FBI raid Michael Cohen's office

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Had Hannity told Fox about his business relationship with Cohen, Freedman said the media company should have either stopped him from commenting on anything to do with Cohen — which would preclude a wide swath of material Hannity regularly discusses on his programs — or ordered him to disclose the relationship to his viewers.
Jeffrey Dvorkin, former ombudsman for National Public Radio, said Hannity should face consequences from Fox.
"In any other news organization that prides itself on its reputation with its audience, Hannity should be suspended immediately," said Dvorkin, who is now the director of the University of Toronto's journalism program.
Dvorkin said the relationship should precipitate an investigation into whether Hannity misled his managers about his connection to Cohen.
Accuracy in Media, a conservative media watchdog group, agreed that Hannity erred by failing to publicly state a potential conflict of interest.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.c ... cohen.html

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Let’s try to explain this in a way a Republican could understand...

Let’s imagine Obama and his personal lawyer was under federal investigation for crimes such as paying hush money to a porn star as an illegal campaign contribution.

There are other things too... from collusion with a foreign power to basic corruption, but that would take too long to explain so let’s just stick to the basics. Obama is paying a porn star to keep her mouth shut about their secret affair right before the election.

Feeling the anger yet? I mean, it’s pretty bad. Secret LLC to hide the payments, an affair that happened right under Michelle’s nose after the birth of one of their children. The lawyer is trying to claim he made the payment out of his own pocket and Obama denies any of this happened in the first place. It’s pretty awful! Totally against your Republican Christian values! Right?

Let’s continue:

Now lets imagine Rachel Maddow was on TV every night defending Obama and shouting that the person running the investigation against Obama and Obama’s lawyer was out of line and corrupt (and even went as far as to say he was part of a crime family). We’re talking blind rants every night where she ignores the facts and shouts about Romney’s binder full of women and Bush’s WMD’s even though bush and Romney aren’t relevant and are, at most, a distraction to the true damage Obama is doing to our country. Meanwhile, Obama fires the head of the FBI and wants to fire the main investigator behind this whole thing, as Maddow cheers him on.

Pretty upsetting right? This person is out there practically acting like state run media lying about a well respected investigator and trying to halt an investigation into Obama’s criminal lawyer (and by connection, into Obama’s porn shenanigans... and also probably into his potential collusion with a foreign power to steal an election).

Rage? Right?

Now let’s imagine it came out that Obama’s lawyer had a pair of clients. Obama himself was one of them, of course, to make illegal hush payments to a porn star to hide their affair, and a major head of the Democratic party (to make hush money payments to a different porn star to hide an affair and abortion).

Now the anger is really flowing. Secret payments for abortions?!? Life is precious! Obama’s lawyer is literally helping kill babies! And what’s with all these porn star affairs?!? Does Obama’s lawyer do anything except pay secret money to porn stars to keep their mouths shut?

But it goes so much deeper. Maddow goes on tv every day defending Obama and his lawyer and hating on this whole investigation, calling it a farce and a conspiracy. She shouts and hollers and practically demands that Obama fire the primary investigator, especially now that he has directly raided the lawyer’s office and has all his private correspondence and recordings. She makes it clear, Obama needs to stop this investigation now!!!

So much rage. Do you feel how angry you are at her baldface lies and distractions? Are you mad at her hyper partisan take?

Now it comes out that Obama’s lawyer has ONE more client... a client that wants to remain secret.

The judge orders the name revealed, but the lawyer fights it. He doesn’t want to give that name.

The judge demands it.

It’s Rachel Maddow.

She has been on TV every night trying to directly discredit and interfere with this investigation without informing people that she herself is INTIMATELY connected to the whole thing because he’s her lawyer too! They are communicating behind the scenes, colluding to control the narrative and trying to hide their connections behind attorney client privilege. She literally says on a live radio show that she paid him ten dollars to establish attorney client privilege! It’s like something right out of breaking bad! She’s taking marching orders from the top, and trying to hide it all behind attorney client privilege. This is real deep state evil anti democratic stuff? Right? Totally outrageous. Impeach now! This is vastly worse than the tan suit and the fancy mustard!!! This is a bombshell. This makes Hillary’s emails look like a minor parking violation!

Now swap Obama for Trump, and Maddow for Hannity, and Obama’s lawyer for Cohen, and the democrat party head for a Republican Party head, and Hillary’s emails for Romney and bush, and the fancy mustard for a year of blatant lying and public obstruction of justice by Trump himself.

Do you still see the problem?

If not... you might be a robot on Westworld... or a member of the Republican Party.

Party over country. Party over rule of law. Party over democracy.

Seriously though, if anyone who identifies as a Republican can look at this massive pile of malarkey and honestly say “that doesn’t look like anything to me...” I’m not sure there’s anything I can say to help them. You have to be willfully blind or totally brainwashed not to see that this guy (and indeed, everyone connected to him) is deeply dangerous to our entire country, regardless of which side of the aisle you stand on.

If this happened under Obama’s administration, Democrats would be out calling on Obama to step aside and allow Biden to restore some sanity to the presidency. We hold our politicians accountable and we have high expectations for their conduct. The fact the Republicans stand behind this reprehensible monster and his gang of criminals (a handful of which have already pled guilty for major crimes against the United States) is unconscionable. I hate everything Pence stands for, but if the republicans stood up and made him President at least I could retain a tiny bit of grudging respect for the Party.

[_Maksutov]

So Cohen is a pimp with a Juris Doctorate. I tried entering the usual initials but the board software tried to turn it into "John Dehlin". We may be a bit Mormocentric here.

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So Cohen is a pimp with a Juris Doctorate. I tried entering the usual initials but the board software tried to turn it into "John Dehlin". We may be a bit Mormocentric here.

I just want to know who Hannity paid to abort his bastard child...

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

So Cohen is a pimp with a Juris Doctorate. I tried entering the usual initials but the board software tried to turn it into "John Dehlin". We may be a bit Mormocentric here.

Lol. Well, if you're Rosebud you might onto something...

- Doc

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And now we find Cohen's third client, who had wished to remain anonymous: Sean Hannity. Sean can't seem to decide whether or not Cohen was actually his lawyer, but called for opinions and advice.

I might have handed him 10 bucks [and said,] 'I definitely want your attorney-client privilege on this,' ” Hannity said on the radio. “Something like that. I requested that privilege with him when I would ask him: 'Well, this just came up. What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' ”

So yeah, Sean, you might have handed him 10 bucks and said 'don't tell anyone, it's attorney client privilege'. Definitely sounds like a relationship on the up and up.

Hannity never mentioned his relationship with Cohen until today, even thought he has spoken about him numerous times on radio and television.

For the record, let's document the context of this. According to The Failing New York Times:

In a legal filing before the hearing on Monday, Mr. Cohen said that, since 2017, he had worked as a lawyer for 10 clients, seven of whom he served by providing “strategic advice and business consulting.” The other three comprised Mr. Trump, the Republican fund-raiser Elliott Broidy and a third person who went unnamed.

So here is the universe of possibilities:

1- Hannity handed Cohen $10, asked for client-attorney privilege, and asked his buddy for some informal legal advice at a cocktail party, that was something other than "strategic advice" or "business consulting." While in Hannity's mind this was an informal, $10 affair, in Cohen's mind this was so significant that in court he said this $10 job was one of precisely 10 clients he had over the last 18 months.

2- In a legal filing, Cohen lied to a judge about his clients, knowing that the FBI had all of his records that could disprove the lie.

3- Hannity is lying about the nature and extent of his relationship with Cohen.

There is no way Hannity and Cohen are both telling the truth. Somebody is lying, and I don't think the lie was an easily disprovable one given in a legal filing to a judge. I think the lie was told on AM radio.

My theory is that Cohen promised Hannity the same deluxe package he gave Trump, where money was given by Hannity to Cohen in a way that is absolutely untraceable, with a promise by Cohen that if it is ever proven that Cohen paid hush money, Cohen would pretend he was doing it out of the goodness of his heart for a buddy and that Hannity had nothing to do with the payment.

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The Hannity Standard

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 preparation 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.

[color=#0000FFCNN 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.[/color]

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 —

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism ... rful-idea/

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Sean Hannity referred to Mueller as a crime boss. Here is a response to Hannity's charge:

https://www.Facebook.com/washingtondcpress/videos/1960739723958380/

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