{"id":152,"date":"2009-10-19T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-10-19T02:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T10:02:00","slug":"hannity-addresses-liberty-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/hannity-addresses-liberty-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannity Addresses Liberty University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now when most people give a university address, they go there, but Seam Hannity phoned his in.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/HannityAddressesLibertyUniversity_1C93\/Hannidate.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hannidate\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"208\" alt=\"hannidate\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/HannityAddressesLibertyUniversity_1C93\/Hannidate_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> While it is true that Sean Hannity does not have a college degree, the same can be said for NBC\u2019s Brian Williams.<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Williams\" target=\"_blank\">Williams<\/a><font color=\"#000000\">, however, who actually reports on the news and does not promote an agenda of hate and intolerance, does have a number of honorary degrees from esteemed institutions such as Catholic University, Providence College (Dominican Friars school), Ohio State, and Bates College. Hannity, on the other hand, has received just one honorary degree not from any Catholic colleges or esteemed mainstream schools \u2013 but from Liberty University, a school grounded in conservative Christianity and which recently<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/category\/groups\/liberty-university\" target=\"_blank\">offered a scholarship <\/a><font color=\"#000000\">to <strong>a true victim of the \u201cgay agenda,\u201d ex Miss California, Carrie Prejean<\/strong>. This year, Sean Hannity (a paragon of Christian \u201cfamily values\u201d whose message is sure to bring a smile to the baby Jesus) was booked to give an address at the Liberty Commencement \u2013 along with fellow Fox employee and <strong>paragon of Christian \u201cfamily values,\u201d Karl Rove<\/strong>. Alas, poor Sean was sick. But not to worry. Sean got his chubby fingers working and dialed in his pearls of wisdom. Oh, praise the Lord!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberty_University\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty <\/a><font color=\"#000000\">has strict codes of conduct (no dancing let alone sex!) which prepare the students for a life of GOP virtue. Like Regent, another Petri dish for aspiring young Republicans, it is considered \u201cfourth tier.\u201d And like ACORN, Liberty had a recent problem with voter registrations \u2013 something that Hannity didn\u2019t seem to be concerned about unlike his frequent excoriations of ACORN! In their zeal to<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/voter-fraud-liberty-university\" target=\"_blank\">register <\/a><font color=\"#000000\">lots of new sainted GOP voters, in order to be the \u201ccollege that elected a president,\u201d they produced new registrations that were &quot;illegible, incomplete, or otherwise ineligible.&quot; They also<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlestoncitypaper.com\/TheGoodFight\/archives\/2009\/05\/22\/liberty-university-bans-democratic-party-club-from-campus\" target=\"_blank\">shut down <\/a><font color=\"#000000\">the college Democratic club because Jesus only loves Republicans. But it does recognize good Christians when they see them and Hannity was considered good enough to be bestowed an honorary degree in 2005. (Did he provide tickets to any of his gal pals at the Bunny Ranch?) The late Jerry Falwell, who <strong>claimed that gays caused 9-11<\/strong> (yeah, I know he apologized, but still\u2026.), loved Hannity whom he felt was \u201cfighting the battle for freedom on the frontlines for us every day.\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2009\/10\/18\/sean_hannity_phones_in_liberty_university_address.php\" target=\"_blank\">News Hounds<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Liberty University achieved fame when Bush and the GOP packed DOJ and other government agencies with more federal appointees from this fourth rate college than from any other college or University.&#160; Many converted their status from appointee to career employee, promising polluted agencies for years to come.&#160; But that\u2019s the subject of another article.<\/p>\n<p>You may wonder what the <em>Hannidate<\/em> graphic has to do with this article.&#160; It turns out that Sean has a dating service.&#160; If you go to his web site (no link, because I refuse to provide hits),&#160; if you click the Hannidate button, and if you say you are a man seeking a man, you\u2019ll find an assortment of potential gay lovers.&#160; Please don\u2019t get me wrong.&#160; I see nothing wrong either with being gay or with gay people seeking each other out.&#160; What I do think is wrong is the way this vile hypocrite condemns LGBT people at every opportunity, but has no qualms about serving that community for profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now when most people give a university address, they go there, but Seam Hannity phoned his in. While it is true that Sean Hannity does not have a college degree, the same can be said for NBC\u2019s Brian Williams. Williams, however, who actually reports on the news and does not promote an agenda of hate <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/hannity-addresses-liberty-university\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}