Sean Hannity --- too stupid to start a culture war

[marmar]

:dunce:



from Thinkprogress:



Uninformed Hannity Tries To Provoke Culture War Over NYC Subway Atheist Ads

During his Fox News show on Tuesday night, right-wing pundit Sean Hannity attacked a new ad campaign soon to be appearing in New York City subway stations that raises awareness about atheism. The ad, sponsored by The Big Apple Coalition of Reason, reads: “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?”

“These ads inform New Yorkers that a million or more of their neighbors are good without God,” said Michael De Dora Jr., the executive director for the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry. “That is, a million of us have found or created natural morality, and lead good, productive, and meaningful lives without appeal to religious dogma or God.”

Sensing an opportunity to exploit the ads for political benefit, Hannity told his audience that a Christian group could never get away with airing ads like that:

Can you imagine the outrage if a Christian group put pro-God ads in the New York City subways? What outrage.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/24/hannity-god-ad/


But as Subway Sights — a blog about the NYC subway system — explains, “The problem with this thinking is that Christians have been putting up pro-Christianity ads in the subway for years and nobody cares.” The blogger continues, “There are ads for all kinds of competing churches, each offering their own flavor of Christianity and their own path to salvation,” and offers this photograph as evidence: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/24/hannity-god-ad/


Subway Sights concludes, “Of course, Sean Hannity doesn’t factor this into his argument because he doesn’t ride the subway and has no idea what he’s talking about.”

Indeed, Hannity doesn’t seem to ride the subway. He has said, “I travel on private planes, I have an SUV that I’m proud of.” But his lack of knowledge never stops him from opining on things he knows little about.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/24/hannity-god-ad/

[Buzz Clik]

1. Hannity truly is deeply stupid.

On the other hand, advertising atheism is remarkably stupid, too.

"I've lived my entire life without a cat. So can you."

I don't understand the need for people who don't believe in something to recruit others into their non-belief. Evangelical atheism? How strange.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Mmmmm. I don't agree.

I'd like a little breathing room.

If the ad campaign helps create that, I'm for it.

Edit: I do agree he's dumb.

[oedura]

9. I don't see it as a recruiting attempt so much as...

...an appeal to reason and an attempt to boost the morale of any atheists out there who sometimes they feel like they're alone in a sea of zealots.

Even if they are trying to recruit people, so what? The American Taliban can put up posters, but when atheists do it, we're being assholes?

[felinetta]

10. He is perfect for Faux News.

[unhappycamper]

2. Hannity's dumber than dog shit. n/t

[salinen]

7. that depends

on whose dog's shit you're giving an I.Q. test.

[MadHound]

3. So stupid that he's laughing all the way to the bank

Sure, he doesn't travel the subway system, he doesn't know about the ads put up by Christian churches, but he's certainly smart enough to know that making a big, if uninformed, deal about these atheist ads will stir up the right and keep the money flowing into his own coffers.

True facts don't play a prominent role in the world of Hannity or others of his ilk. What counts is how much he can whip up the rubes to a frothing rage, which keeps them coming back to his show and keeps his revenues climbing.

Sounds pretty smart to me.

[olegramps]

6. They are just snake oil salesmen.

They know that there is a sucker born every moment and they have no moral restraints in fleecing them. These charlatans have been peddling their crapola from the the pulpits and the back of medicine wagons for centuries and will continue to do so long after I am gone. They more than willing to take advantage of the people's ignorance. In my youth I saw them at tent revival meeting curing people of every imaginable ailment. I am thankful that my parents educated and told be it was just a hoax unlike some that I knew that swallowed this swill.

[lpbk2713]

4. It comes as a shock seeing 'Hannity' and 'culture' in the same sentence.

Reading the body of the post cleared it up.

That assclown never fails to amuse. :rofl:

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. Time for another look at what John Cleese said so eloquently about Hannity

Ode to Sean Hannity by John Cleese

Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You're a profanity
Hannity

(This was in the comments section of the article linked in the OP, but I remember seeing Cleese recite it on Countdown a few months ago.)