# Hannity calls tea-baggers "Tim McVeigh wanna-bees." **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638 "2010-04-01T20:20:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/1 "2010-04-01T20:20:09Z")
[And they cheer](http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002641/). :rolleyes: This should come back to haunt every Repug that courted these nutballs come November, and haunt the party until it goes the way of the Know-Nothings Party, which they are starting to resemble. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/2 "2010-04-01T20:23:31Z")
Heh. You know, for a moment there I thought Hannity had experienced a moment of clarity. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/3 "2010-04-01T20:27:07Z")
About nine seconds. But it was a hell of a nine seconds. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/4 "2010-04-01T20:27:43Z")
WTF is wrong with these people?? God damn it, I swear, not a day goes by that these shit-stained animal fuckers don’t do something that drives one more nail into the coffin of political sanity. NOW they cheer a mass murdering terrorist? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/5 "2010-04-01T20:32:19Z")
Sean Hannity is sucking them off. Are they the mainstream of the Republican Party yet? Do they speak for the GOP? More importantly, wasn’t Tim McVeigh known for ironically threatening violence as a rhetorical device, and isn’t in the case that anyone who would suspect him of violent actions or intent is a goddamned moron? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/6 "2010-04-01T20:43:20Z")
He kind of tricked them though… when he says “these tea party people” they start to cheer, and then he appends “Tim McVeigh wannabes” after they’ve already started cheering. It’s pretty hard for an entire crowd to stop cheering once they’ve started, ya know. I bet there were a lot of "wait, what did he say?"s after it sunk in a few moments later. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/7 "2010-04-01T21:17:22Z")
I’m going to have to call “bullshit” on this. The video cuts away from him, but more important: it makes no sense. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that someone edited it, KOS posted it, because they will post anything anti-conservative, and the liberal throngs will cheer and laugh. I also predict that when it’s shown to be other than it appears, some will laugh even harder saying April Fools!". ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/8 "2010-04-01T21:55:12Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I’m going to have to call “bullshit” on this. The video cuts away from him, but more important: it makes no sense. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that someone edited it, KOS posted it, because they will post anything anti-conservative, and the liberal throngs will cheer and laugh. I also predict that when it’s shown to be other than it appears, some will laugh even harder saying April Fools!". I Think he was being ironic, the proper quote would be like you “wannabe timothy Mcveighs” ( as in the librul media believes you are that) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/9 "2010-04-01T22:05:53Z")
Even if the video hasn’t been edited - and I admit it might be - the crowd starts cheering **before** he says “Tim McVeigh wannabees.” It would be terrific RO if they were cheering at being called terrorists, but they simply were not. Furthermore, earlier i nthe interview, Hannity has used the term to note that Tea Party folks were being called “Tim McVeigh wannabees” by “liberals,” so he clearly meant it ironically on second reference. Here is the earlier quote: [QUOTE=Sean Hannity] “We’ve got veterans, we’ve got stay-at-home moms, people who really don’t like the direction of the country. They’re speaking out and they’ve been compared to terrorists, Tim McVeigh-wannabes. They’ve been called un-American. They’ve been called every name in the book. Now, the latest attack is that these people are violent,” he said. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/10 "2010-04-01T22:10:30Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I Think he was being ironic, the proper quote would be like you “wannabe timothy Mcveighs” ( as in the librul media believes you are that) [Bingo.](http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0401/sean-hannity-call-audience-tim-mcveighwannabes/) Not bullshit, not edited; an attempt at sarcasm that he’s now going to have to go back and explain any time someone calls him on it. Funny that if people are really going around calling Teapartiers “Tim McVeigh wannabes”, this is the first time I’ve heard it. One might think it’s a bit of manufactured outrage. Brilliant work as usual, Hannity. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/11 "2010-04-01T22:17:58Z")
Right. He’s mocking the tea party’s critics. He had made a comment earlier, one or two days before, I think, saying about the tea partiers: > [@](#): > > We’ve got veterans, we’ve got stay-at-home moms, people who really don’t like the direction of the country. They’re speaking out and they’ve been compared to terrorists, Tim McVeigh-wannabes. They’ve been called un-American. They’ve been called every name in the book. Now, the latest attack is that these people are violent. Then, a few days before that, on his FOX show, he was talking to Charlie Gasparino, and the conversation went: > [@](#): > > Gasparino: But, you know, the real story is the debasement of discourse in America right now from that — that is out there. And that’s what this is about. It’s not — both sides have their crazies. > > The Tea party People, you know, by and large mainstream. I mean I’ve met with them. What are they talking about? They talk about lower taxes, less government. They’re not talking bombing the White House. > > Hannity: But — I never understood this from the beginning. But why would the Democratic Party specifically target the Tea Party movement? Tim McVeigh wannabes, un-American? > I mean what’s more quintessentially American than saying kill the bill, exercising your First Amendment rights, limited government, lower taxes, speaking out against socialism? What’s so bad about this? So, yeah, it’s sarcasm on his part. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/12 "2010-04-01T22:37:45Z")
You want the tea-baggers destroyed? Pray for them to grow. Sooner or later, the fight to control them will break out, right about the time they set down to define the issues that totally unite them, and then to prioritize which of them are most urgent, and which can wait for another round or two. And the bigger they are, the more insane the fight will be. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/13 "2010-04-01T22:48:02Z")
Ok, enough posters seemed to be taking this seriously that I started the clock again while I did some Googling. Apparently this happened two days ago, so…it’s _not_ an April Fools’ joke? Fuck me running. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/14 "2010-04-01T22:54:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You want the tea-baggers destroyed? Pray for them to grow. Sooner or later, the fight to control them will break out, right about the time they set down to define the issues that totally unite them, and then to prioritize which of them are most urgent, and which can wait for another round or two. And the bigger they are, the more insane the fight will be. They’ve already splintered. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/15 "2010-04-01T23:09:17Z")
… and the splintering is already on Youtube! [Life of Brian - Shoe Prophesy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywIYQEHZLs) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/16 "2010-04-01T23:44:41Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > They’ve already splintered. I saw some guy on CNN advising people not to donate to the RNC any more (in light of money being spent at lesbian fetish clubs and such), while speaking positively about the teabaggers, which made me laugh a little. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/17 "2010-04-01T23:50:18Z")
So, the lesbian tea-baggers will break off? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/18 "2010-04-01T23:57:19Z")
Break off what? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/19 "2010-04-01T23:58:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > So, the lesbian tea-baggers will break off? Sounds like a hardware malfunction. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638/20 "2010-04-01T23:59:55Z")
Bullshit! Software issue, clearly. Consult your vendor and don’t call back. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-tea-baggers-tim-mcveigh-wanna-bees/534638.md?page=2)