{"id":11150,"date":"2007-06-16T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11150.html"},"modified":"2007-06-16T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T17:10:28","slug":"hannity-russert-on-dems-going-further-left-than-anybody-would-have-anticipated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hannity-russert-on-dems-going-further-left-than-anybody-would-have-anticipated\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannity, Russert on Dems going ‘further left than anybody would have anticipated’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I honestly wonder sometimes which country these guys<\/a> are living in.<\/p>\n

Hannity: I think the Democrats have gone further left than anybody would have anticipated. I think these bloggers have really gotten to them. I think they’re really positioning themselves that they’re gonna have a very difficult time moving center. Do you see that?<\/p>\n

Russert: Absolutely, because what has happened, the Democrats will acknowledge, for example, on the war. The major candidates were very reluctant to consider voting, cutting off funding a year ago. Now they will say that circumstances on the ground have changed so much, they want to make that vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And people wonder why I gave up on television news.<\/p>\n

Dems have “gone further left than anybody would have anticipated”? Really? On what? Name one issue on which the Democratic policy position is not the mainstream position embraced by a majority of Americans.<\/p>\n

Russert thinks Dems are “absolutely” going to find it hard to move to the center? First, Dems are already in the center<\/a>. Second, Russert’s proof is that a handful of leading Dems voted against Bush’s war-funding policy — a position that was embraced by the vast majority of the country.<\/p>\n

I realize Russert was probably just on FNC to promote his book, between the shot<\/a> at Democratic presidential candidates and this more general shot at the party, does he really have to match his rhetoric with the network’s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I honestly wonder sometimes which country these guys are living in. Hannity: I think the Democrats have gone further left than anybody would have anticipated. I think these bloggers have really gotten to them. I think they’re really positioning themselves that they’re gonna have a very difficult time moving center. Do you see that? Russert: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}