Comments on Re: This is What Democracy Looks Like

Hey, good for those guys for calmly telling Sean Hannity where to stick it. We should all be so composed when confronting arrogant right-wing bullies. In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes to scold a Republican on national TV.

Wow, Colmes was something other than a complete doormat for Hannity, for once.

Only 15 minutes? I'm planning on 15 years ...

That was holding their own? They sounded like two college kids from Evergreen:
"Um, I'd go with 20."

They were made to sound like idiots who ignored the "facts" of the "professional polling organization."

And I'm sure you would've just politely asked Hannity to not interrupt you and that would've been the end of it, right Charlie?

Hannity is so full of it. The Gallup poll he refers to only surveyed top officials who of course are going to say they need more human shields. The multiple polls done on American people support the end of the war. Too bad those potheads getting interviewed didnt know that. Of course, Im sure Fucks news chose them on purpose.

Well brad, it's not like Hannity would have ceded the point even if they had made note of such a qualification in the survey. They could have been freaking Rhodes' Scholars, and it wouldn't have made any difference.

Yeah, letting him frame them as incompetent and then change the subject I wouldn't really call holding their own. And it's good they go along with the charge of initiating violence, but they didn't exactly respond coherently either.

Man, look at all the comments-thread quarterbacks telling the kids on live TV how much smarter they ought to sound. Maybe it's more difficult when you don't get to preview and spell-check your thoughts from the comfort of your mom's basement, you asshats.

While I am in NO way advocating greeners as the epitome of thoughtful argumentation and public speaking skills, I have to point out that this was Fox news, on HANNITY and colms no less. They were pretty much selected, set up, and knocked down according to the way that Sean Hannity wanted the pins to fall. I think if the kids here were given the opportunity, they could have got their point across, whether they are greeners or not. The fact is they never had a chance to. This is the problem with fox news in particular, they do not deliver facts, they deliver carefully selected half-truths coated in a golden brown an delicious coating of innuendo and emotional manipulation that certain people just can't resist much akin to the dilemma that is the Big Mac (anyone who is smart knows not to consume it lest they are willing to spend an extra hour at the gym).

Fox News, the McDonalds of Truth.

No Eric, I was not saying I could do any better. I have not trained for years to be a talking head and neither have these kids. That's all I was saying. My comment was directed to the person who made the original post. To me, the kids did not look good and did their cause a disservice by not fighting back. A simple and forceful, "Hey Hannity, stop interrupting me and let me finish my thought," would have gone a long way toward holding their own. As it was, this post really didn't deliver.

Now, calm the fuck down and stop getting so defensive.