Let me start by saying I despise Al Sharpton, but how are his comments about Romney not beleiving in God any different than the comments that Rush and Hannity make on their shows about liberals being Godless and without morals. Please don't say that Hannity and Rush are telling the truth and Sharpton is lying, as anyone with brain function knows they are all full of crap.
2007-05-10 05:50:39 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Shiraz...who said I didn't listen..I listen to Hannity every day on my way home from work
2007-05-10 06:00:17 · update #1
Matt...the people at my church would disagree with you
2007-05-10 06:04:08 · update #2
They are not different.
2007-05-10 05:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The problem with this whole mess is that the left has made the first amendment something they can wipe their asses with. How did we get to this point when if you make a comment the person who is offended gets to make the rules? I am offended by a lot of things but I also understand that what somebody says is part of freedom of speech.
The difference between Sharpton's comment and Hannity and Rush's comments are that Hannity and Rush aren't telling people what they can and cannot say. Sharpton is being hypocritical. You can't offend but I have carte blanc. (Can do whatever I want).
2007-05-10 13:14:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difference, the way I see it, is that Sharpton chose to comment about a specific individual. The "godless liberals" comments are a generalization intended to shock an audience. If Hannity made a comment like that about a specific individual, then he would be no different than Sharpton.
2007-05-10 12:55:46 · answer #3 · answered by Amer-I-Can 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They aren't any different. We should let these people talk. I'm sure you didn't have a problem with Imus either. We all know this talk is all over the media; on radio, music, movies. It seems as if society let the cat out of the bag and now we're trying to get it back in. Everyone is trying to figure out what acceptable standard of speech is going to be allowed.
And for the record: The Far Left is godless. They worship the Earth, trees, each other, whatever.
Re: I said the Far Left. I'm going to bet there isn't a Far leftist in your church. There's Liberals and there's Kooks.
2007-05-10 12:58:00 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Two wrong don't make a right, do they? Do Rush or Sean make such a big deal about being champions of civil rights? I honestly don't know - I don't listen to talk radio.
And why do you listen to Hannity if you don't like him? I never understand that way of thinking...
2007-05-10 13:07:15 · answer #5 · answered by Jadis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm with you on Sharpton...he is racist and hateful - but hiding behind the cloth. The problem I have is with the hypocricy. He assembles a gang to have Imus fired for speaking openly...but now does the same himself. Mind you, he really doesn't have a job from which he can be fired, does he?
2007-05-10 13:10:58 · answer #6 · answered by Super Ruper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idk nor care a great deal. sharpton is saying 'I hate mormons!" whatever, polygamy idk why.
rightwingers say atheists are bad, cause they have no god i guess. don't see ateists in fox holes do you, that's a good thing, i wouldn't want hannity's respect. This effects me, i don't care about the mormons. They say this countries christian, and murder, premarital sex, gay, and all the other things are rampant among thier people, and they try and talk to me. for shame. Most thier followers don't understand thier book, they qoute sentence fragment and live good lives as sheep. They never approach heaven nor the divine until death....??? but enough about religion.
funniest thing is people waitin for the apocalypse to come. It's already here. It's always here. The fires have rained down from heaven so many times. We hardly notice anymore.
2007-05-10 13:14:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they're not.
each and every day hannity and rush cross the line with regards to what is tasteful and acceptable in polite company.
particularly rush, who will rail on and on about the physical appearance of many female politicians and has called barak obama a 'halfrican' american.
ann coulter has called both al gore and john edwards either a 'f*g' or fa**ot' and gotten laughs from her audience each time she did it.
in the 1950's we had senator mccarthy, who ended up being censored by the federal govt - now we have literally dozens of people on both sides of the political spectrum who think it's ok to use the most base sorts of insults and innuendo as 'fact.'
it is up to american citizens to demonstrate to the corporations who put this feces on television or the radio that we won't support this sort of tactic.
2007-05-10 12:56:28 · answer #8 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Neither Hannity nor Limbaugh have, to the best of my knowledge, disparaged the Mormon faith, ot any other faith except extreme Islamism. Sharpton is disparaging another faith. Anyone with at least 1 functioning brain cell knows the difference.
2007-05-10 12:59:06 · answer #9 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Very simple. Mormons are a Christian religion. They believe in God. Democrats liberals and other socialists believe in government, NOT God.
Sharpton lied. Rush didn't. Big difference.
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(Krazy, not stupid)
2007-05-10 13:33:17 · answer #10 · answered by krazykyngekorny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct, of course, using the moral compass you've outlined here. I so dislike the shock jocks and inflammatory tv broadcasters I cannot listen to or watch them. They are not the Americans representing democracy I was raised to admire, at all.
2007-05-10 13:06:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋