Shawn Hannity: Obama should have to RESIGN from the Senate because of his ties to Wright

[bigdarryl]

So now the new standard is if your a political figure and you belong to a church and your pastor says something controversial you automatically should resign from your political job. I'm sick of these FOX NEWS ass wipes like Hannity who's leading the charge of this story even Wane Williams said Obama should quit his church because of his pastor who isn't even there any more.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Wonder if we can George Bush's preacher to say something outrageous....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. but Bush says outrageous things all the time!

never mind the preacher!

[1776Forever]

83. I don't think the devil makes too many public appearances....

:evilgrin:

[roguevalley]

87. ah, hannity, the asshole's asshole.

[dancingme]

57. Bush doesn't go to church

only does the photo op a few times a year.

[Muttocracy]

hmm, on that standard, they're going to have trouble getting a quorum...

[flor de jasmim]

2. McCarthyism is alive and well...no alive and deranged

[Kittycat]

3. I never watch fox.

Just deprogram it - you'll feel much better about your soul if you do :)

[SoFlaJet]

35. agreed

I don't even click on ever so as not to increase their numbers-it's like channel 360 has the cooties and if I put it on I'll catch them too

[msongs]

4. why do even listen to that guy or spread his poison? nt

[Yes We Did]

5. I guess Hannity never heard of separation of church and state.

[JoFerret]

19. I hope Obama has

...and every candidate.
I hate this compulsory christianity/ religiosity. It makes hypocrites out of so many.
I understand Obama was brought up atheist. If only he had stayed that way.

[cali]

26. You understand wrong.

He was brought up, more or less, as an agnostic and introduced to different religious traditions. Big difference.

[boppers]

71. To some people, agnostic=atheist.

Funny nation we live in. :(

[boppers]

70. Obama TAUGHT a course on constitutional law.

He not only understands it, he also knows all sides of the arguments.

Makes me very happy to have somebody who actually knows the constitution as a candidate. ;)

[cutlassmama]

88. Agreed. Instead of one that thinks "it's only a piece of paper".

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. That's rich!

[BattyDem]

7. If having ties to controversial preachers is a reason to resign ...

than I expect every Republican in Congress to hand in their resignations as well.

[TwilightGardener]

8. I suppose McCain will resign because of Keating Five, right? How about

the lies about his dealings with Iseman and Paxson and the FCC?

[goodgd_yall]

9. Hannity = Insanity

He tries to come across as a good Catholic boy and then calls for deporting all illegal immigrants. And now calling for a man to end his poltical career---Hannity is an A-number 1 schmuck.

[Seeker30]

10. If a white senator was going KKK meetings he would be finished

What the fuck is the difference here? Same story different book.

[roseBudd]

22. Except Obama's church never lynched, castrated, firebombed, burned crosses, drug behind a truck...

So apples & oranges actually

Your attempts at equivalency are false

[Seeker30]

32. So the KKK is ok just as long as they don't break the law?

Didnt think so. And its the message of people like Wright that creates shit like the Rodney King riots.

[superduperfarleft]

45. No, coordinated police brutality creates the Rodney King riots.

And clueless white liberals like yourself who refuse to look at it from someone else's (in this case, a black man in America) perspective don't help either.

[roseBudd]

49. Actually the Rodney King riots are a result of police brutality caught on tape, curious you would

adopt such right wing beliefs

[Seeker30]

56. Wrong, they were the result of the verdict

Which obviously was fucked up, but does that justify it? It was ok to pull an innocent white man out of his truck and slam his head with bricks simply because he was white?

Its the words from people like Wright that fuels that hate and justifies shit like that, but because people have a problem with it they're racist.

[Chisox08]

82. Wrong the Rodney King riots were indirectly caused by the verdict.

It was not only caused by the verdict but the beating itself and a young girl being killed in a corner store and the killer getting off. People waited until after the Rodney King verdict because they knew that those cops would have been found guilty. The verdict wasn't the only cause but it was the spark that set off the LA riots.
Back on topic Obama can not be responsible for everything someone connected to him says. There is some truth in what Rev. Wright said but he could have worded it differntly.

[anigbrowl]

67. What a ridiculous argument

I'm embarrassed for you.

[theredpen]

80. Actually, yes

The KKK is welcome to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law. That's what happens when you live in a FREE country.

[superduperfarleft]

23. What an offensive comparison.

How many white people has Rev. Wright had lynched? How many white people has Rev. Wright either intimidated or beaten to prevent them from voting? How many white people has Rev. Wright murdered for trying to assert their rights to be treated like human beings? How long has Rev. Wright's reign of terror lasted in the South?

You win the CWL Award of the night.

[LuvMyPorsche]

27. btw

how many white folks alive TODAY have EVER lynched ANYONE?

[superduperfarleft]

31. You're right. Black people need to just get over it. n/t

[roseBudd]

50. Considering how many were either never charged or convicted in the 60s?

True they are getting up in years.

What do you call being drug behind a truck by 3 white men in June 7, 1998?

Brewer, a former jailhouse Ku Klux Klan leader, admitted he was present when James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death. But he said another man, Shawn Allen Berry, 24, slashed Byrd's throat and chained him to the truck.

Brewer acknowledged kicking Byrd and spraying his face with black paint, but he said it was a reflex action in trying to break up a fight between Byrd and King.

However, he admitted that as the truck was speeding down the road, all three men knew the exact moment Byrd's body hit a culvert and was decapitated.

[FrenchieCat]

53. Lynching, when used to describe actions in its less literal form

happens all of the time.

Right now, Rev. Wright is being lynched high-tech style by those who don't know anything about him but what they have seen on some carefully selected chopped up video tapes and yet feel superior enough to demonize him cause he gets worked up about the injustices done to Americans over the course of our history, some which continues to this day.

It's like getting 20 extra years to an offender's prison sentence because the drug was crack cocaine and not powered cocaine.

It's like Oppressing the oppressed/

All that it adds up to is false Righteouness.

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[superduperfarleft]

44. "You assholes." Who said I was an Obama supporter?

That's what's wrong with this country. It isn't about what's right, it's about whether you support Hillary or Obama. You know, that and clueless white liberals feeling all good about themselves even though they are some of the most frustrating bigots out there to deal with.

I didn't say Clinton was racist. I said you made a shitty, offensive, and historically ignorant comparison of Wright to the KKK. I stand by that.

[hfojvt]

55. I'd like to see a link to a place where Wright did what you said

"spewed hatred against an entire race" show me the quote?

"spewed hatred against the country" - no, only against what the country does and did.

[Drachasor]

64. I think hardly anyone thought she was racist. Her campaign does seem happy to exploit...

..racial tensions, however. That's not racist, just divisive politics.

And Wright was not spewing racism. You are misunderstanding what he was saying if you really think so.

[cali]

29. Unfortunately you're not kidding.

I've seen enough of your crap to know what you are. And there are other websites that you would feel more at home with. Freeperville. Stormfront. Andy comparison to Wright and the KKK is disgusting, ignorant shit. Wallow in it all you want.

[Seeker30]

43. Fortunately your opinion is meaningless to me

Its amusing that you would think different.

[cali]

59. It's simply stupid that you'd think that I ever thought about

it at all, genius. I didn't. I commented to point out Your vile crap to others. Now toddle off to freeperville.

[Liberal Gramma]

40. Not

The ministry of that chapter of the United Church of Christ is liberation theology. It does not racial superiority, but works for the relief of the poor and oppressed. I think that's a bit different from the aims of the KKK

[jeffrey_X]

42. Seriously?

You really can't tell the difference between the KKK and a few quotes from Mr. Wright?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

47. Are You Fucking Serious? What An Absolutely Dumbass Comparison.

Seriously. Shame on you. Your comparison is an absolute fucking disgrace.

[JVS]

48. Do you have any sense of perspective?

[FrenchieCat]

54. no poster doesn't .....and no sense of shame either. n/t

[theredpen]

81. Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK at one time and he's in the Senate

He's a Democrat, too. One of our best Senators, too, if you ask me. I think that his experiences early in life woke him up to some of the ugliness we harbor in our society.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. The chimp and his emperor

should RESIGN for throwing the Constitution in the toilet and managing to bankrupt not only this country but the entire world!

[Bolo Boffin]

12. Let Freedom Ring!

Unless, of course, you say something that Sean Hannity finds awful.

Sean needs to open that Bible he pretends to live by and start reading it. Even Jesus felt free enough to call down curses on the authority figures of his day. The imprecatory sermon is a time-honored piece of prophetic speech. It does cause waves because it's meant to. But Obama is no more responsible for it than Hillary Clinton is.

[JoFerret]

13. Hannity is a vile person whose views we hear too often

No more Hannity on ANY topic. Thanks.

[Gman]

14. Sounds like a great idea to me

Even Hannity gets one right on occasion.

Great idea. Obama needs to resign the Senate.

Oh! You say I'm spouting right wing talking points?? You say I'm taking the neocon side???

You know, it's funny. I never heard a peep out of Obamabots starting back in December when Hannity and Rush were swooning over how wonderful Obama is and how horrible Hillary is. Obamabots were just loving 'ol Rush and Hannity back then.

[cali]

33. Making disgusting crap up?

Pulling it straight from your ass? Listen, little hilldroid. I never quote right wing assholes or link to such sites. Ever. I've never seen any Obama supporter praise either rush or hannity. Stupid fucking thing to say.


I'm sick of racist freaks.

[bhikkhu]

38. Yes, I would say you are taking the neocon side.

Flame away...

[Yurovsky]

15. Sean Hannity & Pugsley Addams: Separated at birth???

Although that's not really fair to Pugsley ... I don't recall him being a racist fuck.

[Tribetime]

16. hannity should resign from the human race

[BlackVelvet04]

17. Your meme isn't working......

Wright was obama's personal mentor...his spiritual compass. Obama has a 20 year relationship with him. This isn't a case of a preacher giving one controversial sermon.

[movonne]

18. Since when do we quote faux news here...Oh yes since the freepers

have taken over...

[TexasLady]

21. Remember when here on DU, if a person spewed the same

crap as Hannity or Rush they were either bitch slapped or TS'ed? And now it is becoming the norm?

[AlinPA]

24. Yep, now we hear Limbaugh, Hannity & Fox "News" reports from some DU'ers.

[Rockholm]

25. That is just plain stupid.

[Saturday]

28. There's a little more to the story than Wright just being...

Obama's pastor.

[pdxmom]

30. So you agree Obama should resign from the Senate? N/T

[Warren DeMontague]

34. How many Republicans have played Kissy-face with Falwell and Robertson?

Remember, when they blamed 9-11 on "Gays, pagans, feminists and the ACLU"?

Or when Robertson said the Supreme Court of the United States was worse than Al Qaeda?

Please. Let's have this debate, Sean, ya fucking hair-helmeted turd with teeth.

[Omega3]

63. this is the Democratic party, the party that's NOT beholden to religiosity, let's keep that up

[Warren DeMontague]

68. I said let's have that debate.

I don't give a fuck what Obama's preacher said, any more than I care what his gardener or the guy who installed his cable said.

I care what Barack Obama has said and I care what he will DO for this country once he is the President of the United States.

[OnionPatch]

85. Exactly!

For crying out loud, there must be years of footage of GOP pastors like Robertson on file making outrageous and hateful remarks and loads and loads of film of GOP politicians mooching up to them. :wtf: I can see arguing the Wright issue with other Dems, but the GOP has no foot to stand on in this one. Nada. Hang it up Sean.

[JaneQPublic]

36. Sure, right after McCain resigns because of his ties to a dozen extremist preachers (nt)

[tokenlib]

37. Sean Hannity is a self-righteous thug--and I just want to know...

...what seminary failed to educate him about the Gospel of Jesus when he was a student.

[DefenseLawyer]

39. Another college drop-out disc jockey here to set us all straight

I was always more of a Wolfman Jack kinda guy myself.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

46. Ehhhh, What Do You Expect From That Insane Fuck?

I mean, look at the senators on his side that has said the anti gay rhetoric, that's probably 100 times worse than anything Wright has said. Nooooooo, they're perfectly fine to stay in the senate.

This is hannity we're talking about here. The deluded king.

[jlake]

51. Hannity is vile. Obama shouldn't resign -- but he should take a good look in the mirror.

Racial divisiveness is alive and well from all corners. And Obama's church promotes it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

52. I have two choice words for Spawn HalfNutty, and they aren't

Merry Christmas.

[Avalux]

58. OK. McCain should resign also for his having his head up Hagee's ass.

Hagee:

"All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are — were recipients of the judgment of God for that. And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans."

I found this but believe me; that man has said a lot worse (if that's even possible).

[AZBlue]

60. Then Clinton and quite a few others should resign because of Coe.

[Frumious B]

61. Hey Hannity....

By your logic every elected Republican with an endorsement from the Christian Coalition should also resign.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

62. Hannity reminds me of Elmer Fudd: 'I've GOT you now, you wascally wabbit'

I believe that remark is going to haunt him. This may be Hannity's last crusade--at least for those dumbed-down American mass media consumers who still have medium- and long-term memory.

[Uzybone]

65. Fuck Hannity

why are we posting him here? This place has gone to shit.

[casus belli]

66. Strangely, they're able to ignore most of Ann Coulter's bile.

Strange animal, these Republicans. They don't seem to mind the smell of their own feces, yet can constantly be found sniffing about other people's to see how badly it stinks.

[Warren DeMontague]

69. Weird, isn't it?

They think she's so witty when she starts frothing at the mouth, fantasizing about how she wants to run around beating liberals with baseball bats.

[Life Long Dem]

72. I can't believe someone would say something like that toward Obama.

That's crazy. He wasn't even there to see or hear him say those things and if he did he would tell the pastor his thoughts.

Hannity would have people think Obama needs a babysitter - to tell him what he can or can't listen to.

Does everyone know this isn't the only pastor to say "America deserved 9/11"? Robertson who endorsed Rudy said the same thing. So didn't Jerry Falwell.

"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve," said Falwell, appearing yesterday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club," hosted by Robertson.

"Jerry, that's my feeling," Robertson responded. "I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population."

So is this one set of standards for one guy opposed to another guy?

[Pushed To The Left]

73. K&R I don't know who is worse: RW hosts like Hannity, or the idiot voters that let RW radio

influence them. Unfortunately, I see some posts at DU by some so-called progressives who are falling for Hannity's bullshit and repeating his anti-Obama talking points.

[LTR]

74. Okay, then we can remove all the congresspeople that support Robertson, Falwell, Moon, etc.

That should wipe out most of the Republicans in Congress.

[PatGund]

75. Makes sense....

Faux News wants to do anything they can to get Clinton as the nominee. They've been pimping her as the nominee for three or more years now.

[better tomorrow]

76. should McCain resign because of Hagee, then?

in my opinion, there are 100 Senators that need to resign...all at the same time....well, almost all of them....

[cooolandrew]

77. Just as soon as Hannity doe for destroying America. People need to protest that statino seriously.

[Raine]

78. In his dreams...

:rofl:

[bhikkhu]

79. Whatever. He'll wind up chief butler in in *'s Paraguayan estate

Bossing around the under-butlers.

One can hope, at least.

[1776Forever]

84. Doesn't this show just how much they want McCain / HRC to win? It is to me!

Obama is getting bombarded right now by all kinds of assaults from those who support the military industrial complex!

It only takes a little looking to see that McCain and HRC supported the Iraq War and the Kyle-Liberman bill to support going after Iran. Can HRC or McCain deny that?

Keep Vigilant! That is what our Revolutionary Forefathers said!

:headbang:

[Forkboy]

86. Anyone agreeing with Hannity should do the world a favor and blow their brains out.

[Hoof Hearted]

89. don't expect them to drop it, not just anytime soon, but ever.