But Hannity, whoever he is, seems to have made a very strong point, since Almond never denies voting for the pro-war Dumbocrat, Kerry. What conceivable excuse could an "anti-war" professor have for voting for a pro-war Dumbocrat in *Massachusetts*?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
>http://www.newshounds.us/2006/05/23/savvy_guest_gets_the_better_of_hannity_and_colmes.php#more
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>Savvy Guest Gets The Better Of Hannity And Colmes
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>Reported by Ellen - May 23, 2006
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>Hats off to former Boston College professor Steve Almond who knew
>what he'd be in for as a guest on Hannity & Colmes (5/22/06), was
>prepared with responses and even got in a not-so-oblique dig at Bill
>O'Reilly and FOX News while he was at it.
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>The discussion was about the Boston College protest over an honorary
>degree awarded to Condoleezza Rice.
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>[...]
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>I expected David Horowitz or someone else who would trash academia
>as the guest. But the sole guest was Steve Almond, who resigned his
>position as adjunct professor at Boston College when Rice was
>invited.
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>Sean Hannity tried to play his gotcha game of trying to make Almond
>admit he supported Kerry, who also supported the war in Iraq. This
>is one of Hannity's favorite tactics to "prove" a liberal guest is a
>hypocrite. "Did politics play any role in your position here?'
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>But Almond (unlike FAR too many Democrats) wisely side-stepped the
>ploy. "I think, actually, morality plays a role."
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>Hannity, peeved that Almond wasn't falling for his clever trick,
>snapped, "I didn't ask you that." Hannity spent the rest of his
>portion of the segment trying to push Almond into saying he voted
>for Kerry.