And the beat goes on...And the beat goes on Sonny and Cher
I can't take this anymore, I swear to God. Since when did the Monty Python genius Terry Gilliam start creating political reality TV series?
Nobody was expecting this today. It turns out that the reason Michael Cohen wanders around New York City in a jacket straight out of National Lampoon's Vacation, and wearing no socks is because he can't afford duds that didn't come off of a pipe rack in somebody's garage.Turns out that "Mr Fixit" has only had three paying clients in the last 2 years. Two we knew. One of course is Glorious Bleater, and we all know how he feels about paying his legal bills. The second was Elliott Broidy, and he was a perfect fit for this gruesome twosome. What did Broidy need Cohen to do? Salad toss together another NDA for $1.6 million to an ex playboy bunny that he sired a child with outside of marriage. Now we know where that clause came from in Trump's NDA, it's a one-size-fits-all form.
But there was the third client. And Lordy, Lordy, did Cohen pull every trick in the book to keep that name from becoming public. Their main legal argument seemed to be that the client did not want his allegedly "good name" associated with this legal shit show. Turns out that the judge wasn't buying the possibilities of delicate sensitivities being trampled on, so out came the name of the third client, Sean Freakin' Hannity.
Really? The Manatee needs Michael Cohen's specific legal skillset? What could a moral slug like Sean Hannity possibly get into that would require the magic legal fingers of Michael Cohen to make infinitely worse? Hmmm Obviously we have no way of knowing, but personally, I'm notgoing to be keeping an eye out for breaking news about Cohen engineered NDA's for six or seven figures, with a paw print as a signature from one of the parties.
I can easily see why Sean Hannity would not want his name bandied about in the center ring of this legal circus. The Manatee is one of Trump's most rabid media supporters, a man so close to Hair Twitler that he applies the Orange Julius' hemorrhoid treatments with his nose. But his name coming out in this case brings up a much more serious problem for both Hannity and FOX than just Hannity's extremely poor taste in legal representation.
There is now a matter of ethics here. An on screen personality should not be expressing on air opinions on stories in which they have a personal stake. Chris Matthews of MSNBC is a perfect example. In 2016 his wife ran for congress in their home district. In making the announcement on air, he also advised that as her husband, he would report no news involving her campaign. Matthews was good to his word, not even revealing the fact that she had lost her race. This is ethical behavior.
Hannity has slammed the FBI ad the DOJ nonstop over all things Trump, but has been completely unhinged on the raid on Cohen's office and home. Now we know why. And herein lies the rub for FOX. Forget about moral ethics, your average pickpocket has higher moral principals and ethics than FOX News. But, as much as the government loves to regulate shit, I find it hard to believe that there aren't some kind of guidelines and regulations regarding on screen personalities opining on issues in which they have a personal stake. The last thing FOX needs right now is to have the FCC landing on them like a 777 over Hannity's big mouth.
Personally, I doubt that FOX will bar Hannity from speaking on the subject of Michael Cohen or the case at all. But I find it much more likely that FOX will require Hannity to presage any opinions he gives on the subject with a disclaimer that Cohen is also his attorney. Even some of the lugheads who watch FOX may start to wonder about Hannity's veracity when he has to start off every rant with the disclaimer that his chestnuts are on this fire too. And knowing Hannity's ego, it will be hard for him to submit to that restriction, which, knowing Hannity, could lead to him trying to slip little inferences in around the corners, leading to FOX having to slap his wrist.
And there is one more thing to consider here. Forget about ethics, how about money. Advertisers fled Bill-o the Clown over sexual harassment. They fled Laura Ingraham over taunting a teenager involved as a victim in a mass shooting. FOX already carries some heavy baggage where advertisers are concerned, simply because of the nature of their on air personalities. Think some of Hannity’s major advertisers may decide they don’t want to be associated with the Trump-Cohen-Daniels train wreck?
You know, Michael Cohen has got to be getting pretty fed up. It's one thing to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. But it's another thing altogether to be the damn barrel, especially with a bare ass baboon like Hannity crawling all over you. God, I'm loving this!
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Cross posted on The Trump Impeachment.