Hannity predicted the results almost perfectly.: could he be involved?

[ahyums]

I mentioned this in another thread, but wanted to expand on it a bit. Before the election I was making a regular habit of watching the O Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes, in order to better understand the enemy, as painful as it was one thing I couldn't wait for was watching the reaction when Bush finally lost, I thought they were all living in a complete fantasy world. In fact the one positive which I did seize on after Kerry conceded was that at least I wouldn't have to go anywhere near Fox News for a good few years. In the time of great depression on November 3rd and 4th among many things, one thing that upset me was that Hannity was at that moment no doubt gloating like crazy, but I also remembered the prediction he gave before the election.

At the time before I started really looking into this whole fraud business I was just upset that he was right with it, but recently - and the other thread reminded me of this, I've started to be quite suspicious, he was fairly specific about it not only in the electoral vote but in the Senate as well and for him to have got it so accurately, (and I'm pretty sure he did because I remember thinking at the time that he was deluded and later feeling the hurt), seems quite dodgy to me, particularly given that he was such good friends with Bush Cheney etc. It might of course be that he knew what was coming but I think there might be more in it.

Oh and another thing, he was boasting about how accurate his prediction was in 2002 and I believe there are serious questions about that election too.

[morningglory]

1. Didn't Cheney make a prediction also? Was it a Man Date? n/t

[Razorback_Democrat]

2. Hey Hannity's Radio Program Started The Day Before 9/11

I guess if he had "inside information" about when to start a radio show for rat wangers, that would be the day to start.

If there was fraud, he probably is enough on the inside to know it.

[rooboy]

5. Paula Zahn's first day at CNN was on 9/11. n/t

[BlueDog2u]

16. That's quite a factoid for you. n/t

[Downtown Hound]

3. No way

Sean Hannity is a brilliant political analyst with his pulse on the culture and his sharp, witty mind in the stream of things. He's never wrong about anything.

Do I really need to mention that I'm being sarcastic? God even writing that made my skin crawl.

[Chimpanzee]

20. I'm glad you put in that last line

I was about to call out 'FREEPER ALERT'!!

[Jasper 91]

4. I don't think so , purely because he was fretting so much.

Someone on here said that on his radio show, he was in a right panic and was telling everyone to go and vote for *. Surely if he was complicit in the fraud, he would have been calmer and more like his usual smug self.

[demgrrrll]

8. I agree. I was listening that morning to see if I could get a read on what

was going on and in the morning they were begging people to go out and vote. Begging. Things calmed down in the late afternoon and that is when I started to get very very worried. I had a very bad feeling.
Laura I. was also in panic mode early on. My feeling is that someone let them know the fix was in or at minimum that they had "won" sometime in the late afternoon or early evening.

[ahyums]

14. so, what? in the morning they were going out about how every vote counts

and how you could make the difference and by afternoon they weren't or did they seem downright confident in the afternoon?

[tridim]

6. So did Rove.

"I think we're going to win about 52% of the popular vote."

[Spongebob76]

10. The imperfection of the Matrix

I have read about Rove's "prediction" in my local newspaper.
I can not help it, but it seems that sometimes Republicans can not shut up about their dirty plans. They just have to brag about it.
Just like the CEO of Diebold last year.
Every now and then something slips out of their mouthes and it makes you wonder if it's not time to swallow the red pill an face the real world. (Actually in the movie the red pill should have been the blue pill :-))

[ahyums]

13. I think there's also some kind of strategy of misinformation

where if the truth is so far outside of most people's line of thinking putting it right out in the open makes the reality somehow even less credible, because you are left with the standard of not only "that couldn't have happened but also he couldn't possibly have said that if that would have happened. Another possibility is the criminal's need to brag about his crime and taunt which I believe also exists.

[Verve]

7. Bush is an idiot. But I don't think he or his admin is idiotic enough to

let Hannity in on the rigging!

[ahyums]

9. you would think so but the alternative is that he is brilliant political

predictor and I really don't like that idea.

[ahyums]

11. I've just thought about it a bit more and the more likely explanation is

that he went to get a prediction from someone inside the campaign/administration/republican party either four or two years ago, gave it out on air as his own, liked how accurate it was and went back to the same person this time. That person was in on it. SO when this all breaks someone remember to subpoena Sean Hannity

[BlueDog2u]

17. That's a pretty good speculation n/t

[GingerSnaps]

12. Hannity is not very intelligent

He could have easily let the cat out of the bag and he wouldn't have even known it.

I hope he goes down :evilgrin:

[bobbyboucher]

15. I remember on election day, I listened to Hugh Hewitt, that ass,

about the time when things were looking good for Kerry, I'd say about 3:30 PM Pacific, and the monkeys were calling him in a panic about the turnout and the exit polls and he kept telling them, don't worry, calm down, Bush is going to win easily, he will win 40 states.

How many states did Bush win?

[Stop Shrub]

21. actually meet Hewitt last week

He spoke in a class I'm taking, he lambasted olberman and completely dismissed any thought of voter fraud, but honestly I doubt he knew anything he seemed like an honest, but yet completely misguided individual.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. If Hannity knew then why the Karen Hughes/* Worried Sham>?

It was said that Karen Hughes tried to lower Chimpy's expectations on election afternoon. Why? If they already knew. Last night, people on DU were trying to analyze the tape of * and family -- looking for a signal. Like, Kerry won, so the fix is on -- screw with the machines. So if there's truth in that, then Karen Hughes is not in on the scam.

[righteous1]

19. You are kidding...right?

Conspiracy theories are great but don't you think S Hannity being involved in some sort of grand scheme to steal the election from JK might be just a wee bit over the top?

[ahyums]

22. see my later posts, and yes just a bit over the top although I'm sure he'd

jump at the chance to fix this and every election in the future if it was offered to him

[tex-wyo-dem]

23. I doubt Hannity was in the "know" on anything...

except for, maybe, some inside info he may have picked up from people he knew in the Bush campain. One thing I remember well is driving home from work on Nov. 2 (around 5:30 cst) and hearing Hannity on the radio literally begging people (i.e. Rethugs) in the east to get to the polls and vote. He sounded really concerned...probably from the exit polls that showed Kerry up big.

[go west young man]

24. I go with the theory that someone

leaked it to him sometime but he wasn't really in on it. He's a dumbass opportunist loudmouth and they know they couldn't tell him what they actually had planned. The guys a roach though. Smug. Obnoxious. Probably wouldn't let other kids play with his ball when he was a kid. Damn I'm on a rant. I hope he or his people cruise these boards!