Heldman on Hannity

Heldman on Hannity mini-rants and raves:

Trust his political opinion. Or b whipped off your pedestal with a giant q-tip.

• WHY WAS NITRO THERE? Yes, Nitro, from American Gladiator.  Hannity’s “Great American Panel”, one was some guy who looked like plastic and said really generic points like, “torture is okay because doctors watched”, and another was NITRO.

• Nitro got touchy. He would have NEVER touched a male pundit.  On top of it, he touched Heldman while interrupting her in a matter of politics.  Now, I believe that pedestrians have, or should have, a say about their government.  At the same time, when you’re on national television, you don’t interrupt a DOCTOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE to toss in your two cents about a buzz topic.  I would not go onto a gardening show and interrupt the gardener to talk about watering dead plants.  It’s a matter of time and place.  And sexist touching.

• Hannity did his best “girl” voice. While discussing the topic of torture, Heldman
  

  "I dutch oven on the first date, and then censor your gagging with, 'LET ME FINISH!'"

  asserted that waterboarding is torture even if doctors were watching.  The third pundit thought that if doctors bore witness to these terrible acts, it somehow made it okay.  Heldman said that just because a small handful of useful testimony does not excuse the multitude of others that were fruitless.  She also brought up the point that just because there was helpful and preventative information that was gained, doesn’t mean that torture was necessarily the only route to that information.  Hannity asked Heldman if she would have asked, “Pretty please Mr. Mohammad…?”

  

  Would "Experience the Passion" be to cheesy of a caption?

• Perez Hilton, whose blog was rated among the most overrated of 2009 by Time, inadvertently produced the second topic for the Great American Panel. Apparently, he asked Miss California what she thought of Proposition 8, and she responded that she supported “opposite marriages” (hetero).  I suppose he made fun of her later, for her response and Hannity was demanding that Perez should apologize.  Heldman asked the appropriate question of why they were talking about Perez Hilton at all.  She brought up the fact that pageants are sexist institutions (to which Nitro said, “well just don’t watch then”), and the continued objectification of the female body.  The third guy, Reed, interjected with something highly forgettable.

Heldman is great.  I didn’t agree with her on all points while in college, but I continue to truly admire and be influenced by her work.

Why Limbaugh Is Stinkier than Bush

He’s got a big microphone, and a crazy strong following.

Bush permeated like a bad fart.  He left a legacy, but not a positive one: he’s like Reagan, on steroids, with big guns.

I’ve got to believe that he tried to do what HE THOUGHT was right.  He’s a misguided guy, and seriously should have been impeached.  He and his actions were not fit for the presidency.

While it will be near impossible to undo the damage he’s done to the environment, and families will never see the casualties from the Iraq war again, bad farts go away.

Limbaugh, on the other hand, is like mold in your walls.

He’s been around for…how long?  Too long, regardless.  He’s got a following that supports his homophobic, racist, misogynistic, classist views.  And while Bush had to give up his podium, Limbaugh is still in business.

I urge any reader to check out this article on Limbaugh’s response to making it easier for the media to access executive documents from the Bush era.

As well as this article, which shows Limbaugh making his usual anti-queer, anti-raced, anti-female slander.  This is in relation to Democrats and Sarah Palin.  While he stated that he doesn’t care about Obama’s skin color and that he sees him rather as a person, he later said,

LIMBAUGH: We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president.

I’m not calling to censor him, I’m calling for rationality on his part.  His facts tend to be shaky, and his logic is too-frequently absent from the table.

So while Bush had a 8 year-long stinkfest, to put it as mildly as possible (in the vein of this running analogy), Limbaugh’s got no limit.

Someone hand me some PureGreen ASAP!

**Thanks to Think Progress for their awesome work.