Double standard?

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If the gathering wasn't so downright...pitiful (in a strange, unsympathetic way), I'd offer my condolences on being tossed.

Then again, it begs the question as to why one would crawl into a venue like that, anyway? There are wonderful things inside rotten tree stumps that are arguably more fun and entertaining to document.

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Ever been to Hannity's website? If you disagree, you get the boot. It is called being "Hannitized."

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Or for that matter the autobiography of Albert Speer. Reminds me of a passage in Sereny's work when as a school girl leaving Vienna for London she got trapped in Nuremburg during a rally. She was not a Jew, just a member of a liberal Austrian family. After first feeling scared and threatened, she got caught up in the single minded pagentry, and then, after arriving in England, she wrote her "what I did last summer" essay about it. A wise teacher gave her Mein Kampf and demanded she read it through. The weeks following the Anschluss opened her eyes even further.

I know there's an unwritten rule in internet etiquette about rushing to make comparisons to that period of European history but if you know the history you know it was a gradual process. The NASDP of 1931 wasn't yet the NASDP of Wansee, though the seeds, the attitudes, the hatred were there. It's important for us to see just how far down that road we have travelled.

Perhaps Ionesco's Rhinoceros should be made mandatory reading.

I try and dismiss comments that seem to be cropping up more frequently on blog and discussion sites claiming the U.S. is now a defacto facist one party state. But then I saw a website tonight smugly called smashleftwingscum. And then this. The organizors, and speakers of this rally make my skin crawl more than the Germans in the archive footage.

I now live in Europe. Hate speach is a crime in most European states. Its history, and the tensions between the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity demand it. Guess I'll stay in Europe, and see where the U.S is when I finally qualify to change citizenship.

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Buncha gullaballoons.

"Huyuck, are you one of those liberals that's going around trying to get one of us to say something crazy?"

"Yeah, that's real hard to do." Good sarcasm. So good she just didn't quite get it at first--love the look she gave you.

Okay, so you had legit creds done in advance. You had a contact--Angel? I'm assuming they contacted Angel--not that it matters at this point, but that was pretty much it. "Oh, hell no, you gotta leave now."

What's so special about this event that makes Hannity protest so much--you'd think he'd welcome it! "Come on in! See how _____ we are! We're great people and better than you cuz we let you in to film us." You'd think--well, I'd think they'd jump to be able to say that. I'll have to remember this incident the next time I have a little "discussion" with some of the politicals in the office--they're quite a mild bunch, but every once and awhile...mmmfff! Mom, said not to play ball in the house!

Sheesh, how long did those cops harass you in the parking lot? You didn't even get to go on any rides! That's what you shoulda said.

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so, just who 'performs' at sean's concert? anybody know? toby keith, maybe? pat boone? ray stevens? running out of right wing performers here...help me someone, i'm dying to know!

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This week, I saw the movie Freedom to Fascism, and it is powerful. The thing is pertinent to just about everything I read on Alternet, especially those regarding unchecked government growth. It's a documentary dealing with the Constitution, taxes, and the federal reserve bank, among other things. The director's quote of "Stop being a good Democrat. Stop being a good Republican. Start being a good American." is especially poignant to me. This weekend it opens in Chicago, Kansas City, New York, Tampa, and Austin. If enough folks see this, it's going to start a debate that, I'm convinced, will bring change from all corners of society.
Allan Stevo

You can find more info at: www.freedomtofascism.com

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Plus Sean Hannity is a closeted gay man, and mAnn Coulter is a victim of a shoddy transexualizing process. How anyone cannot see these obvious realities is beyond me.

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FOR SOME OF US THAT OCCASIONALY WATCH SEAN HANNITY & COOMES SHOW REMIND ME OF SOME CARTOON CHARACTERS DEPICTING THE "VULTURE(SEAN)" AND THE "SCARECROW(COOMES)" SHOW...DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THEY ARE GRADUATES OF YALE AND/OR HARVARD WITH A C+ GPA ....???SEEMS THAT THEY RUN ALONG THE SAME TRAJECTORY AS BUSH "SILVERFOOT" 43...GOSH WE HAVE BETTER LOOKING READERS THAN THE "VULTURE AND SCARECROW " SHOW...DON'T WE...???
MOREOVER, SEAN APPEARS TO FACE A CAPTIVE GROUP OF AUDIENCES JUST LIKE BUSH 43 AND THAT REALLY SETS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS AS TO WHAT SEAN STANDS FOR...WONDER WHO'S PAYING HIM TO SOUND AS A HARDNOSED CONSERVATIVE...??? A THOUGHT AND REFLECTION FOR THE VULTURE, HANNITY :

"...Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. What's not good is living in fear, allowing fear to define who you are. Living fearlessly means standing up to fear, taking its measure, refusing to let it shape and define your life. Michael Ignatieff Writer and historian

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"Freedom Concert?"

Kicking out two guys whose political views don't mesh with Hannity's is a "Freedom Concert?"

Freedom is a the state of being "free," a synonym for liberty, without fetters etc.

A "Concert" is a coming together.

It all doesn't make any sense, it's contradictory.

I wonder how much tickets cost for this so-called "Freedom Concert?"

Don't you think admission to a "Freedom Concert" should be free?

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At least we know who's who now.

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"Freedom To" vs. "Freedom From"

Clearly we just don't understand Sean Hannity's definition of freedom. We usually think of "freedom to"--as in freedom to think, freedom to hold a respectful dialogue, etc.--but he means "freedom from."

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and a liberal is not even allowed to be there, does that mean that these fools are openly admitting that they don't beleve freedom is intended for liberals?

I have one question that keeps stabbing me in the brain; if you took any book, TV show, radio show, or article written by Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, or Coulter and changed the word "liberal" to "Jew", "Black", or "Mexican", every single one of them would be doing time for violating hate crimes statutes. So it's OK if you threaten, disparage, impugn, and otherwise blame a person for their characteristics as long as they are 'conscious" choices? Note the number of anti-discrimination statutes that have been changed to include gays in the classes of protected individuals, and note the number of conservative fanatics who believe that such people do not deserve protection.

I am afraid for this country. Al Qieda won't have a chance to destroy us, because we'll have the job done by ourselves from the inside before they ever get the chance.

Thank you so much for this article, thank you for your efforts.

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i love hannity's fake outrage that liberals would invade his party and...and...shoot video..and...be there.

yeah, only liberals would do something so despicable.
oh wait. there was that dean rally where the college republican minions physically attacked joan jett and dean supporters, and in general were a complete nuisance.

do NOT physically assault joan jett.

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it has become an unavoidable truth at this point: the republican punditry is terrified of criticism. after viewing hannity's gestapo security expel two legitimate journalists attending his propagala and hearing of the campus progressive reporter who was similarly removed from the YAF over the weekend, the hypocrisy has overwhelmed this humble writer. a reporter being kicked out of a "freedom concert" for (potentially) having a viewpoint opposed to hannity's is an occurrence steeped in the most delectable irony. until hannity and the yaf can rationally debate with opponents of their blind, fascist worldview, i must at least demand that the mutually masturbatory greeting of "you're a great american" on hannity's radio show be discontinued as practice. how can anyone with an IQ in at least double digits say that a pundit who is so terrified of criticism that he personally selects who may and who may not cover his "freedom concert" is a great american, while he continues to betray the most fundamental tenet of american democracy -- transparency and truth through an independent media. if colmes grew a pair and actually was able to take hannity on regarding these issues, then that would be a great american act, but i dont see that happening any time soon, at least not while rupert murdoch still pulls the strings.

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