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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.
**UPDATE: Since it’s over, I have a post about my interpretation of events here**
Let me be clear about this: I loathe Fox. Everything Rupert Murdoch makes me want to spew my internal organs into a ditch. That’s putting it politely.
But tonight, April 22nd, my old college mentor Dr. Caroline Heldman will be on. She’s actually a somewhat regular pundit on the show (per my youtube results) fighting the good fight against Sean Hannity, on his own turf.
Dr. Heldman is currently a political science professor at Occidental College, who continues research in areas such as gender and voter behavior. She is an incredibly intelligent and sharp person, who is funny and endlessly passionate about resolving gaps in equality that the government fails to remedy.
One skill of hers that seriously is admirable, is her uncanny ability to be concise and articulate.
I am confident you will witness this firsthand, if you choose to subject yourself to Hannity’s obnoxious talking-over, interrupting, insulting speech towards his own panelists.
I wonder how/why they let her be on the show, is it a false stereotype that they generally only pick weak people easily pushed around?
