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Hannity again misled on Raines' purported role with the Obama campaign

Summary: On two recent editions of Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity claimed that Franklin Raines is an "economic adviser" to Sen. Barack Obama, in one case citing "The Washington Post" as a source for his claim. However, both Raines and the Obama campaign have denied that Raines advises Obama in any way, and a washingtonpost.com Fact Checker item examined several Post items cited in a McCain ad that makes the same claim and concluded that the ad "exaggerat[ed] wildly" in its claim that Raines "advises" Obama.
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Posted by DorisRussell

Hannity mislead? no Sean never misleads.

Posted Friday October 3, 2008 3:06:07 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to DorisRussell

Hannity thinks Sarah Palin won a debate she didn't even participate in. He is insane.

Posted Friday October 3, 2008 3:26:21 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by worrierking in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

I think Sean is starting to worry about being irrelevant. His anti-Obama script just doesn't have the same level of intensity as his anti-Clinton Screed.

Maybe he's building up slowly and going to erupt right before the election.

Posted Friday October 3, 2008 3:37:17 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to worrierking

Good points, ass-hobo.

Posted Friday October 3, 2008 3:45:34 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by nerzog

I expect a major sh*tstorm any day now.  Grampy is down in most of the polls, and the novelty has worn off his airhead running mate.  The lies will be flying fast and furious, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of manufactured foreign crisis pop up.

Posted Friday October 3, 2008 4:06:44 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by parlo1965225918

There is a strong attempt to link the financial crisis to Obama and the Democrats.

I have been on several blogs and boards today, and many are repeating and repeating the ACORN, CRA, Obama, Fannie Mae, Democrat scandal, Raines mantra.

I expect the right wing to go full force with it any day now.

Posted Friday October 3, 2008 4:31:53 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by neon desert

Now is probably an opportune time to bring this up:

From the Improbable Reasearch website, the announcement of the Ig Nobel Prizes winners include:

COGNITIVE SCIENCE PRIZE. Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan, Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth of the University of Szeged, Hungary, for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.
REFERENCE: "Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism," Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, and Ágota Tóth, Nature, vol. 407, September 2000, p. 470.

Meaning that the statement that Sean Hannity is the

DUMBEST.

GUY.

IN.

MEDIA.

may soon require adaptation to reflect a a more varied environment, including that of amoeboid organisms.

Posted Friday October 3, 2008 4:52:04 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by TadekKorn

It would be far more appropriate to discuss instances when Hannity was not misleading. By focusing on Hannity and all his ilk on Faux News MMfA runs the risk of becoming an echo chamber for that garbage can.

Posted Saturday October 4, 2008 7:53:58 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by m_mccain2016 in reply to TadekKorn

Well I would be more worried about MMFA running out of storage space for thier archieves. Think of the gigs of material that needs to be stored already, generated by Faux news.

You can only compress so many times.

Posted Monday October 6, 2008 9:23:07 AM EDT / Flag this comment