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Lloyd Carter commentary: Transcript of the Hannity show with Lloyd’s comments

Posted by: Maven on August 14, 2009 at 8:10 am

From Lloyd Carter’s Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood blog:

“Dear readers of the Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood, on Tuesday night, August 11, 2009, Sean Hannity of Fox News (AKA Faux 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. Unsurprisingly, the segment was full of falsehoods, misinformation and disinformation. My bracketed comments below are an effort to provide some balance to the slanted report. There is a link in the material below so you can watch the Hannity “fair and balanced” report and judge for yourself.

Lloyd

From FOXNews.com: California Farmers Demand Obama’s Help
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” August 11, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Now tonight, we bring you an update on a story we covered back in May. [This part is true.]

The Central Valley of California was once considered the bread basket of America [Well, Sean, bread is made from wheat and most of that is grown in the Midwest, not Central California. However, rest assured the San Joaquin Valley remains the fruits and nuts basket of America (in more ways than one) and the salad bowl of America, because only about an eighth of the Valley is currently affected by the "drought" regulatory or natural.]. But now farms all over that region [No, Sean, farms all over this "region" have not been allowed to dry up. Other than the dead almond orchard you showed, there are few, if any, reports that farms are drying up all over the valley.] have been allowed to dry up. Now why? Because of a 2-inch minnow [I assume, Sean, you are derisively referring to the Delta Smelt as a minnow. More significantly you either deliberately, or through ignorance and failure to investigate, omit any mention of salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and killer whales as fish also threatened by massive diversions from the Bay-Delta estuary. And the major economic losses suffered by the fishing industry. A momentary lapse on a critical fact, Sean?] on the endangered species list. …”

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August 14, 2009 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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