Here is the one hundred thirteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Republican Faux Noise host, Bullshitologist, Trump Sycophant, and Welfare Queen Sean Hannity. He is so honored for his Republican hypocrisy and greed.
Fox News Sean Hannity was outed Sunday for having vast real estate holdings, including properties that take government money for HUD approved housing. It was those $90 million in holdings that were outed by the investigation into Michael Cohen.
According to the report broken by The Guardian, Hannity has several shell companies set up to navigate 470 different homes in 7 states.
“First, I want to apologize to Sean,” New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens began. “I once called him Fox News’s dumbest anchor. He’s clearly the shrewdest real estate developer. I think it’s funny Sean Hannity turns out to be a welfare queen for HUD, having taken advantage of guarantees that were put forward by none other than the [Barack] Obama administration.”
Stephens noted that Hannity has said over and over he isn’t a journalist, though his determination seems to shift back and forth depending on what is the most expedient at the time.
“He proves it every single day,” Stephens continued of Hannity’s lack of journalist chops. “The question for Fox News is whether they want to consider themselves a journalistic institution and continue to employ as an anchor a guy who clearly is better at real estate than he is, at reporting.”
After spending most of her career in banking, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle noted that when bank employees have a conflict of interest, regulators and the FCC get involved… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Raw Story>
The following video is identical to the one in the article, but is from YouTube.
I’m amazed that I’ve never paraded Hannity before, even though I have covered him dozens of times, which I can document as far back as 2009.
On many occasions people with whom Hannity had business dealings appeared on his show, and Hannity never disclosed it. His hypocrisy is exceeded only by his greed.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Wow. I’m amazed too that this is his first parade. I want to personally thank Bret Stephens for using the term “Welfare Queen” to point out that it’s the rich, not the poor, who defraud the Government … which means they STEAL from YOU AND ME.
If I’m repeating this, I apologize – it’s a link to a site which is updated weekly of current advertisers on Fox. It is show specific when they can actually assign that. You can boycott them, ot you can give them a piece of your mind (not too much – we all need our minds now more than ever.)
Apologize? That link should be repeated often!
The real “welfare queens” are the greedy corporations bleeding taxpayers dry with corporate welfare.
You bet!
ugh!!! Say no more, as soon as I saw his picture. He’s a bloodsucker, thief, leech and liar!!!That sign ‘choose cruz’ made me ‘ill’.
“His hypocrisy is exceeded only by his greed.” — That is an understatement! How Republican of him!!!
I agree with Freya “The real “welfare queens” are the greedy corporations bleeding taxpayers dry with corporate welfare.” but I would also add the 1% in there. I know that he has a number of companies, but that is just for tax and state law reasons, and I would not call him a corporation, just an obnoxious, greedy, lying 1%er.
A pig dressed in conservative chic clothing and hair style, and the sheep just soooo buy it!
I like to award Hannity an award besides a place in Republicans on Parade, because he did he accomplished quite a feat. I normally think Hannity is a decrepit, nauseating piece of ?, but with this new disclosure he has managed to go beyond that. Somewhere beyond the multiplication of repulsive, heinous and sickening; almost up there with his BFF Drumpf.
His HUD approved housing scheme reminds me a lot of how Drumpf and papa Drumpf “earned” their money in New York in their early days. And how was this connected to Michael Cohen, the man with only three clients; the man he’d never paid more than $10? Has Cohen been selling Hannity some presidential real estate tips in return from some no-conflict-of-interest-whatsoever positive coverage for Drumpf? I’m so glad I’m not a journalist who is faced with more leads to follow each day.
Thanks all. Hugs.