MediaWatch: Correcting Sean Hannity Part 1 of 2

Tuesday night, August 11, 2009, Sean Hannity of Fox News did a short piece on the water problems of the western San Joaquin Valley, interviewing Rep. Devin Nunes and Comedian Paul Rodriguez, who is head of the California Latino Water Coalition. The segment was full of falsehoods, misinformation and disinformation.

For the purpose of expanding the discussion, and because repeated attempts made by several viewers to get Mr. Hannity to look at the facts of the situation, we are providing this poin-by-point correction of everything the show got wrong.

The rebuttal content comes courtesy of Lloyd G. Carter.com. Mr. Carter is a former reporter for UPI and the Fresno Bee and he has been writing about California water issues for more than 35 years.

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News & Politics

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• Hannity
• Sean Hannity
• Fox News
• water
• agriculture
• salmon
• commercial fishing
• California
• Central Valley
• Westlands Water District

[luckydaze13]

thats only becouse you don't have your own show

[aprilbaby64]

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I don't understand why there can't be a better compromise than parching land, starving people, halting an economy to save some fish.

There must be more to this story. But you don't seem capable of winning the debate if you're going to quibble over "nuts and fruits" vs. "breadbasket".

[scudderhead13]

10th point: I hate the way you said,"translation, we want to take the water away from northern farmers." WE HAVE ENOUGH FOR BOTH YOU CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[scudderhead13]

9th point: "6,000" ,at 8:12, jobs...... yeah fucking right.... yeah fucking right.....that may be the dumbest thing on this video..... yeah fucking right..... i wish!!!!!!!!!

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[scudderhead13]

8th point: when you said "another big misrepresentation" at 7:06 min in. how so? because he showed one dried up orchard? Drive around here and see how many there are. the only one misrepresenting is YOU and this is deploreable, and i cant believe you are saying these things. If anyone in my town heard you say this, you wouldnt make it out unhurt.

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[scudderhead13]

7th point: who cares if he said all the water. to the people around where i live, it might as well be all the water, you are making yourself and who ever is sponsoring you look so fucking stupid.

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[scudderhead13]

6th point: Huron is like 20 minutes away from where i live and i am very familiar with that town. even if there is only 200 people in the audience, that is the entire town!!!! You dumb shit. if there is more, that means that people traveled, quite a distance because Huron is in the middle of no where, which makes hannity's arguement that much stronger

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[scudderhead13]

5th point: mendota is pretty far from here but if you have ever been there you would know that it is largely reliant on farm work and no water means no jobs. do you not realize that anything over 10 percent is a huge problem you stupid fuck.

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[scudderhead13]

4th point: 1/3 of the water for the entire san Joaquin valley is a HUGE amount. you said it yourself you idiot, the valley is the nut basket of the world. Also, you fail to mention the amount of dairies there are in this area and how much water is need for feeding the various animals raised here. i think there are more alfalfa feilds here than anything else that are used for cow feed. this is making more and more pissed off.

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[scudderhead13]

3rd point: the delta smelt was the reason given to us. The other aquatic animals you named are simply the animals that now rely on, among other animals, the delta smelt as a food source. you fail to mention that smelt is not even indigenous to america, it is an oriental bottom feeder that was inadvertently transported here by ships. This is why we are pissed, get YOUR facts straight.

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[scudderhead13]

second point: I have lived here my whole life, i used to see feilds everywhere i went. Now they are few and far between. there are many old feilds i see on a daily basis that are now dust with signs that read congress created dust bowl. Not only that i know many, many farming families that have had to move and shut down operations because of the lack of water... live here for a god damn year and see for yourself. this is real reporting, you just hate him because he has opposing views.

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