James Carville Shreds Sean Hannity on Fox

[AdamGG]

[uponit7771]

1. Carville should be a staple on FAUX

[magicarpet]

2. James Carville held his ground and got a few good messages out there.

Hannity just viscerally hates Libs and wipes his dirty boots on them every chance he gets, with total distain in his voice/tone. Hannity treats Carville like he treated Adam Colmes back when they were teamed up on Fux Snooz. Fux Snooz might be a good spot for Carville to hang out at and politically pontificate. He comes across with that country bumpkin patina - which might cause the Fux crowd to connect with him. And of course his wife is the renound ReThug operative Mary Matalin.

[AdamGG]

3. Faux probably wouldn't use Carville as a regular

Because he's much too strong for them. They liked house "liberals" like Colmes or Susan Estrich (who put Dukakis in the tank) to be the Washington Generals and lose every single discussion.

I like in this clip how they started to run the USAID graphic split screen with Carville to try to distract from the points he was making, then he called them out on that and at the end they were turning up the house music to play him out because they couldn't counter what he was saying.

[keep_left]

4. I'm old enough to remember when Mike Malloy was a guest on Fox "News".

John Kasich used to have a show on Fox--they gave it a really moronic title--From the Heartland, I think. Kasich insulted Malloy about something, and Malloy just ripped off his mic and stormed off the set. The Fox producers didn't know what to do, and there was obvious panic on their part that lasted way longer than it should have. It would be so great to see something like that happen again.

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[Emile]

9. I remember that!

[oasis]

5. Carville rolls out his indisputable facts. Hannity

ain’t got shit to say.

[AdamGG]

6. All Hannity had to say was

that Democrats aren't focused on the "key issue" of transgender people playing high school women's sports.

That's after Carville hit him with Trump running up the largest deficits in history, wanting to cut Medicaid and Medicare, end women's right to choose, supporting Vladimir Putin, that 50 times more jobs were created under Obama and Biden than Bush and Trump, that Trump and the Republicans are crashing in the polls.

Hannity was really feeble because he has nothing to go to other than inflammatory culture war bullshit.

[oasis]

7. Exactly. I doubt we'll see Hannity tangle with

Mr. Carville anytime soon.

[ihaveaquestion]

8. I tried to watch the full interview on youtube, couldn't stomach Hannity's smarminess after about 5 min.

That said, I don't think the MAGA audience would agree that Hannity was "stunned". Based on what I saw, Carville didn't really refute anything Hannity was saying in a convincing way. He hemmed and hawed and didn't forcefully challenge Hannity's assertions and was too polite by half. Maybe Carville picked up steam later on, but from what I saw, he was somewhat pathetic.

[Abolishinist]

10. Carville definitely had the upper hand, happy for that

although it churns my stomach to even watch/hear insannity.

However, he was WAY off when talking about the USAID budget of $41 billion compared to the federal budget of $6 trillion. He said "I did the math, it actually comes to something like 0.014%"

No, using the numbers he stated the answer is around .7%, which is 50 times greater.

[AdamGG]

12. He knew that

Hannity would be too stupid to catch that.

[AdamGG]

11. I remember the first time I saw James Carville

It was in '92 in the week before the NH primary, when the stories about Gennifer Flowers and Clinton having written letters when he was young to express opposition to the Vietnam war were front page news.

Carville was speaking to the media in an impassioned tirade about who had released these stories now and why were they scared of facing Bill Clinton and trying to knock him out of the race. He was impressive.