Thursday, November 13, 2014

Jon Stewart says the truth about Sean Hannity and Hannity loses it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/12/1344354/-Sean-Hannity-unhinged-over-Jon-Stewart-comments?detail=email

Sean Hannity fact check time:
Where should I start?
(1) Obama debt more than previous 43 presidents
When Jim Renacci (R-OH) said it, it was false.
When it was circulated via email in 2012, it was false.
When Jon Kyl said "Obama's budget adds more debt to our country’s future than all of the debt from 1789 when George Washington was president right up through Franklin Roosevelt and – and Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush", it was false.
When Sarah Palin said Obama's debt was more than all other Presidents combined, it was false.
And now that Hannity has said it, it's still false.  I don't know if he thinks this is true, or if he knows it's false and he thinks the rest of us are morons and won't know the truth.  However, contrary to popular belief (and much to his chagrin, I'm sure), constantly repeating a lie does not suddenly make it true.
(2) 50 million on food stamps.
Most SNAP recipients are poor.  Of all SNAP households, only 15% had gross income above 100 percent of the poverty line in 2010.  For households with children, half have gross income below half of the poverty line.  In 2010, only 2.5% of SNAP households had gross income above 138 percent of the poverty line.
Many SNAP recipients are Senior Citizens, Working Poor, Students, and Children.  When Hannity made similar claims in 2012, the BS was broken down (and this link includes a handy dandy video clip of Hannity saying it!). 

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