How to turn Sean Hannity
into food for worms
Washington Post,
by
Lawrence Downes
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
8/10/2020 4:34:52 AM
I didn’t set out to compost Sean Hannity. It was something I settled on after considering several other options and rejecting them one by one. The first was leaving him in the basement indefinitely. That worked for a while. I could almost forget about him there, but then I would go down with a basket of laundry and see him and think, I have to do something.
I should explain: I don’t mean the man himself, but Hannity the book. It’s called “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism.”
It’s part of a collection I have: right-wing culture war books from the Fox-News-angry-White-person’s superhero universe.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
radrelic 8/10/2020 4:41:26 AM (No. 504882)
Dumb.
42 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
xdemo 8/10/2020 4:53:49 AM (No. 504888)
I wasn't going to buy it, but now maybe I will.
38 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 8/10/2020 4:54:35 AM (No. 504889)
Not worthy of our time nor our Beloved Miss Lucianne.
KAG
57 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/10/2020 5:36:44 AM (No. 504898)
Wow, sooooo clever. This is what today's journalists have turned into, mind-diminished critics of people who actually care about America. He should be fined for wasting the time of so many people. The Washington Post should be fined for putting garbage into print and using up good bandwidth. I will refrain from making the obvious Downes Syndrome remark and leave that kind of insensitive humor to Barack Obama.
45 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/10/2020 5:51:32 AM (No. 504901)
Between the Wash. Post and the NY Times stupidity is on parade. Now it has always been there but it is more insane than usual. It must suck to be those people. I have visions of them in a rubber room, in a straight jacket babbling incoherantly waiting for their medication. They are more crazy than Uncle Joe. At least he has the diagnosis of dementia to fall back on. These guys are straight up loons.
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Maybe he should try reading books, instead of being a goose-stepping moron who destroys them.. Paraphrasing from an Indiana Jones movie...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 8/10/2020 6:27:53 AM (No. 504917)
Wordy gibberish. Nonsense. A waste of readers' time.
37 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rather Read 8/10/2020 6:40:46 AM (No. 504926)
And will the American Library Association have anything to say about this? Of course they won't. They are as woke as the worst of the antifa.
21 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
NancyD 8/10/2020 6:50:16 AM (No. 504932)
As we all know, the media attacks those who are effective. Hannity has stuck a nerve and the lib media can't handle it.
41 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Kutchk 8/10/2020 7:03:21 AM (No. 504939)
Hannity et al have these lefty snowflakes melting down in record numbers.
We all know the left already has the solution for books they don't like … Fahrenheit 451.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 8/10/2020 7:08:22 AM (No. 504941)
Funny thing. I've never heard of Lawrence Downes but I know who Sean Hannity is.
51 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
marbles 8/10/2020 7:17:09 AM (No. 504947)
A self important arrogant twit drowning in hubris , mistaking his gong show turn of words for cleverness.
29 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
valinva 8/10/2020 7:29:03 AM (No. 504958)
Downes is on the editorial board of the NY Times where he has worked since 1993 spreading leftist horse puckey.
19 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 8/10/2020 7:41:59 AM (No. 504966)
I remember Mr Downes. They named a syndrome after him. This is one of those articles that carries the warning flag of the OP.
18 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
LesUNo 8/10/2020 7:45:27 AM (No. 504969)
Oh my goodness, how woke, how cool and how utterly stupid. Small wonder it has become almost impossible to converse with a liberal. Politics aside, this writer is far more vacuous than clever. Well, I will leave him to his composting and worms.
27 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
tootall 8/10/2020 7:50:44 AM (No. 504973)
Why not just burn them! It's quicker. This is where the left is today about Freedom of Speech.
16 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
WinterParker 8/10/2020 7:55:41 AM (No. 504976)
Thank you for posting. What a window into clever progressives at WAPO. The maturity of middle school mean girls.
33 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/10/2020 7:59:21 AM (No. 504980)
Snarky waste of bandwidth.
13 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/10/2020 8:09:00 AM (No. 504988)
Gee, folks - - don't you wish you could be as smart and sophisticated as Lawrence Downes?
Wow! That'd be my dream come true!
14 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Edgelady 8/10/2020 8:59:02 AM (No. 505032)
He sounds quite jealous.
11 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
FunOne 8/10/2020 9:00:19 AM (No. 505034)
I have never heard of Lawrence Downes. After reviewing his juvenile thoughts I would conclude that he is a very unhappy worm.
16 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/10/2020 9:09:18 AM (No. 505045)
No matter what the article says (and I didn’t read it - won’t give a click to the Compost), isn’t the headline itself a death threat?
10 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/10/2020 9:17:50 AM (No. 505059)
By the way, Let Freedom Ring is an old book of Hannity's. The new one is Live Free or Die and is selling quite well. All old political books end up in the dust bin eventually because they have a short shelf life, unless they are written by Hillary or one of the Obamas, then they are fast-tracked.
7 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
janjan 8/10/2020 9:18:22 AM (No. 505061)
This girly-man article is followed by ‘Fox News Dominates Prime Time’. Suck it up Bro.
9 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Laotzu 8/10/2020 9:20:50 AM (No. 505064)
Compare and contrast with a VDH column.
Like everything progressive -- void of thought, Alinsky-esque, a recitation of the Catechism of Hate by the Left.
And at the fringes (because they don't talk about fact and ideas directly . . . ever) you can see the bedrock delusions they share:
[T]he plutocrat propagandists of Fox, talk radio and the GOP are lying liars who have vandalized our politics and country . .. .
if Hannity and company want to keep telling us that we are all at war, to keep stoking the flames and fanning the fear,
It reads like a journal entry of a Millennial living in his Mother's basement.
8 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
msjena 8/10/2020 9:21:45 AM (No. 505066)
Projection by the Compost.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
MNluxiegal 8/10/2020 10:18:24 AM (No. 505136)
After reading the first several sentences, I quit. I don't want to waste my time on an essay put out by a D-level high school sophomore.
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Frankly, I'm very tired Hannity hawking his new book non-stop. He's even appearing on other shows these days so that those hosts can congratulate and interview him about the book. Until this is over, I'll be monitoring his show via fast-forward - through gerry rivers, through the ridiculous white board - until Leo Terrell appears. After that, it's over.
3 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/10/2020 10:36:42 AM (No. 505167)
That headline alone is a great example of liberal leftist thinking. I lost respect for Hannity a long time ago, when he refused to stand up to his co-host Alan Colmes as he conducted his vicious and nasty attacks on a good and decent Christian woman. All he could come up with were some whimpers, and it was from that point I think he started his slide into irrelevance, from his radio show to his television spot.
IOW, my disagreements and loss of respect for Hannity are based on something called his ACTIONS, not because he is a republican patriot and loves his country. The Leftists need to find another country to flee to if they don't like it here. But leave the rest of us alone to live our lives in peace.
3 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/10/2020 10:39:59 AM (No. 505171)
He's advocated buying conservative books from libraries so people couldn't read them.
He seems to follow the angry white, liberal/progressive mantra hook-line-and-sinker.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
smokincol 8/10/2020 10:48:55 AM (No. 505199)
does this idiot really consider himself a serious journalist. this is stuff you hear in the playground at an elementary school. you're s sore loser, you loser!!
2 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 8/10/2020 10:59:41 AM (No. 505213)
The Washington Compost probably knows SOMETHING about composting . . .
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DARling 8/10/2020 11:24:31 AM (No. 505244)
Self-loathing liberal white guy. Tearing up discarded books gives him a reason to live. Let him have at it, while we snicker at him behind his back.
2 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2020 11:37:58 AM (No. 505265)
I'm not going to waste my time on the WashComPost .....on composting.
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If we could only buy these writers for what they are worth and sell then for what they think they are worth.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 8/10/2020 11:46:13 AM (No. 505278)
The WAPO makes good for collecting fecal droppings in my bird cage. Oh I don’t subscribe but my neighbor does.
1 person likes this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 8/10/2020 12:12:28 PM (No. 505305)
Another Leftist who thinks clever insults make a brilliant argument and that the way to refute conservative ideas (and facts) is to just call them lies and bury them.
2 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/10/2020 12:24:20 PM (No. 505322)
Some people have an awful lot of time on their hands. Like this “author,” for example.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/10/2020 12:24:42 PM (No. 505324)
What a small, petty, talentless man.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
ronniethek 8/10/2020 1:57:56 PM (No. 505430)
Mr Downes can kiss my arse.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/10/2020 6:12:03 PM (No. 505665)
I used the WaPoop to line my bird cage, poor little fellow died the next day.
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