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Sept. 23, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Backlash over Rhetoric - September 22nd, Hour 3
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So we have sadly had to chronicle the never-ending non-stop vitriol, repulsive, putrid, despicable, disgusting, yet all too predictable hatred that has been coming from leaders of the Democratic Party over the last 12 days since Charlie Kirk's been assassinated.
It's not stopping.
I don't anticipate it's gonna stop.
I've I've I've tried to talk sense to some people, and you cannot reach some of them.
Here's Congresswoman Omar.
Charlie Kirk's legacy, you know, belongs in the dustbin of history.
What I find jarring is that there's so many people willing to excuse the most reprehensible things that he said, that they agree with that, that they're willing to have monuments for him, that they want to create a day to honor him, and that they want to produce resolutions in the House of Congress, um, honoring his life and legacy.
Uh, it is one thing to care about his life because obviously so many people uh loved him, including his children and wife, but I am not going to sit here and um be uh judged for not wanting to honor any legacy this man has left behind that should be in the dust pen of history, and we should hopefully move on and forget the hate that he spewed every single day.
So then she goes on uh Congresswoman Omar goes on Caitlin Collins show and you know asked Caitlin Collins if you know if she finds Charlie Kirk and his views reprehensible.
Like that is my view of the words that he has said about every single identity that I belong to.
He didn't believe that we should have equal access to anything.
He also just didn't even believe I could be smart enough.
I could have thoughts that could be equal to a white man.
I uh where are we missing this conversation about who this man was and the things that he said?
How do you not do you not find that reprehensible, Caitlin?
Well, abuse at all.
Do you think I don't have to drive to that?
But do you think I don't have the brain processing power like you or a white man?
Well, of course not.
And I think it's very clear here that's a good idea.
But if somebody said that I don't say that that would be reprehensible views.
And then after that, she goes on a friendly interview on MSDNC.
How are you how are you feeling, Congresswoman?
How do you feel?
I'm like, how are you feeling?
How's Charlie Kirk's family feeling?
Listen.
I guess we'll begin with your reaction to the language we just heard from the president there.
But also I want to ask how you aren't doing.
What do you think is at at play here then?
If if if these people are, as you say, idiots and don't understand the kind of basic responsibilities they either have uh and the powers that they have in Congress or in the presidency.
What do you think is the animating factor behind why they come after you with such venom uh in vitrail?
Anyway, here to weigh in on and it's AOC and it's Jasmine Crockett and then everything that we've been talking about throughout the day today.
Uh but anyway, we have our friend Reverend C. L. Heavyfoot Bryant.
Um we call him Heavyfoot because he keeps getting pulled over by the police, and he asks every police officer if they've been saved and whether Jesus Christ is the Lord Lord and Savior, and it gets him out of a ticket every time.
I don't know how he how he does it.
Uh Janea Thomas is also with us, media strategist and seasoned senior political consultant.
Uh I don't know what to make of this this hatred, uh, Reverend C L, you know I love you.
I know we kid around about you having you know a speeding problem, but hopefully that's calmed down since we last spoke.
But uh where is this coming from?
You know, Sean, the roots of it began back in the grassroots days.
We knew MST Party.
I met Charlie back in those days.
And you remember how the movement, the grassroots movement, was vilified, and we've seen a progression of that type of uh venom being spread throughout the American bloodstream for that length of time.
Uh and and and now we have gotten to a place where a young man as promising, as brilliant as Charlie Kirk was, uh, has now uh given up his life uh because of the type of foolishness that comes out of the mouth of those who are elected to public office, like those you have named AOC and the gang.
Uh we must stand up and push back against all of this now.
And America can be lost if we choose to remain silent at this time.
Let's get your take.
Jania, you know, you we're watching this unfold in real time.
It is much, much louder than I would have suspected.
Uh we did see this, you know, after Butler.
We saw it after you know Trump International and the incidents that have taken place here, but we've seen a culture of violence.
I don't care if it's Steve Scalise on a ball field and other Republicans being shot there or threatening a Supreme Court justice and and uh Justice Kavanaugh, or you know, the summer of 2020 riots, dozens of dead Americans, thousands of in injured cops, billions in property damage, but the Democrats and the media, they're not gonna stop, shouldn't stop.
We're not gonna stop supporting them, and then telling us they're mostly peaceful, which like our borders are secure.
Uh I mean, they just flat out lie to us.
You know, Sean, at a time where we can choose to unite the country, these people have so much hate in their heart.
And it's at a time where someone has been murdered, a member of by a member of their own party, and instead of showing compassion and love for you know, people, they choose to spew more hate, and it's such a distasteful and disgusting behavior.
Well, it is.
Can you explain it?
Where is it coming from?
And why is it so why is it so widespread?
I think the Democrats choose to make everything a political situation when this doesn't need to be that.
You know, we this is a time where people need to show, you know, compassion for each other, regardless of their political affiliation.
And I think above a lot of it has to do with, you know, their take on you know, getting back at the right when they're, you know, the party that has been the most hateful party, but they try to make it seem like the Republicans are the ones that spew hate into the country when it's in reality it's them.
Well, I mean, we we're hearing it left to right.
Reverend CL, you know, I know that your whole life, your ministry, your career has been about bringing people together, uh, but even you in the course of your career have experienced hatred because of your more conservative approach to life, the fact that you have different political views than other people.
Absolutely, Sean, and you know, uh that is something that we as a nation uh have come to a point now with so many eyes that were closed uh ten years ago, fifteen years ago, uh, are are now beginning to open the same mouths many times that are have been spewing bad things about Charlie Kirk, uh, for instance.
Or now they are seeing that this was a decent and good young man.
And the same things that we were saying back in the day, Sean and and you and I have been hanging out uh all that time.
Uh now, the same things we were saying back in the day that we were being vilified for saying, they're still trying to paint us that way, but I do see a shift that is happening in the American content.
And I think there's an awakening happening, Sean, that uh I think we're all gonna benefit from if we take the right stance that we should at this point in American history.
Well, I mean, and then to go on MSDNC, how are you holding up?
Meaning talking to Congresswoman Omar, which is absurd.
You know, Joe Manchin Genega said something that really stuck with me.
He said the Democratic Party's getting worse than not getting better.
Uh he was referring specifically to AOC, showing her ignorance when you know she wrongly invoked the Civil Rights Act to smear Charlie Kirk.
We played those comments last week.
Jos Jasmine Crockett blasting, you know, a Caucasian House Democrat voting for a resolution to honor Charlie, you know, Kirk.
Um you know, falsely claiming Charlie was specifically targeting people of color.
No, he invited people of all backgrounds, of all races.
You know, he he wanted to debate anybody and everybody, and and that was why he was so effective at what he did.
And I find this reaction unbelievable.
Then you have a a teachers' association in the Democratic Party is voting to allow school districts to celebrate Charlie Kirk's murder.
You gotta be kidding me.
Out in California, uh you you have a California Democrat, Charlie Kirk, had an incredible, incredibly hateful message.
I'm like, what what part of it is hate?
It's sort of like some of the the videos that we've all been watching at Charlie Kirk.
You're a fascist, you're a racist.
Okay, give me one example.
You're just a fascist and a racist.
If I'm such a fascist, why am I sitting here letting you talk to me that way and say anything you want to me?
I mean, it didn't never make sense.
I totally agree with you, Sean.
I think, you know, the the Democrat Party is the party of gaslighting.
I think they think that the more they keep repeating the same thing over and over, it becomes true.
And the fact that so many of them refuse to condemn Charlie Kirk's assassination is awful.
You would think that they would learn from their past mistakes and think that at this time they would want to unite people, but instead they keep repeating the same thing over and over again, gaslighting the American people into believing their lies.
I think the average person actually genuinely feels sympathy for the family and feels sympathy for Republicans.
And I think that most of these people are just the loudest people on the internet and the loudest people in the room.
So they make try to make people believe that a lot of people think this way when in reality I have hope for the American people because I believe that at a time like this, we all do want to unite and choose peace.
Well, I think a lot of people will quick break, we'll come right back more with our friend Reverend C. L. Bryant and also uh Janea Thomas is with us.
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You know, Pastor C L, I mean, I mean, this is your whole mission in life.
Let me ask you a question.
I've never asked you this question before.
You know, I have given you a hard time about all the how many times have you gotten pulled over for speeding just to re just to refresh everybody's memory?
In the course of since the time I've known you, how many times do you think you've been pulled over?
I I'm glad to report to you.
It's been a long time since I've been pulled over, Sean.
But uh honestly, I I have been pulled over uh quite a few times uh in my life, many times on the way to revival or or to the hospital or or somewhere, and you can usually explain that.
And I thank God that uh he gives me the grace uh to And and every time you never got a ticket, is that correct?
Yeah.
That is that and every and every time you'd ask the police officer pulling you over whether or not they've accepted uh Jesus Christ as their personal l Lord and Savior.
Do not say that to the police officer.
My mission in life.
That is a great mission to get out of getting a ticket.
Um, Sean, let me say that let me say this.
You know, I came up through the civil rights era, and to have um uh AOC, I'm I'm uh older, a little older than you are.
Uh well, a lot older than you are.
I'm nearly seventy.
And I I drank from the colored and white water fountains, you know, and written on the back of the bus.
I I remember when the 6465 Civil Rights Acts were signed.
And I know that uh the from the young eyes of someone like a Charlie Kirk uh coming along, looking at it from a historical perspective.
He saw Runaway Slave, my film, and he he loved the film.
He he did love that.
But it gave us a different outlook on how our young people will be looking at America in retrospect.
Charlie was able to give us that, and he was turning the light on for so many other young people who needed a correct view of American history.
And that You know, but but Pastor, I think the most beautiful part, he was telling young people go to ch you know, get into a church.
He was telling young people to to avoid hookup culture, telling young people what to look for in a prospective mate, telling guys how to treat women, telling women, you know, how they should they should what they should be looking for in men and how they should treat men.
Uh just telling people to be kinder to one another.
It wasn't as much a political message as it was a spiritual message to people, and in an environment where kids don't even hear about God.
Exactly.
And Charlie was brilliant at bridging fat.
And this is what we've lost.
Let light can't go out.
And I saw the brilliance and the beauty, the elegance of his wife yesterday.
I I never knew Erica.
Um, but but she I do believe will carry that torch proudly, and it will burn brightly for the kingdom of Almighty God.
Janea, and we'll give you the last word.
I totally agree.
I'm a member of the Gen Z group myself, and I believe there's a lot of hope for our generation.
We have a lot of great leaders like Miss Erica Kirk.
We have other great leaders in our party in the Gen Z culture that are, you know, gonna take on the torch and keep leading the party and the country in the right direction.
Appreciate both of you.
Thanks for what you both do.
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Uh we you know, We've been talking a lot about the rage and the hatred and the madness of the left today.
A couple of the cuts that we didn't play more on Congresswoman Omar, squad member.
Hair was founded because some people did something on 9-11.
Well, this before I play it.
Yeah, they did something.
They murdered 2,977 Americans in a single day.
That's the something that they did.
Listen.
Because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
And not to be outdone, she then at another time joked about people saying Al Qaeda, uh some people say Al Qaeda and Hezbollah in a menacing tone.
These are terrorist organizations.
Again, prominent voice Democrat, never condemned by fellow Democrats.
Listen.
Every time the the the professor said Al Qaeda, he sort of like his shoulders went up.
And you know, it's a good thing.
Al Qaeda, you know, hospital.
And it was, you know, as we are not saying his name.
You probably get to see him on Cienna.
Well, yeah, of course.
I love those guys.
But you know, but but but it is it is that you don't say America with an intensity.
You don't say England with an intensity.
You know, you don't you don't say um the army with an intensity.
And of course, not to be outdone on top of the other the other comments I mentioned about Jasmine Crockett.
It hurts my heart that only two Caucasians voted against the resolution to honor Charlie Kirk, compares Charlie Kirk to, you know, Confederate aged relic.
This is not gonna help this party in the long run, but keep keep talking, because every time you talk, you're just hurting your cause.
You know what?
One of the things I do want to point out that's not been laid out that honestly hurts my heart is when I saw the no votes, there were only two Caucasians.
For the most part, the only people that voted no were people of color.
Because the rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color.
And so it is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see how harmful his rhetoric was, specifically to us.
So to me, just like we wanted to make sure that those Confederate relics were taken down, the idea of a new age relic being propped up was something that I just cannot subscribe to.
And it is unfortunate that more of my colleagues, even on my side of the aisle, could not see the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities.
Very, very hard to understand where this is all coming from.
I know it it really is.
All right, let's get to our busy phones as we say hi to William in Louisiana.
William, how are you?
I'm doing good, Tom.
Thank you for taking the call.
Just wanted to tell you uh all this stuff about uh Jimmy Kimmel and uh and uh Jimmy uh Fallon.
Uh you know, there was a time when I used to like to stay up after a long day and and and just love hearing Johnny Carson, the king of comedy.
And he wasn't political.
It was a time to relax.
And and these guys, you know, the network can cancel them, but I canceled them a long time ago because don't give me an illusion that it's about comedy.
And they get on there and bash you know what's right and and the things that I believe in.
I can't really believe that the networks would let it go on that long to alienate so many people, mainstream America.
Well, they let it go on long enough that he lost 72% of of adults 2554.
And you know, it's it's hard to imagine.
Uh last week I play you you talking about the great Johnny Carson.
He went on with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes and was asked about why he doesn't deal with controversial issues.
his question and answer.
It's sensitive about the fact that people say he'll never take a serious controversy.
Well, I have an answer to that.
I said, no, tell me the last time that Jack Benny, Red Skelton, uh Any comedian use his show to do serious issues.
That's not what I'm there for.
Can't they see that?
But you're neither they think that just because you have a tonight show that you must deal in serious issues.
That's a danger.
It's a real danger.
Once you start that, you start to get that self-important feeling that's what you say has great import.
And you know, strangely enough, you could use that show as a form.
You could sway people, and I don't think you should as an entertainer.
I don't think you should as an entertainer.
There's a great danger to that.
Well, we've seen the consequences of it.
I'll be perfectly honest.
Whatever Disney decides they're gonna do is up to them.
But I'm just giving you the the simple math of television as somebody that's about to complete, you know, the 30 full years uh on national television.
I'm just telling you what the formula is.
You have audience attrition in these massive numbers that that they're having, and then you lose advertising, and then there's no reason you know to have these shows on the air.
There is a business aspect to all of it.
I really don't care what happens to Kimmel.
I don't like Jimmy Kimmel, don't watch Jimmy Kimmel.
Um I'm not advocating for his removal, cancellation, boycott.
Nope.
People are have already made up their minds about Jimmy Kimmel.
That's the point.
They they need to stick with the core, and that's humor.
Because they can be humorous, but don't try to get political.
And you know, and another thing I was gonna say, I believe in free speech, but all this misinformation about Kirk's killing and who killed him and was he really killed and all this kind of stuff.
Oh my goodness.
That guy that killed him had some demons inside of him, and and based on what his mom said, it appears he was raised conservative, but he obviously uh wanted to take it out on somebody what he was feeling inside.
And I I just I don't think it was any huge conspiracy, but there's a lot of junk out there on social media, and that's that's pretty sad because he was a well respected person, and obviously from all the crowds and the people that tuned in to the to the to the service.
Listen, I urge people know what you're dealing with with social media.
I'm not telling you not to go on social media.
I use social media.
I am just saying be selective because there's a lot of cancer as I describe it, verbal cancer on social media.
And you know it it does have you stay if you spend enough time on it, it will it will h impact you.
And I just don't want that darkness in my life.
If I want to feel bad about myself, I could read comments about me all day long.
Oh yeah.
And you know, I'm not gonna feel good about these, you know, these keyboard warriors in their basement uh their parents and their underwear or naked, whatever whatever they're wearing or not wearing, you know, uh, you know, anonymously posting how evil Sean Hannity is.
You know, it's very interesting, and it's a lot of for example, there are plenty of sites that will say the best things about me, and it's really nice.
And then there are certain sites that I I I could literally raise somebody from the dead and cure cancer, and they wouldn't say a nice thing about me.
What you know, why would you why would you want it?
Anyway, I got a roll.
Appreciate the call, my friend.
Uh Barbara Maryland next Sean Hannity show.
Hi, Barbara, how are you?
Sean.
What's going on?
Hey, I'm oh, I wasn't sure if I was on.
I just came out of the gym.
I'm so glad that you are here that you were able to take my call today, Sean, because this has been a very, very, very rough week.
Uh I am suffering from black fatigue.
I tell you, and I started out at a church yesterday, and I tell you, some of these black preachers really need to get out of the pulpit.
The I it the vitriol and the the slanderous to me, slanderous because I know they're not true.
I know that Charlie never said that I just think I don't think it's about black and white.
I think it's about or race.
I think it's about you know people's hearts.
I mean, oh there are people.
Oh, Sean, uh you know, I know I I I would hate to think you too, but we've got a lot of racism in our black community.
Yes, yes.
And the good thing, the good news is that Charlie's message is making it in the street.
People are shocked.
Longtime Democrats that I've known are shocked at what has happened to him.
What that they would shoot this young man.
I just it it's it's it goes beyond the imagination that such darkness is in this the demons that are inside these people and for these Democrats to not vote for to support that bill.
And especially with I'm thinking of one uh uh Kawaithi and Fumi from here in Maryland.
It is shameful.
And it's it's a shame before God that they could not support uh uh a bell to to support this thing.
I I was um it's it's baffling.
I don't want to get emotional about it, but I'm just saying we have got to get past this.
You know, I I love the fact that being raised and growing up in New York, I grew up in a melting pot.
I never experienced racism until I went to Georgia.
I didn't know really what it was.
They have re you know, read about it, and I'm a grandmother, so you know we're talking a long time ago.
But to to see this now, Barack Obama was the worst thing that ever happened to this country because it started getting bad with him, and it's gotten increasingly worse.
People have got to pray and understand and what Erica did yesterday, her forgiving him the way she did, the strength that it took to do that, and it's this is this is uh tears thousands of Charlie Kirk that are going.
Just understand.
Hatred is hatred, but we you know, I don't want to forget all the good that Charlie Kirk did in his life, and the the people that have risen to the occasion and shown their better angels.
They're the ones that are inspiring.
Barbara got a roll, gotta get in big time AJ.
Big time AJ Houston, Texas.
What's going on, baby?
Big time Sean Hannity.
Hey, uh, if I had to talk to you Friday, I would have had a different notion on everything.
But she calmed me down.
Yeah, his wife calmed me down.
When she forgave him, that calmed me down and let you know.
In your heart, you just gotta forgive people for law, as they say they do not what they do.
And the thing of it is, these idiot democrats, they ought to be all ought to be ashamed of themselves for what they're doing and what they did to our country for decades now.
And the thing of it is, we got to have a voice, just like Martin Luther King.
We got to keep the love going.
We can't just keep letting idiots put the hate in the heart as well as we can't allow the hate to go in our hearts because of one evil, evil, evil.
I I don't know what to call them because I'm on the radio.
I like I told Joe Pax, I wish we was at a bar we we can do some cussing and fussing.
Because you can't describe this without cussing.
But I'm doing my best.
And sure, Sean, that it that was just beautiful yesterday.
Everybody spoke good.
Everybody had great stories that lift everybody up.
And when she said what she said, she just was so awesome.
That woman, I got to give it to her.
She's strong, Sean.
She's strong.
I don't know how she's doing it.
I know God is in her, but that took a miracle, Sean.
Took a miracle.
And God it really is amazing when you see Grace under pressure like that, isn't it?
It's kind of spectacular to see and witness.
And it reinforces your faith in humanity.
I thought it was eloquent, poetic, beautiful.
Every every adjective I could I could think of is appropriate for what what she was able to do yesterday.
Democrats better take a look at it and turn around and look at their backside because uh, you know, you can't do hate like this and do treat be you know, treat people the way they've been treating this man in the you know the agony of death.
I I I've never seen that like this, Sean.
This is unbelievable.
But you know what?
We just keep fighting the fight, Sean.
As I always tell you, we just keep fighting the fight, and Lord knows we're gonna get it done.
We'll get it done.
Everybody don't lose the faith because of the Democrats, idiots.
Just keep it going.
And the mainstream media, they all need to be off the air if you can't do the job right.
Just get off the air.
We don't need to hear that.
The public is the public is taking care of that by not watching them.
You know, I said, what did I say after the election?
Legacy media died.
You know, I said in 07, journalism's dead.
They They have no impact anymore.
None.
And it's evidenced by the fact that people tune them out as in the numbers that they do.
Uh, and uh, we appreciate you, AJ.
God bless you, man.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel, the pastor of Charlie and Erica Kirk, Pastor Rob McCoy.
He was spectacular yesterday.
He'll join us.
Christy Gnome will respond to Gavin Newsom.
Oh, she's gonna have a really bad day.
And Gavin also trying to take off uh masks and coverings of ICE agents.
I don't think he has the authority to do so.
We'll get her reaction to that, Senator Ted Cruz.
New Gingrich, Charlie Hertz, say you D V R. Hannity, tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox.
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