Hannity Feeds Stephanopoulos Debate Question On Weather Underground»

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:59 PM EDT

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Last night's ABC News Democratic presidential candidates debate was co-moderated by George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson, but the unseen influence of Fox News' Sean Hannity was also on stage.

Hannity, who for months has been aggressively pushing a story about Barack Obama's connections to a former member of a radical anti-Vietnam 1970s organization called the Weather Underground, interviewed Stephanopoulos on his radio show on Tuesday, where he pressed the ABC host to ask Obama about this

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Not everyone was upset about the debate. The New York Times' David Brooks writes, "I understand the complaints, but I thought the questions were excellent." So does Hannity.

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#1 - Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:01 PM EDT

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ron c. baker sr.

hey jim, whats happening? i hope i am not alone in stating that the dems and the pubies, certainly the national media, and a very large portion of the voting population have reduced our election process and those things that are important and relevant, to 'gotcha' politics. how sad, not to mention downright destructive all this is. i am so sick of this kinda crap. if the media can't ask relevant questions about relevant issues, they should fold their collective tents and release their strangle hold on coverage of all things political. there has to be someone, some thing that can step in and do the job of reporting, and especially bringing back relevancy too the covering of political events like debates. ask tough questions, hell yea. but let it be about the real issues that go unnoticed, or ignored in the need to create sensationalism by digging up bull@!$%#.
peple will have to decide if they want bull@!$%# or truth. if truth wins out, people can let the national news organization know that the people have had a gut full by boycotting everything that is national media. i have had a one-man boycott on the major tv networks dating back to the early eighties. it can be done!!!!!

luv,

ron

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#2 - Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:38 AM EDT

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