{"id":8346,"date":"2006-08-31T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8346.html"},"modified":"2006-08-31T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T16:30:39","slug":"hannity-must-really-want-to-keep-a-gop-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hannity-must-really-want-to-keep-a-gop-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannity must really<\/i> want to keep a GOP majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know Fox News’ Sean [tag]Hannity[\/tag] is probably a little nervous about this year’s midterm elections, but I didn’t know he was this<\/i> nervous<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the August 29 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Fox News host Sean Hannity sought to encourage Republican voters and candidates to ensure a Republican victory in the November midterm elections by proclaiming that “there are things in life worth fighting and dying for, and one of ’em is making sure” that House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA) “doesn’t become the speaker.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really? Hannity believes his listeners should be prepared to sacrifice themselves to prevent a Democratic House majority? That’s<\/i> taking the elections seriously. I’m anxious about the campaign cycle, too, and I’d really like to see a Dem majority in Congress, but I’m nowhere near the point of believing that stopping Dennis Hastert from keeping the Speaker’s gavel is a cause worth dying<\/i> for.<\/p>\n

Speaking of conservatives and death-related hyperbole, Ann Coulter hasn’t joked about assassinating anyone in several weeks. What do you know; the streak is over.
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\nIn her most recent syndicated column, Coulter commented on the Rhode Island Senate race and criticized incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), whom she described as a “moron.” Her piece was headlined, “They Shot the Wrong Lincoln.”<\/p>\n

As Media Matters noted<\/a>, Coulter has a penchant for recommending death for those with whom she disagrees.<\/p>\n

* Commenting on radio host Melanie Morgan’s assertion that if New York Times executive editor Bill Keller were convicted of treason she “would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber,” Coulter said, “I prefer a firing squad, but I’m open to a debate on the method of execution.” She later suggested that Times staff members should be “executed.”<\/p>\n

* Coulter said of the media: “Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists.”<\/p>\n

* Coulter suggested that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) is “the reason soldiers invented fragging,” — military slang meaning the intentional killing of a member of one’s own unit.<\/p>\n

* Coulter argued that the national debate during the Monica Lewinsky controversy should not have focused on whether former President Bill Clinton “did it,” but rather “whether to impeach or assassinate” him.<\/p>\n

* [tag]Coulter[\/tag] said of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: “We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens’s cr\u00e9me brul\u00e9e.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, I’m having trouble thinking of a liberal pundit who jokes about assassinating presidents, Supreme Court justices, and members of Congress, and who manages to repeatedly get invited back onto the air. Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know Fox News’ Sean [tag]Hannity[\/tag] is probably a little nervous about this year’s midterm elections, but I didn’t know he was this nervous. On the August 29 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Fox News host Sean Hannity sought to encourage Republican voters and candidates to ensure a Republican victory in the November […]<\/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-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","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=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}