first of all, boots, but also ropes, pulleys, and a place and hardware to suspend the pulleys? And that all of those things are expensive? I didn't think so.
5. This is so extreme I am having trouble even coming up with an analogy. The closest I can come is to suggest that a Wall Street exec who is in pain because of a bad hip, instead of hip replacement surgery, should be whacked in the hip woth a sledgehammer. But that does not do it justice. In the end, it comes down to "the poor can never be made to suffer enough," doesn't it?
6. I am utterly speechless.
(Small nit to pick – giving credit where credit is due, your link goes to Alternet, and not Crooks & Liars.)
How could they NOT include Texas governor Abbott (R – Looney Tunes) calling up his state's National Guard to monitor a scheduled U.S. military training exercise because he thinks Pres. Obama is going to order a hostile takeover of Texas?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/403865824/texas-governor-deploys-state-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150502
Wingnuts are beyond delusional – they're dangerous!
Texass elected this fear mongering, paranoid "thing" to be their Governor. They elected this "thing" and will need to pay attention and suffer from the consequences of their actions.
While I can't prove this, because the Alternet article is not time-stamped (it is dated May 2 but no time), I think the Texas story came out too late to make the cut for this week (that story is time stamped, May 2 at 9:52 pm). I would bet it will head next week's list.
Thanks – OOPS! – fixed.
Texas TEAbuggery!!
I had to keep checking to see that the article was not a spoof!
"This outraged Hannity. "So the facts be damned!" he bellowed." – this contains almost all they like – fury, shouting, stupidity, denial of truth….. I thought that was Fox's motto….
SSDD! It is mind boggling that these idiots actually survived their childhoods. What a bunch of useless, paranoid, right wing nut jobs.
1. Scalia loves those "jokes". They reflect his thinking exactly.
2. Ditto, what Joanne said.
3. Incredible! My neighbor stopped over yesterday and echoed this exact thought. It's all Obama's fault! I told her to stop listening to FAUX NOISE of course.
4. FUX is the leader for rewarding mediocrity.
5. I have nothing to say.
6. Tony Perkins wasn't the only one to say this. I've read about many people saying this. He dowsn't deserve to have his own place on this list.
Like Nameless wrote, I would have picked Abbott for this list.
Thanks all. Somehow I think we'll be listing Abbot in the fiture.