"HEALTH CARE Question too hard!!" (Mon 21 & Tue 22 Sept 2009) - I called in to the Sean Hannity program, to return a message from one of their producers, Lynda McLaughlin, who was "looking for liberal callers." Initially, she was OK with my question, but at some point she deemed the question too hard and freaked out on me. In all fairness to the call screener, I think it was more than just the question: When I was on hold the last time she called me, I asked if, on a future program, I could discuss my lawsuit re Terri Schiavo, and when she found out I was pro-life, she totally flipped out and hung up on me -but not before saying "I hate people like that." I'm not sure if it was a latent hatred of Terri Schiavo or her dislike of my taking Sean Hannity to task for not giving my pro-life lawsuit coverage, but whatever it was, she deemed my Healthcare question too hard. Some suspect that she thought I was going to go 'off-topic' in my call-in, but since *she* had been the one to call *me* out of the blue (she got my number on a prior call-in), she knew me better than that. All I can deduce is one of 3 things: (1) She thought my healthcare question was too hard for Sean; (2) She hates Terri Schiavo; or (3) Lynda is just plain weird. Your guess is as good as mine here. "I report -You decide." I hope to post more clarification on this soon.

*** In the mean time, I want to state my position on this matter:

I am not trying to embarrass Sean Hannity or his staff.

"I didn't come here to start no trouble -I just came to do the 'call-in' shuffle." (Sung to the same tune as 'Super Bowl Shuffle')

In short, I wanted to ask Sean Hannity why he would support America's current health care system and oppose 'Socialized' Healthcare, when *Japan* and *China* have Socialized healthcare -and live longer, have less cancer, etc. ~And (in Japan) pay only 6.6% per capita income -much less than we pay.

Hannity, in the past, has said that the 'average' life-spans are not the meaningful figures, but rather, the survival after cancer surgery. I will admit that America excels other countries in certain areas, but Mr. Hannity, the *meaningful* figures *ARE* the average figures -since *they* encompass *all* the people and lifestyle factors.

I am surprised I support 'socialized' ANYTHING, since I'm generally conservative; however, I am honest first and conservative second. Perhaps, an honest Communist or Socialist is better than a dishonest Capitalist -and therein may lie America's problem.

IN CONCLUSION: I'm not trying to cause Sean Hannity any grief or embarrassment -I just want some feedback on this healthcare question -and no conservative friends are any help. (Even my Representative, Adam Putnam, could not answer me!) THEREFORE, I would ask all my buds to call in 1-800-941-SEAN -and ask him to clarify how he could ignore the average life-spans as the meaningful figures -or the lower costs as relevant here.

PS: Its not illegal to tape record a phone call to Hannity's program:

Florida courts have consistently held that the constitutional protections of a reasonable expectation of privacy do not extend to an individuals place of business. Morningstar v. State, 428 So. 2d 220 (Fla. 1982); Cohen Bros., LLC v. ME Corp., S.A., 872 So. 2d 321 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004); Jatar v. Lamaletto, 758 So. 2d 1167 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000); Adams v. State, 436 So. 2d 1132 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983). An expectation of privacy in a business is not one which society is willing to protect. Morningstar, 428 So. 2d at 221 (citing Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967); Hill v. State, 422 So. 2d 816 (Fla. 1982)).

--Gordon Wayne Watts 

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The sound quality is poor here (Monday 21 Sept 2009) but at about 3:40 into the clip, the "next day" Tuesday call-in begins --and I use new batteries --and the sound quality goes way up. ** Just hang in there -it gets "real good!" **

OK, the Monday 21 Sept 2009 segment is about to end -and the Tuesday segment was recorded using new batteries -i.e., the tape recorder is not dragging any more. **Here comes the 'good part.' ***

OK so far -Call Screener asks 'why' I support Socialized Healthcare

She says "you called before" -Yes. I did. * So? * There were no problems then. In fact, things went so well that she called me back out of the blue because she was "looking for liberal callers" -and thought I could help. ** Although I am very conservative, occasionally, I sound liberal -like when I defended Michelle Obama's 'mean America' comment -or when I insisted tuition was too high -that 'sounded' liberal -and I can see why she thought I was a liberal. --LOL

Did you hear that? "I don't even like your voice," the call-screener says. * *  Huh!?  * *
                She has issues...

Note to self: Don’t forget back-story.

Here are several excerpts of the Sean Hannity show -to show that... that the call-screener apparently thought I was good for the show -they let me keep calling in. CONCLUSION: When I say that Hannity call-screener, Lynda McLaughlin thought I was good enough for the show (entertaining?) that she took my number and asked me if she could call me back, I am able to offer some proof.

(In fact, there was 1 or 2 other times I called in that I wasn't able to tape off the air: THOSE times, I defended Michelle Obama in her claims that America was a 'mean nation' and pointed out to Sean Hannity that America *does* have a lot of problems: High crime, incarceration, cancer, life-span, divorce, etc. issues. ~~~ I *further* pointed out that if Michelle Obama was wrong about this nation's problems, then *why* did Hannity have to be on the radio at least 3 hours each day and once again in the evening on his cable show?!)

What is interesting here is that Hannity's program, apparently, has "pre-planned" callers that are taped, in some cases, before the 3p-6p show, which I infer since most of my calls were *over* well before 3 PM; however, I am not going to criticize Hannity for pre-planning or pre-taping calls.

What *is* a problem, however, is a cowardly call-screener who is afraid to take a hard question.

PS: These clips here not a copyright infringement, since they are a small excerpt used in a larger story -also known as "Fair Use."

US CODE TITLE 17, Chapter 1, Section 107 allow use of copyrighted material for fair use:

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*** THIS IS THE LAW *** (Deal with it or hang tough) 
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