full
text of Sander Hicks' pamphlet on Sean Hannity
Hello
Sean Hannity!
Welcome
back home to Long Island. Tonight, we've got news
for YOU.
Not
everyone is here today to buy your book. Not everyone
buys your program. Your network, Fox News, claims
to be "fair and balanced"? Well, I'd like to quote
a Fox News employee who said, "At editorial meetings,
certain stories fly and certain stories don't….
Everyone is aware that something is at work. There's
a reason that there's a perception that Fox leans
to the right."
The
Hannity & Colmes show is like a fixed boxing
match; the conservatives win every time. Your
co-host Alan Colmes is
supposed
to represent the politics to the left of you,
but Colmes is a straw man. He admitted as much
to the USA Today in 1995, describing himself as
"quite moderate."
According
to Fairness and Accuracy in Media, You are a "rising
star of conservative talk radio who is perhaps
more plugged into the GOP leadership than any
media figure besides Rush Limbaugh."
Not
very "fair and balanced" is it?
Let's
look at the stories that you and Fox News are
ignoring:
The
Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing Scandals have
created a skepticism about the wild free market
capitalism you endorse in your book. Meanwhile,
working people, like most of us here on Long Island,
have paid the price for these CEO excesses. It's
our pensions and retirement plans that suffer
when the bubble bursts. The GOP isn't dumb, and
so the orders from the Republican Party heads
have been to shift away from using "privatization"
to talk about policy. Your party is changing the
packaging, but keeping the "free market" scam
that rips us off.
The
Neo-Nazis marched in Washington, D.C. two weeks
ago and a lot of us here today were there then
to confront them. President Bush is on their side,
not on the side of true anti-racist freedom fighters.
Bush has endorsed the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, a Richmond group with ties to white
supremacy. Bush refused to pass Hate Crimes laws
in Texas. President Bush put a wreath at the Confederate
Memorial in Arlington Cemetery Memorial Day 2001,
a tradition that was discontinued by his own father.
Why is this not on Fox?
The
biggest lies of history are the things that convince
a peaceful people to go to war. I was just in
Canada. 68% of Canadians firmly denounce attacking
Iraq. Maybe that's because they don't have as
many war-mongering television hosts?
Is
the moderate/conservative media giving us the
full story on the "War on Terrorism?" The Atlanta
Journal Constitution's web site polled their users
on April 14, 2002, and asked how many believed
"Bush had foreknowledge of 9-11." 46%
said they did, before the poll was taken down
and erased.
I
haven’t heard real news of any of this on
Fox. I wonder why.
–Sander
Hicks
Independent
Media Professional
Huntington
Station, NY
More
Info:
Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting
REPORT
OF our local ANTI HANNITY PROTEST here