Hannity's New TV Show Bestows A Weekly "Enemy Of The State" Award

[CatWoman]

Great Moments In Fox News Dept.

Forget Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person In The World" contest — it's now been completely upstaged by a new Sunday contest on Fox: Sean Hannity's "Enemy of the State" award. Last night, Hannity's new Sunday night program aired for the first time, and from here on he'll award his "Enemy of the State" prize — a term originating with ancient Roman dictators placing bounties on rivals — on whatever red-state abortionist, anti-war activist, or run-of-the-mill Democrat who has attracted Hannity's ire that week. Imagine Hannity in that famous Twilight Zone episode, as the ranting Chancellor putting to death the old librarian portrayed by Burgess Meredith, and you'll get the idea. So who won the first "Enemy of the State" prize last night? To watch the segment and find out, view our YouTube here:

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jan/08/hannitys_new_tv_show_bestows_a_weekly_enemy_of_the_state_award

[xultar]

1. Wooo... He's a really unique kinda guy with unique ideas. Faux should be SHUT THE FUCK DOWN!

[Rosemary2205]

35. Oh I disagree

keep Fox on the air. PLEASE!! Keep Fox on the air. People are finally getting the message that if Fox spews it then the best course of action is the exact opposite.

[Beaverhausen]

45. They are so desperate though, it's getting kind of pathetic

To steal this 'bit' from Olberman is classic. :rofl:

[Rosemary2205]

54. Well

since even most of the R's have decided to tune Hannity out, then he has no choice but to figure out a way to get all the D's to watch just to find out who the enemy of the state is. Well, that's how he planned it anyways. LOL. :)

[pacalo]

73. I agree. Faux News will end up hurting the Rethugs beyond repair.

[gkhouston]

2. well, there's ONE way Fox could win some awards...

on edit: interesting to see that Hannity is implicitly representing the opinion of "the State". Olbermann's just giving his personal view on the WPITW segments. Whoa, Fox, openly speaking as the mouthpiece of the Homeland now, are we?

[villager]

3. "The State!?" But don't rightwingers want to get gov't "off our backs?"

oh, never mind...

[Bake]

9. Not as long as THEY run things.

When they're out of power, they HATE government. When they're IN power, they LOVE IT.

Bake

[SpiralHawk]

25. No. That's just propaganda the right wing catapults

They live in fear, and they want BIG GOVERNMENT to protect them.

Witness BushCo, which is Big Government, Big Spending, "Nation Building" -- all the things they "claim" they are against.

Republicons love THE STATE.

They have learned to LOVE BIG BROTHER.

But they like to pretend they are against Big Government, to cover up their sickness of soul.

Republicons are minions of Big Brother, make no mistake about it.

[villager]

38. oh, I know. I needed the "only being rhetorical" icon...

n/t

[Supersedeas]

43. Meet the self-appointed SPEAKER for the STATE

[thereismore]

4. Enemy of the state, GOOD GOD is he playing McCarthy or Stalin? nt

[Fenris]

5. Now see, that's classy.

Why just declare someone the "Worst Person in the World?" See, that just says they're a bad person. Calling them an "Enemy of the State" has more zing to it! You're not just personally immoral or unethical, you also hate America and are trying to destroy it!

Zing!

[Robeysays]

49. Ziiiiiiiiing!

that's funny you use that term, my friends say that word when a joke bombs, and this guy really is a walking talking joke... that is only funny because he is the joke.


usually with a snap of the fingers in the persons direction...


ZING!

[madinmaryland]

6. Does the mystery person seem to have the same head shape as Hannity?

:shrug:

hmmmmmmm

[ddbaj]

Wow, that really makes him sound like a fascist.

Enemy of the State? State above all?

[tabasco]

7. Can't get much more fascist than that.

A new low for a despicable coward.

[rurallib]

8. Man - I'd love to win me one of them

Imagine being honored by Hannity as his enemy of the STATE!
Skinner must be on the list as must Markos Moulitsis. Of course Mike Malloy has to be way up there. Wouldn't I love to be in that pantheon?
My Best to all future enemies of the STATE!

[Robeysays]

50. i want to win one too

it would be an honnor

[BlueStorm]

80. So would I!!!

Though I am not prominent enough... guess I will have to work harder.

Will DemocraticUnderground.com end up being one of Hacktity's "Enemy of the State?"

Man that would be something... being on a website that is the enemy of the STATE!!

Hacktity is a fascist, carbon copy, plastic man. He sure as hell is not a journalist.


Blue

[Puregonzo1188]

10. And I'm sure Sean Penn is hurt by that.

A better question would be who does Sean Hannity speak for since after all he is the one declaring people "enemies of the state."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Hmm.

Will it play every day and last roughly five minutes long?

[Robbien]

16. Ha. And will it have runners up?

Say maybe two?

[rodeodance]

12. it is a dangerous ugly lable--------i see Michael moore pic is in

the background

[Jack Rabbit]

13. "Enemy of the state" has a genuine fascist ring to it

And congratulations to the first recipient. To be called an enemy of the state by a yuppie fascitst like Hannity is truly a badge of honor.

[CatWoman]

15. wasn't that the title of a Will Smith movie?

:shrug:

[Jack Rabbit]

24. If it is, I missed it

Being the kind of guy I am, I did some reaserch:

Plot Outline: Robert Dayton Dean (Smith) is a successful Washington, D.C., attorney who -- without his knowledge -- is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency (played by Jon Voight) to a political murder! A lethal team of skilled NSA operatives wages a relentless, ultra-high-tech campaign to discredit Dean and retrieve the incriminating evidence!

[Robeysays]

51. good movie

you should rent it.

[jgraz]

62. Rent The Conversation first

Much better movie to which EotS is somewhat of a sequel.

[npincus]

14. He was a jerk to Cindy last night

I had the misfortune of tuning in... only hung around to watch that interview. He was rattling off WH Talking Points rat-a-tat-tat, Cindy handled herself with dignity.

[Rosemary2205]

21. Surely you expected that.

I'm sure Cindy expected it.

[Graybeard]

17. Trying to copy Olbermann...

...but missing by a wide margin. KO's "Worst Person"
is a fairly good natured bit and can be informative.
"Enemy" looks to be mean spirited and pointless. 

[C_U_L8R]

28. Humor is lost on Hannity

Enemy of the state... it's almost funny
but what's even more amusing is
that Hannity thinks he's such hot shit.

[Rosemary2205]

32. " 'Enemy' looks to be mean spirited and pointless."

Well that makes sense considering HANNITY is mean spirited and pointless.....

[CatWoman]

75. lol

I was just about to say that :)

Well that makes sense considering HANNITY is mean spirited and pointless.....

[Chorophyll]

18. Good grief.

Letting Sean Hannity declare someone "enemy of the state" is ultra-classy and not freaking idiotic (or potentially dangerous) at all.

Will someone please "deliver us from evil" already?????????

[rebel with a cause]

19. The State!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But "the state" is used when the country is communist or facist, and communism and facism is bad. Didn't they teach us all that for all those years. How are all those people out there old enough to remember the cold war going to contend with this? :shrug:

Oh, I forgot. Nationalism use to be wrong too, now it is good and so we can now have "the state". :sarcasm:

(edited to add facism. Senior moment: thought the state was a communist term. Oh my.)

[genie_weenie]

20. The State is the Alpha & Omega, all hail the State

As long as a Republicans control it though, right Sean?

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. I watched for two minutes and turned it off.

He should simply hold up a mirror and end the mystery.

[villager]

23. "War is the Health of the State" -- Randolph Bourne

link right here:

http://www.panarchy.org/bourne/state.1918.html

[MnFats]

26. how long before somebody takes Hannity at his word and begins a crusade..

...to rid the state of the danger?
...you know what I mean.

how embarassing for them.
Jesus! "the enemy of the state."

War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength


and don't you forget it!!

[tridim]

27. So, is this their RW "Daily Show" knockoff I've been hearing about?

Did they choose freaking Hannity as the host? Bwhahaha! :rofl:

[ovidsen]

29. How Orwellian of him!

Seriously, doesn't he realize he's sounding like a shill for the type of totalitarian regime he says he abhors?? "Enemy of America" I could live with, but "Enemy of the State"????

What a macaroon.

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

30. Yeah, that Sean Penn

He's such a rotten bastard. I suppose in Bushworld he is an "enemy of the state". Sean Penn did go down to New Orleans and aid in the rescue effort by riding around in a boat plucking desperate people from the filthy water. How dare he do such a thing when the Republican version of ethinic cleansing was going so "swimmingly"...

[rebel with a cause]

31. OMG

It is actor Sean Penn. It seems Sean called Hannity a "whore" a few weeks ago, and called the bush administration "bastards" and that earned him the title. Hannity then referred to Sean as being a "bad actor". Sorry, I don't like every movie the man makes, but some of his acting is five times better than anything I ever saw Reagan do. So take that Hannity.

(edited because someone had already said who the winner was.)

[Zodiak]

76. Say what you want, Jeff Spicoli is an icon

for people from my era. That role was genius, I tell ya.

And what are we comparing him to...Arnold? Reagan? Patricia Heaton? Puhleeeassse.

[rebel with a cause]

85. "Dead Man Walking"

is among the roles I think he did excellent acting job in.

[left is right]

33. I hope all EOS recipients call press conferences

and then proceed to treat it as if it were a combination of Oscar and a super bowl win, thank Hannity for the honor, open a good bottle of champagne, declare that they are next going to Walt Disney World. Would it be too over the top to have a gold statuette made for the occasion?

[rebel with a cause]

36. In who's image?

Reagan or bush's? Or maybe it should be ann colters if it is going to be a female statue.

[left is right]

46. i hadn't thought that far but I so have a name for it

Eloise. Since Sean Penn will have to pay for his own statuette, if he is going to get one, he could design it, himself. She should definitely have wings.

[rebel with a cause]

61. With horns holding up her halo.

I'm sorry, I can never resist that one.

[Bobbie Jo]

34. Tis a Badge of Honor.....

Perhaps we could help him out with nominee suggestions...? :patriot:

[rebel with a cause]

37. all DUers?

:applause:

[shaniqua6392]

39. Can we send him some suggestions on who to nominate??

Here are a couple of ideas Hannibal.....Bush and Cheney. It is just a start but I am sure we could come up with several more.

[KG]

40. hannity is such a sissy.

geez, i'd love to punch him in the stomach and make him cry.

[CatWoman]

41. and I'd love to hold him down for you

while you're punching him

:hi:

[northofdenali]

63. I'll help, if Skittles can also kick his ass!

:hi:

[CatWoman]

67. I'd give anything to whump on his stupid ass

:hi:

[Robeysays]

55. that has to be the funniest thing i've read on here for a while...

and i don't know why. hahahahahaha, i just imagine to school kids holding down a hung hannity and tormenting him with... "your such a pussy" and "hannetta the girl" or what ever school kids say in such an event hahahahahahahahahaha, just wailling on him hahahahaha...

[Marie26]

42. .

:rofl: These guys are just beyond parody anymore.

[Marr]

44. I'm constantly amazed that conservatives can use the "liberal elite" line, without

being laughed out of the country.

Here we have a man so thoroughly attached to the nation's elite, that he can actually go on television and call his political opponents "enemies of the state". Implicit in this charge is the notion that his ideals and those of the state are *one and the same*.

So who's the "arrogant elite" here?

[DaveJ]

47. Isn't that like yelling fire in a crowded theater?

I'm all for free speech, of course, but when someone is proclaimed an Enemy of the State on TV isn't that more severe, inflammatory than someone who is just stating their opinion?? Less intelligent viewers might actually take this seriously.

[tanyev]

48. What a good, loyal Party member.

www.oldamericancentury.org

[Chipper Chat]

52. Sean Hamstringed is a cartoon clown from the post-Reagan era.

And more and more Americans are rejecting his hate-spewed rhetoric every day.
Does Morton Downey come to mind?

[Old and In the Way]

53. He needs a snappy brown uniform

and a better title for his Fox job; maybe, Minister of Truth. George Orwell would be impressed.

[Missy M]

56. What a silly little twit Hannity is....

he should be getting the award himself. He asked who Penn represents beside other bad actors. Sean Penn is one of the finest actors around today, but Hannity probably prefers Pat Boone.

[AspenRose]

57. He can start by looking in the mirror

....un-American, fascist punk.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

58. Leftist leaders and muslim world leaders lumped in-but

sean doesn't have the balls to put pictures of bush's thug friends in the saudi and chinese governments in that little photo collage

[hatrack]

59. Sheesh, he can't even come up with an original Two Minutes' Hate?

Pathetic, Sean, pathetic.

[jgraz]

60. God, I hope Penn takes him up on his invitation

Hannity is about the stupidest person on television. Even Spicoli could destroy him intellectually.

[Spirochete]

88. So could

Sam, in I Am Sam, or any other Sean Penn role. :)

[Webster Green]

64. Dumbass brownshirts get to make these decisions?

I would have thought they would have some kind of phony tribunal or something.

[Goat or Panic]

65. Why not just call it

"The Two Minute Hate" and get it over with.

[ProgressiveFool]

66. funny thing is

I could swear the profile with the question mark in it is Jeb Bush...

[helderheid]

68. what do you bet he makes "Worst person in the world" for this.

[Ilsa]

82. Yep! You called it! Actually, just the #3 spot, "Worse". nt

[Berry Cool]

69. Hannity's nuts.

What a cheap gimmick to imitate KO.

"Worst Person in the World" is just a personal moral judgment on KO's part. It doesn't imply the same thing "Enemy of the State" does.

If I tell you I think you're "the worst person in the world," that's obviously my personal judgment and I'm not speaking for anyone else or implying that any action be taken on you. However, if I call you an "enemy of the state," that's quite different. First, I'm claiming that you are a danger to everyone else in the country. Second, I'm branding you a traitor. And countries have very specific ways of dealing with traitors.

The last thing I heard, one could not be arrested, tried, convicted or sentenced to prison or death for being "the worst person in the world."

The two things are nothing the same.

[stevedeshazer]

70. I can barely stop laughing long enough to give Rec #5

That is fucking PRICELESS!

[jumpoffdaplanet]

71. So he's just begging to be sued

His ratings must be real shit to want to do this.

[David Zephyr]

72. Behold Sean Hannity! He is the enemy of the state and the planet.

What a sick fuck Sean Hannity is.

[momster]

74. He wants a book contract, I bet.

WPIW did so well that Hannity is looking to copy-cat it. He'll probably just run this until he's got enough material for a book.

Guy's an utter git.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

77. He actually picks someone who PERSONALLY went into NO and saved people??!!

He might be an " Enemy of the State" in that he made the state as in "government" as in "Bush" look so pathetic. Sean Penn was able to go in and save people when The National Guard couldn't, our military couldn't, the Red Cross couldn't, but somehow, Sean Penn, an individual, one American citizen, albeit an ACTOR, was able to go in on his own initiative and rescue fellow human beings.

Sean Hannity should hope he lives long enough to be worthy enough to tie Sean Penn's shoelaces.

[Imagevision]

78. Keith Olberman must have been eating into Faux & O'Rielies numbers!!

"Enemy Of The State" -- "Worst Person Of The Day" Hannity is getting his ass handed to him by Keith Olberman!!

[Gelliebeans]

79. Almost more freaking hilarious

than "Hannidate" bwawawawawa :rofl:

They are so desparate to round up the sheep now that they are starting to wake up.

Hannity is such waste of space.

[The Gunslinger]

81. WTF

We are ever getting closer to theese fascists simply publically calling for violence against those who dont follow the fascist agenda.

[Ilsa]

83. Let's all nominate ourselves to win it as a badge of honor. nt

[Rex]

84. How pathetic, an 'Enemy of the State' list and no OBL.

LOL. Sean really has the smallest penis on the planet.

[Chulanowa]

86. Take a close look...

The lineup is Castro, Kim Jong Il, Ahmedinejad, Carlos Mencia (I kid, I kid! Chavez), then Penn, Moore, Streissand, and someone who appears to be Alec Baldwin. Or Phil Colins. I'm bad with faces, but if it's an enemy of the state, my money's on Phil.

But note also... they're all wearing clone suits. Same jacket, same shirt, same tie. Even at the same angles! Either Hannity has discovered clip art, or he's found a new way to distinguish enemies of the state - be on the lookout for anyone in a black jacket, wite shirt, and a tie with an (ironicly) rightward bias!

Edit: Need to spellcheck more often :)

[Initech]

87. George H.W. Bush should win this one every single time.