Here's How Fox Handled the News That Sean Hannity Was Trump Lawyer's 'Third Client'

[jb™ 9,471]

And you NumbNuts keep saying FoxNews is NOT State Run News. 

Here's How Fox Handled the News That Sean Hannity Was Trump Lawyer's 'Third Client'

When it was revealed Monday that Fox News host Sean Hannity was the so-called “third client” of President Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen, Hannity’s network was quick to move on from the topic.

Cohen, who is under criminal investigation for his business dealings, had said in a court filing that he did legal work in the past year for Trump, GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy and a “third client” who remained unnamed until Monday afternoon, when he was identified in court as Hannity.

“In today’s proceedings that are underway right now, Stephen Ryan, one of Cohen’s attorneys, was asked by the judge to specifically name the other name because they said it would not fall under attorney-client privilege to withhold that name. And he stood up and named him as Sean Hannity,” Fox News correspondent Laura Ingle said on air just after 3 p.m. Monday. “So moving on to the rest of what’s happening today, there has been a good deal of back-and-forth filings over this issue since last night.”

Fox News quickly pivoted away from coverage of the Cohen hearing and aired stories about Syria and Barbara Bush’s illness. CNN and MSNBC continued to cover the Hannity revelation.

Hannity responded to the news on Twitter shortly thereafter, denying that Cohen ever represented him and describing their contact as “brief discussions about legal questions.”

“Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective,” he tweeted. “I assumed those conversations were confidential, but to be absolutely clear they never involved any matter between me and a third-party.”

[SaintRay 31,764]

Nothing to see here.

Hannity has asked for legal advice, lock his ass up - JB

[jb™ 9,471]

4 minutes ago, SaintRay said:

Nothing to see here.

Hannity has asked for legal advice, lock his ass up - JB

Lock up Hannity? Nope, but for him and morons like you to attempt to refer to him as a journalist is nothing short of ridiculous. Of course, if you agree that he works for and is being paid by what now amounts to State Run News and is doing and saying everything he can to keep Trump and his fixer outta prison, we can finally agree on something. But I seriously doubt a Trumpstick such as yourself could ever cop to it.

[SaintRay 31,764]

All JB ever posts are black man gifs.

Being white must torture the poor bastid.

[Da Bird is da Word 6,219]

Hannity better watch out. Mueller might be breaking down the door for Russia-collusion evidence any day.  

[Donald Trump for Prison 213]

14 minutes ago, Da Bird is da Word said:

Hannity better watch out. Mueller might be breaking down the door for Russia-collusion evidence any day.  

Thought you had jb on ignore. 

[SaintRay 31,764]

21 minutes ago, Beef, Arthur, & Trump Threesomes said:

Thought you had jb on ignore. 

He responded to the title block ya dope.

[Donald Trump for Prison 213]

5 hours ago, SaintRay said:

He responded to the title block ya dope.

Look at his posting history as proof, you stupid old fuck.

[Da Bird is da Word 6,219]

If the Dems insist on blowing this (non) story out of proportion, then it’s gonna backfire at them. 

Nolte: The Media’s ‘Sean Hannity Standard’ Is a Wonderful Idea!

From what we know so far,  conservative talker Sean Hannity had a limited business relationship with Michael Cohen, who is also President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, and who just had his offices, home, and hotel room raided by the FBI. Because Hannity is a commentator with four hours to fill every day, he has a lot to say about the raid.

But now that a partisan judge (to say the least — the swamp is deep, my friends) has forced Cohen to reveal that Hannity is a client, everyone in the establishment media (read those with much lower ratings than Hannity) have the knives out because Hannity did not reveal this potential conflict of interest.

So desperate are they to bloody Hannity, the media have just done a very good thing with the creation of what we will call the “Sean Hannity Standard,” a standard that demands commentators and reporters disclose  any and all potential conflicts-of-interest pertaining to the story or person they are reporting on.

What a wonderful idea!

Over at the far-left Politico, Michael Calderone writes, that Hannity “should have disclosed that he’s a client of Cohen’s.”

What a wonderful idea!

Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, told Politico, “commentators should still be expected to maintain independence from subjects they covering and disclose relevant ties.”

What a wonderful idea!

CNN, Media Matters, MSNBC… Everyone agrees with this wonderful idea!

And I could not agree more.

It is long past time for the media to pour sunshine on any and all potential conflicts-of-interest.

And the timing could not be more perfect. Good grief, less than 24 hours before the creation of the “Sean Hannity Standard,” former-President Bill Clinton’s very own press secretary George Stephanopoulos interviewed James Comey, the disgraced former chief of the FBI, about his decision not to prosecute Bill Clinton’s wife Hillary over her countless email crimes.

Naturally, neither ABC or Stephanopoulos bothered to disclose this.

But thanks to the “Sean Hannity Standard” this will never happen again.

Right? 

What’s more, how many so-called journalists who downplayed reported on Hillary Clinton’s scandals are friendly with Bill and Hillary, or members of their inner circle?

Now that we are entering the era of the “Sean Hannity Standard,” we will finally be enlightened with full disclosures from every political journalist/commentator about their personal relationships with Democrat politicians and their respective handlers.

I am especially eager to hear from Andrea Mitchell, Maggie Haberman, and Joe Scarborough.

How many dinners, dinner parties, coffees, baby showers, wedding showers?

How many lunches, drinks, cocktail parties?

If you recall, Comey allowed Cheryl Mills to pretend to be Hillary’s attorney when the FBI questioned Hillary about her rogue email server (it was all a show  — Comey had already written Hillary’s exoneration). At long last we are about to find out how many of those who reported on this particular story are palsy walsy with Hillary’s attorney. With former Attorney General Loretta Lynch! With Comey!

DC is an incestuous pit. What a relief, then, that we will now be told in advance if a commentator or reporter has ever shared a lawyer, literary rep, children’s prep school, public relations firm, investment manager,  or agent, with the public figures they report on.

Jake Tapper’s wife was a regional field manager for the abortion mill Planned Parenthood.

Chuck Todd’s wife is a Democrat activist.

CNN regularly reports on Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). Thank heaven the public will now be informed that CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s 14-year-old son was awarded stock options potentially worth millions from Booker.

Claire Shipman, a senior national correspondent at ABC News, is married to no other than Jay Carney, who was Obama’s White House Press Secretary.

Virginia Moseley, a CNN Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief is married to Tom Nides, who was a Deputy Secretary of State under Barack Obama.

CBS News president David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, a top foreign policy adviser to Obama — the man behind the Benghazi cover-up and the disastrous Iran deal.

Barack Obama attended the wedding of Marth Raddadtz, a senior correspondent at ABC news who moderated the 2012 vice presidential debate.

How exciting that these glaring conflicts-of-interest will no longer remain hidden.

What’s more, if attorney-client privilege is no longer sacred under the “Sean Hannity Standard,” that can only mean that we will finally say goodbye to confidential and unnamed sources. Not all of them. Just those with a conflict-of-interest, those whose leaks further their own agenda — which pretty much means all of them.

Welcome to a whole new era of transparency in journalism.

[GOAT POTUS 20,659]

21 hours ago, jb™ said:

Lock up Hannity? Nope, but for him and morons like you to attempt to refer to him as a journalist is nothing short of ridiculous. Of course, if you agree that he works for and is being paid by what now amounts to State Run News and is doing and saying everything he can to keep Trump and his fixer outta prison, we can finally agree on something. But I seriously doubt a Trumpstick such as yourself could ever cop to it.

You quote Samantha Fucking Bee 

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19 hours ago, Beef, Arthur, & Trump Threesomes said:

Thought you had jb on ignore. 

He does have you on ignore, dumbass.

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I don't see your boring ass responses lol.

[jb™ 9,471]

1 hour ago, GOAT POTUS said:

You quote Samantha Fucking Bee 

Link? I NEVER watch her, but if it makes you feel better to believe I do, it's fine with me. 

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[Aquietguy 2,912]

Who was Trumps lawyers second client? Which is just as meaningless.