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To: tejek who wrote (231392)5/3/2005 11:51:14 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571708
 
I always knew Sean Hannity was very 'real'. Like a true ideology flack, spin is all he knows.

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Fox News host: Repeat after me

If the conservative guests on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" sound especially on-message, that's because they're being coached by the best:

Sean Hannity himself.

On the March 31 installment of the shouting-head show, the guests included two of the late Terri Schiavo's former nurses, Trudy Capone and Carla Sauer Iyer, arguing that their patient wasn't brain-dead.

Between commercials, according to an off-air audiotape obtained by investigative comedian Harry Shearer for last Sunday's episode of his weekly radio program, "Le Show," Hannity coached the women on exactly how to respond when liberal co-host Alan Colmes cross-examined them.

"Just say, 'I'm here to tell what I saw,'" Hannity can be heard instructing his guests. "No matter what the question, 'I'm here to tell you what I saw. I'm here to tell you what I saw.'"

Hannity adds helpfully: "Say, 'I'm not going to be distracted by silliness.' How's that? Does that help you? Look into that camera. Look at me when I'm talking."

On the air, Iyer performs beautifully. "I don't have any opinions or judgments. I was there," she declares

After the segment ends, Hannity gushes off the air to the nurses: "We got the points out. It's hard, this isn't easy. But you did great, both of you. Thank you, guys. Those nurses are powerful, aren't they?"

On his radio show, Shearer injected: "Yeah, especially when they do what you tell 'em to do. Very powerful when they follow instructions from the host!"


A Fox News flack didn't respond to Lowdown's detailed message yesterday.

nydailynews.com



To: tejek who wrote (231392)5/3/2005 11:51:43 AM
From: 10K a day  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571708
 
absolutely pathetic.



To: tejek who wrote (231392)5/3/2005 7:58:43 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571708
 
Even if we assume 100% factual accuracy for $35,000 cost it wouldn't mean that things are as bad as many on the left argue. The type of statement you get is that Iraq is going to hell in a hand basket, that the situation is horrible, getting worse, and totally hopeless. Nothing in your post shows that idea to be true.

Tim