Hannity on the CNN Video Depicting a Group of School Children Singing Praises of Obama's Health Care Plan

Fox Flashback: Aug 25th (Hannity)

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Hannity's Headline

• Report by Griff Jenkins from Town Hall Held by Rep. Moran (D-VA) and Howard Dean in Reston, Virginia
• Organizing for America passed out thousands of signs in the audience. About 3,000 people are in attendance
  
• Last Night Chairman Dean said on MSNBC's TRMS this about Republican Lawmakers. "This shrinking Republican Party is just determined to undermine President Obama. Unfortunately you have to undermined the country to undermine the President. I think thats too bad." (You can find video on youtube, but I don't post MSNBC here.)
• When Jenkins asked him to clarify what he meant last night when he said Republicans were undermining the country. He said, "I didn't say that. I did not say that."
• They handed out George Washington's Rules of Civility to the crowd, but the crowd continued to get rowdy when Gov. Dean when he came out on stage about 1 hr into the event.
  

Tim Pawlenty (R-MN): That report showed the sights and sounds of democracy in action.

• 17 of 58 Democrat Senators are holding Town Hall Meetings, that is less than 1/3.
• Current Approval Rating: 45% Zogby, -11 Presidential Index Rating

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Reminder Story:

In Oregon there is a state run health care system very similar to the one that is being presented now.

In 2006 Barbara Wagner, a 64 year old universal health care recipient was diagnosed with lung cancer. She was refused the $4,000 drug that she needed for treatment because it was too expensive. She was instead offered the $50 pills to help in an "assisted suicide. (Yes, it's Legal in Oregon). After hearing her story

Tarceva, the drug company heard her story and sent a free year long supply of the medication that she needed. Barbara Wagner sadly lost her battle last October.

Click here to see the Original Story
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Hannity's America

• Dems are planning to combat the "Astroturf" Republicans with... Astroturf Democrats.
• DNC is planning to hosting 1,000 rallies in cities all over the country to promote gov't run health care.
  
• Politico.com reported that a special interest group Health Group for America Now is helping promote these fake town halls. Click the read article.
  

• The White House announced Obama's Reading List for his vacation:
  --Thomas L. Friedman: Hot, Flat and Crowded
  --Richard Price: Lush Life
  --Keny Haruf: Plainsong
  

• Hannity posed the question. Why doesnt President Obama take a moment to read the 1,018 page Health Care Bill?

(um Hannity, in addition to having something called common sense I also worked at a PR company and I'm guessing this was a weak attempt to win back a little love from the American people. He probably doesn't even have those books!!)

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Health Care Debate Language

Frank Lutz, pollster, on Hannity talks about the words that are being used by the Obama Administration in relation to the Health Care debate. The words are carefully chosen using focus group market research and polls. Apparently the leftist bloggers are viciously attacking the right for using this exact same gameplay. Lutz points out the injustice of the situation.

War of Words
Pro-Obama Team

Words to Use instead of Words to Shun
public instead of government
choice and control instead of competition
quality, affordable instead of universal coverage
sliding scale instead of free
prevention instead of wellness
rules instead of regulations
choice instead of medicare for all


WSJ, August 25, 2009
The Herndon Alliance
Frank Luntz

Fox Flashback: Aug 24th (Hannity)

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Hannity's Headlines

• Meanwhile Obama is in Martha's Vineyard and asked the media to give his family privacy.
• Media Double Standard:
  
  -- "Mr. President, There is a war on. You might consider hopping a plane to
  Washington."- Bob Herbert New York Times, April 9, 2004
  
  -- "...amounts to the belief that id he concentrates really hard - and stays in shape by
  regularly doing the Tour De Crawford on his mountain bike - he'll be able to summon a
  miracle." Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post, Aug 23, 2005
  
  -- "...with the nature of the problems confronting the world as well as this country, its just
  would be a little more comforting to make sure that he's around both departments and
  agencies and crises that hes got to confront." Leon Panetta, San Jose Mercury News,
  August 8, 2001

Guest: Dick Morris, author of Catastrophe

• Tomorrow the White House will announce that the country is in greater debt than they originally thought. White House increases 10 year deficit projection by 2 trillions.
  

• Polls show Democrats are suffering in Polls as Health Care Debates Rage on.
• Don't think that the Health Care plan will pass because Congress will start jumping ship as soon as they realize that the poll numbers are doing poorly.
• (paraphrasing) If we go into a double dip recession, if they pass health care reform in some way, and there is the bailout and all that and people think its because of Obama, well he is heading for a catastrophe.
  

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Great American Panel

Judith Miller: Fox News Contributor
Bob Beckel: "Common Ground" Co-Author
Cal Thomas: "Common Groun" Co-Author

• Topic: Maxine Waters: Aug 22: Calls the Senators that oppose the bill Neanderthals, says that they will pressure them to accept the bill and "we will say to the President we want you to use every weapon in you basket to get those Senators to do what they are doing."

Cal Thomas: You start calling people names when you start loosing the argument. That is what were seeing now.

Bob Beckel: Only you would pick up on Maxine Water. She is not a prominent democrat. You have to accept we are going to have some form health care reform whether you like it or not. ...We all have a right to express ourselves but wouldn't it be nice once to have a conversation thats quite from right and left, that doesn't do any good.

• Topic: Obama vacationing in his 29 acre estate while his approval rating start plumating, 45% on Zogby, very low on Rasmussen as well. (details in O'Reily Factor) What do you think?

Judith Miller: I think when your approval rating start plummeting, leave town! Don't do another town meeting for another day

Cal Thomas: This is a trend we need to encourage, get Congress out of town, get the President out of town, put up barracks don't let them back in.

Beckel: I said on this show his number would be down. You can't have a recession like this and not expect his numbers to be down. He is going to come back and hes going to come back strong and I will say it again just to bug you, the Greatest Economic President since FDR.

Hannity: Now you're out of your mind. Listen, the Canadian Medical Association says that that Canada's care is imploding...deteriorating. The Stanford Study say 70% say that German, Canadian, Australian, New Zeland, British adults want a complete rebuilding of their systems.
Why are we adopting it here as they are rejecting it there?

Thomas: I just spent a month in the UK and they can't get enough people to work as doctor and nurses.

Beckel: I am more than willing to pony up mine because health care in this country is a right, its not a privilege...

Hannity: Where does it say that in the Constitution?

Beckel: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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On a personal note, I really don't like Bob Beckel's viewpoints at all! Nor do I like his attitude. I never thought I'ld say this but bring back Cohn. Why is it that democrats are always so angry and nasty??

Fox Flashback: Aug 12th (Hannity)

In Houston, TX, Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D - TX) took the Townhall Meeting Disrespect to whole new level by taking a cell phone call while a cancer survivor was talking and asking her question.





Michelle Malkin Guest

• Congresswoman claims that she called the Health care hot line to get answers for her constituents. Seems like she came to the meetings very prepared.
• As an explanation she said that in Congress you have to multi-task
• She used her phone while two other people were asking her questions.
  

Why aren't we hearing real answers about the important questions about keeping health care, end of life conversation, privacy etc.- Hannity

• They are a distraction from the emotionalism and anecdotes with which Obama is selling Obamacare. the people that ask the questions are being mocked and treated as joke. There is now that questioning starting to arise even in other media and this is why they didn't want to have this long recess. The longer people have to understand the more in trouble they will be.

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Apparently Obama compared the Post Office and Fedex/UPS yesterday. Basically he stated that the Fedex/UPS is doing well in this economic time btu the Post Office is suffering. So what he basically said was the Medicare/Medicaid is suffering because of Public Insurance.

Really?

So the solution to that is what?

Get rid of the private healthca...I mean private mailing options.

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Hannity featured a woman who spoke out at a town hall meeting in Englewood, NJ with Congressman Steve Rothman. Diane Thurber-Wamsley talked about a very important issue in the health care bill, government funded abortions. (if anyone can find her video please let me know!)

See most people are saying that abortions aren't even in the Health Care bill....but that is the problem! Not too long ago some 19 House Democrats who are actually pro-life (Murtha of PA included) sent Pelosi a letter detailing some very imporant facts/demands.

• "Without an explicit exclusion, abortion could be included in the a government subsidized heath care plan under general health care. The health care reform package produced by Congress will be landmark, and with legislation as important as this, abortion must be addressed clearly in the bill text."

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WASTE ALERT!

• Here is an idea to reducing government waste. In a New York jail 11 inmates had collected $30,000 in unemployment benefits and were slated to receive another $18,000.
  

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EXTREME ALERT!!

"Climate Change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disaster. Water shortages will affect hundresd of millions of people...social unrest- even violence- could follow.......We have the power to change course. But we must do it now...We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet."
--Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General

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Great American Panel

Guests:
Ann Coulter, Author and Fox News Contributor
Pat Caddell, Fox News Contributor (Dem)
Mercedes Viana Schlapp, Republican Strategist

Hannity: Are you happy with the DNC, name calling etc?
Pat Caddell: As a democrat we are supposed to be party of common people...The DNC is on lock stop and barrel by the white house...by coming out and calling people a mob.... its unprecedented, beyond insensitivity it was stupid!
Hannity: That's interesting that you said that, I've never heard a democrat say that. The DNC is Obama.


Pat Caddell: I think they've (democrats) decide to push the mob idea because they want to get the issue off the specifics.

Fox Flashback: August 10th (Hannity and O'Reily)

Here are some highlights from The O'Reily Factor and Hannity

The O'Reily Factor

It is undeniable that people are staring to realize that most of the media aka CNN, MSNBC, NBC, etc are extremely liberal and totally biased. Fox news has gained a tremendous amount of support from conservatives in the past but it seems that moderates and perhaps, dare I say it, some liberals are starting to realize the hazards of a government influenced biased media source.

Factor Victory
8 PM Time Slot
August 6, 2009

Margin of Victory:
CNN 380%
MSNBC 247%
Headline News 299%

I was wondering why CNN had such a large margin of victory. While MSNBC, which I consider the most liberal and biased stations of all, had a smaller margin. After some consideration however I realize that the extreme liberals watch MSNBC and must still consider FOX the conservative biased network. While CNN attracted more moderate viewer. This is a nice realization that more Americans seem to be moderate perhaps.

The O'Reily Factor, Total Audience August 6, 2009 = 5.4 million CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Avg Audience July 2009 = 5.368 Million

Glenn Beck (5 pm), Shepard Smith (6 pm), Greta van Susteren (10 pm) and the Factor (8 pm) beat all four competitors combined.

• Dan Rather says that Obama needs to clean up the media. He wants a presidential panel to monitor the news and come up with solutions.

This is absolutely insane to me! Well, it really is not because Dan Rather is incredibly liberal but it is insane to think that the government should be regulating the media.

Let me ask you a questions? It illegal to smoke marijuana but people do it anyways right? Even if you don't agree that it should be illegal, is smoking pot still the wrong thing to do? If you didn't answer YES then maybe your hiding your bowl right now...

So lets play the rational game here. The government is already controlling the media in so many respects, just take a look at the media coverage for the 2008 election. There are those out there that believe the government should control the media, why? Because it benifits thier viewpoints. But just because those things are happeneing doesn't mean its right. (Nothing about that is "right"!)

• Bernie Goldberg author of the book "A slobbering Love Affair" claiming that word of mouth is why fox is growing. "views should be repected in the media even if its not being reflected"
  

As a guest today Bill had David Cerner, AARP Legislative Policys Director.

• O'Reily first showed the youtube video of the AARP meeting where the representatives left (reference the youtube videos on lower left hand corner)
• He then asked Cerner the questions about the memo that Nancy Pelosi drafted saying that AARP was partnering to sponser the bill. Cerner wouldn't comment on a memo citing ignorance and calling the letters existence into question. . "I don't believe that memo every came out" then later "as I understand that was a draft memo and when the final memo came out AARP was not included in that memo. Cerner simply kept repeating that they work with both sides of the asile.
• O'Reily proceeded to present the information that Barry Rand, AARP's CEO gave Obama 9 million dollars.
• Cerner on rationing of care: We would reject that idea. We would not support a system where there is a government take over. There should be choices between public and private.

Bill really seemed to be putting the pressure on this man to veer away from the talking points and give him a straight answer.

• University of Oregon- Liberal Professors outnumber Conservative Professors 14 to 1
• Woman in Oregon walks around naked and Police say there is nothing illegal about that.
  

IMPORTANT FACT: In Oregon there is a state run health care system. In 2006 Barbara Wagner, a 64 yr old universal health care recipient was diagnosed with lung cancer. She was refused the drug she needed for treatment because it was too expensive and was instead offered the $50 euthanasia option, also legal in Oregon. Barbara Wagner died from lung cancer.

"The bottom line in Health Care Reform is the bottom line"

• On one of NBC News shows a commentator talks about "right wing gun clinging Americans"- "There is a whole public out there stocked up on ammunition because they were afraid it would be taken away from them. I want to see what Fox News and Glenn Beck would say the day after one of those people go out and hurts the President or Congress"

Really! I would like to see what NBC would have said if someone goes out there and hurts Sarah Palin. Would they be responsible for increasing the liberal public hate for her.

• Palin talks about death panels and grandparents and trig being put to back of line
• Howard Dean- euthanasia is not in this bill
• Cynthia tucker Atlanta Journal Constitution: "45-46% of people appearing at these townhalls are people that would be never be happy with a black president"
  

WSJ reporting that Illegal Aliens will be reported and considered the same as us citizens in census. meaning that there will be more reps in the border towns.


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Hannity

Health Care Townhall Meeting Videos

John Dingell, Aug 6th ,Michigan
Tom Harkin , Aug 8th, Des Moines, IA

At this point Obamcare protesters have been called...

• un-American
• Nazi sympathizers
• Tim Mcvey sympathizers
• Organized Mobsters
• Brown Shirts
• Political Terrorist
  

"Drowning out opposing views is simply un-american"-Pelosi

• Dick Morris commenting on Health Care Reform Townhall Meeting (paraphrasing) "These old people are not the 18 year olds we saw during Carter. These are people that had to get up with their canes and make an effort to protest. I think they will try to ram this down the Americans throat with the 50 throats but if you can get all of these red state dem to see red then we have a chance. there is a chance if they are seeing the elderly turn to an anti-Obama group they will not push this through."
  

• Forbes.com estimates that the actual number of jobs lost last month is closer to 600,000 as opposed to 200,000 that Obama cited. This is due to the fact that in the summer months jobs are added.
  
• People who stopped looking for jobs were taken out of the unemplyment numbers, these people are called the discouraged unemployed.
• Unemployment in the ages 16-19 is at 23%.
• The deficit grew by 189 billion in July. Now the White House is asking Congress to increase debt limits.
• China holds 800 billion in US bonds

• Hannity had J Mark Campbell, cameraman from the Thursday, Tampa, townhall meeting where Union workers worked as security guards outside the doors and proheathcare constituents were set up in the front of the auditorium.

Great American Panel...
on Townhall Meetings

• People are ignorant to think that people just go there. They were called down and organized. You would pick the most compassionate people as well.
• This health care system is collapsing under its own weight!
• This is about control- government jumping in and taking control of individual lives and people do not want to let them

One word for Bob Beckle- bull. You are full of it! I am an American that has never been contacted by any organization. I would attend one of these meeting the minute I find out about one. The minute that one of my Senators decides that he has the nerve to face his employers and take the heat. And we all know there is plenty of heat in Florida.

On the 500 million they want to spend on airplanes...

• Congress approval rating 30% and they wonder why?
  
• Bob Beckle says its bad timing and should be taken off the table and it will be forgotten by next week

On what we gave to N.Korea for the two journalist...

• Now the US admin will hold talks with N.Korea.
  
• Kim Jun is sick and trying to give his son the government and will use the US talks as a confirmation of his power.
  
• Bob Beckle blames the Bush administration for not doing anything before
• Others on panel say that Obama admin must take responsibility for what is going on now...and stop looking to the past.