{"id":179213,"date":"2018-04-16T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/16\/oh-the-huge-hannity\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T00:23:00","slug":"oh-the-huge-hannity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/16\/oh-the-huge-hannity\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh the Huge Hannity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pnf1smq.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pnf1smq.png\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>It appears that in all the diatribes that Sean Hannity has launched against Robert Mueller for his raid against Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/sean-hannity-had-a-lot-to-say-about-michael-cohen-lately-but-he-left-a-few-things-out\/2018\/04\/16\/c795b2f2-41b3-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html\">he forgot to mention that Cohen was his lawyer as well<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On his prime-time show last week, Fox News host Sean Hannity repeatedly criticized a federal raid on the office and home of Michael Cohen, the embattled personal attorney for President Trump. <\/p>\n<p>He never mentioned anything to his viewers about his own dealings with Cohen. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/cohen-seeks-to-withhold-identity-of-mystery-client\/2018\/04\/16\/be7e5fce-4182-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html\">Hannity\u2019s name unexpectedly came up in court<\/a> Monday as a judge hearing a motion brought by Cohen\u2019s legal team to exclude some items seized in the raid pressed them to identify Cohen\u2019s clients. <\/p>\n<p>Cohen, who has identified himself as Trump\u2019s \u201cfixer,\u201d had acknowledged representing the president and former Republican National Committee deputy finance chairman Elliott Broidy, but had initially sought to keep a third name private. <\/p>\n<p>Eventually, though, Cohen attorney Todd Harrison submitted Hannity\u2019s name \u2014 a claim Hannity almost immediately denied.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well he would say that, wouldn&#8217;t he? (<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">MRDA<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On his syndicated radio and Fox TV show, Hannity has torn into special counsel Robert S. Mueller III\u2019s investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign, calling it a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d in an echo of Trump\u2019s rhetoric. He has also played down Cohen\u2019s role in facilitating payments to Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t mention any business connection or professional relationship with Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Cohen\u2019s attorney argued that it would be \u201cembarrassing\u201d for Cohen\u2019s other clients to be named publicly and had sought to keep their names out of the public record, given the intense media coverage of Cohen\u2019s legal troubles.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I guess it is kind of embarrassing, you poor delicate snowflake.<\/p>\n<p>I <b>REALLY<\/b> don&#8217;t expect Fox news to do anything meaningful, but then again I <b>NEVER<\/b> expect Fox News to do anything meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Still it is amusing to see Hannity twisting in the wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that in all the diatribes that Sean Hannity has launched against Robert Mueller for his raid against Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen, he forgot to mention that Cohen was his lawyer as well: On his prime-time show last week, Fox News host Sean Hannity repeatedly criticized a federal raid on the office and home &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,364,490,387,407,486],"class_list":["post-179213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-hack-journalism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-justice","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}