Thank You, Sweet Jesus, For Manna From Heaven
Cohen had to release the names of his clients.
#3 – Sean Hannity!
A lawyer for Cohen at the Monday hearing said that Cohen performed secret legal work for Hannity.
“We have been friends a long time. I have sought legal advice from Michael,” Hannity said in response to being revealed as Cohen’s third client, according to a Wall Street Journal reporter.
Reminder:
Cohen’s other two clients in recent years are President Donald Trump and Elliot Broidy, a Republican fundraiser. Cohen negotiated non-disclosure agreements with Trump and Broidy’s alleged mistresses.
given Mr. Hannity’s obvious conflict of interest, this is something he should have clearly related to his audience, anytime the subject of Mr. Cohen came up on his show. oh, who am I kidding, this is FOX, not a real news network!
1Well, well. Any comment on what Cohen was doing for you, Sean?
2Can you say “conflict of interest”, Sean?
ROTFLMAO!
3This is better than “As the stomach churns”.
Scumball Trio.
4Sure wish I had invested in popcorn stock a year ago.
5I’m so tired. I can’t laugh like that anymore without risking my life!
6Well, Mike sure knows a lot of co-conspirators!
I WAS going to say he knows a lot of shitbirds, but I thought momma might be offended.
7The reason that Fox dropped the “fair and balanced” tagline? They found it increasingly difficult to keep a straight face when it was onscreen. Today’s news is just one more confirmation of what anybody with more than half a brain has known for years. And it ferdamnsure made my day.
8Hannity on radio show and tweet: I was not a client in a traditional way, just phone call chit chat a few times. …obviously a message to his wife.
Two days of costly court hearings to keep name of “not a client’s” secret and attorney not a client’s privilege?
Naturally ….others are pointing out the breach of journalistic ethics since Hannity never revealed his personal/business relationship when he interviewed Cohen on his show or during flaming nostril hissy fits he’s had for days since Cohen was raided.
“When you’re born into this world, you get a ticket to the freak show. And if you’re born in the United States, you get a front row seat.” — George Carlin RIP
9PS: The judge rejected the request from Trump and from Michael Cohen for a temporary restraining order to keep federal prosecutors from reading files seized.
10Didn’t Shawn spend some quality time with Trump recently playing golf?
I wonder what they discussed.
Wonder if Shawn got in over his head with the Russians trying to make some money. And Trump/Cohen bailed him out.
And that is why he is so subservient to Trump and Russia.
11Working at FOX requires one or more of three things: Misogynist (Hannity etal), idiocy (Tomi Lehren, Doucie…….), and/or Repugnant (Laura Ingraham
12Query: Outside of conflict of interest, is there any legal ramification?
It isn’t illegal to promote a political party’s propaganda…
13Well, well, well Mr. High and Mighty conservative is now swimming in the swamp along with all the other slimy snakes.
I’m guessing he’s hired an honest-to-john lawyer to defend him now that he and his “fixer friend” have been caught in the net.
Will his sponsors now abandon Mr. Big Stuff? Will he go the way of Rush Limberger? Oh, please!!!!!!
Sam in St. Paul, 3 more requirements for Fox: greed, arrogance
14and no conscience.
Hannity is a complete idiot. He tells everyone that Cohen was not his lawyer so there is no privileged communication, so then either Cohen is his fixer or he has to pay people to be his friend.
15Well what I want to know is was his “fixit” one of the Chippendales guys? Or some nice young GQ model? Or just some poor working stiff of a rent a boy he conjured up from some personals somewhere? He’s the only one who hasn’t had to settle any harrassment suits with any of the wimmens, right….?
16The Cohen Team: We don’t want to release the name of the third client at his request because it may embarrass him. OK, it’s Sean Hannity.
Sean Hannity: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a client of Michael Cohen.
Maybe Sean should have used Bill O’Reilly’s lawyer who wrote a NDA which required the recipient to lie under oath. Which, by the way, I would have loved to see challenged.
17For years, Sean’s radio show theme song was “ Independence Day.” He thought it was about the Fourth of July. It was really about wifebeating. He’s as dumb as you can get. I hope this is the beginning of the end for him. I can’t wait to see what Cohen was counseling Hannity about. I’ll bet Cohen was leaning on someone who had crossed Hannity. However, I hope it was about keeping a tryst quiet.
18I just can’t wait for those recordings of Cohen”s to come out.
19Since Cohen and his lawyer are officers of the court they are required to answer a judge’s questions truthfully even if not under oath. Hence Hannity is lying.
20Notice Hannity never said if he received any money from Cohen.
21Maybe Cohan required signed receipt. This is a hook on a new money trail.
Robert McClellan actually, I heard that Hannity paid Cohen TEN DOLLARS. It just gets better and better.
22I’m not a lawyer-
If Hannity’s legal fees were not paid by him, and we’re ‘pro bono’ or paid by others- is there a chance that the matters they concerned could be exposed by the criminal acts of others?
23Old Fart: we used to have a thing called the fairness doctrine in broadcasting. st.. Reagan did away with it and that was the beginning of the end to real fair and balanced.
24OF: probably little legal ramifications.
But, if it weren’t SH (just like it wasn’t when BO’R was the font all those years before it suddenly grew to be too much to bear), FN would probably discover that it’s against their rigorous journalistic standards and put the host out on his butt. But, of course, FN is all about RHIP.
25@Paul, @eyesoars: Thanks.
(But what does RHIP mean? Really Heinous Institutional Pustulence^)
^ Apparently not a real word, but has definitions and usage that support my usage…
26For me, the best part of the story by far was the description of how, when the attorney announced Hannity’s name, a gasp went up throughout the courtroom. It was immediately followed by many of the reporters gathered there trying to stifle their laughter.
Hannity certainly isn’t a reporter, or even much of a commentator. He’s just a big, pasty-faced right wing goon. Every time I see him, he looks more and more like an Irish potato – after the Blight hit.
27RHIP? Rank Hath Its Privileges. [The accent is implicit.] Aka, the other golden rule: who has the gold makes the rules. Or the other other golden rule: whosoever’s bringing in the dough gets to make the rules.
Your acronym works too…
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