Fox News host Sean Hannity last night told guest, pollster Frank Luntz that Osama Bin Laden would still be alive if President Obama “had his way.” Adding that he had tape recordings to prove his false, malicious assertions.

Hannity had this conversation with “Poll Fixing Cheat” Frank Luntz:

HANNITY: I know the president will say, ‘Well, we got bin Laden.’ Putting that aside…

LUNTZ: And the public gives him credit for that.

HANNITY: They do. The public does give him credit for that. But it wouldn’t have happened if he had his way, and I think that can be proved as well on tape.

Did Sean miss the part where Obama had Navy Seals kill Bin Laden? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. [ READ MORE HERE ]

Fox’s ‘Syphilitic Liar’ Sean Hannity Says That ‘Obama Didn’t Want Bin Laden Dead!’

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Previously: Ignoring Facts, Right-Wing Media Rush To Congratulate Bush On Bin Laden’s Death

Hannity On Bin Laden: “We Must Argue That The Obama Policies Were Wrong And The Bush Polices Were Right”

Credit Denied: Republicans Resolute in Denying Obama Credit For Signature Achievements

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Jerry Springer calls out “Fox & Friends” for claiming to be “fair and balanced” while bashing Obama

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As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News’ Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative lies and misinformation.

In the 2008 presidential race — he was tops in lying at the Fox News Republican propaganda machine. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to “demonizing” the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August 2008: “That’s my job. .. I led the ‘Stop Hillary Express.’”

By the way, now it’s the “Stop Obama Express.”

“Hannity’s “Stop Obama Express” has promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks and false claims about Obama.

Along the way, he has uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged smear artists who painted Obama as a dangerous radical.

When he is not going after Obama, Hannity attacks members of Obama’s family and other progressives, and denies all the while that he has unfairly attacked anyone.

Hannity has been caught numerous times doctoring videos or polls to make President Obama and the Democratic look bad.

He is a liar and smear artist of syphilitic proportions.

PLAYLIST: Sean Hannity – The Sickest MFER on TV

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Elsewhere, the anti-Obama, anti-Dem lies, racism and bigotry continued to flow from right-wing America unabated:
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Culture Wars Politics: How America Got into The Current Destructive Birth Control Mess

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Fox’s Eric Bolling Compares Obama To A Drug Dealer Who Opens “Barry’s Pot And Coke Emporium“

Fox’s Andrea Tantaros: Contraception Mandate “Is For Population Control … This Has Nothing To Do With Women’s Health“

Fox’s Bolling Launches “Conspiracy Theory” That Obama Administration Issued Contraception Rule To “Derail” Romney

Doocy: Obama Giving Catholics “A Year To Figure Out How To Reverse 2,000 Years Of Religious Doctrine”

CNN’s Dana Loesch Declares It’s A “Lie” To Claim That Planned Parenthood Provides Mammograms

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Luis Gutierrez Rebuffs Newt Gingrich’s ‘Food Stamp President’ Claim About President Obama [ The Real FoodStamp Presidents are George Bush Jr. and George Bush Snr. ]

Corrupting Politics: Sleazy Rick Santorum Avoids Touching His Corrupt Billionaire Benefactor, Foster Friess

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Mad men? Markos Moulitsas questions the effectiveness of race baiting in election ads

Worst Persons: Rick Berman, Tim Wildmon and Rachel Burgin

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Meanwhile, an Arizona Republican has called for a “White Appreciation Day“: Arizona is the gift that just keeps on giving. First its immigration policy took center stage, then its governor wagged her finger in the face of the President, and now one of its lawmakers is suggesting that Arizona needs a holiday for white people.

Rep. Cecil Ash, a Republican (of course) from Mesa, spoke on the House floor about the need for a white people’s holiday.

It all started when Rep. Richard Miranda suggested that the state adopt a Latino holiday.

After some heated exchanges, Rep. Cecil Ash took the floor.

“I’m supportive of this proposition. I just want them to assure me that when we do become in the minority you’ll have a day for us,” Ash said.

When questioned about his proposition, Ash defended his statement by saying, “Yes, I think it was appropriate. It was appropriate for the mood that was in the House and I think that if and when the Caucasian population becomes a minority, they may want to celebrate the accomplishments and the contributions of the Caucasian population the same way.”

It would seem that we already have white appreciation day because, in all honesty, what day isn’t a good day to be white and appreciated?

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   Columnist – John Sammon
America is a country of illusions, or like a desert mirage, what you think you see is what you don’t necessarily get. This extends from the watered-down Obama health care package that in reality is so weak it isn’t a national health package at all, and will likely be repealed by Republicans anyway, to the idea that the country is fighting a war on drugs when epidemic drug use in this country fuels demand, to the recent government-promoted notion that the country is in an economic recovery.

America is a country of smoke and mirrors, one of the reasons we were so successful at founding Hollywood and Disneyland. Both are mythological kingdoms.

America is a country of ideas, often the false kind, that for reasons of our own we’d like to believe, or we need to believe. In other words, the truth is whatever we say it is. This really took off under Bush and unfortunately, despite the initial promises and good feelings, still holds true under Obama. Here are 10 examples:

The withdrawals in Iraq and Afghanistan are withdrawals.

The president announces the withdrawal of 10,000 troops out of 100,000. Some actually come home, but thousands more stay. Five years goes by and you forget all about the promises. Five years later, there are still 50,000 troops in those countries. By now you can’t remember how it all started anyway. The government created for you a successful illusion. It’s the withdrawal that isn’t.

The government honors and takes care of veterans.

Every July 4 veterans gather with flags to honor the fallen. Every year television channels like the oil-company-corporate-backed History Channel run movies showing the glories of war and bumper stickers on cars proclaim how we owe our freedoms to these sacrifices. And every year veteran’s health care for disabled veterans is abysmal. An airline charges returning veterans huge fees to ship their luggage. The government fails to provide flak vests for soldiers going into combat. The G.I. Bill no longer is gifted to veterans for their loyalty, but is instead taken out of their paychecks while they are on duty. Representatives on Capitol Hill and especially the Republican Party, who have never served in the military (neither have their children), always threaten to cut benefits. Civil War battlefields are lost to the development of Walmart stores and school children don’t know what World War II was. The sacrifices except among a few old men are forgotten.

America is the patriotic country that really isn’t.

America is a democracy, or a republic, or whatever.

Americans traditionally love to believe this is a free country, even though the founders with the exception of John Adams owned other human beings as slaves.

Take down a pad of paper and with a pencil jot down the things that you as a citizen have any say over with your single vote in the off-year and general elections. You can vote for a local school bond. You can vote for a mayor, a senator, even the president. You can vote for many things. But there are many you can’t vote for, whether or not to go to war, or extend forever war, the space program and its billions spent, the amount of federal tax you pay. The basic premise of the country was that an elite cadre of representatives (Congress) needs to make decisions for you, because you’re not smart enough to, and chaos would result. In fairness, there is some truth to this. But look up the definition of democracy in the dictionary, “government by the people and through elected representatives.” Go ahead and try to vote to repeal the Patriot Act.

America is the democracy that isn’t.

America is not a racist country because Oprah Winfrey has a television show.

Using television to pacify African Americans has a long history after networks got the message in 1962. The theory is, like giving beads and trinkets to natives in the old days, picking representatives of the race for glorification on the TV tube convinces members of the race that progress has been made. Though it is better than seeing African Americans only portrayed on TV as butlers and maids, jails are still full of black men, inner city schools still lag behind, and most whites if they were honest would admit they don’t want to live in a black neighborhood. Most whites still associate black people with crime, poverty, ignorance and violence.

America is the racist country that isn’t, but still is.

Our elected officials represent us.

During his recent announcement of the troop withdrawal that isn’t, Obama used the usual vague terminology presidents use to describe what has been accomplished in Afghanistan, and what our exact goals are, by not doing those things. It’s kind of like a shell game, which shell is the pea under. In other words, he stated the accomplishments and goals in such a vague off-hand way as to not state them. Nothing concrete. Iffy words like “be patient,” “light at the end of the tunnel,” their “influence has been weakened,” are used to convince you. Convincing you is what’s important. Recently, the American public found out in a surprising revelation that negotiations are in progress with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the announcement not disseminated through our own government, but because of a public statement made by the corrupt puppet ruler we set up in Kabul.

Apparently, all we’ve accomplished after 10 years, millions of Iraqi and Afghan lives lost, billions of dollars bankrupting the economically tottering U.S., and over 6,000 American dead, is to kill bin Laden, whom we set up in a leadership role way beyond his actual influence in the first place.

You’ll never learn the truth unless a fluke like Wikileaks happens or until documents are declassified sixty years from now.

The case of Wikileaks and the government’s apoplectic response proves that the government believes the less you know the better, for your own good. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Here are five more:

China is our friend.

Corporate America is concerned about the extinction of the American middle class.

Mexican immigration is a threat to the U.S.

This is curious in light of the fact that the entire Western part of the country was once owned by Mexico and was taken from them by war, and that Mexican immigration has been a factor in the country for over 100 years, and that the American economy absolutely depends on Mexicans to do the work Americans won’t, flipping burgers, making beds, mowing grass, landscaping yards.

Rich white businessmen and government bureaucrats, those who complain the loudest, use low-paid Mexican laborers the most.

I guess that ties into the next one.

Americans aren’t hypocrites.

And lastly.

Americans are better than other people.

Whether it’s Teabaggers chanting “USA” “USA” like rooting at a football game, or intoning “God bless America,” asking God to bless only about five percent of the world’s population and ignoring the rest, there is plenty of evidence that we think we’re better. Because of money and power, we look down on other lesser peoples, people with less money and power. Money and power are what matters, not integrity and morality. My favorite is still the old Vietnam-War-era saying, “America, love it or leave it.” In other words, if you see wrong, ignore it.

That is truly a mark of superiority.

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   Columnist – John Sammon
Pathetic. Disgusting.

In the now-famous picture of the White House big shots watching the raid on bin Laden unfold, Hillary Clinton has her hand to her mouth like she is horrified. She was questioned about this later and told a whopping lie that she was trying to stifle a sneeze.

The truth is, she forgot her image for a second and reacted to the killing of another human being honestly, even one who deserves being killed, with shock. She forgot about the camera and her image for a second and reacted the way any human being should react.

She thus exposed herself as human. Big mistake!

She then had to lie her way out of it so she could appear to be tough like the men around her.

When confronted by a stark truth, a Clinton will always lie.

She should have ordered my “How to be a Man like John Wayne” kit. In this CD and accompanying booklet, only $69.95 while supplies last, I show you the woman political candidate, how you can appear to be tough and surrender your femininity and humanity and be like the men you compete with.

First, I show you how to walk like John Wayne did. He ambled along slow in a deliberate attempt to accentuate his six-foot-four size. Everything he did was slow. He was so slow he couldn’t make first string on the USC football team.

When he hit somebody on screen (the bad guys were always much smaller), he had a massive powerful punch. But he was so slow you had a month to get out of the way.

Next, I teach you how to sneer. Remember women, to be like a man, never show any emotion like Hillary did that makes you appear to be human, or even worse, a woman. You have to maintain a macho act.

And never, but never, but never cry. Crying is being a woman. That will cost you an election.

Being a man like John Wayne means hiding behind a façade of phony bravado and if you’re ever proven wrong—-deny it!

Wayne himself one time said it. “Never say you’re sorry. It’s a sign of weakness.” Thus, Wayne never had to apologize to actress Lee Grant for his red baiting along with Joe McCarthy in 1952 that destroyed Grant’s career for ten years even though Grant was never a communist.

I show you how to swear like a dock worker and spit, how to make dirty jokes while playing cards with sycophantic cronies, nasty traits that reduce men lower on the scale of evolution. You, the woman candidate for office, can abandon your more civilized qualities as a person with a heart and a conscience.

Instead, I show you how to appear like a swaggering bully, like Wayne.

Actor Richard Widmark once said, “Wayne didn’t like me. He didn’t like little guys. But he was like any bully. If you stood up to him he backed off.”

I can also show you how to ruthlessly think only of your career like Wayne did when he became a slacker in World War II and stayed in Hollywood and played all the juicy war parts on the screen and made a fortune while his other actor buddies went off and fought the war and some died. The idea here is to abandon any lingering idealism and never think of anything except how to advance yourself (Hillary is already pretty good at this).

Only 69.95 while supplies last.

I can show you how to become intractable, close-minded, dogmatic, dishonest, ruthless, mean-spirited, demagogic, arrogant, hypocritical, in other words, a he-man, all the things you need to become a successful politician and especially a Republican politician. What are you now? A woman, weak, weepy, indecisive, a miserable wretch who cares about people and deals honestly.

You can become like John Wayne. Congress even gave him a medal for being a slacker during World War II. He became a super patriot during the Vietnam War advising young men to go and do what he wouldn’t because as a rich movie star, he’s too important.

It’s like Arnold the governator. People still love him even though he stinks up the screen with his non-acting talent that runs the gamut from A to B and his Teutonic slaughtering of the English language and cheating on his wife while maintaining a separate second family for years behind her back. You too can be like them, like a tough man with a steel façade.

More like Teflon. Everything slides off. You get to the point where you can actually commit crimes and still escape criticism. Like George W. Bush.
It’s a dream come true.

Be a man. Order my kit today. I don’t claim to be a big man, but I’ve studied those who did. What’s holding you back? Call now. Call 1-800-Phallic.

MMFA: On the May 11 edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart highlighted the absurd hypocrisy in Fox’s manufactured controversy over the White House’s decision to host rapper Common at a poetry event. As Stewart pointed out, Fox has celebrated musicians with far more violent lyrics, including hosting Ted Nugent–who once told President Obama “to suck on my machine gun“–multiple times. From The Daily Show:

Jon Stewart On Fox’s Fake “Common” Controversy: “It’s Almost Impossible To Express How Ridiculous…You All Are”

Then Bill O’Reilly, the chief narcissist at Fox News made the mistake of inviting Stewart to his show. Stewart destroyed O’Reilly, exposing his stupidity and hypocrisy:

Stewart & O’Reilly Debate Common: Stewart Notes That Fox Regular Liddy Advised How Best To Shoot ATF Agents

Stewart Debates O’Reilly: Fox Shows “Selective Outrage” By Attacking Common But Ignoring Similar Songs By Dylan, Bono

Complete Unedited Debate

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Bill Maher: Newt Gingrich ‘Is a Professor of Idiocy’
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Bonus Videos: The Obama Derangement Syndrome
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From Tora Bora to the Deathers: The Conservative Media’s Lies, Conspiracy Theories, and Hypocrisy in Covering Osama bin Laden’s Death.

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   Columnist – John Sammon
Eight heavily armed men dressed in camouflage show up at a door and knock. A servant answers the door.

“Excuse me sir, we’re working our way through college. Would you like to buy an encyclopedia?”

The servant disappears into a hallway and a bearded man appears. Bin laden.

“Would you like to buy an encyclopedia, the Saudi updated version?” the college student asks.

Bin laden nods. He reaches into his robe like he’s going for a gun.

“Get interested in this.” The college students open fire.

BLAM!

“Take that!”

BLAM!

“How about another?”

BLAM!

“How about one on the layaway plan?”

BLAM!

“Hey Marcel, watch this.”

BLAM!

“You want leaded or unleaded?”

BLAM!

“One Lump or Two?”

BLAM!

Evidently, Bin laden thought he could out-draw eight Navy Seals who already had their guns out. It would have been nice if he could have been taken alive to stand trial and demonstrate the rule of law Americans like to say they’re so fond of.

Thus opens a new phase in the soon-to-be 25th unresolved year in the war on terror, the Upscale Condo Mansion Gated Community Raid. Navy Seals disguised as college students go to exclusive residential neighborhoods and dispatch a miserable wretch.

Meanwhile, George Bush, the world’s other arch terrorist, claims credit for the operation. He feels like donning his old National Guard uniform that he wore to avoid service in Vietnam, the uniform he seldom wore because he skipped Guard meetings. Or better yet, the flight suit he paraded around in when he posted that dopey “Mission Accomplished” sign on the aircraft carrier, years before thousands of U.S. servicemen were killed.

Bush, who with his lord-high inquisitor fat-boy Dick Cheney, killed a million Iraqis to get even with Bin Laden and his handful of wretches for 9-11 even though Iraq had nothing to do with it.

Bush, who validated torture and wiretap spying on Americans and setting up an American Gulag Archipelago of secret torture camps in foreign countries and threw out the Geneva Convention to which America for decades had adhered. There would be no trials like the Nuremburg trials to demonstrate the rule of law by the civilized countries of the world.

Bush and Cheney with the apathy of the American people operated under the principal that to combat terror, you have to abandon democratic ideals and act more like the terrorists.

Such a man deserves praise.

And isn’t it fascinating in a Freudian way that the operation to get Bin laden was partly code-named Geronimo after the famous Chiracahua leader of the 1880s. Native American Indian activists were angered the government compared Bin laden to Geronimo. I get it, our government leaders, most of them paunchy white boys in their 60s, grew up watching John Wayne movies.

They can’t help compare today’s Middle Eastern terrorists with Indians. Subconscious and psychologically, it reminds them of snug safe days as five-year-olds when the world was simple, when they curled around a TV set with a cup of hot coco watching Wayne dispatch Indians and bad guys, the annihilation of our native population complimentarily called by racist America as the “Winning of the West.”

Gopher Killed: Will Ferrell Brutally Spoofs George Bush on Bin Laden

There are similarities between the Indian Wars of the 1870s and today’s struggle against terrorists. In both cases, the government spent billions of dollars and involved millions of troops going after perceived ignorant savages who never numbered more than a few thousand. In an eerily reminiscent echo of the present, in 1875, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors were imprisoned in a prison in Ft. Augustine, Florida, erased from memory without trial or attorney, not even 100 miles from Guantanamo.

The Bin laden operation was also code-named “Neptune.” This ties in nicely because in a further bizarre twist Bin laden, who spent his life on sand dunes, was buried at sea. The fish probably felt like throwing him back.

And look at the now-famous picture of the big-shots in the Pentagon White House War Room watching the Bin laden raid results. Obama looks like a college kid who wandered into the room, which is what his Republican detractors and even some of his white subordinates probably consider him to be, a college kid on an ethnic studies scholarship temporarily occupying the White House. Hillary Clinton’s hand is to her mouth as though readying to chew her nails, as though she’s watching a favorite soap opera.

By the looks on their faces you’d think they were planning D Day.

Is this the same country that took on Nazi Germany and Japan, the most powerful military power in the history of the world terrified of a bunch of wretches who 50 years ago would have been stealing sheep?

It’s to Obama’s credit that he didn’t pose with the body for photos. You can tell a lot about the immorality of a society in the way they pose with bodies for propaganda purposes, like we did with the sons of Saddam Hussein, or even the Abu Ghraib Prison dungeon S&M pictures where the bound bodies were still alive.

As we celebrate and Obama says “We won’t forget,” how come our memory is selective?

It begs the question. Is America incapable of doing wrong? Do Americans ever study the history of events that lead up to the current situation?

Is America operating in a vacuum, or an ivory tower?

For example, Ronald Reagan, everybody’s icon and hero, backing right-wing death squads in South America that killed millions. Or giving Israel a blank check to run wild and dispossess Palestinians which fueled the current conflict and gave Bin laden the opportunity to prominence he never should have attained. Or supporting Saddam Hussein with military equipment and guarantees leading him to miscalculate he could invade Kuwait and we wouldn’t do anything about it.

Or meddling in the internal affairs for economic or natural resources gain (oil) of a dozen other countries.

Or Bush killing a million Iraqis over false weapons of mass destruction to get even with Bin laden. We love the Saudis even though the 9-11 plotters including Bin laden were Saudis.

Today, we’ve largely forgotten the Viet Cong. We have friendly relations with North Vietnam. Our tourists go there. See, we do forget in a sense. Over time.

WHY DO WE FORGET WHERE AMERICA HAS BEEN WRONG?

Has America ever been wrong?

We’re never wrong, and even if we are, it’s not wrong. That’s called being a patriot. Ask Bush and Cheney.

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High Crimes & Misdemeanors: Why Condoleezza Rice Should Be in Jail For Life – (Part 1)