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Saturday, September 6, 2008
9/6: Sean Hannity & Neal Boortz at Cobb Energy Centre
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Atlantan Sean Hannity came into Atlanta to a hero’s welcome, joining fellow syndicated WSB-AM talker Neal Boortz before a full house at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Friday night.
Fresh from two weeks of political conventions, the two long-time friends joked and cajoled each other, hailing Sarah Polin, dissing Barack Obama and regaling the audience with old stories about each other.
“I feel like Abbott and Costello here,” Hannity said at one point.
“If I had that hair, it’d be ‘Boortz and Colmes!’ ” said Boortz, who lacks a certain amount of hair on top of his head.
On James Carville: “His head is paper mache.” (Boortz)
“You stare at him, you can’t focus what you want to say.” (Hannity)
Boortz told a story of finding an, um, adult toy under the mattress at a Denver hotel. Sean, mock exasperated, said, “Did you ever grow out of the age of 14?”
“You have to grow old,” Boortz retorted. “You don’t have to mature.”
Hannity offered the crowd $100 to define what a “community organizer” is, a job Barack Obama once held and Palin mocked on Wednesday as a “mayor without responsibility.” Naturally, a gal in the fifth row aped Palin’s line and got Hannity’s 100 bucks. (Boortz joked, “you want my $100, you’re going to have to earn it!”)
Boortz mocked Obama for saying he was going to lower capital gains taxes on small businesses when small businesses don’t pay capital gains. “That’s like telling me you’re going to lower the tax on shampoo! I don’t care!”
And having a Boortz moment, he accidentally said Barack Obama when he meant Osama bin Laden. Whoops!
Hannity is a big fan of Palin: “She’s authentic. She’s real. I look at Joe Biden. He’s a phoney.” She compared Palin to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan with her confidence, her poise, her grace. He feels the media has been “demeaning her” with its scrutiny.
They later brought on Mike Huckabee (above, left), former presidential candidate and Arkansas governor and former Clinton confidante Dick Morris. Huckabee also called Palin “grace under fire.” He noted that Obama made Oprah cry. “This is the lady that ought to make Oprah cry,” he said.
If you made it, how did you like the show?
Night-time WSB-AM host and Boortz sub Herman Cain helped warm up the crowd.
