Hannity again crops Obama's comments abroad in order to smear him
Hannity himself has claimed that journalism is dead. I wonder if he buried the knife and washed the blood from his hands before he said it. Editing the president's speeches to say what you want him to say should be illegal. It is forgery of an official statement by our Commander-in-Chief and should be punishable.
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Sean Hannity deceptively cropped President Obama's answer to a question about the Cold War to suggest that Obama did not acknowledge the actions of past U.S. presidents in freeing Eastern Europe.
From Fox News' transcript of Obama's July 7 interview with Garrett, with the portions of Obama's answer Hannity omitted in parentheses():
GARRETT: In your speech this morning, you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years. Mr. President, are the Russian sensitivities so fragile that you can't say the Cold War was won? The West won it? And it was led by a combination of Democratic and Republican American presidents?
OBAMA: (Well, listen, the -- I think that you just cut out Lech Walesa and the Poles. You just cut out Havel and the Czechs.) There were a whole bunch of people throughout Eastern Europe who showed enormous courage.
And I think that it is very important in this part of the world to acknowledge the degree to which people struggled for their own freedom. (I'm very proud of the traditions of Democratic and Republican presidents to lift the Iron Curtain.)
But, you know, we don't have to diminish other people in order to recognize our role in that history.
After airing the cropped clip, Hannity said:
HANNITY: Unbelievable. Now, that's interesting, because Lech Walesa, the leader of the Polish Solidarity Movement, said this about the end of the Cold War; he said, quote: "We in Poland took him, Ronald Reagan, so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. Now this can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century."
Mr. President, if I were you, you may want to consider hitting the history books maybe before your next foreign trip.
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Sean Hannity deceptively cropped President Obama's answer to a question about the Cold War to suggest that Obama did not acknowledge the actions of past U.S. presidents in freeing Eastern Europe.
From Fox News' transcript of Obama's July 7 interview with Garrett, with the portions of Obama's answer Hannity omitted in parentheses():
GARRETT: In your speech this morning, you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years. Mr. President, are the Russian sensitivities so fragile that you can't say the Cold War was won? The West won it? And it was led by a combination of Democratic and Republican American presidents?
OBAMA: (Well, listen, the -- I think that you just cut out Lech Walesa and the Poles. You just cut out Havel and the Czechs.) There were a whole bunch of people throughout Eastern Europe who showed enormous courage.
And I think that it is very important in this part of the world to acknowledge the degree to which people struggled for their own freedom. (I'm very proud of the traditions of Democratic and Republican presidents to lift the Iron Curtain.)
But, you know, we don't have to diminish other people in order to recognize our role in that history.
After airing the cropped clip, Hannity said:
HANNITY: Unbelievable. Now, that's interesting, because Lech Walesa, the leader of the Polish Solidarity Movement, said this about the end of the Cold War; he said, quote: "We in Poland took him, Ronald Reagan, so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. Now this can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century."
Mr. President, if I were you, you may want to consider hitting the history books maybe before your next foreign trip.
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Has anyone else had enough of being outright lied to by Fox News? I know, I know. "If you don't like it, don't watch it." Well, I don't watch it, but that doesn't keep me from getting pissed off that a huge percentage of the population does watch it under the illusion that they are a credible news source. THEY ARE NOT CREDIBLE!!!
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- WakeUpPeople
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Hannity University Online <> One Teacher, Low Overhead, Expenses Paid + Salary
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- Gravity_Man
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Media Matters - They watch Fox so you don't have to.
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News today is comprised of taking one part of one fact and calling it information.
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I think hannity gets a boner every time he says reagans name.
