Hannity calls Fred Phelps ultra-leftwing liberal
August 30, 2005 7:22 PM   Subscribe

Hannity calls Fred Phelps ultra-leftwing liberal On today's Sean Hannity show, Hannity had a rip roaring rant over "protesters" showing up and protesting at a soldiers funeral in Martinsville, Indiana. He called these protesters the worst kind of "ultra left-wing liberal." With a little help from Google, I found exactly who he was calling liberal. Turns out, the liberal was none other than the GodHatesFags.com founder, Fred Phelps.

I really don't think Hannity was calling Phelps a liberal. He never named the protesters as he usually does with Sheehan or Code Pink, this protester was unnamed. He also never said what was on the protest signs. I think he was just only using half the story to brew up hate and anger at those of us who are supportive of the troops and against the war in Iraq. That kinda puts Hannity on Phelp's level - it is all about the hate.
posted by StormBear (27 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: again, don't feed the troll



 
We shouldn't let people get used to these lies... is there a link to a place where we can verify that Hannity said this? With a link for a place to complain, we have all we need... we have to stand up to the liars.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 7:30 PM on August 30, 2005


Maybe you shouldn't listen?
posted by LarryC at 7:30 PM on August 30, 2005


GYOFFBLOGFWIT
posted by underer at 7:32 PM on August 30, 2005


Get Your Own Fucking Fucking Blogs Like Original Gangsters Fucking With Information Technology?
posted by Bugbread at 7:37 PM on August 30, 2005


Phelps has gone far off the deep end. It's becoming rapidly clear that he, or whoever is in charge of his organization, is mentally ill.
posted by mr_roboto at 7:40 PM on August 30, 2005


Get Your Own Fucking Fucking Blogs Like Original Gangsters Fucking With Information Technology?
Oh. That's really good.
posted by underer at 7:43 PM on August 30, 2005


Phelps off the deep end? Never.
posted by fleetmouse at 7:45 PM on August 30, 2005


Hannity a raving hate-mongering halfwit? Never.
posted by realcountrymusic at 7:47 PM on August 30, 2005


Get Your Own Fancy Foretelling Bloated Living Opinion, G. For Within It's Telling..
posted by Benway at 7:52 PM on August 30, 2005


Hannity has always been a lying sack of shit. You should email MediaMatters about this...they're good at getting more info and video.
posted by amberglow at 7:55 PM on August 30, 2005


Hannity is a dipshit. Phelps is, well, insane. But the URL provided in the FPP doesn't link the two. Am I missing something?
posted by me & my monkey at 7:59 PM on August 30, 2005


You should email MediaMatters about this...

Won't make a tiny fucking bit of difference. The people who listen to Hannity and eat his polished shit with a spoon will never come within a thousand miles of MediaMatters. Pissing in the wind, though it's worth documenting for posterity I suppose.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 8:04 PM on August 30, 2005


Am I missing something?

No, I think it's the FPP that's missing something. Like a point other than another excuse to trot out Fred Phelps.
posted by soyjoy at 8:12 PM on August 30, 2005


I would enjoy watching Phelps eat Hannity's brain. You know he'd do it.
posted by fungible at 8:19 PM on August 30, 2005


soyjoy: No, I think it's the FPP that's missing something. Like a point other than another excuse to trot out Fred Phelps.

C'mon... it's the local equivalent of Guy Fawkes Day.

Put 'em in the wicker man! Woo!
posted by Coda at 8:21 PM on August 30, 2005


Hold on, let me see if I have this right: Phelps is anti-military, and drags the flag on the ground. Why? Just because he thinks "don't ask, don't tell" is too "permissive"? Has nobody told him about the Navy's witch hunts, for example?

Was this soldier whose funeral it was gay, or is it just any old opportunity for a protest? And did any fake zombies join Phelp's protest to go with the real ones in his cult?

I'd expect Phelps to be a right-wing fascist "patriot", so frankly this story is hilarious.

(But no, I don't think Phelps is any more of a leftist than Clinton.)
posted by davy at 8:23 PM on August 30, 2005


Wouldn't Hannity recognize Phelps from the weekly meetings?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:28 PM on August 30, 2005


I'd put Phelps slightly left-of-center of Satan and centrist with respect to Hitler.
posted by Rothko at 8:31 PM on August 30, 2005


"Wouldn't Hannity recognize Phelps from the weekly meetings?"

Without the sheet and hood?
posted by davy at 8:32 PM on August 30, 2005


MAN. I knew the Phelps clan were borderline mentally ill, but it sounds like they're well past the borderline part now.

As for the post- we do need some sort of link to, or evidence of, Hannity's quote before this has legs.
posted by BoringPostcards at 8:35 PM on August 30, 2005


davy, the soldiers whose funerals they're picketing aren't gay at all--it's all Phelps' insanity and hatefulness.
posted by amberglow at 8:37 PM on August 30, 2005


Um,
I think you posted the same link twice, and it doesn't contain the words "hannity," "phelps" or even "liberal."
posted by Citizen Premier at 8:40 PM on August 30, 2005


*sob*

All my heroes are letting me down!
posted by sourwookie at 8:41 PM on August 30, 2005


Normally when you feed two trolls at once they snap and fight over what's in the bowl.
posted by sohcahtoa at 8:52 PM on August 30, 2005


Hold on, let me see if I have this right: Phelps is anti-military, and drags the flag on the ground. Why? Just because he thinks "don't ask, don't tell" is too "permissive"? Has nobody told him about the Navy's witch hunts, for example?

I think he is anti-military at the moment because he thinks that the tolerance of gays in the USA is why soldiers are dying in Iraq and thus, they deserve it.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 8:52 PM on August 30, 2005


clip is at...
http://www.ifthisbetreason.com/?p=115
posted by StormBear at 8:53 PM on August 30, 2005


Rothko : "I'd put Phelps slightly left-of-center of Satan and centrist with respect to Hitler."

I wasn't aware that Satan had a position on the "left-right" spectrum. After all, he supports drug use, prostitution, homosexuality, and the like (traditionally leftist), and also extreme capitalism, capital punishment, and the like (traditionally rightist). And then he proceeds to punish people who do those previously mentioned leftist things, and those previously mentioned rightist things.

I think it could safely be said that Satan, if anything, is an extremist political centrist.
posted by Bugbread at 8:54 PM on August 30, 2005


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