{"id":13324,"date":"2014-07-28T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13324"},"modified":"2014-07-28T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T07:03:56","slug":"last-weeks-despicable-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/last-weeks-despicable-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Despicable Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the envelope on just how despicable InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"FoxFandB\"Hannity invites Palestinian guest on his show and proceeds to yell at him the whole time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fox’s Sean Hannity’s position on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is that if you have any sympathy for Palestinians including civilians in Gaza, you sympathize with terrorists. Or maybe you are a terrorist. All the more so if you are a Muslim. And so, perhaps, it should not have been surprising when he invited Yousef Munayyer, the executive director of The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and its educational program, the Palestine Center, on his show in order to shout at him, and not let him speak.<\/p>\n

The exchange, and we use the word 'exchange' loosely, went something like this:<\/p>\n

“Is Hamas a terrorist organization?” Hannity asked.<\/p>\n

“Do I get to actually speak now?” Munayyer answered.<\/p>\n

“You have to answer the question, it’s a simple yes or no question,” Hannity said.<\/p>\n

“Sir, you invited me on here as a guest,” Munayyer said. He continued to try to speak, but Hannity wasn’t having it.<\/p>\n

“I’m asking a question. Is Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel, is that a terrorist organization?” Hannity shouted. “That’s a yes or no question.”<\/p>\n

“Thank you for your question, now I will provide an answer,” Muayyer said.<\/p>\n

Hannity kept shouting. Somehow Munayyer could be heard saying:  “It’s very telling to me, and it should be telling to your viewers as well, that the moment you have a Palestinian voice on your program who begins to explain the legitimate grievances of the Palestinians, not just Hamas…”<\/p>\n

Hannity cut off Munayyer, shouting at him to answer the question. At one point, Munayyer said that “the United States certainly considers Hamas a terrorist organization we all know that.”<\/p>\n

“Is Hamas a terrorist organization? What part of this can’t you get through your thick head?” Hannity said.<\/p>\n

Yeesh, rude much?<\/p>\n

At the end of the exchange, Munayyer asked again if he would “get to say anything in this conversation.”<\/p>\n

Hannity responded, “You had your chance, you didn’t say Hamas is a terrorist organization. Goodbye.”<\/p>\n

That’s dialogue, Hannity style…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Is their any question about where gun-toting Republican street screamers get their hate?  This is only the first of six despicable Republican moments from last week alone.  Click through for the other five.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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