I've edited this a little bit because I've calmed down some.
Anyway... mostly it is just re-arranged, but in the struck comments (after the flip), I reference a link I embedded.
Well, the link was to Media Matters and it was there because I visited them today while I was in DC checking out law schools. I want to drive some traffic to their site because they will often record and post the audio of my calls and because they are a great bunch of people that are committed to doing some really important work. If you haven't already checked them out (and shown them love), there's no time like now...
Flip for a narrative of today's Hannity call.
I hate the site changes. I just spent the better part of half an hour blogging today's Hannity call. Submitted the diary, clicked on a link I embedded, surfed around a little and came back to the site to check comments....
The diary wasn't here.
Then I remembered that the site requires tags now. I didn't include any. I lost all of my work. That's the second time it's happened.
I fucking hate that. It's just fucking disrespectful of my time. And now I'm wasting your time complaining about it...
For weeks I've been amazed that Dems haven't been hammering a singular talking point: that we have over 2,000 dead and 15,000 injured in a war justified by the threat of WMD... at the same time, we have a white house full of chickenhawks that think it's "fair game" to out a CIA agent that specialized in tracking WMD...
so I took matters into my own hands. today I was Oscar.
hannity: Let's go now to Oscar
oscar: Hi Sean... first let me just explain - I'm not sure if you can hear a background noise but my three month old daughter is really beginning to discover the joys of cooing... I'm sorry if it is a distraction, but I've got to tell you, that little girl - every single day - fills my heart with more joy than I could ever possibly deserve... and ya know, today I was really thinking about that, you know, how lucky I am... because I spent four years in the Marines and I remember my training with explosives... you know the IED's that are blowing up our heros... well, they explode up at you from the ground and it got me to thinking about how many of the 15,000 injured sacrificed their ability to ever have a family...
and that's where I take issue with you today, Sean... because this Plame thing isn't about Joe Wilson or Patrick Fitgerald - no matter how much you want it to be. It's about our heros fighting a war based on WMD while their leaders in the White House out a CIA agent that was working on WMD issues...
hannity: wait a minute... you can set this call up however you want, and be as emotional as you want sir, but you have no proof. Joe Wilson outed his wife in the Green Room at the Fox studios. Didn't you hear the General? Are you calling him a liar? What proof do you have sir?
oscar: Chris Matthews said Karl Rove called him and told him Valarie Plame was "fair game".
hannity: Chris Matthews is your proof? Well, why wasn't he called before the grand jury?
oscar: What proof do you have that he wasn't? Listen, I've got one thing to say... You know, you claim to have taken a solemn vow, but you can't bring yourself to condemn this... if all of your "solemn vows" are this serious, your wife should be looking for a divorce lawyer...
I was hoping to bait him into complaining about me bringing his wife up in a political dispute, but he didn't step into the trap... not sure if he was crafty enough to see the peril, or if he was just too committed to his talking points
hannity: Listen sir: you don't have any proof because no crime was committed... when you have proof, call us back.