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Hannity-Ellison dust-up shows our broken politics
CNN, by Howard Kurtz
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Posted By:StormCnter, 3/2/2013 5:41:11 AM
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| When I saw the headlines about Sean Hannity getting into a shouting match with a Democratic congressman this week, I assumed the combative and conservative Fox News host had just gone off on him. I was wrong. Hannity was trying to conduct what we in journalism call an interview. But from the first words out of his mouth, Rep. Keith Ellison came prepared to pick a fight. It was good television, I suppose, but it´s hard to say it was enlightening. Ellison began insulting Hannity from the get-go, Hannity pushed back, and the pugilistics were under way. After I criticized Ellison
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
coldoc, 3/2/2013 5:52:56 AM (No. 9204053)
Ellison claims to be a muslim. Why is this Behavior a surprise?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mws50, 3/2/2013 6:12:10 AM (No. 9204070)
Keith Ellison gave us an excellent example of the hatred spewed by the left and a great example of just how barking-moonbat crazy liberals are. Thanks, Keith...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lydwho, 3/2/2013 6:32:41 AM (No. 9204086)
Two things---He is a Muslim and he is a Democrat so what would one expect.
The only thing that I get from this is the stupidity of the Minn voters who elected himn to office!!!
Art
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 3/2/2013 7:18:49 AM (No. 9204129)
I would be ashamed to admit I´m a democrat with Keith elision on my side.
Thankfully hannity returned a little fire.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
uno, 3/2/2013 7:23:22 AM (No. 9204133)
Keith E. Hakim, the name he used back in the late eighties, if roughly translated to an American Indian version would mean something similar to "Flaming Rectum with short fuse"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JAN, 3/2/2013 8:15:01 AM (No. 9204224)
Howard Putz just noticed?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 3/2/2013 8:17:15 AM (No. 9204228)
However the boneheads who vote for him applaud this sort of behavior as "speaking truth to power", "sticking it to The Man", etc.
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artman1746, 3/2/2013 8:23:24 AM (No. 9204243)
Are we surprised when the Party of Satan acts up? I boil over when I constantly here the MSM pretend that both parties contribute to the venom. The leftist Drmocrats have attacked everything traditional and dear to Americans since the 1960´s. They have been full of venom and hate on every front while the media calls for bipartianship.
We´re at the tipping point where these leftist knuckle-draggers cannot be compromised with any longer. We are tip toeing along the precipice while being asked to just take one more step in their direction as compromise. Well, we have compromised ourselves into the sewer for 50 years and if we are ever to climb out of the sludge we had better start fighting. And the leadership in congress just doesn´t seem to see it.
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Teleologicus, 3/2/2013 8:36:09 AM (No. 9204266)
Ellison´s rude, ugly, demagogic behavior shows "our broken politics?" What on earth does THAT mean?
It doesn´t mean anything whatever. It is just Kurtz´ way or trying to establish moral equivalence between Hannity and Ellison, conservatives and Leftists, good behavior and bad behavior. Kurtz cannot escape the obvious, that Ellison´s behavior was inappropriate and unacceptable - but he lacks the moral backbone to say so in direct, unequivocal terms. So he tries to muddy the waters and obscure what really happened. He winds up talking out of both sides of his mouth. Pathetic as this is, it is perhaps progress of a sort.
The episode shows only what many people already suspected, that Ellison is a poor specimen of humanity and a bad choice as a congressman. That - and that it is a mistake to provide a man like him with a public forum to abuse and misuse.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
eoddad, 3/2/2013 8:40:02 AM (No. 9204276)
Howie has sit back and let the left debase our political system for years, now that a second Civil War maybe brewing he steps up. Democrats have gotten away with lies, smears and racism so long that they don´t even try and hide it anymore. Howie and friends have only themselves to blame when you replace America good government standards of debate, integrity and respect for a two Party Systemm with Marxist Alinsky Rules for Radicals don´t let the Ellison´s of this world shock you. He is the NEW STANDARD the MSM Created.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Janjan, 3/2/2013 8:56:40 AM (No. 9204312)
Kurtz states that Hannity is not the ´poster boy for bipartisanship´? Does Kurtz think he is? Conservatives have withstood lies, insults, spewed hatred and contempt from the left for years and I say enough already. Ellison is an elected representative from Minnesota and irregardless of his politics or religion he at least has the responsibility to be civil and sound like an adult. This is not a sign of ´broken politics´. It s a sign that the Left have lost their collective minds and the media are complicit. Ellison should not be asked to return to Fox News ever. He should stay with his own kind on MSNBC so if you are dumb enough to tune in you will know what to expect.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SnowQueen, 3/2/2013 9:17:57 AM (No. 9204343)
I think we should invite Ellison to speak out more often. Let´s make sure everyone can hear what he has to say. Give him all the air time he wants. That way reasonable people can come to their own conclusions about him.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lazy shooter, 3/2/2013 9:20:27 AM (No. 9204346)
"Having Keith Ellison on your side is live losing two good men." from unknown source
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jackie, 3/2/2013 9:36:12 AM (No. 9204368)
Don´t forget MN has more Muslim Somalias than any other state.. The do-gooders imported them and now they train to be become Mn´s own little home grown terrorist. Ellison is just another Muslim like the WH punk.. Big mouth black Muslims hating America..
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 3/2/2013 10:09:38 AM (No. 9204435)
The sniveler known as Howard Kurtz really needs to put his big boy pants on. He really needs to step up and acknowledge what is going on within his party. His oblivious see no evil attitude doesn´t help, only encourages bad lib behaviour.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 3/2/2013 10:19:23 AM (No. 9204455)
Not even close , Howie. What we have here is a perfect example of radical Islam and I, too , hope you put him on TV every day and night.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
caddyjak, 3/2/2013 10:31:21 AM (No. 9204474)
When will blacks begin to realize that it was Muhammad who considered them as animals and enslaved those he didn´t kill.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bob913, 3/2/2013 10:34:30 AM (No. 9204481)
No one who supports communism or socialism or the muslim terrorists should be able to run for any political office or teach in any school.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ruhruh1979, 3/2/2013 10:53:03 AM (No. 9204523)
Right from the first sentence of this article it tells us the problem with the msm.
"When I saw the headlines about Sean Hannity getting into a shouting match with a Democratic congressman this week, I assumed the combative and conservative Fox News host had just gone off on him."
Kurtz assumed. Assumptions have no part in true journalism. Questions, yes. Facts, yes. Assumptions, no. And this is all the media does. They dictate to us what we need to know, and most of the time it´s certainly not truth.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
luandir, 3/2/2013 11:38:38 AM (No. 9204611)
Ellison certainly did not "lose it" or have a "meltdown," as Rush and others have described. He was in control the entire time. This was the same kind of pre-emptive assault we saw during the Clinton impeachment: name-calling, shouting down, and attempting to tar your opponents as immoral - for doing the very things your side is doing.
If our "politics are broken," it is in the sense that those who still believe in the Republic are not recognizing and standing up to those who would destroy it.
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