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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere's a reason Hannity doesn't debate people often on his show.. It produces clips like this
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There's a reason Hannity doesn't debate people often on his show.. It produces clips like this (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2022
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There will absolutely be YouTube vids titled "Hannity Crushes Chicago Economist"
A HERETIC I AM
Jan 2022
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PdamnedQ
(168 posts)1. The problem is that most of Hannity's viewer's are completely clueless
They probably think he won the exchange.
It's kind of like the folks that can watch "Jesus Christ Superstar" and not realize it was written from Judas Iscariot's point of view.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,875 posts)4. There will absolutely be YouTube vids titled "Hannity Crushes Chicago Economist"
You can just about count on it.
IcyPeas
(25,423 posts)2. This is Austan Gloolsbee fyi
Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18, 1969) is an American economist and writer. He is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.[1] Goolsbee formerly served as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, was a member of President Barack Obama's administration, and worked as an acting fill-in anchor for WGN-TV in Chicago.[2]
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austan_Goolsbee
royable
(1,426 posts)3. Watching a minute of Hannity makes my stomach churn.
If I were the man being interviewed, every time I was rudely interrupted, I'd instantly stop speaking and hold up a sign that read something like, "I'm the expert here. Shut up and let me speak, you idiot."
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)5. I think it's hilarious when Hannity takes his "lecturing" tone with
people he's incredibly inferior to.
Marcuse
(8,985 posts)6. Freedom means my seat of the pants ignorance is equal to your documented expertise.

elias7
(4,229 posts)7. He's starting to both sound like and look like TFG
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)8. I wonder what Alan Colmes would have to say to Hannity now. N/t
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)9. Yep, facts matter and few if any MAGA are loaded with it