Reply #23: Sean Hannity Began This

[DrFunkenstein]

Hannity uses the out-of-context quote to launch a vicious attack on Kerry—which Hannity knows not to be true because Hannity saw the original context of the quote. Here is what Hannity—like Pruden--said that Kerry said:

"They ... raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside."

Right after he gave Kerry's out-of-context quote, here is what Hannity said: "That's what John Kerry says he witnessed with his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. John Kerry said that."

http://www.scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_scoobiedavis_archive.html#107636259007109229

It was then followed up by The Washington Times.

http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2004_02_08_archive.html#107656099795297489

Welcome to the origin of a smear campaign.