People chasing Hannity are Idiots

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Here you can see the video. Nobody threw snowballs that I can see, and although loud, it was non violent. In fact, someone near the camera guy is worried about getting arrested. Sad; for following someone? Reporters chase down people all the time.
The comments after the video are priceless. I've never heard of the crooksandliars site before, but it seems like a liberal site, judging by the comments. 99% of them love that Hannity is being chased, and though many don't like Paul's beliefs, they like how his supporters are doing something. Seriously, even if you don't watch the video, read the comments.

Sean just got a lesson, on the meaning of blowback.

Those are the repercussions of slander, and name calling.
Sean is guilty of those.

Now, he has learned the meaning of BLOWBACK..

Let's hope he was paying attention

I'm glad to see this. Ron Paul doesn't worry about every little thing he says or does. Ron Paul says what he thinks and does what he wants to do. Once in a while when you get too much shit thrown in your face, it's time to put a little fear in the person throwing the shit. I'm sick of people bowing down to these pussies because they fear the media might make them look bad if they do anything. Screw the god damn media, they're going to make us out to be freaks anyhow. At least they won't be able to call us freaks (and wussies). It is a revolution, and every revolution I've heard of required some people to have some balls.

I haven't seen the video of the incident, but this sounds so classically COINTELPRO to me: just before a critical primary that Dr. Paul may do very well in, there is an "incident" that may discredit him. There is no way of knowing if the people taking action were even Ron Paul supporters, so please keep that in mind. COINTELPRO was used extensively in the anti-war movement of the sixties and seventies, and Dr. Paul obviously is a huge threat to the established powers.

So please keep in mind such dirty tricks when you hear of/see something like this. If it occurs in a rally or demonstration that you're in yourself, please take steps to stop it immediately.

How you feel! Sometimes protest and anger are required - especially if they ignore you otherwise. I think some of you sometimes forget what exactly is at stake. If you want to politely be ignored and lose your freedom go ahead - I for one will be shouting - LOUDLY.

First you ridicule and marginalize the candidate. Then you denigrate his supporters. Then you lie about your network's own polls which show the candidate winning. Then you front a phony focus group filled with actors. Then your network refuses to allow the candidate who can offer a different point of view and raised more money than any of the others into a forum two days before the election. And refuses to allow protests near this charade. And you do this all while claiming you are presenting the NEWS fair and balanced because you care about democracy, the American people and electoral process.

And then you're shocked! SHOCKED! that people would follow you down a street complaining about your mendacity.

I really am struggling with this one. On one side i don't want to give Fox any ammo.

On the other side, people who opress have always used the same tactic- We set the rules in our favor and push you into a corner. The second you fight back your a lunatic.

We don't have a mass media voice to refute them, so by playing with thier rules we always accept defeat.

What do you expect to happen when you force someone into a corner. Did they not think people would finally become angry?

The Boston tea party wasn't polite. The provocation of the "shot heard round the world" wasn't polite. We now look at those people as heros.
It's mostly based on perspective. Every revolutionary will be called a terrorist.

At the end of the day, i wish i had time to ask Hannity why he's such a wuss. I wouldn't have publicised this if I were him.

Frank Luntz came out and faced the same crowd. He didn't run from them. He was a smug piece of crap, but he spoke with them, argued his point and when he wanted to leave, the crowd seperated to allow him to pass and he walked off completely unmolested.

Hannity chose to make himself a target and ran. People will always pursue cowardice. Maybe if he were a real man or had any balls he would have spoken with them. I mean come on, he suffered no worse than any 3rd grader has and walked away with a smile. Chased by people on the way to your posh hotel and grazed by a snowball? Oh, the humanity!! This explains alot about all those snowball and pillowfight casuality and trauma survivors I keep hearing about.

Can you really tell me he would have had this happen if he came out and said

" I guess free speech allows you to come out and protest, but i'm a commentater and don't have any power to change the debate rules. If you heard my last broadcast I had Dr. Paul on and although we disagreed I respect him. If you want your voice heard, getting in front of the cameras out front may be your best bet. Good Night"

He chose to make it an incident as much as the supporters did. He should be ashamed of his lack of a spine. He talks a big game in the studio but doesn't want to be challenged in real life.

As i said, i'm still torn about it, but everyone has a breaking point and if people don't want to be confronted then pushing large groups of people into a feeling of helplessness and ridiculing them repeatedly in public will have blowback as well.

You are WRONG on this one. The American people are angry and we're not gonna take it anymore! We have always been a passionate bunch and we're using the 1st amendment to Restore the Republic. If you don't let the passion, go to the other camps, those people are very obedient.

To Hannity's credit (and we should ALWAYS give credit when it is deserved), he did state on his radio broadcast that these punks represented an extremist element within the broader Paulian spectrum. He said that most of the Paul supporters he's dealt with were usually unfailingly civil and polite.

We can disagree with our adversaries (and I do), we can VOCALLY express our disagreement (and I do), but we must never descend to the neocon level of assault. The physical attack (throwing snowballs) is NOT okeh, and should be discouraged and condemned by all of us.

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they didn't CHASE him, they FOLLOWED him. the man walked the entire time.

they followed him and peacefully, if loudly, expressed their tremendous distaste for him and the network for which he vomits.

no crime. no foul.

BIG STATEMENT.

We cannot control one another on this level. Individual liberty and all that.

TO THE REDCOATS FOR YOUR FREEDOM IN THE REVOLUTION WERE IDIOTS...How do those boots taste on your tounge freedomforall?

I thought the video was great. It got publicity for Ron Paul and the supporters have every right to heckle Hannity. They were there for a protest and one of the worst slimeballs in all of journalism walks by and you think he wouldn't get harassed. Oh no someone through a snowball at Sean Hannity, we might lose votes. We are being CENSORED by the media. Grassroots alone cannot win an election if the media AND the power elite conspire against you. What good will money bombs do If we are not even mentioned on television. Ron Paul is basically a saint, do you expect his legions of young supporters to show the same restraint as a 72 year old economist who has been able to stay married to the same woman for 50 years. Our supporters got Ron Paul publicity and I think IT IS GREAT. Other news media were interviewing Ron Paul supporters and Hannity does Suck!

Americans are not only allowed to voice their displeasure, they're supposed to. If everyone is quiet, Faux is allowed to do what they want. Silence is the same as compliance.

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Have we not patiently borne the burden of Fox's blatant manipulation of the American electorate long enough? Two months ago, I would be in agreement with you, but not anymore. Fox is going down--end of discussion.

I would have thrown snowballs at Hannity--be thankful I wasn't there. I saw no evidence of any sort of threat or assault on Hannity. I only saw free people speaking their minds.

all they did was give this moron more ammo to shoot!

While jeering can be appropriate at times, these guys did take it a bit far. And I saw a related video of these supporters chanting "revoke fox's license" something Ron would never support. Since the FCC interfers with the free market.

Of bottle throwing, someone threw 1 snowball at him and that was it. I got this from someone very close to me that was there and it isn't anything like it's made up to be. Sure, they were chanting at Hannity but he could have stopped to talk to them for a minute and they would have been happy. He refused to stop and called them names. This is the truth now. I don't believe they did anything that Dr. Paul would be ashamed of.

DO RUN RON!!!!!

this may work against us or for us. Maybe hannity will fear the few RP supporters who have seen enough talk and want action. I am a peacefull person but I wish i could have seen it. Like a bully getting what he had coming.

from Rupert.

Does Hannity and Fox have any proof these people are really Ron Paul supporters?

Your wrong

Dr. Paul would encourage this type of peaceful protest

This si the only way to get things done in this country today and Dr. Paul would 100% behind it.

Hannity is one of the most despised talking heads in the MSM. He has been taunted both in person and on his show for years. He actually had to open up a voice mail line so people could tell him how much they hate him. I don't condone the mob, but I can't bring myself to condemn them either. I wish the video hadn't ended up on you tube(for a while) and wish they were no RP signs. It already happened, and this can't hurt us anymore than Hannity repeatedly saying that "Ron Paul can't win".

A news article that can appeal to Yet Undecided NH Voters

The Audacity of Nope, December 26, 2007
By: Jeremy Lott and W. James Antle III

Ron Paul's supporters aren't afraid to open up their wallets to aid the Texas congressman’s long-shot presidential bid.

On Dec. 16, they donated more than $6 million in 24 hours, easily shattering the $4.3 million single-day fundraising record they set on Nov. 5.

Relying on 200,000-plus mostly small donors, Paul has brought in more than $18 million this quarter and may lead the Republican field in fourth-quarter fundraising.

In return for their generosity, Paul is offering his enthusiastic backers ... absolutely nothing.

At least that's how it would seem according to the conventional “pay to play” logic of big-time campaign fundraising.

The maverick libertarian Republican isn't promising ethanol subsidies to Iowans or free health care to New Hampshirites.

Paul opposes all kinds of corporate welfare and voted against the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Nor is Paul championing a federal bailout of cash-strapped home buyers or mortgage lenders. His solution for what ails the country is minimal taxes and hard money, not federal guarantees or easy credit.
Where other presidential candidates claim their policies will simultaneously create prosperity and financial security for millions, Paul actually says on the stump, "I don't want to run the economy. I don't know how."

Over his 10 terms in Congress, Paul has earned the nickname "Dr. No" for voting against just about every trendy piece of legislation to come down the pike.

During the Bush administration, he has opposed the No Child Left Behind Act, the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Internet gambling ban, amnesty for illegal immigrants and, above all, the war in Iraq.

Paul won't even vote to award congressional medals to Ronald Reagan, Mother Teresa or Rosa Parks, instead offering to donate his own money in honor of these dignitaries if his colleagues will pony up as well.

Yet Paul inspires the most enthusiastic grass-roots following of any presidential candidate in either major party. The secret to his appeal? Call it the audacity of nope.

Paul's approach is vastly different from that of his opponents. Over the course of this campaign, other aspirants have taken a more expansive view of government's capabilities.

Some have promised to “end” cancer in 10 years, others to eradicate global climate change or make all children above average in school.

One front-runner pledges to “roll back” hostile foreign governments before they can threaten the United States.

Another promises to unleash “weapons of mass instruction” to promote young students' appreciation of the arts.

And these are just the Republican candidates for president. Once it was the Democrats who put their faith in the messianic state.

Nuts to all that

Today the party of Barry Goldwater and Reagan has gone from considering government the problem to believing that when "somebody hurts, government has got to move." Washington can supply everything from universal health insurance coverage at home to universal democracy abroad.

Paul and his supporters say nuts to all that.

However alluring many voters may find Uncle Sam's embrace, those who have watched the federal government fail at everything from nation building to mail delivery have a different vision.

Tax reformer Grover Norquist summed it up with the phrase, “Leave us alone.” The late soul singer James Brown said it better: “I don't want nobody to give me nothing/Open up the door; I'll get it myself.”

As the federal government has grown larger, it has become even less competent at its core functions. National defense is being crowded out of the budget.

The borders remain porous. During Hurricane Katrina, even basic public order could not be maintained.

Difficult as it may be to believe in an era of resurgent liberalism and compassionate conservatism, for many Americans, being free from the government is more attractive than getting something free from the government. To them, the promise of liberty isn't just worth $6 million; it's priceless.

W. James Antle III is associate editor of The American Spectator. Jeremy Lott is author of “The Warm Bucket Brigade: The Story of the American Vice Presidency.”

I agree, but it wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing was staged.

More like running from all over the place

Give me Liberty or Give me death

When it crosses over from peaceful protest into harrassment and menacing like this, it reminds me of when radical Muslims get upset when something bad is said about Mohammad or a cartoon is made about him and want force to be used against the media and they go on lynchings and so on. It leads me to believe that these protestors don't believe in freedom of speech and would love to see Fox FORCED to treat Paul how they think he should be treated. It leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. I don't want to be associated with these kinds of Paul supporters, who don't seem to respect the right of other people to disagree and the right of "freedom of the press."

sites are claiming the crowd not only threw snowballs, but also threw bottles. I don't even see the snowballs being thrown, but fodder is fodder and Sean will get a lot of miles from this as the poor poor victim.

Has anybody heard any feedback about Luntz being outed yesterday? There were two proven cases of shills planted in the audience posted here yesterday. Some said they were emailing them to other news organizations. Seems ripe for CNN to jump on.

You may have lost 100 times as many votes for us as all your canvassing, sign waving, phone calling, letter writing, and literature handouts achieved. This was an unbelievably stupid thing to do, unless you are a Romney mole of course.

What happened...I read all the comments, but is there a video or an account of what happened???? Come on folks, some of work during the day and miss stuff...what happened?

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see Insannity running from RP supporters, he was smugly walking, he needs to get a real job.