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9/6: Sean Hannity & Neal Boortz at Cobb Energy Centre
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Atlantan Sean Hannity came into Atlanta to a hero’s welcome, joining fellow syndicated WSB-AM talker Neal Boortz before a full house at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Friday night.
Fresh from two weeks of political conventions, the two long-time friends joked and cajoled each other, hailing Sarah Polin, dissing Barack Obama and regaling the audience with old stories about each other.
“I feel like Abbott and Costello here,” Hannity said at one point.
“If I had that hair, it’d be ‘Boortz and Colmes!’ ” said Boortz, who lacks a certain amount of hair on top of his head.
On James Carville: “His head is paper mache.” (Boortz)
“You stare at him, you can’t focus what you want to say.” (Hannity)
Boortz told a story of finding an, um, adult toy under the mattress at a Denver hotel. Sean, mock exasperated, said, “Did you ever grow out of the age of 14?”
“You have to grow old,” Boortz retorted. “You don’t have to mature.”
Hannity offered the crowd $100 to define what a “community organizer” is, a job Barack Obama once held and Palin mocked on Wednesday as a “mayor without responsibility.” Naturally, a gal in the fifth row aped Palin’s line and got Hannity’s 100 bucks. (Boortz joked, “you want my $100, you’re going to have to earn it!”)
Boortz mocked Obama for saying he was going to lower capital gains taxes on small businesses when small businesses don’t pay capital gains. “That’s like telling me you’re going to lower the tax on shampoo! I don’t care!”
And having a Boortz moment, he accidentally said Barack Obama when he meant Osama bin Laden. Whoops!
Hannity is a big fan of Palin: “She’s authentic. She’s real. I look at Joe Biden. He’s a phoney.” She compared Palin to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan with her confidence, her poise, her grace. He feels the media has been “demeaning her” with its scrutiny.
They later brought on Mike Huckabee (above, left), former presidential candidate and Arkansas governor and former Clinton confidante Dick Morris. Huckabee also called Palin “grace under fire.” He noted that Obama made Oprah cry. “This is the lady that ought to make Oprah cry,” he said.
If you made it, how did you like the show?
Night-time WSB-AM host and Boortz sub Herman Cain helped warm up the crowd.
Comments
By Robby
September 6, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
I guess these captains of talk radio need to celebrate their trade while it lasts before the Commie-Democrats reactivate the “Fairness Doctrine” to remove the only vestige of conservatism from the liberal propaganda machine that is the main stream media.
By Hooper
September 6, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
You know what’s hilarious? How Hannity and Boortz and their pals constantly complain about THE MEAN OLD MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
Hannity’s show is syndicated by ABC. Boortz has the sixth largest radio audience in the U.S.. Fox News is part of a massive media conglomerate. How is this not “mainstream?”
Liberal propaganda machine, my ear. The “mainstream media” only cares about whatever sells more advertising, and that’s the same whether it’s print, TV, or radio, agendas be damned.
By Mike K
September 7, 2008 12:10 AM | Link to this
You know, when you’re far to the right even the center looks liberal.
By Mistress Koloth
September 7, 2008 1:05 AM | Link to this
It was fantastic! It was great to see Mike Huckabee and so nice to find people that love this country like I do.
By dittohead
September 7, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
AJC has become Opinion Journalism...which really means JOURNALISM is dead. I agree with Sean.TotallyBy arkansas1
September 7, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
Can someone tell why any talk show hosts with no real talent has legions of followers who live on their every word!
Does any conservative think for themselves or are your opionion formed by talk show hosts!
Believe me they love you guys because they get richer and richer while you are talking about nothing!
By kelly edmond
September 7, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this
Sean Hannity is a racist idiot. I wish he would come out and be honest and say..I DONT WANT A BLACK MAN IN OFFICE.
OBAMA has accomplished more than Hannity could on his best day, and he rhetoric and loud mouth is getting old.
OBAMA 08!
By melly
September 7, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this
It’s hilarious how these 2 brainiacs have consumed the Palin Koolaid. Although I expect that they probably feel the same way Noonan felt when she thought she was off air. As a Clinton supporter, the Palin addition has encouraged me to increase my support for Obama rather than pull me towards the Republican ticket. Palin would have women’s rights turned back 30 years and I don’t feel like being a 2nd class citizen.
By Bitter EX democrackkk
September 8, 2008 7:42 AM | Link to this
WOW, Boortz is #6? EXCELLENT! Somebody’s Gotta SAY IT!!!
Sean Hannity would RATHER have Micheal Steele or Herman Cain instead, like me.
STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrackkk!
By Skip
September 8, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
Hannity is the worst. I wish he would move to Iraq or Iran. He has no business in the U.S.
By WestSider
September 8, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
Wow…the leftist response is shocking only in its predictability.
“OBAMA has accomplished more than Hannity could on his best day, and he rhetoric and loud mouth is getting old.”
I think the grammar alone probably gives us keen insight into the level of thought complexity for this particular individual…
Let’s not also forget the requisite name calling…racist, sexist, set-us-back twenty years, blah-blah-blah, etc…
By Gwenola
September 8, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
Hannity has nothing but sarcasm in his spirit. Nothing else. He never changes. One sided.
I am voting Democrat. I am tired of 8 years of suffering and seeing everyone lose their precious possessions. No help with food, utilities. Gas too high etc etc etc
BARACK 08
By No bad news
September 8, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this
Hannity is such a negative person. And Fox News is the most biased media outlet around. Frankly, I’m tired of the last eight years of Republican control. How can that party stand for ‘change’ when they are the ones that created the mess?
By No bad news
September 8, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Hannity is such a negative person. And Fox News is the most biased media outlet around. Frankly, I’m tired of the last eight years of Republican control. How can that party stand for ‘change’ when they are the ones that created the mess?
By The Truth Hurts
September 8, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this
damn I LOVE THERE GUYS!!!!! Listen to all the liberal whiners on this blog upset that their candidate is only a community organizer…LOL Next time get a presidential candidate with more experience fools!!! A community Organizer with Racist (Rev Wright), terrosist (William Ayers), and Fellon (Rezco)ties will not make a good president! Especially since Obama is a Muslim and wont tell the truth about his religion!!LOL
By The Truth Hurts
September 8, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
damn I LOVE THERE GUYS!!!!! Listen to all the liberal whiners on this blog upset that their candidate is only a community organizer…LOL Next time get a presidential candidate with more experience fools!!! A community Organizer with Racist (Rev Wright), terrosist (William Ayers), and Fellon (Rezco)ties will not make a good president! Especially since Obama is a Muslim and wont tell the truth about his religion!!LOL
By Sportstalk
September 8, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
Why wasn’t the commie Cynthia Tucker invited to this party…hee hee…
By lucky
September 8, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
Did any of those commentators bring up the fact that $20 million of Cobb Energy Center was siphoned off the backs of customers of the Cobb EMC? Probably not.
By StevenCee
September 8, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
Sean, if you & all others who let talking points do their thinking, really don’t know what a “community organizer” does, you need only reference Dr. Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, & Jesus Christ, to see but a few examples of community organizers in action…
By lisa ann from sugarloaf
September 8, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this
Oh so that’s what Boortz looks like with clothes on!
By Greg
September 9, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this
Jeez, that whole thing was just sad.
And the way that the Republicans have latched onto the “community organizer” thing is loathsome. They disparage every person who has ever worked in a food bank, homeless shelter, free clinic… who’s bright idea was that tactic, and how is it that they don’t recognize how insulting that is to some of the best citizens of this country, no matter what political affiliation they carry?
By melissa wolfe
September 9, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
Couldn’t agree more, especially when you consider how many times Boortz has had to visit a free clinic!
By Jay
September 9, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
I can’t wait to hear what Neal has to say about Belinda’s husband suing the Crocs company for $2 million because their son was injured while wearing Crocs on the escalator at the Atlanta airport. This is definitely the type of story in which Neal would ridicule the parents’ decision to file a lawsuit because their precious little child was hurt due to the actions of a big, mean corporation.
By Bill
September 10, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
Obama has promised to eliminate the Bush tax cuts on the rich who make over $250k a year. He has Boortz and Hannity running scared.
By JE
September 10, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
When will the Democrats and ignorant people in general, realize that people who make $ 250,000 a year are not rich- they are successful! Why should someone who works hard and smart or who are just plain lucky, be penalized for it? This is exactly why we need the Fair Tax or a flat tax.
With a flat tax everyone is taxed the same % regardless of how much you make. With the fair tax you are taxed on what you spend. Either way ,the “Rich” (Successful) would still pay more in taxes than anyone else-just like they do now!
By Saxman
September 11, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
Of course Boortz will support Belinda’s “victim” lawsuit, despite everyone knowing he’d be slamming her, if it were simply a news item about a woman not a personal friend.
For just like Hannity’s hypocritical flip-flop on “lack of experience” & “crying sexism being a weak excuse”, when it concerned Sara Palin, and not Obama & Hillary, these “bloviating” pundits know that few listeners will ever hold them to any standards, “consistency”, “fairness”, “integrity”, whatever…..