I was very upset today to hear Hannity making fun of Kerry

[LittleClarkie]

and Mark Crispin Miller's story. He picked it up from Rawstory, so I know he must have also seen Kerry's denial. He didn't report that though.

He proceeded his comments by talking about Gore getting all fat and loud and crazy after his loss in 2000. With mock sympathy, he talked about how hard it must be to lose a national election like that. Which, he assumed, explained John Kerry's recent comments that the election had been stolen. Losing the election must just drive people to go alittle nuts, he figured.

Is THAT what we wanted?! It that sort of reaction supposed to help somehow? Do you really think we're going to get a DIFFERENT reaction from people, esp if the echo chamber gets ahold of it.

I'm not at all happy that Miller took what Kerry probably thought was party conversation and decided he was going to somehow drag Kerry out in front of the fraud issue. It was not his call to make. I've seen some of the stories Mr. Miller writes. I know this is an issue about which he feels great passion.

But he needs to look at what HE can do about it, not what he thinks he can try to make others do about it. I feel like that's what he was trying to do, drag Kerry into taking the leadership position that Miller thinks he should be taking. I don't think he has a great deal of respect for Kerry. And I think it showed.

And I don't think reporting their conversation is going to ultimately have helped the issue of fraud.

And I am convinced that Kerry getting out in front of election fraud is the LAST thing we need. I still feel that way, even more so after I heard Hannity today. Just what we need, these people making Kerry into a cartoon the way they did Gore. How the HELL is that supposed to help.

Kerry is involved in one fraud lawsuit and two suppression lawsuits, is co-sponsor to election reform legislation, has given speeches on suppression (and gotten blasted for it --- figure that one out), and has given alot of space on his website to forming voter action teams, and talking about getting rid of partisan election workers and antiquated equipment.

He has NOT ignored the issue.

And I hope that what Mr. Miller did hasn't hurt more than it has helped that issue.

Rant mode off.

[kevinbgoode]

1. Someone needs to call in to Hannity and ask him why

his parents never taught him any manners. Did he have a troubled childhood? Were his parents neglectful? Tell us Sean - what is the problem here with honesty and truth?

[LittleClarkie]

3. I was surfing past, looking for something to listen to

Stopped at him for a moment because, without the face, I don't recognize his voice by itself. I heard him talking about Gore and hung out for a moment to see what he was getting at.

It was just what I feared would happen. Kerry the cartoon. Nothing to see here forks, just another crazy Democrat.

[rodeodance]

12. its the - mock sympathy--that gets to me.

[texpatriot2004]

2. It would have been better for Kerry to say nothing than to deny

he said anything. It just gives fuel to the flip-flopper garbage. I don't know what he said or didn't say but once the comment was out he would have been better off to just leave it alone.

Plus, he's never going to get away from this issue. It will follow him like pig pen's dark cloud. It's unfinished business that he is in the middle of whether he likes it or not.

I am a long time supporter of his but he's wrong on this issue.

[LittleClarkie]

4. Miller took an offhand comment at a party

and blew it out into something it was not.

Now if he'd conducted an interview with the man, it would have been different.

For one thing, Kerry could then have gone into depth about what he meant.

I just don't think it was fair.

[texpatriot2004]

5. Fair or not it came out & now they will have more flip-flop fodder

I know what you mean but it's done now.

[seabeyond]

7. rawstory went after kerry for a comment. my take, rawstory is

not a fan of kerry either. they are the ones that pushed for a comment. they are the one that passed on the tone of the comment from "kerry" people, not kerry. kerry hasnt made a comment.

[texpatriot2004]

9. It was a Kerry "spokesperson" n.t

[sandnsea]

13. This is just damned hysterical

Somebody said something that you admit you don't know whether it was true or not. And you say to leave it alone? Say nothing?

Please, tell me you are not a swift boat attacker, because that would just be too ironical.

And after the shit he takes for his response to the swift boaters, how could you possibly think he could leave the comment alone?

It doesn't matter what the man does, he will be pissed on for it. Some of the exact same people who are pissing on him today were pissing on him yesterday, too little too late bla bla bla.

I wish his spokeswoman would have been a bit kinder in her comment too, but that's the way it goes. This is just one more dumb distraction that the right will pick up on and we will help spread and end up the worse for.

[JDPriestly]

6. Why are you watching Hannity?

Are you a masochist Joking of course.

[BlueIris]

8. Rant away, LC. I can't believe the nerve of these hateful assholes.

People who know the truth about Kerry have the right to be insulted and angry about the lies the haters are telling.

[Skittles]

10. people who listen to Hannity are not interested in the truth

don't you understand that?

[passy]

11. Don't worry the people who listen to him have already made their mind up

about Kerry.
The positive thing is that election fraud is being mentioned.
People might actually start wondering if there is any substance to the matter.
As for Kerry, what has he got to loose? The evidence is piling up that there was fraud so why not go with it.
It wouldn't be political suicide it would show that he is fighting for the people who voted for him a large number of them republicans too, more than 5 million of them.
By getting his lawyers to do the talking for him Kerry is showing us that he is a political wimp and we deserve better from a man who had the support of more than 60 million people.
As for being involved in lawsuits well he really likes to keep it under the radar doesn't he.
The time for action was on Nov. the 3rd 2004. He badly missed his opportunity to bring attention to the problem of election fraud. As a lawyer he knows that you can bring a case to court on circumstantial evidence, the exit polls alone were enough evidence to suggest election fraud, the same thing had happened in Ukraine a few weeks before.
I can tell you that whichever way the media had spun it, it would have gotten the attention of the whole population not to mention the world. Attention is closely tied to suspicion, the majority of Kerry voters would not have appreciated being cheated out of their right to democracy.
You can say what you want about Kerry but unless he grows a set of large ones à la Reid, his days are over politically.

[sandnsea]

14. Oh, we needed something to beat up a Dem about!!!

It was getting entirely too unifying around here, what with all the focus on Libby and Bush's lies. Couldn't have that, no fun at all.

[liberalnurse]

15. He is preforming his mission.

His soul duty is to vilify the Democrats. I have even heard him quote the emanate domain issue and claim it was all due to the LEFT Liberals! The depth of their lying is truly a black hole.