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Fox News host: Repeat after me
Link Harry Shearer the clip is about 34 minutes into the broadcast. The entire program is worth listening to, Harry Shearer is simply brillant, and here is a quicktime version of just the clip (484K 3'23) for those that have problems with Real Audio.
If the conservative guests on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" sound especially on-message, that's because they're being coached by the best:
Sean Hannity himself.
On the March 31 installment of the shouting-head show, the guests included two of the late Terri Schiavo's former nurses, Trudy Capone and Carla Sauer Iyer, arguing that their patient wasn't brain-dead.
Between commercials, according to an off-air audiotape obtained by investigative comedian Harry Shearer for last Sunday's episode of his weekly radio program, "Le Show," Hannity coached the women on exactly how to respond when liberal co-host Alan Colmes cross-examined them.
"Just say, 'I'm here to tell what I saw,'" Hannity can be heard instructing his guests. "No matter what the question, 'I'm here to tell you what I saw. I'm here to tell you what I saw.'"
Hannity adds helpfully: "Say, 'I'm not going to be distracted by silliness.' How's that? Does that help you? Look into that camera. Look at me when I'm talking."
On the air, Iyer performs beautifully. "I don't have any opinions or judgments. I was there," she declares
After the segment ends, Hannity gushes off the air to the nurses: "We got the points out. It's hard, this isn't easy. But you did great, both of you. Thank you, guys. Those nurses are powerful, aren't they?"
On his radio show, Shearer injected: "Yeah, especially when they do what you tell 'em to do. Very powerful when they follow instructions from the host!"
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I think Keith Olbermann said it best: "Sorry, 'most hosts' do not give 'media training' to guests before a broadcast. Conceivably, you might calm down a nervous guest by going over the topics in advance, or telling them stories of the commonality of nervousness. But that's not what the tapes indicate Hannity's doing: he's telling them how to avoid questions by his own co-host so that their story -- true or false -- goes unchallenged. It would be considered journalistic fraud, if Sean Hannity were a journalist and not a propagandist hack."
Posted by: CLS | April 16, 2005 5:10 PM
"Viagra's Israeli manufacturer, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals-Israel, said swallowing the capsule does not breach Jewish law because the Viagra would not come into direct contact with the body."
Doesn't come in direct contact with the body? Except for when it is absorbed, distributed, and metabolized. Surely, Pfizer's pharmaceutical scientists understand how their drugs work, right?
Wha?
Posted by: Victoria | April 16, 2005 6:19 PM
Anyone who doesn't know that Fox News are filled of a bunch of partisan hacks is ignorant.
I read a bit of Michael Moore's "Dude, Where's my Country?" today. He made an interesting point: that the conservatives are angry at liberals despite controlling both houses of congress and the presidency. Why? Because they're actually the minority. Most people want healthcare, equitable income distribution, and for people who commit white collar crimes to go to jail.
Thus the logic of going after professors. Because critical thinking is BAD.
Posted by: history | April 16, 2005 8:43 PM
Is David Horowitz on record as being in favor of putting all Muslims in the US in jail?
Posted by: anon | April 17, 2005 1:55 PM
The nurses should be fired from their jobs for doing something like that. In the sad event that you were terminally ill, conscious or not, would you want some nurses afterwards pretending to talk about your medical situation after you died, using the appearance for political purposes? Oh, yeah, I forgot, Congress passed a law saying Schiavo had no privacy or dignity, didn't they?
Posted by: anon | April 19, 2005 4:11 AM