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Now This Is Just Dumb

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 31st, 2010 at 09:46 PM  | 

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If you ever want to see how liberal pundits try to gin up division within conservative ranks, look no further than this bit of beclowning.

Sean Hannity did not talk about Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on Sean Hannity’s show.

Really.

Apparently, because other Fox hosts did, Sean Hannity is supposed to do it too. I didn’t realize that Glenn and Sean had editorial control over each other’s shows.

Sean Hannity is no more required to cover the Restoring Honor event than Glenn Beck is required to cover Hannity’s Freedom Concerts. This is ludicrous and trying to start controversy where there isn’t any.

But ginning up an “internal rival” will do nothing but help ratings over at Fox.

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  • http://www.2010blog.net jsanzone

    was that he had Sarah Palin on the show practically the whole hour. She was half the headlining power at the event, yet Hannity didn’t ask a single question about it.

  • fpete13527

    There was no requirement or competition between Beck and Hannity. Also, I heard both give prasie to each other?s events..

    As for the Media ite raw sewage article, look no farther than to the editor’s affiliations:
    For more information about publisher Dan Abrams, see:
    Dan Abrams ? MSNBC Bio | Dan Abrams ? Newsweek

  • rdelbov

    different stations here in memphis(at least they used to be). They are competing for the same radio audience-different times(I think).

    Their TV gig is not where the real bucks come from for them. Its the books and radio plus newsletter stuff.

    I don’t catch a lot of their shows on radio but Hannity mentions Rush but never Beck. Now Hannity touts his TV a lot but certainly not afternoon TV shows that would conflict with his radio show.

  • dio55

    To NOT EVEN MENTION half million conservatives at the lincoln memorial is crazy and shows the smallmindedness of hannity I mean we called the liberal media on ignoring the tea party rallys we have to call out hannity or we are all hypocrites

  • GregInFla

    And it is well-known that there are no good feelings between Levin and Glenn Beck. (Levin seems to be jealous of Beck’s success.) Although Mark Levin did make one positive reference to Beck’s rally on Monday Night’s show, Sean and Mark seem to have an friendly agreement regarding Glenn Beck. I pray for Levin and Beck to team up sometime and make nice. I enjoy both of them.

  • cactusjack

    Levin is brilliant. He knows the Constitution and how to defend it. I am so glad he is using his intellectual brilliance on our side. But Beck has been like a bloodhound, he keeps sniffing out the issues 6 months or a year ahead that – lo and behold – become the really big issues that Levin et al end up talking about. I think they call that good instincts (no pun intended). Need both types.

  • michiganwolverine

    I have noticed that O’Reilly and Beck seem to have a great respect for each other’s influence and success. Yet they do not share that affinity with Hannity. Have you ever seen Hannity on O’Reilly or Hannity on Beck’s show?

  • indylawyer

    Even though Hannity and Beck are both on FOX TV, they are competitors on the radio. I’m sure there are plenty of places where they go head to head, or are both trying to get prime time slots on the same stations. Makes it a little tricky to talk about each other because you don’t really want to promote your competitor’s events, and saying anything negative makes you look petty. Safe route is to ignore it, but that does look a bit odd too.

    Rush took the really smart approach – he went on vacation this week and let his subs talk about Beck.

  • badnewzbearz

    between O’Reilly, and major talkers like Rush, Sean and Mark. It goes back to when TARP was being debated and O’Reilly was still on the radio. O’Reilly supported TARP and accused other conservative talkers of lying to the public about it.

    Mark called O’Reilly out on his show for that, and ever since then, O’Reilly has quit doing a lead-in for Sean’s TV show at the end of The Factor.

    As far as Beck, I know Mark has problems with certain Beck themes, like “there’s no difference between the parties.”

    Mark wasn’t critical of Beck’s rally, but his monologue Monday focused on how we can’t afford to leave the “political” playing field to the statists and that we can’t really separate our faith from the political side of things. I think Sean probably agrees with Mark’s style of activism (so do I).

    Jeffrey Lord over at American Spectator has an excellent article on Beck’s rally and how it fits into the conservative movement as a whole: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/08/31/the-success-of-the-beck-rally

  • RedBeard

    Come on, you leftist braying jackasses, make up your minds.

    Wait… did I just hint that leftist braying jackasses have minds? Mea culpa.

  • ywhyvon1

    Never even heard of media ite until today. As Erik suggests, they are trying to make a story where there is none.

    Mr Erickson, what are trying to do?

  • bk

    If Hannity had covered it, then the same lefty geniuses would be saying that according to Fox, there was no news in the world for 24 hours other than Beck’s dog and pony show.

  • mark1957

    I don’t usually watch Hannity, mostly because by 9pm I am newsed out after after watching Megyn, Neil, Glenn, and Bret. But I did tune in on Monday night when I heard that Sarah was going to be Sean’s guest. I was suprised when Sean didn’t ask Sarah a single question about the rally.

  • josh_kahn

    Back when Matt Drudge had a radio show he said that O’Reilly figured he could exploit Rush’s deafness to get into radio. Drudge also exposed, and Hannity alluded on air, that O’Reilly paid to get his show on WOR in New York City.

    So while I’m unsure about his current relationship with Beck, I’m pretty sure Hannity doesn’t get along with O’Reilly, as Rush does not.

  • edinnola

    Practically every liberal propaganda platform came out with the same verbatim assessment of Becks rally. “Predominately white”, implies something racial there. In fact those who see things as do the writers for these MSM outlets, are obviously racists, defacto. These are people who view the world through a racist lens, even when what they are viewing has nothing to do with race, but something far more important these days. That is being an American. My concern here is: is the Journalist.com still pulling the strings, or is there another site that has taken control of these ignorant puppets.

    About Hannity, they are two different shows and two different styles. Why should Hannity have anything to say about Beck. Beck’s rally was highly successful and speaks for itself. It was what it was. You guys are really stretching to find anything to criticize here.

  • johnt

    Whereas not to long ago the little squeaking creatures saw The Normal as always marching “in lockstep”, remember?
    Just another total 180 from our furry friends. Rats have very small skulls, limited cranial capacity, sharp teeth, nasty temperaments, but not much brains. That’s why they are used in lab experiments & thrown in the garbage after.
    The small beasts need to see something, after all, their whole world is collapsing in front of their beady eyes. And they thought they were special, Reality Based, very foolish for a rat because it’s hard to see the world from a hole in the wall on the floor.

  • ihateliberals

    for Sean or Beck to acknowledge the one another’s events. But at the same time within the ranks of the conservatives they should not give Liberals and progressives the opportunity to question the motives. All Sean had to do was just 5 minutes about the rally and things would be cool. Now we have to listen to these people talk about Sean and Beck in a negative way. We conservatives continue to shoot our selves in the foot with things like this. Getting rid of RINO’s and progressive Liberals is our goal. Stay focused and Recycle Congress in 2010.

  • renny

    The MSM has spent decades peering at Republicans and conservatives as if they were 3rd graders going to the zoo for the first time.

    They are like the upper Westside voter who opined in 1972 that she couldn’t understand how Nixon won. She didn’t know anyone who voted for him. He won every electoral vote save for MA, DC, and Guam.

    So what the MSM and its talking heads know about program hosts on FOX probably fits into the same frame of mind.

    The good thing is they’re watching FOX. When you figure the impact of FOX, remember it doesn’t have 1/2 the affiliates of CBS and is often not available in many venues, like bars and motels. Anyone who finds him/herself in a hotel without FOX should complain to the management. In 2004, Marriott didn’t carry FOX but it does now.

  • GregInFla

    White, which includes all non-blacks and non-Asians, make up over 75% of the US population. Sorry, but racially speaking, Hispanic people are white. And from the aerial views, with folks wearing hats, how can they tell?

    I heard Olbermann complain last year that tea parties had no gay people. Really? Does he have some lens filter that lets him determine whether a person is gay from looking at video footage and photos? If so, maybe he can sell it to the Iranians, since he likes them that much.

  • GregInFla

    I am just asking the obvious question.