
Poor (but not really) Sean Hannity, dealing with his Alzheimer's like a brave little trooper, still reporting on air for Fox News, week after week.
Oh? He doesn't have a mind-crippling disease? Then it doesn't make sense why the jowly man-child would try to defend Bristol Palin, the pregnant daughter of McCain's VP pick, on his show by saying that nobody dragged Chelsea Clinton's good name through the mud.
Because that's not just "kind of" not true — it's totally not true.

•Bill McCuddy in his 2002 Foxlight column gives birth to rumors about P Diddy screwing Chelsea:
"Chelsea Clinton is hanging with a new homie. Here's a couple that paints an interesting picture — the former first daughter and Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs. That's right. They hooked up at a local New York nightspot recently and chatted for a while. Hey, between Secret Service for her and entourage for him, they both have a posse."
• Fox's Big Story wants everyone to know Hillary was lying about her daughter being anywhere near the Twin Towers during 9/11, "We have Hillary Clinton saying Chelsea was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was saved because she ducked into a coffee shop [when] she was five miles away asleep in bed and the phone rang and a friend said turn on the TV."
• Yes it was on MSNBC, but the "Chelsea is being pimped by her mother" comment from earlier this year was from former Fox News contributor David Shuster. Except in MSNBC's case, they actually bit the bullet and suspended him, while Fox has done nothing to reprimand any of their correspondents who take aim at Chelsea.
•In '98 on Hannity and Colmes, sex-ay Republican wing-nut Ann Coulter made jokes about Bill Clinton being sterile and Chelsea not being his real daughter.
Oh, and that last one Hannity? It took place on your own program.
We're quite fine with you being a blowhard douche nut. But being a hypocritical blowhard douche nut? Not cool.
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Real lame attack on Sean. Chelsea Clinton was out of the White House in 2001 and being used as a sympathy prop by her mother to garner press during the most horrific attack on U.S. soil. Bill McCuddy is not Sean Hannity. If you're going to reference SEAN'S BEHAVIOR then back it up with FACTS or else keep moving down the liberal press smear chain…
He didn't say say that all the attacks were by Hannity just rebutting Hannity for saying that Chelsea was never attacked. Don't forget when Rush had his very short lived TV show he "joked" that the White House has a new dog just as a picture of then 12 year old Chelsea was put on screen. Or Senator McCain joking that Janet Reno was really Chelsea's father that's why she's so ugly.
Pretty lame examples of Chelsea's name being dragged through the mud.
More like Hillary (say it ain't so) pimping her daughter to advance her campaign by inventing non-existent circumstances of historical significance, ala smiper fire in Bosnia.
I will not Leave Harvey's BRISTOL cream alone.
Her idiot mother and Walnuts McCain are staunch supporters of abstinence and NON supporters of birth control or sex education. They don't even want to support measures to reduce sexually transmitted diseases.
Bristol was reckless and the fact that she grew up in a home that is so fanatic when it comes to sex education, you'd think that the little Ho would heed mama warnings.
Bristol Palin should be held up to the same standards that her mother adheres to. The people her mother criticize for their moral judgments, the same judgment should be passed on her daughter.
Sarah Palin wants to tell women what to do with their bodies, but when the going gets rough she want a fucking time out from the media?
No bitch, your gun toting, dick humpin' kid is just like us and if you had spoken to her about condoms and birth control, she wouldn't be a national embarassment. Furthermore, you and your minions wouldn't have to smile like you are truly happy when we all know that you are NOT!!
People are dying of AIDS and a candidate for VP and possibly President one day is opposed to condoms? This woman Palin needs to be sent back to her little town in Alaska and seriously get kicked in her vagin by none other than a Polar Bear!!
Dear No. 4 poster, please be advised that no one really cares what garbage you incoherently spew. Please wear a bib so you can clean up after you are done barfing up your hate and intolerance.
Leave those girls alone–both of them. Grow up those of you who run your big mouths. They are not running for President. Get a life.
by getting pregnant before finishing high school, Bristol Palin will have many challenges ahead of her. Very hard to juggle college and a baby. Chelsea Clinton is intelligent, accomplished, and kept her nose clean with TWO very high profile parents. Hannity is an idiot.
Hannity in not an idiot. He's an American who cares deeply for his country. He's a hero. I believe his point in mentioning Chelsea is not an attack on Chelsea itself, rather a point he is making. Is it fair game to bring in Palin's daughter? Then why not Chelsea. If you had any sense of integrity you could see that. Are the ones bashing Bristol idiots? Seems like they can throw stones but don't like it when stones are thrown back. If you're gonna throw a punch, be prepared for a punch back. If you can't see that then you're an idiot.
@ #8
Adding Chelsea to this debate only makes Sarah Palin look like a bad mother.
Chelsea was never drunk like the Bush twins.
Chelsea was never knocked up by some neighborhood dude and had to be rushed into a shotgun wedding.
Chelsea was never caught with prescription drugs and heroin like Jeb Bush's daughter.
All adding Chelsea to the mix does is make all these other young girls looks like a mess with their "VALUES - BIBLE THUMOPING PARENTS!!"
@ #5,
I stick to what I have said.
Sarah Palin is running on VALUES, yet her daughter should live up to other standards? I'm willing to bet my life if this were the child of anyone other than this candidate, O'Reilly, Limpbaugh, and the clown gang would be having a field day.
I don't give a crap about BRISTOL cream, but I do care that her mother wants to tell me what I should do with my body and I friggin resent it!
And isn't it RECKLESS of this woman to oppose sex education with all these Sexually Infectious Diseases rampant in even her home state?
I'm just waiting for the next shoe to drop and the news come out that the baby is not Levi's..
Where is Jerry and Maury already??
Let's get this straight…the left supposedly preaches tolerance for those that are different than the norm(gays), those that make bad choices (drug users & pregnant teens), yet cannot exhibit any of that tolerance when a conservative falls into any of those catagories? Not very tolerant now, are they. And because a few on the "right" hold certain opinions, then you persecute all on the right? That's pretty much like saying if a few members of a minority commit a crime, then all members of the mintority are criminals…which is in inaccurate and hateful statement. Oh wait, that's because the left are hateful and intolerant, and hypocrites!
To "Sarah Palin is a Hypocrite Fanatic": You really don't need to be betting your life on politics. Your life is more valuable than that. And I don't think it's about telling you what you should be doing with your body. I think it's all about the life of another human being that can't defend itself. Give Chelsea the credit she is due. She's obviously kept her life clean. Go Chelsea. And regarding Bristol living up to her mother's values? Do you have any children? If you do, then you can understand that your kids may not keep your values irregardless of how hard you try to teach them. Are you gonna blame your mother for your sins? Then don't blame Sarah Palin for her daughters sins. Perhaps you don't have any children. That's why you don't get it.
The problem with Bristol is not blaming Sarah Palin for her daughter's sins, but blaming her for creating the environment where this situation was able to bloom:
#1 If this kid had options like the pill or condoms, perhaps she wouldn't be pregnant at 16 yrs.
#2 We can't leave the situation alone because her mother has put her in the media's path.
#3 These are judgment issues with Sarah Palin. She wanted to fire the Librarian because the books were not up to par with her values, she had the commisioner fired, she abused her power to have her brother-in-law fired because of his nasty divorce with her sister and the SCANDALS that I have not listed.
So yeah, I feel sorry for Bristol, but her mother put her in this position.
But even worst, McCain has pelted this child and her jock boyfriend as part of their campaign. Just look at this video.. So please stop blaming liberals and everyone else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....kette.com/
No one cares if Sean is ticked off. He gets ticked off over any dissenting opinion and proceeds to mock the opposition. He does not practice what he preaches, so he is as much of a hypocrite as anyone he attacks. I agree he cares for his country, but his rhetoric does not bring any credibility to his party. Stick to the issues, ignore the sensationalism, as McCain does. Just walk away and quit your whining.
Okay Slutty Chola Cobbler. You'd probably get a little more crediblity if you had a more respectable name. If you have no respect for yourself, how can you give any away? Anyways, how can you accuse Sarah Palin for the environment she created? Where you there living with the Palins? I doubt it. I'll bet you don't even live in the neighborhood. And Bristol did and does have the option to get some form of birth control. She obviously had sex without her mother's permission. So why couldn't she get some form of birth control without her mother's permission? Any one can get a condom. It was sure stupidity on Bristol's part and maybe even rebellion. But Bristol certainly isn't the first kid to rebel against her parents. And yep you're right. She is in the media's path so look out Sarah and Bristol, you're about to be severely attacked. Is keeping trash off the shelves in our libraries and schools such a terrible thing? I know. I know. We live in a culture where anything and everything goes. Do you know all the facts about the commissioner? I doubt it. And be sure the media twists facts and lies so don't believe everything you hear from just one side. Get the facts. I'm a conservative but I'm always listening to the liberals to hear their side of the story. That's why I'm still a conservative.
Patty, you got it all twisted around. Yes, the left tends to be more tolerant to those outside of the "norm", but the reason people on the left are upset about this, is because of the hypocracy of the right. Think about it, if Obama had a teenage daughter that just got pregnant out of wedlock, the GOP would be ALL OVER that. However, when something like this happens to someone on their side, they suddenly preach tolerance and privacy, puh-lease. They are the ones who have no problem persecuting others for bad choices (and even some just for being, *gasp*, poor!), but when it comes to one of their own, they do a total 180.
leave their kids alone you scumbags
Juke, you must be a Repuke too..
No one is attacking her child! We are attacking her stance on issues.
If Palin wasn't such a nut on abortion, sex ed and prevention, people would just see this as a teenage mistake.
The fact that Palin opposes education and preaches abstinence only proves what others have been saying all along:
Abstinence alone does not work and we need to teach safer sex!
Palin even says that she opposes abortion even if her daighter gets raped. Look it up - in her own words.
Instead of sending her daughter to school, she has her daughter and her boyfriend being greeted by McCain. Is this what young girls and boys should be seeing from the Presidential and V. Presidential nominees? What kind of example is that.
The boyBristol is pregnant for, Levi Johnston, is a high school dropout. What is a high school dropout who knocked up the religious wingnut's kid doing at the Republican convention? Can you see a Democrat even getting away with that?
And the democrats aren't hypocrites? Who are you kidding?
What a Joke this Lady is she put her town throught a lot .Now she is trying to look like a Holy One.She did'nt keep a eye on her Daugther which is still a Teenager.She told a lot of lies tonight on televions.She is now under investgation come on give me a break.And Rush,Hannity when they meet God are they going to have a Debate. These Guys just don't like Black people don't you get it.They both go Crazy when it comes down to Obama they both ask like their Brains are left in the oven and over heated,they have some much hate in them against people of Color.Hannity do you Pray at nite,do you Rush I really don't think so because if they did,they would have some kind of Peace about them,but there is so much Bitter down in their Hearts.
Right
What the GOPers don't seem to understand, is that when Bristol Palin's pregnancy is brought up, it is because of the GOP's policy of trumpeting itself as the party of "family values"
This girl's mother wants to tell America how to run their families, and their personal business, but somehow she and her family are off limits? Not likely.
We can't control what our children do, no matter how they are raised, or what they are taught. When children reach certain ages, they either accept what they are taught, or reject it. As for abortion issue, I don't think it's EVER right to destroy a human being. You are here because your mother chose life. You would have had no say in living or dying if she had chosen an abortion. You would have never had the chance to do the things you do, speak out the way you do…
Even children who are conceived through rape are people. They didn't choose the way they were conceived, but they were conceived nonetheless. If raising a child of rape is not your choice, then adoption is always an option. I have a very dear friend who adopted a child who was conceived after rape, and she is a beautiful, smart, and very productive human being. Don't these unborn babies deserve the same rights as you have? If a woman CHOOSES to have unprotected sex, that's where her choice ends. USE PROTECTION, how smart do you have to be to do that? If rape is the case, with proper counselling, and a reputable adoption agency, this child (who isn't responsible for the act) can live life to the fullest!
I've been a social worker working with pregnant teens for years, and I can tell you that teen girls get pregnant for one basic reason: poor supervision. You can lecture them about abstinence or shove condoms down their throat all you want, but if they're poorly supervised they feel unloved, and if they feel unloved they go about looking for that love in other places… first from a boy and then from a baby. And because they're poorly supervised they have all the time in the world to have sex, yada, yada, yada. I don't know the Palin family, but I can tell you that these are things I have found true in every case I have ever been handled, and in my work we generalize. We don't do it to be cruel, it's more a time management issue.
I believe in sex education, but only because I think that we should be doing SOMETHING to combat the problem. Abstinence only would be fine, except I think it's irresponsible to throw a bunch of hormonal teens together and not give them all the facts about disease prevention. Having worked with some of these girls, you would be amazed how ignorant they are. Some have never even heard of an STD! I really don't see how purposefully not giving them all the facts is a good idea.
Regarding what Republican said about abortion, I don't agree…
First of all, regarding adoption. I understand that it has worked for some people, but it is not a good solution for most unplanned pregnancies due to the fact that (even with unplanned pregnancies) women bond with their babies before they are born due to the chemicals that are released later in pregnancy. The "adoption is the answer!" way of thinking ignors this and either sets these women up for failure (because they feel like they have to keep their babies even though they aren't ready), or dooms them to a life of intense sorrow (because they have to deal with the guilt and regret of giving their baby away). Abortion has its moral issues (which I will get to in a minute) but it has been proven to give these women more of a chance to lead a normal productive life than those that carry the baby and give it away. Most of those women never get over the pain, because bonding with a baby and then giving it away is such an unnatural thing to do. It is an alternative, but clearly not the right one for everyone.
Regarding whether or not abortion should be criminalized, I don't argee with that for a HOST of reasons, from practical reasons to logical reasons. It's hard to know where to start, but the strongest argument is that no human being should be forced to use their body to keep another human being alive even if that other person is their child. Some would say that most parents would gladly give up both kidneys to keep their child alive, but you have to realize that there is a difference between children (who have lived on their own and you HAVE bonded with) and non-viable fetuses (who can't live on their own and you HAVEN'T bonded with). It's idealistic to expect a person who just found out they were pregnant (and didn't want to be) to make more sacrifices than a person who has already had a child and bonded with that child. It is easy to judge these people for their actions but most people (even those that claim to be pro-life in public) will have abortions under MANY circumstances. Having worked in social work for a long time I know this as an ABSOLUTE fact. I've seen Catholic priests stand behind women having abortions because they knew it was the right decision given the circumstances. Granted those were extreme circumstances, but most women do not have abortions haphazardly. Threatening abortion rights would effect those women too.
In my opinion the unborn has a right to life, but not a right to another person's body to survive just like no one else in society has a right to another person's body to survive. Unfortunately they are in a precarious situation where they need the person's body to live, but other people (for example those in need of an organ transplant) are also in need of another's body but the law does not mandate that. I saw that Republican mentioned "unprotected sex" as a reason why women should be forced to have the baby, but that argument loses credibility with me when the same person goes on to argue that rape victims should be forced to carry the baby because they can seek out counseling and adoption. I don't know the last time this person was raped, but counseling is not a magic pill that makes it go away and neither is adoption! Counseling is barely a salve, if that, and being forced to carry a baby that you will probably bond with only to give it away is an even worse pain. To me that way of thinking is heartless toward rape victims and poorly thought out besides. I don't even want to THINK about what would happen to the fabric of our society if women across the country were forced to choose between an unwanted pregnancy and an illegal abortion. That happened in the past, and obviously it failed. Shouldn't we learn from our mistakes?