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It's just another person that the left is trying to discredit, for some reason they must be threatened by him.
These are self inflicted wounds. No slings and arrows from the ‘left’ required.
As an independent I surely question the ethical position of Fox in this matter. Hannity dances on a razor by making his ‘opinion’ pieces sure sound ‘newsy’ with frequent inserts of phrases like ‘This is THE TRUTH’, and ‘This is a bombshell revelation’.
So yes- journalistic ethics may be an issue in this case and rightfully so.
What do they have on Hannity? That he has a lawyer? Yea, pretty damn sad....
To me, it isn't so much that he "has a lawyer." It is that he goes on his show and defends Cohen in regards to all the Trump/Daniels issues as well as the raid on his office, yet he has a secondary reason to defend the guy - it IS his lawyer.
If he wants to go on air and defend Cohen, he could be on the up-and-up and say "for the record, I used Michael Cohen back in 2017 to help me with a difficult real estate property purchase." Or whatever.
But he didn't.
Personally, after he goes and sets the hounds on those investigating Cohen, I think Hannity should own up to what exactly was the nature of his relationship with Cohen. If he is guilty of nothing, just come clean about it.
Either Cohen is lying about Hannity being his client for some inexplicable reason, or Hannity is desperately trying to distance himself from being a client of Cohen.
But wait, Hannity says he only got real estate advice - if that is the case why would he be desperate to conceal and then minimize the relationship - outside of the obvious conflict of interest issues in slagging off the investigation of a lawyer you are currently a client of without disclosing that relationship, there is nothing wrong with just getting real estate advice.
So either Cohen lied for some unknown reason, or Hannity is trying to hide something (not real estate).
A sleazy "fixer" like Michael Cohen seems an odd choice for getting "real estate advice". Maybe Hannity wanted advice on getting around building codes or getting rid of rent-controlled tenants.
Yet the left is pushing the narrative that Hannity did something wrong.
I'm not sure why you think Hannity or his lawyer had to disclose who the client was?
What he did that was wrong was not disclose this relationship before he went on air to talk about Cohen.
Ever read an article on a website and that website discloses its relationship to the content it is writing about?
Made-up example: There's an article on FoxNews about ComCast cable. And FoxNews is talking about how Net Neutrality will affect users of ComCast. What if FoxNews is owned by the company that owns ComCast? FoxNews would disclose this relationship to show that "maybe there is a bias or maybe there isn't, but we want you to know that our parent company has a stake in this other company we are talking about."
I don't feel like doing research on who owns who, but there are plenty of articles out there where if there IS a relationship between the content and the author or the employer of the author, it is disclosed beforehand. Disclosure is part of truth in reporting.
Hannity didn't do it. If his relationship with Cohen was benign, he'd be respected more for being up-front about it.
Why would Fox fire Hannity? Its not like it is a journalistic news organization with integrity. Fox News is an entertainment network and its on air personalities such as Hannity are entertainers. They are not a news organization. They are an entertainment network which provides fantasy programming targeted to a particular distinct subset of the US population.
Why would Fox fire Hannity? Its not like it is a journalistic news organization with integrity. Fox News is an entertainment network and its on air personalities such as Hannity are entertainers. They are not a news organization.
I think this description is too politically correct.
In the spirit of “cut the BS”:
It’s not an entertainment network. It’s a hard core Republican propaganda network.
Exactly Hannity is an entertainer...he doesn't have to have integrity....just bring in the audience.
I don't expect him to be fired, I don't care if he is or isn't.
No biggie.
And wasn't it O'Reilly that really was responsible for Fox News success from the get go.
He owned that network. The others seem to have been able to make up for O'Reilly's demise though.
It's all good. There is room for one conservative cable network and a few liberal ones.....lol.
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