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Reps. Anthony Weiner And Peter King Spar A Second Round On Hannity’s Radio Show

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Yesterday on Fox News, New York Congressmen Anthony Weiner and Peter King did battle over the passing of a bill to aid 9/11 first-responders that developed health problems. Even with discussion moderated by a fairly silent, impartial Bill Hemmer– who piped up mostly to point out that everyone hates Congress– it got pretty heated. Now imagine that same conversation with Sean Hannity as host.

The duo continued their discussion on Hannity’s radio show yesterday, and, needless to say, Hannity did not stay out of the discussion as much as Hemmer did. In fact, after a few words from Rep. King, Hannity took up his cause much more forcefully than King did, accusing Weiner of not reading the bill at all and being a “phony.” To quickly recap: Congress voted down a bill to honor and aid 9/11 first-response workers, which led Rep. Weiner to a very loud monologue on the House floor. Rep. Weiner blames Rep. King for not lobbying enough Republicans and Rep. King blames Rep. Weiner for politicizing the bill such that it scared Republicans away. In the little we hear in this clip from Rep. King, we hear him call the failure of a bill a “disgrace” and say he has “never heard of a time before of a party having the votes and then not passing the bill.”

For most of the rest of the segment, Hannity asks Rep. Weiner repeatedly if he has read the entirety of the bill. When challenged to answer whether he has read the bill himself, he answers “I didn’t know you were going to be on until 1:30 this afternoon!” and expands his question to whether Rep. Weiner has voted for a bill he has never read at all. Not getting an answer, he yells, “Yes, you have!,” calls Rep. Weiner a “phony,” and tries to get him to vow never to vote for a bill he has never read “again.” Rep. King tries to interrupt at some point as well, to which Hannity comically exclaims, “Oh my God, I feel like I am in kindergarten with you two!”

Perhaps the most comical part of the interview was the goodbye, with Rep. Weiner shouting over Hannity as he sheepishly says “happy, er, glad you got married.”

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  • Bootleghaircut

    Who’s Sean Hannity?

  • ImNotBlue

    Without all the eye-rolling and huffing around, Weiner’s shtick doesn’t work.

    He’s a phony.

  • JimBob

    Term Limits! HELLO!!
    And these two are SANE compared to a hell of a lot more of them we hear and see daily.
    Disgraceful!!!!!
    OMG

  • Bootleghaircut

    “And these two are SANE”

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…thanks for that laugh of the day.

    No, they are not SANE.

    NEITHER OF THOSE CLOWNS.

  • BatBoy

    These two are just a couple of axers on a stage giving a bad performance.

    The bill will be brought up again after the recess, so that it can pass on a 50%+1 members voting for it.

    The Dem’s put in a provision that they wanted the Republicans to vote for so they could use it against them this fall. It was a nice trick…but all caught on before the vote.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

    Mr. Wiener—- that he is.

  • jimw1016

    Makes one think? Did I vote for these idiots? Reform is the word for the day and future. Partisanship MUST go, and only WE THE PEOPLE can make it happen. If you are classified as a sheep and you know who you are, staunch Republican or Democratic party supporter, this is YOUR problem and YOU need to use you head and make change. Hear the bell? Close your eyes and ears SHEEP and use your minds before it’s too late. Vote them all out, limit terms and demand full and complete fiscal accountability within ALL levels of government!

  • juan

    The Democrats are desparate, nervous, and RUNNING from Obama!

    We gonna CLOBBER ya in November!

  • juan

    I called Congressman Weiner’s office when he made allegations about the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and GoldLine!

    I inquired about his accusation that the BBB could be paid to get higher ratings! The female staffer first stated that “anyone could be bought”! I was appalled and asked what happened to principles! She was surprised, then softly said he was investigating BBB! Haven’t heard anymore about the BBB!

  • Newsjunky

    Mr. Weiner spoke for tens of millions of fed up Democrats yesterday. Good for him. Calling out Republican “legislators” for what they are… Keep up the pressure Mr. Weiner and we need more like you exposing these obstructionist scumbags.

  • BR

    Newsjunky said:
    Mr. Weiner spoke for tens of millions of fed up Democrats yesterday. Good for him. Calling out Republican “legislators” for what they are… Keep up the pressure Mr. Weiner and we need more like you exposing these obstructionist scumbags.

    All except for the pesky little fact that he kept sidestepping. The democrates have enough members that they could have passed the bill WITHOUT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTE! You just gotta hate those facts.

  • timzank

    BR said:
    All except for the pesky little fact that he kept sidestepping. The democrates have enough members that they could have passed the bill WITHOUT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTE! You just gotta hate those facts.

    Funny how these disciples of Dems don’t understand what a fricking MAJORITY is, isn’t it? Since day one of the “High School Administration” the Dems could have passed any damn thing they wanted if they had only all agreed.

    Don’t blame the Republicans cuz ya can’t get your fellow Dems to fall in line.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Not easy to out obnoxious Schumer , is it Weiner ?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    i still do not understand why the repubs won’t vote for this…because some of the workers who risked their lives to dig through that toxic mess to save someone elses life was an illegal immigrant? fuck the people who were first responders because it will add on to our debt…oh, but god forgive we let the tax cuts for the wealthy americans expire…who cares what THAT costs…what did chaney say about deficits?
    damn…you guys are pathetic…you should be ashamed

  • esd2000

    It seems to me some people commenting here are making more of a big deal whether the Dems are using trickery to use against the Repubs, or how loud these guys yell. How about the fact that the most of the Repubs and some Dems voted against this bill and that it failed to pass. Wasn’t this bill for the 9-11 first responders who have gotten sick and some have died due to the air quality in the 9-11 ruins. The country was really united back then. How soon we forget. Now it’s business and hatred as usual. Shame. Who cares if these guys yell at each other, that’s not the point.

  • esd2000

    timzank said:
    Funny how these disciples of Dems don’t understand what a fricking MAJORITY is, isn’t it? Since day one of the “High School Administration” the Dems could have passed any damn thing they wanted if they had only all agreed.

    Don’t blame the Republicans cuz ya can’t get your fellow Dems to fall in line.

    That’s not true in the Senate, with the filibuster. Do you know what a “fricking” filibuster is?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    esd2000
    It seems to me some people commenting here are making more of a big deal whether the Dems are using trickery to use against the Repubs, or how loud these guys yell. How about the fact that the most of the Repubs and some Dems voted against this bill and that it failed to pass. Wasn’t this bill for the 9-11 first responders who have gotten sick and some have died due to the air quality in the 9-11 ruins. The country was really united back then. How soon we forget. Now it’s business and hatred as usual. Shame. Who cares if these guys yell at each other, that’s not the point.

    good point…as for me, it was when bush decided to attack iraq that he lost my support along with a lot of people, here and all over the world..in fact, didn’t iran pledge their support to go after al queda in afgan? i have been a strong, progressive liberal since working on clinton campaign in school, and although i always had a strong patriotic sense of feeling ever since serving in the navy..i never felt more like an american and support for my president than the time following 9/11 and it seemed that almost the entire planet was with us and george bush destroyed that feeling…i will never forgive that

  • Sunnyr

    The screw-loose Anthony Weenie just took Congress’s favorability rating down another couple of notches to about 8 or 9%. Why aren’t the people of NYC embarrassed by this TWIT? Toss him OUT on his skinny butt!

  • JamesA1102

    Sunnyr said:
    The screw-loose Anthony Weenie just took Congress’s favorability rating down another couple of notches to about 8 or 9%. Why aren’t the people of NYC embarrassed by this TWIT? Toss him OUT on his skinny butt!

    Yes someone who speaks out passionately for 9/11 responders is obviously a twit. Typical conservative logic.

  • ro blackman

    That weiner guy’s name fits perfectly with the way he acts and talks. He can join all the other homo liberals like henry wax on wax off waxman, Barney i’m a homo Frank, al i’m a D.S. franken, the list goes on and on.

  • ro blackman

    Yeah JamesA1102 get a clue. your dem buddies that are so passionate like weenie can’t just do a up or down voteon something as important as first responders, they have to attach all of their liberal B.S.to the same law so that to vote for it is to vote for more of the same crap we’re getting right now. Get a clue LIBERALISM IS A CANCER

  • louda

    Why can’t you people get away from all the god damn labels and look at the issue at hand. Dems overwhelmingly supported the first responders while the GOP didn’t. Thats the facts. Sorry if you feel tied to the GOP but on this issue they sold out. The results are in the votes. Who cares whos majority or minority party. And untill we get away from all the generlizations and labels, Americans will always be divided. Idiots blinded by affiliations.

  • Sue

    If you haven’t seen the original rant by Weiner, you haven’t seen anything yet! This guy is the epitome of the pusball left! He doesn’t tell you that for 3 1/2 years with Demos full control over congress they never brought it up to pass…now with no budget, they pass all they can while attaching spending like drunk sailors…sorry sailors!!!! What is it about the uberlefty portion of the Left that has the most god awful, ugly slimeballs as points? Where do these people come from? What rocks do we need to smash to avoid this type of ugly to slime out? I wonder what his wife thinks, or, if she is his twin.

  • jjpeditor

    louda said:
    “Why can’t you people get away from all the god damn labels and look at the issue at hand. Dems overwhelmingly supported the first responders while the GOP didn’t. ”

    Cause thats not what happened

    a/ The bill was extremely weak in requiring medical confirmation / documentation of health issues for first responders to get compensated for exposure at Ground Zero .

    b/ The amendments AS ONLY ADDED BY DEMOCRATS would also have funded illegal aliens getting medical assistance.

    EVERYONE wants LEGITIMATE CLAIMS paid, but this bill was set up to suck up hundreds of millions if not billions of our tax dollars for potentially massive fraud.

    The Democrats knew if they put the bill up for a regular vote that the above issues would be discussed and that the amendments would be subject to votes (especially on the payments to illegal immigrants).

    Pelosi ordered the bill to be voted under “suspension” to eliminate all debate even though she knew full well she couldn’t get enough votes to pass the bill as written, and she did this so she could simply blame Republicans and that her Weiner and her media lapdogs would back her up.

    You want to blame someone for screwing up compensation for our heroes at Ground Zero?

    BLAME PELOSI AND THE DEMOCRATS.

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