Ted Rall on Hannity (transcript)

[underpants]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122264,00.html

HANNITY: Act as altruistic as you like. You are mean. You are cruel. You are thoughtless, and you are a hateful human being. You don't have a soul. And you don't care about anybody but yourself.

And you do this for shock value so that your name could be noticed. You're a slob. You're an absolutely -- you're a hateful human being to do this to families that are suffering.

There's no excuse for it. There's no rationale for what you're doing. You're mean, cruel and thoughtless.

RALL: Well, there you go again, Sean.

HANNITY: Telling the truth about you.

You are a mean person to do this to the Reagan's. You were mean to do it to the Tillmans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. And you ought to take this opportunity to look into that camera and say you're sorry.

RALL: I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Sean, for promoting policies and for -- for indulging in this insane hyped ideology of Ronald Reagan that you've had going throughout this entire show.

HANNITY: He ended the Cold -- he ended the Cold War...

RALL: No, he didn't.

HANNITY: He confronted the Soviet Union. The world is safer because of his leadership.

RALL: That's not true. That is a lie.

HANNITY: He doubled revenue for the federal government.

RALL: That's a lie.

HANNITY: He had the longest peacetime economically in history.

RALL: Absolutely not true.

HANNITY: And he created 20 million new jobs in this country.

RALL: None of this is true.

HANNITY: All of which is true.

RALL: All lies. It's not true.

HANNITY: You are thoughtless, mean, hateful liberal.

RALL: He had a three-year economic boom.

HANNITY: And all liberals ought to condemn people like you.

RALL: Well, you know, I would say that we can turn this around and say the same thing about you guys.

HANNITY: I don't know any conservative that would say that.

COLMES: All right, we've got to go.

[yardwork]

1. When facts are not on your side,

resort to calling your opponent names.

[eleny]

2. Yop, Hannity is such a knucklehead

He drives me to distraction and name calling - so I never watch, anymore.

[RebelOne]

8. Ronald Reagan is Insannity's idol.

He said that Reagan inspired him to get into politics. You should have heard him yesterday on his radio show eulogizing Reagan. Yuck!!!

[rumguy]

3. "You have no soul"?

I don't think Jeezus would approve of that quip, Sean.

Further, no one but his fans fuckin' read his weblog - YOU are the one throwing this into our collective face....

[Vladimir]

4. Sounds like a debate one might have

in a kindergarten. Yes it is! No it ain't! I told you so! No you didn't!

LOL

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. I know you are. But what am I?............n/t

[Kid_A]

5. Don't you just love Alan Colmes?

Instead of defending Rall, he pipes in with "All right, we've got to go." Jesus Christ! Your co-host/leash-holder is lying shamelessly and you help him by making Rall stop talking?!? Can we please get a real liberal whose balls have dropped and replace that fuckhead Colmes?

[underpants]

9. This doesn't even compare to watching it

I happened to catch the majority of it and when Colmes was asking the questions there was an eerie silence then BAM! Hannity was screaming and finger pointing and I actually thought he might take a swing at Rall. Rall doesn't look anything like I thought he did, he did well considering the situation, IMHO. He explained the Tillman comments.......but I still wouldn't have said that to start with.

[Killarney]

10. Faux won't allow a real liberal

They allow Colmes because he's a pussy who won't stand up to Hannity with the truth.

[Zynx]

17. They also like him because of his size

He's a skinny little dweeb. Takes up much less camera space than Fat Ass Hannity. This has a psychological effect on viewers.

Fox is propaganda.

[LittleApple81]

6. Ted explained why he didn't bother waisting his breath to contradict

Hannity's lies with facts. He discovered that in these shows that doesn't work. So he decided just to say "lie", "that's a lie" and save his breath.

[frylock]

7. looks like they edited out hannity calling him a big poopy-head..

oftentimes the truth can be mean, cruel and thoughtless.

[tsstranger]

11. Hannity shows,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

,,,,,,,,,,,the real face of hateful Christianity. Hannity is a punk.

I told him so in Reno, before his goons could get me away from him.

[Auntie Bush]

12. Letter to Sean Hannity

Dear Sean,

You are mean. You are cruel. You are thoughtless, and you are a hateful human being. You don't have a soul. And you don't care about anybody but yourself.

And you do this for shock value so that your name could be noticed. You're a slob. You're an absolutely -- you're a hateful human being to do this to families that are suffering.

There's no excuse for it. There's no rationale for what you're doing. You're mean, cruel and thoughtless.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself. And you ought to take this opportunity to look into that camera and say you're sorry.

Have a good (after)life! (It' ain't gonna be fun!)

P.S. Don't forget yer air-conitioner!

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[TexasSissy]

15. Notice how Democratic Colmes is?

I hate it when people try to say that Colmes is a Democrat. He's Hannity's hand picked Uncle Tom, of sorts (or is that a politically incorrect term these days?).

Don't know who Ted Rall is, but I'm going to look for him on TV from now on. He's a pretty gutsy guy. I'm glad SOMEONE is trying to set the record straight.

[Paragon]

16. "Well, there you go again, Sean."

Brilliant. :7

Say whatever you want about him - Ted thinks quick on his feet.

[gasperc]

18. pro gun, anti abortion Ted Rall a liberal?

I want to go back my original universe, this alternate one is really fucked up

[gasperc]

19. and not true is not an answer

he could have been better prepared, and may have know many of those answers