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Hannity compared carbon offsets to "cheat[ing] on your wife," ignored Murdoch's efforts to make News Corp. carbon neutral

Summary: On Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity criticized the purchase of credits to offset one's "carbon footprint," asserting, "Those offsets -- that is the biggest hoax in the world. ... You know what it's like? You go cheat on your wife, and then say, 'Honey, but don't worry. I bought an offset.' Good luck." Hannity has yet to address the pledge by News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch "to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses" -- which includes Fox News -- "by 2010."
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Posted by wzwriter

I wonder how much time Sean Hannity spends in a confessional each Saturday confessing the lies he tells during 21 hours on radio and TV each week (15 on radio, 5 on Hannity & Colmes, and 1 on Hannity's Amerika) ....

Posted by plhamel4926 in reply to wzwriter

I doubt Hannity is intelligent enough to know he is lying. How many times has he been told the truth about things, just to have them roll off his brain like rain down a drainpipe? Every issue has been answered for him and he just keeps repeating the same nonsense. It's no use, and neither is his commentary, unless it's for entertainment value.

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to wzwriter

I don't believe Hannity goes to confessional. I looked up his bio and it appears he did not pass theological school. Maybe that was a hint of things to come for him. ( sell his soul to the highest bidder )

Posted by BottleBlonde

Gore has made his combo home-office much more energy-efficient. Those updates/upgrades were just finished last fall, so the full year's comparison isnt available yet, but it looks to me like he has cut his overall energy bill by a large amount.

No fair-minded person says that you or anyone else must limit yourself to any certain amount of energy. What we all should do is try not to waste energy, do what we can to carefully use what we do use, and try to minimize the effect we have on the world.

If you need a big car, buy it, but don't waste gas. If you can afford a boat, buy one, but be conscious of the energy you use and consider offsetting that energy usage in some other way to help the environment and the rest of the 6 billion people you share the world with.

If Al Gore can afford a big house/office combo, then he's entitled to it, but he should be energy wise. He's demonstrated that he is. People who claim that he should not be able to enjoy his wealth while being energy-wise are mean-spirited jerks.

Carbon offsets aren't like indulgences for cheating on your spouse. They're much more comparable to having the good luck to be born and raised in the good old USA and therefore being generous to nations less fortunate than us. We have more and we use more energy than almost anybody, and so we have more of an obligation to help the world not suffer too much from our energy usage. Gore uses a lot of energy compared to many people, even though he's done a lot to cut down on his usage. He 'pays' for that above-average usage by buying energy credits.

Posted by mari2jj2970 in reply to BottleBlonde

Yes and, telling that the subject of cheating on one's wife seems to be so ever present in hannity's mind.  He can blow and blow, but he cannot do one thing to briHg down the wonderful effort Gore has made to help all olf us be energy efficiant.  Poor Hannity just seems so insanely jealous of Gore's awards for his wonderful work.  It is like a jealous fire burning in his belly but the more he yaks and tells lies like he does, the more we are getting the message of his jealous rage.  He deserves pity.

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to mari2jj2970

hannity said he drives a TAHOE hybrid. That should be easy to check, right ? We are going to get screwed in this energy conservation kick. I first came to that realization in 1973 when i moved into an apartment and the word of the day was conserve, turn off the pilot light, turn down the thermostat and other little things. It wasn't a year later when the gas company was screaming to the local city council the rates must go up to make up the profit lost due to conservation. Happened also in 1978. just recently the courts slashed the EXXON Valdez punitive charges for the oil spill to a mere pittance.  this little tidbit not only saved EXXON a bundle of money, but also retroatcive money, At the time of the finantial award, the price per gallon of gasoline went up noticeably to pay for these punitive damages, money that will not be returned to consumers due to this court ruling. It is great to be in charge.

Posted by snoopy

I'd sure like to know why conservatives think pollution offsets are god's gift to american business have an issue with carbon offsets?

Posted by mefirst

can hannity get a brain offset?  he's already logic neutral.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to mefirst

can hannity get a brain offset?  he's already logic neutral.

He would need to get a brain first before he could get it offset.

(And in case Hannity or someone in his employ is monitoring MMFA, I have a special message from me to Sean Hannity. 

Sean?  Bite me!!!)   :-)

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to mefirst

Hannity has a propensity to reduce a complicated issue to the root level, a level his brain has been programmed to digest properly. Just his comment that he is driving a TAHOE hybrid and saving energy tells me he simplified the issue to a level he can manage. Energy conservation has a political/finantial aspoect to it that cannot be ignored. HONDA has a new car that burns hydrogen and claims it produces water as an exhaust. great, but one question noone seems to have the guts to ask is what does it take to make the hydrogen required to drive, lets say  60 miles and how much that fuel costs for those 60 miles ? Is it gas or liquid in the tank ? under what pressure ? Bet you a beer Hannity has no idea what i am asking here without a lifeline.

Posted by njguy93

I wouldn't be surprised if Hannity does that, given that he's one of those self-righteous pompous sanctimonious conservatives who like to lecture about morals.

Actually, back during the Lewinsky days, when Hannity was just a local talk-radio host in the New York/New Jersey area, and he was going on and on about Clinton cheating on his wife, there was another radio host on the same station who said that he was disgusted with the self-righteous criticism of Clinton and said that there was a conservative radio host critical of Clinton who was engaging in adultery himself.  At the time, the conservatives on that radio station were Bob Grant, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity.

It couldn't have been Bob Grant, even back then he was about 100 years old, and it probably wasn't Limbaugh, considering there are questions about whether or not he is even straight and if he would have done something like that it probably would have been exposed right away because even back then he was a prime target, so that leaves us with Hannity.  He's the youngest, back then he would have only been in his thirties, there are no questions about whether he's straight, and he was relatively unknown back then so there wouldn't have been much media following him around and tracking his personal life for hypocrisy.

Maybe it wasn't, but I wouldn't be surprised.  I've always felt that there's something curious about why nothing about personal was there to expose him other than some hijinks he did in his college days before he dropped out of college eventually.  Maybe there is nothing and I hope there isn't, but you wonder who that radio host was talking about.

THANK YOU.

njguy93@yahoo.com

 

Posted by princeofwheels in reply to njguy93

Good call. I think a write-in campaign to Hannityville should get an answer concerning his cheating on his wife. I wonder if the temptress was a Great American or did she have to call him a Great American?

I used to ask God to bless all the hypocrites but there are too many now that the Omnipotent One doesn't have time.

Posted by RoberttheP in reply to njguy93

Bob Grant sadly is still around , I listened to him before he was fired from WABC in NY in the 90s for accusing the Clintons of murdering Ron Brown. But the man has an audience.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to RoberttheP

But the man has an audience.

And when they're not listening to Bob Grant, they listen to either Mark Rotten Levin or Michael Weiner.  While they're ironing their sheets in preparation for their next cross-burning.

Posted by dbeden4153

"Are Liberals happy that gas prices are so high?"

Does anyone still believe Fox News is actually fair and balanced?

Posted by RoberttheP in reply to dbeden4153

Does anyone still believe Fox News is actually fair and balanced?

No FOX news is a lost cause.

Posted by historygeek001 in reply to dbeden4153

Does anybody believe Fox actually supplies NEWS? 

Posted by IRONY 101

ARE LIBERALS HAPPY THAT GAS PRICES ARE SO HIGH?

Look at the message on the bottom of the screen. When I saw this live the other night I went nuts... FOX often does this kind of thing, running a written message at the bottom of the screen that amounts to a push poll. Although, totally irrelevant to the discussion, how many FOX viewers now have the false impression that liberals are happy about high gas prices?

Posted by Governor in reply to IRONY 101

Translation: DO WE THINK OUR VIEWERS ARE THIS STUPID?

Posted by peebs755

The only people that think Liberals are happy with high gas prices are the Kool-Aid drinking 27% on the right. They believe anything that's told them by their radio brains. Thats why they call them ditto heads. They parrot whatever they're told. I've always wondered why the right thinks its a source of pride to not think for yourself.
HANNITY'S idea of a GREAT AMERICAN,  a FAR RIGHT WING LUNATIC WHO SUPPORTS THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA AND NOTHING ELSE .Anyone else in their eyes is an unpaitriotic left wing jerk.

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to hurricaneyankee52983

Hannity is a self serving narcissist who couldn't care less about the republican agenda, much less know exactly what this agenda is. Bet if you corner him and ask about american history, he will probably draw a blank.
PEEBS755 has it correct, These RIGHT WING DITTOHEADS don't know how to think for themselves. They let  the RIGHTWING  MEDIA TALKING HEADS DO THEIR THINKING FOR THEM.