Hannity also tries to use the anger that people feel toward him. He has a Hannity hotline where liberals can call up and shout at him. He is the kind of verbal bully who even knows how to use attacks against himself in his “favor”.

Hannity, like Chris Matthews, doesn’t see himself as evil. “People who know me, know I’m a good guy!” Like a member of the Mafia who goes to Church on Sunday after killing a competitor, he doesn’t see what he does as bad for the country. Yet, Hannity and Limbaugh have done more than anyone to turn good Americans against each other.

One of the greatest tricks that the right-wing talk radio hosts use is our own misunderstanding of the 1st amendment against us.

I always remind people that Hannity is speaking on commercially supported broadcast radio using a license given to his station by the public. He has no “right” to the platform. We are not the government. We can object to what he says and educate the only people who have any power over him, his advertisers. When we do that, it’s not to threaten a boycott, it’s to educate the advertisers who actually state on their web pages what they do and don’t value. Now some people will say that those mission and value statements are just window dressing, that all they care about is making money. Fine, but I say hold them to their words.

In a world of branding, to associate your brand with someone is a big deal, and when that person doesn’t uphold the brand name well then they might not deserve the money they are making.

Michael Vick probably delivered a lot of value to Nike, but I think that everyone will understand why they didn’t stand by him.

Evil.

The Secret Deal For Iraq’s Oil

Four months before the United States invaded Iraq, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton Corp., on a secret deal that would give the world’s second largest oil services company total control over Iraq’s oil fields, according to interviews with Halliburton’s most senior executives.

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A March 6, 2003 internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official says “action” on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was “coordinated” within Cheney’s office.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/a…..030503.pdf

Relentlesly.

It’s called “U.S. Foreign Policy.”

Please tell me why I shouldn’t hate America.