It has been six days. Six days since Kirsten Powers "hijacked" the Sean Hannity show on Fox News to make a valiant attempt at confronting Jesse Lee Petersen and his idiot rant on his misogynistic beliefs - in a sermon, no less. Yes, it has been six days since Sean Hannity was confronted with the issue on his show, right under his nose.
Six days of silence.
Well, not really silence. Hannity, at 10:38PM EST that evening posted a short transcript of the confrontation and yet focused exclusively on the "hijacking", rather than the content of Kirsten's words, especially what she was referencing. Jesse Lee Petersen and his allies at bondaction.org posted their own version of the events, painting Kirsten Powers as a liberal-minded woman who savagely attacked the innocent lamb, Petersen.
Nothing is farther from the truth.
The fact that Kirsten Powers had to do the deed makes me ill. Sean Hannity, as has been reported elsewhere, was dredging up an old partisan head-fake, attempting to get the guests to argue about the fact that Obama does not deserve credit for the death of Osama Bin Laden. Out of the blue, Kirsten confronted Petersen and Hannity, understandably, looked like a deer in the headlights.
I understand the nature of fast segmented discussion shows and that Hannity was trying to save his show from going off the rails. To the casual observer, it appeared that Powers had a personal vendetta against Petersen and I suspect this may have been what Hannity focused on, though his judgement was severely clouded by the fact that he sits on the board of Petersen's BOND organization. The fact that Hannity did not dig into the accusations on his show is not at issue here.
The problem is the six days of silence.
Worse yet, Petersen posted this misogynist rant on his own YouTube channel on March 5, 2012. That was a full two months before he appeared on the May 1 show. Does Fox News, especially the show that is going to be using this man as a credible pundit, not vet their guests before each and every appearance? Also, why have Sean Hannity or his handlers not done their due diligence and researched what Powers was referring to?
Or have they?
Forget about Sean Hannity for a minute. What about others on the conservative side? Anyone! I don't care who steps up to the microphone and simply distances themselves from Petersen's beliefs. But strangely, every one of his allies are silent.
When Hilary Rosen coughed up a gaffe on a news commentary show about Ann Romney not having worked a day in her life, the allies of Ann Romney were there to defend her in 3.2 seconds. For two weeks, it was all Fox News could talk about. Does this mean they only defend stay at home mom's (women in their rightful place, according to Jesse Lee Petersen, that is, as long as the husband is telling her what to do)?
And a finer point, Jesse Lee Petersen is a liar. He stared at Powers with a smirk on his face and tried to spin his words from March 5, 2012, pretending that he was only referring to "liberal" women. That is a lie from the pit of hell. If you watch his sermon there are many quotable quotes to catch him at his lie, but let me grace you with one of the better ones:
"I think that one of the greatest mistakes that America made, was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should have never turned it over to women." (8:29)
Yes, he was obviously just talking about liberal women.
Will Sean Hannity stay on the board of BOND and stand behind his man? Will he stand up for every woman that has ever lived, who have worked so hard to become equals in society with men? Will others yell from the rooftops and give two weeks of programming to decrying the words of Jesse Lee Petersen? I'm not speaking of P.Z. Myers, Libby Anne, Vyckie Garrison, and many more who already disagree with Jesse Lee Petersen in other areas. I'm referring to his allies. Those that call him friend and expert commentator.
Why are you silent?
Six days of silence.
Well, not really silence. Hannity, at 10:38PM EST that evening posted a short transcript of the confrontation and yet focused exclusively on the "hijacking", rather than the content of Kirsten's words, especially what she was referencing. Jesse Lee Petersen and his allies at bondaction.org posted their own version of the events, painting Kirsten Powers as a liberal-minded woman who savagely attacked the innocent lamb, Petersen.
Nothing is farther from the truth.
The fact that Kirsten Powers had to do the deed makes me ill. Sean Hannity, as has been reported elsewhere, was dredging up an old partisan head-fake, attempting to get the guests to argue about the fact that Obama does not deserve credit for the death of Osama Bin Laden. Out of the blue, Kirsten confronted Petersen and Hannity, understandably, looked like a deer in the headlights.
I understand the nature of fast segmented discussion shows and that Hannity was trying to save his show from going off the rails. To the casual observer, it appeared that Powers had a personal vendetta against Petersen and I suspect this may have been what Hannity focused on, though his judgement was severely clouded by the fact that he sits on the board of Petersen's BOND organization. The fact that Hannity did not dig into the accusations on his show is not at issue here.
The problem is the six days of silence.
Worse yet, Petersen posted this misogynist rant on his own YouTube channel on March 5, 2012. That was a full two months before he appeared on the May 1 show. Does Fox News, especially the show that is going to be using this man as a credible pundit, not vet their guests before each and every appearance? Also, why have Sean Hannity or his handlers not done their due diligence and researched what Powers was referring to?
Or have they?
Forget about Sean Hannity for a minute. What about others on the conservative side? Anyone! I don't care who steps up to the microphone and simply distances themselves from Petersen's beliefs. But strangely, every one of his allies are silent.
When Hilary Rosen coughed up a gaffe on a news commentary show about Ann Romney not having worked a day in her life, the allies of Ann Romney were there to defend her in 3.2 seconds. For two weeks, it was all Fox News could talk about. Does this mean they only defend stay at home mom's (women in their rightful place, according to Jesse Lee Petersen, that is, as long as the husband is telling her what to do)?
And a finer point, Jesse Lee Petersen is a liar. He stared at Powers with a smirk on his face and tried to spin his words from March 5, 2012, pretending that he was only referring to "liberal" women. That is a lie from the pit of hell. If you watch his sermon there are many quotable quotes to catch him at his lie, but let me grace you with one of the better ones:
"I think that one of the greatest mistakes that America made, was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should have never turned it over to women." (8:29)
Yes, he was obviously just talking about liberal women.
Will Sean Hannity stay on the board of BOND and stand behind his man? Will he stand up for every woman that has ever lived, who have worked so hard to become equals in society with men? Will others yell from the rooftops and give two weeks of programming to decrying the words of Jesse Lee Petersen? I'm not speaking of P.Z. Myers, Libby Anne, Vyckie Garrison, and many more who already disagree with Jesse Lee Petersen in other areas. I'm referring to his allies. Those that call him friend and expert commentator.
Why are you silent?
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