# SHOCKING NEWS: Sean Hannity is a Lying Douchebag! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594 "2009-07-10T18:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/101 "2009-07-11T01:20:01Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > I edited your bloviating. > > My God, man! If you’re going to call me “stupid”, could you do it in less that a whole page? I mean, it’s a very short word. **Stupid.** > [@](#): > > But no, I’m not stupid. As a matter of fact, I’d put real money on being smarter than you by a country mile Cite? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/102 "2009-07-11T01:24:43Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > ..I’d put real money on being smarter than you by a country mile. Good, I can use some right about now. How do we set this up? Would it be entirely legal, or would we run into one of those “cruelty” things? So, morning line, ten to one on **Lobohan?** Not quite fair. How about ten to one, and Lobo has to take two shots tequila and bongwater? Better? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/103 "2009-07-11T01:27:41Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > I’m getting the distict vibe that people like me threaten you. And by people like me I mean people who aren’t intimidated by lefties. > > Here, I’ll be sporting. Here are some predictions that will be easy to disprove within the next 5 years. If they are disproven, I’ll come back here and debase myself. Ready? > > #1 - Left wing views are much less popular among young people than older people think. > > #2 - The “green” movement will fall apart fairly soon. > > #3 - The next president will be a conservative. Popularity doesn’t have anything to do with how right something is. Liberalism could be trod under by jack booted god police and the country could become a theocracy. That woudln’t mean that the conservative policies were correct, outlawing the teaching of evolution doesn’t mean it’s not true. > [@](#): > > By the way, here’s something to chew on, intellectually. It’s Freudian. > > Environmentalism = Death Instinct. Nom nom nom… Jesus you’re an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/104 "2009-07-11T01:31:05Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Good, I can use some right about now. How do we set this up? Would it be entirely legal, or would we run into one of those “cruelty” things? So, morning line, ten to one on **Lobohan?** Not quite fair. How about ten to one, and Lobo has to take two shots tequila and bongwater? Better? I’ll eat five tins of baked beans and a handfull of sleeping pills. Use a ouija board to interpret my farts and I’ll still score better than him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/105 "2009-07-11T01:39:21Z")
**BugMeNot2** : Here’s a proposal, since you seem interested in betting. I think your predictions are too vague to form the basis of a bet. But if we make them more concrete, they might be viable. How about these? #1 Support for gay marriage, legalized abortion, and premarital sex will decrease from current levels by a statistically significant margin by December 2012 within at least two major polls using the same questions over time. #2 Public support for recycling and alternative energy will decrease by a statistically significant margin by December 2012 according to at least two major polls using the same questions over time. #3: A republican who gets less than 20% crossover votes from self-identified Democrats will win the presidential election in 2012. Would you be willing to place a bet on those? Say, perhaps, you will never post again if 0/3 come true and I’ll do the same if 3/3 are true? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/106 "2009-07-11T01:50:40Z")
It’s not going to take anywhere near 3.5 years for him to be out of here. ---
**Author:** ![BugMeNot2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@BugMeNot2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BugMeNot2)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/107 "2009-07-11T01:51:49Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Here’s a proposal, since you seem interested in betting. I think your predictions are too vague to form the basis of a bet. But if we make them more concrete, they might be viable. How about these? > > #1 Support for gay marriage, legalized abortion, and premarital sex will decrease from current levels by a statistically significant margin by December 2012 within at least two major polls using the same questions over time. Whoa. Have you been keeping up with the polls? Support for abortion is already tanking. Has been for years. And rates of teenage pregnancy are declining as the teen population becomes more religious and more prudish. What? I can’t be right! Wait…I am. Again, it’s the internet, have a look. I already have. > [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > #2 Public support for recycling and alternative energy will decrease by a statistically significant margin by December 2012 according to at least two major polls using the same questions over time. Hopefully these “alternative energy” sources will be paramount: Oil Shale Nuclear (fission) Clean Coal Oil sands Methane hydrates Fusion Not the “alternative energy” sources trumpeted by the granola set. > [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > #3: A republican who gets less than 20% crossover votes from self-identified Democrats will win the presidential election in 2012. > > Would you be willing to place a bet on those? Say, perhaps, you will never post again if 0/3 come true and I’ll do the same if 3/3 are true? So what happens if 2/3 come true? Push? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/108 "2009-07-11T02:04:44Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > Whoa. Have you been keeping up with the polls? Support for abortion is already tanking. Has been for years. And rates of teenage pregnancy are declining as the teen population becomes more religious and more prudish. What? I can’t be right! Wait…I am. Again, it’s the internet, have a look. I already have. See, this is the sort of thing that requires a cite, and not in the form of three cherry-picked data points over the past four years. > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > Oil Shale > Nuclear (fission) > Clean Coal > Oil sands > Methane hydrates > Fusion > > Not the “alternative energy” sources trumpeted by the granola set. In what way are these alternative energy sources? Two of them don’t even exist in a remotely commercially viable way yet, and two others are simply far more expensive than the results they produce. What’s your problem with wind, geothermal, solar, etc.? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/109 "2009-07-11T02:06:34Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > So what happens if 2/3 come true? Push? That’s where the pinatas and the tub of Crisco come into play where you both will… I’ve said too much. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/110 "2009-07-11T02:09:40Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > I’m getting the distict vibe that people like me threaten you. Is this an admission that responding to you isn’t worth our time? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/111 "2009-07-11T02:10:02Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > I’m getting the distict vibe that people like me threaten you. And by people like me I mean people who aren’t intimidated by lefties. > > Here, I’ll be sporting. Here are some predictions that will be easy to disprove within the next 5 years. If they are disproven, I’ll come back here and debase myself. Ready? Do we need to wait 5 years? How about now? > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > #1 - Left wing views are much less popular among young people than older people think. > **[Democrats Do Best Among Generation Y and Baby Boomers](https://news.gallup.com/poll/118285/democrats-best-among-generation-baby-boomers.aspx)** > > Democrats have their greatest party identification advantage over Republicans among young Americans under 30 and among baby boomers. Democrats still have an advantage, although somewhat smaller, among seniors and in particular among Americans in... > [@](#): > > From a broad perspective, Republicans face a deficit among Americans of all ages. At no single age does the percent Republican exceed the percent Democrat. Still, the range of this Democratic advantage (% Democrat minus % Republican) is quite large, extending from an 18 percentage point Democratic advantage among those 21, 23, and 25, down to just a to 3-point edge among those 39, 43, and 69. > > … > > · Generation Y (18 to 29) clearly is skewed fairly strongly in the direction of being either independent or Democratic in political orientation. This group constitutes a significant weakness for the Republican Party. > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > #2 - The “green” movement will fall apart fairly soon. Just wishful thinking, the environmental impact caused by humans is not going away. [http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1885804,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1885804,00.html) > [@](#): > > The key is to figure out where that tipping point lies: how much carbon do we have to pump into the atmosphere and how much warmer does the climate need to be before get there? A team of researchers led by Elmar Kriegler of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany posed those questions to 43 of world’s top climatologists. Their answers, reported in an intriguing study published in the Mar. 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), basically amounted to, We don’t really know. The scientists agreed that there was a significant chance that tipping points would be crossed this century — or the next — especially if we fail to reduce carbon emissions and if global temperatures rise considerably over the coming decades. (Which, as we know, is likely to happen without a concerted global effort to cut CO2.) But the reality is that the climate system remains too complex, the future to difficult to predict, to peg exactly when we’ve passed the point of no return. We may not know the asteroid is about to hit us until it’s over our heads. > > That uncertainty has an obvious impact on the world’s response to global warming. Scientists can warn us repeatedly that adding billions of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere will eventually cause severe, even irreparable damage to the planet and to us — but they can’t tell us exactly when the catastrophe will occur. (Small pieces of it already have — the Arctic ice cap has already shrunk considerably, and dozens of frog species alone have gone extinct thanks to warming.) So climate change inevitably fades from the news and the public agenda, replaced by more urgent concerns: the recession, wars, terrorism. It’s perfectly understandable that many of us would take refuge in the uncertainty, and hope that we’ll somehow have the climate problem solved before we cross the tipping point. That would be a mistake. It may come later — or it may come sooner. We’ll never get an exact date. But the asteroid is on its way. > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > #3 - The next president will be a conservative. Perhaps, after the second Obama term. 🙂 Of course, I do think that the demographics mean that a Republican will have a hard time winning the presidency. But I have the hunch that if they win the presidency it will be with a candidate that is not so conservative. It is very likely that conservatives will call that candidate a RINO. > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > By the way, here’s something to chew on, intellectually. It’s Freudian. > > Environmentalism = Death Instinct. Uh, no, IIRC Freud’s death drive was a condition that humans can reach when trying to gain extreme pleasures, which can lead to death. What I do see is that currently humanity is telling the scientists to minimize their warnings, that is better to enjoy the current fossil fuel status even if it leads to disaster in regions of the earth. It is not the environmentalists who are pushing for humanity to adopt a death instinct. Stupid. ---
**Author:** ![BugMeNot2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@BugMeNot2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BugMeNot2)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/112 "2009-07-11T02:25:20Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Uh, no, IIRC Freud’s death drive was a condition that humans can reach when trying to gain extreme pleasures, which can lead to death. What I do see is that currently humanity is telling the scientists to minimize their warnings, that is better to enjoy the current fossil fuel status even if it leads to disaster in regions of the earth. > > It is not the environmentalists who are pushing for humanity to adopt a death instinct. > > Stupid. I see you’re having problems understanding my allusion. Let’s try again. Worrying that we are somehow “destroying the environment” (what does that even MEAN?) and therefore we should 1. scale back industry to 1800s levels. 2. abandon mass transit and ideas like “suburbs” and “commuting”. 3. cripple our economy could be seen as a manifestation of Freud’s idea of the “death instinct”. Societal guilt? Liberals have it on a massive scale. We don’t belong on earth, we are somehow abnormal and abhorrent, we have “lost our connection with nature”, we are “destroying the planet”, we are evil, we are greedy, we are like viruses, we are like parasites, etc etc… Scratch the surface of the environmental movement and you will find all the self-loathing of the worst flagellants from the middle ages. We don’t deserve to live! We should stop having children! We should reduce the human population! Fetuses aren’t babies! Even if they are, we don’t want babies! Babies are killing the earth! Stop having children! Stop driving your car! Stop using light bulbs! We suck! We should die! The planet would be better off without us! = Death Instinct. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/113 "2009-07-11T02:30:29Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Well, leave it to Sean Hannity to edit the President’s words. While doing an interview for FOX, Major Garret asked Obama a ridiculous question, which Obama answered quite well. Well, leave it to Sean Hannity to chop the interview to make up some inane lie about Obama not knowing history and to basically someohow cast aspersions on the President that he HATES AMERICA!!! > > [Side-by-side comparison of viedo](http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001915/) > > Couldn’t these guys at least be more discreet, less brazen, in their own dishonesty? I mean this is an interview from their OWN “news” channel, fer crissakes. Well, thanks for apprising us all of the latest democrat talking points. I’m rather unimpressed. I don’t think what the President said is all that bad, and I don’t think how Hannity shortened made it look any worse. So, big non-event for me. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/114 "2009-07-11T02:30:36Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > We don’t deserve to live! We should stop having children! We should reduce the human population! Fetuses aren’t babies! Even if they are, we don’t want babies! Babies are killing the earth! Stop having children! Stop driving your car! Stop using light bulbs! We suck! We should die! The planet would be better off without us! > > = Death Instinct. This post is funnier if you read it in a Butthead voice. I need TP for my bunghole! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/115 "2009-07-11T02:34:12Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > I see you’re having problems understanding my allusion. Let’s try again. > > Worrying that we are somehow “destroying the environment” (what does that even MEAN?) and therefore we should > > 1. scale back industry to 1800s levels. Ignorant and wrong reply. > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > 1. abandon mass transit and ideas like “suburbs” and “commuting”. Cite for this too? Mass transit use is one item that is pushed as a solution. > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > 1. cripple our economy Ignorant reply also. > **[Real Climate Economics - General Perspectives](https://www.realclimateeconomics.org/general_perspectives.html)** > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > could be seen as a manifestation of Freud’s idea of the “death instinct”. Since your points are ignorant your conclusions are also. > [@BugMeNot2](#): > > Societal guilt? Liberals have it on a massive scale. We don’t belong on earth, we are somehow abnormal and abhorrent, we have “lost our connection with nature”, we are “destroying the planet”, we are evil, we are greedy, we are like viruses, we are like parasites, etc etc… > > Scratch the surface of the environmental movement and you will find all the self-loathing of the worst flagellants from the middle ages. > > We don’t deserve to live! We should stop having children! We should reduce the human population! Fetuses aren’t babies! Even if they are, we don’t want babies! Babies are killing the earth! Stop having children! Stop driving your car! Stop using light bulbs! We suck! We should die! The planet would be better off without us! > > = Death Instinct. As almost all that you mention is not required by the environmentalists and scientists, one can only conclude that you exude stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/116 "2009-07-11T02:41:12Z")
BTW, everyone here can notice that you skipped dealing with the demonstration that you were wrong regarding the youth of America. We are waiting for the self-debasing that you promised. As for the subject at hand, yes, Sean Hannity is a Lying Douche bag. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/117 "2009-07-11T02:46:31Z")
> [@BugMeNot2](#): > > So what happens if 2/3 come true? Push? You’ll be proven wrong about you initial assertions, but I won’t remind you too much. Anyway, I take your last post to be a display of confidence. So do we have a deal? > [@Captain Carrot](#): > > It’s not going to take anywhere near 3.5 years for him to be out of here. I agree that’s likely, but I figure I got nothin’ to lose. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/118 "2009-07-11T02:49:50Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Well, thanks for apprising us all of the latest Democratic talking points. I’m rather unimpressed. I don’t think what the President said is all that bad, and I don’t think how Hannity shortened made it look any worse. So, big non-event for me. Hannity said “Obama left out X!” after showing that video, when the original transcript and footage showed Obama saying X. You don’t think that reflects badly on Hannity? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/119 "2009-07-11T03:11:25Z")
Obama should answer every question posed to him by Fox by first stating: “Hannity is a lying douchebag.” Keep repeating this statement throughout any answer he gives. Hilarlity ensues as the Seanster tries to edit them all out for his nightly sewerfest. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594/120 "2009-07-11T03:12:25Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I"m sorry, I don’t see where the actual quote from Obama: > > Makes him look ignorant…??? > > I especially think that the part where Obama references “in this part of the world” is relevant. In other words, when in Europe, it is diplomatically correct to acknowledge Europe’s contributions to struggling for their own freedoms. > > How can this be construed in any fashion as ignorant? It can’t, actually… but in the future I should probably take greater care to identify my ironic comments as such. Comic Sans MS, maybe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-sean-hannity-is-a-lying-douchebag/502594.md?page=7)