Sean Hannity and Donald Trump don't simply share lawyers, they are late night snuggle bunnies.

Courtesy of WaPo:

The phone calls between President Trump and Sean Hannity come early in the morning or late at night, after the Fox News host goes off the air. They discuss ideas for Hannity’s show, Trump’s frustration with the ongoing special counsel probe and even, at times, what the president should tweet, according to people familiar with the conversations. When he’s off the phone, Trump is known to cite Hannity when he talks with White House advisers. 

The revelation this week that the two men share an attorney is just the latest sign of how Hannity is intertwined with Trump’s world — an increasingly powerful confidant who offers the ­media-driven president a sympathetic ear and shared grievances. The conservative commentator is so close to Trump that some White House aides have dubbed him the unofficial chief of staff. 

This portrait of the interactions between the president and the talk-show host is based on interviews with more than a dozen friends, advisers and associates of the two men, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. 

For a president who feels, intensely, that he is under siege, Hannity offers what he prizes: loyalty and a mass audience. And Trump, in turn, has directed his supporters to Hannity’s show — urging people on Twitter last week to watch the commentator attack special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who heads the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. 

Their bond intensified during the 2016 campaign and has grown stronger during Trump’s time in office. 

“The bottom line is, during the heat of the campaign when relationships are forged, he was always there, offering good advice, in person and on television,” former deputy Trump campaign manager David Bossie said of Hannity. “The president sees him as an incredibly smart and articulate spokesman for the agenda.”

"Incredibly smart?"  Sure, okay.

The article goes on to say that Trump and Hannity talk several times a week, and that Hannity  even helps him with his tweets. (Well that explains a lot.)

In fact it is almost as if Hannity has a desk in the White House.

Shit, more like he has his toothbrush in the master bathroom.

Essentially Trump and Hannity are engaging in the Right Wing cable television version of phone sex.

"Oh Donald you are so masterful, and your hands seem gigantic over the phone."

"Oh Sean you are so creepily flattering, and I love how you carefully manipulate me into saying and tweeting crazy things that are damaging our country. I can't quit you."

I really think that this was Roger Ailes' fantasy all along.

To have Fox News take over the running of this country, and lead it to the glorious conservative dystopia that dominated his masturbatory fever dreams.

Too bad he did not live long enough to see it.

And hopefully WE will live long enough to see it all come crashing down around Donald Trump's ears.

Sean Hannity actually has THREE lawyers in common with Donald Trump.

Nothing to see here, nothing! Now stop looking for something!

Courtesy of The Atlantic: 

Sean Hannity has had no shortage of lawyers. In court on Monday, his name was disclosed as the third “mystery client” of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Though Hannity says he was never actually Cohen’s client, he does appear to have used the legal services of other well-connected Trump-world lawyers in a different matter a year ago. 

On May 25, 2017, KFAQ, a radio station based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received a cease-and-desist letter signed by two lawyers for Hannity: Victoria Toensing and Jay Alan Sekulow. Toensing’s signature sits above her name and that of her husband Joseph E. diGenova, the members of diGenova and Toensing LLP, who are identified as “Counsel for Sean Hannity,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Atlantic. 

Sekulow is also identified in the letter page as a “Counsel for Sean Hannity.” Sekulow is now the only known personal attorney for President Trump working full-time on the response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry. Sekulow recently announced that diGenova and Toensing had been hired to join him, before reversing course. 

The letter to the radio station was sent before Sekulow joined Trump’s team. The letter was sent in response to accusations against Hannity made by the controversial conservative activist Debbie Schlussel. During an appearance on the Pat Campbell show on KFAQ last April, Schlussel said Hannity had been “creepy” towards her and had invited her to his hotel room.

It should be noted that even though diGenova could not join Trump's team due to "conflicts of interest," reports are that he is still giving Trump legal advice.

Another thing to be noted is that both Sekolow...

...and diGenova have been frequent guests on the Sean Hannity Show.

And yes, the topic has often been the Mueller investigation.

So to be clear Hannity consistently invites his lawyers on TV to defend Donald Trump who is also seeking their legal counsel.

Well it's a good thing there is no conflict of interest here.

Let's revisit this whole Sean Hannity is Michael's Cohen's secret client debacle.

Fox News star Sean Hannity was just revealed to be a secret client of Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. Here are basically all the times Hannity has defended Cohen on his show since the FBI raid last week. https://t.co/XFdnAQ965T pic.twitter.com/tWuMagPtqv

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 17, 2018

Okay the above is video of Hannity essentially freaking out after the FBI raided Michael Cohen's office and homes.

At the time it seemed a little weird, but now it sort of makes a certain kind of sense.

Here is how CNN's Brian Stelter addressed this issue: 

Something isn't adding up in the case of Michael Cohen and Sean Hannity. 

For now Hannity's employer, Fox News, isn't commenting on the issue, but even some fellow Fox hosts are raising questions. 

There were audible gasps in court on Monday when it was revealed that Hannity was the mystery third client that Cohen was trying to keep secret. Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti, who was in the room, said it was like "a bomb went off." 

Hannity scrambled to respond -- first on his radio show, then with tweets, then on his TV show. On Monday evening, Hannity downplayed the legal relationship, saying, "Cohen never represented me in any legal matter." 

He said the two men chatted occasionally, and his questions "focused almost exclusively" on real estate. 

Hannity said "I never retained his services, I never received an invoice. I never paid Michael Cohen for legal fees." 

But if that's true, why did Cohen's lawyer identify Hannity as a client in federal court?

On his radio show Hannity downplayed the crap out of this, suggesting that he might have handed Cohen ten bucks for shits and giggles, but that he was never an actual client.

But here's the thing, Cohen's attorney identified Hannity as a client while in a courtroom standing before a judge. where lying is a punishable offense.

Hannity denied the whole thing on this radio show and on Fox News, where lying is a way of life.

And if Hannity used the services of Michael Cohen, "The Fixer," what did he need them for?

This might be a clue:

Sean Hannity is the latest Fox News personality facing allegations of inappropriate behavior after he was accused of propositioning a guest on his show. 

This article came out almost exactly a year ago during the same time that Bill O'Reilly was facing scrutiny for paying off women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

In Hannity's case the allegations seemed to simply fade away.

And making THAT happen is Michael Cohen's specialty.

Right now there is no evidence that this is the reason that Hannity was named as a Cohen client, but there was certainly SOME reason that they both did not want his name identified in court.

Here was the Daily Show's take yesterday:

Sneak peek of 'Hannity' tonight... pic.twitter.com/qud8et2cba

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) April 16, 2018

So much truth in comedy.

Donald Trump dines and plays golf with Sean Hannity. Oooh, somebody might be getting a White House gig soon.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

President Trump reportedly dined with Fox News personality Sean Hannity at the president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this weekend.

The Palm Beach Post also reported that Trump golfed with Hannity on Saturday. 

“The president was in a very good mood. He seemed very, very happy,” longtime Republican operative Larry Casey, who was a guest at the club, told the Post. 

Casey added that he saw the two golfing together, while the president remained uncharacteristically silent on social media. 

Their meetings come as the White House searches for a replacement for Hope Hicks, Trump's longtime aide and White House communications director. Hicks's last day in the White House was on Thursday.

On the one hand you would think that common sense dictates that hiring Sean Hannity as you communications director would ridiculous on its face, but then you might thing "Why in the hell am I attributing common sense to any decisions that Donald Trump might make?"

And of course Hannity is likely far more effective for Trump lying his ass off for him on Fox News, then he would be lying his ass for him to reporters at he White House.

(Here he is begging James Comey to come on his show, while at the same time attacking Anderson Cooper and CNN as "fake news.")

Tonight @seanhannity jealous that James Comey is doing a town hall with @andersoncooper attacks Cooper for a third day in a row for the #KarenMcDougal #StormyDaniels interviews.
Hannity then comically begs Comey to do an interview with him. pic.twitter.com/2VNCgjpMmw

— Richard W. (@IceManNYR) March 29, 2018

However I actually think that Hannity's job is in jeopardy at Fox, and that he might be looking for a soft place to land, which would make a gig at the White House much more attractive to him.

Look I don't know, we're just speculating here.

But what I do know is that if Trump gave Sean Hannity a job in his communications department, he might as well go ahead and tap Sarah Palin for a cabinet position as well, because he has already crossed over the line of lunacy at that point.

Watching Sean Hannity do a 180 on the "Trump wanted to fire Mueller" story, while still minimizing it, is probably the best thing you will see all day.

This made my day. Hannity says he has sources that say Trump didn’t try to fire Mueller. Then minutes later he confirms the fact Trump tried to fire Mueller. He looks like he’s in shock. It’s worth watching on repeat. Tick tock, @SeanHannity. #FireHannity pic.twitter.com/lVsV4pcm1d

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 26, 2018

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

When addressing the report on his Fox News show, Hannity claimed that the story was a plot to distract people from the more important story of the day, corruption at the FBI. 

“At this hour, the New York Times is trying to distract you,” Hannity said. “They have a story that Trump wanted Mueller fired some time last June and our sources — and I’ve checked in with many of them — they’ve not confirmed that tonight.” 

He ended the segment by asking: “How many times has the New York Times and others gotten it wrong?” 

Well, in a beautifully choreographed egg-meet-face maneuver, Hannity was forced to accept the Times story minutes later on his show, after Fox News’s own reporting confirmed it. 

“So we have sources tonight just confirming to Ed Henry that yeah, maybe, Donald Trump wanted to fire the special counsel for a conflict,” Hannity said. “Does he not have the right to raise those questions?” 

“We’ll deal with this tomorrow night,” Hannity noted, adding that he had a video of a high-speed car crash to get to.

"Cut to the car chase, dammit I'm dying here, where is the car chase?"

I think this is my favorite Sean Hannity moment ever.

Not that there was a lot of competition.

Conservative media has now launched an all out attack on Robert Mueller in order to undermine his investigation.

(Sorry for the abrupt ending, it was the only version I could find.)

Courtesy of CNN: 

What's President Trump hearing when he watches Fox News? 

He's hearing that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is "illegitimate and corrupt." That it's led by a "band of merry Trump-haters" who are trying to reverse the results of the election. And that it must be stopped. 

He's also hearing that the FBI is becoming "America's secret police," akin to the KGB in Russia, full of "sickness" and "corruption." 

These are all actual quotes from some of the president's favorite pro-Trump talk shows. 

The overarching message from "Fox & Friends" and "Hannity" is unmistakable: Mr. President, you're the victim of a "deep state" plot to take you down. Don't let it happen. 

Sean Hannity, the highest-rated host on Fox, has renewed his calls for Mueller to resign. And Fox's other pro-Trump shows reinforce this message on a daily basis. 

In recent weeks, there's been a big increase in reporting about Mueller's probe and how it could affect Trump's inner circle. At the same time, there's also been a sharp escalation in the anti-Mueller rhetoric coming from right wing media sources.

We have seen some of these attacks before, but now it appears that things are ramping up to a rather hysterical level.

In looking for more information about this I Googled "conservative attacks on Robert Mueller" and what I found makes these attacks from Fox News look like child's play.

Other conservative outlets are not even trying to appear reasonable, and some of what they are charging is so unhinged that it almost seems to be a parody of itself.

I think that it is beyond obvious that the Right Wing media is conditioning their listeners, Trump's base, to accept that the firing of Robert Mueller as not only reasonable, but necessary.

That is why Robert Mueller must be protected at all cost.

Sean Hannity loses it on Twitter after CNN interviews the president of Media Matters about their campaign to get advertisers to stop supporting his Fox News show.

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone explains why he's leading an advertising boycott against Sean Hannity https://t.co/8UjWsv7Uqx

— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) November 19, 2017

This was the interview that caused the Hannity Twitter tirade.

And this was the result.

RACIST, BIGOT, AND ANTI-SEMITE PRES. OF @MMFA @GOANGELO WHY DO YOU VICTIM SHAME? WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT WOMEN OF ABUSE? @CNN @BRIANSTELTER WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THIS? https://t.co/zrzTSaLchA pic.twitter.com/eV3Y2OQokg

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) November 19, 2017

RACIST, BIGOT, AND ANTI-SEMITE PRES. OF @MMFA @GOANGELO WHY DO YOU VICTIM SHAME? WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT WOMEN OF ABUSE? @CNN @BRIANSTELTER WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THIS? https://t.co/qk4I6DGa0r pic.twitter.com/rFiMFqrNvg

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) November 19, 2017

RACIST, BIGOT, AND ANTI-SEMITE PRES. OF @MMFA @GOANGELO WHY DO YOU VICTIM SHAME? WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT WOMEN OF ABUSE? @CNN @BRIANSTELTER WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THIS? https://t.co/VSevcRZevq pic.twitter.com/vaqZufJ6OO

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) November 19, 2017

RACIST, BIGOT, AND ANTI-SEMITE PRES. OF @MMFA @GOANGELO WHY DO YOU VICTIM SHAME? WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT WOMEN OF ABUSE? @CNN @BRIANSTELTER WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THIS? https://t.co/gQymETOE5w pic.twitter.com/c7cOynVf5Z

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) November 19, 2017

RACIST, BIGOT, AND ANTI-SEMITE PRES. OF @MMFA @GOANGELO WHY DO YOU VICTIM SHAME? WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT WOMEN OF ABUSE? @CNN @BRIANSTELTER WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THIS? https://t.co/kjixSTixdh pic.twitter.com/kV9Kwei8f7

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) November 19, 2017

As Salon points out these claims that Angelo Carusone is racist, bigot, or anti-semite do not seem to have any basis in fact: 

For about a week, Hanntiy has baselessly called Carusone a "racist" and "trans/gay homophobe," even though Carusone himself is gay and the organization he heads, Media Matters, often champions causes of racial minorities.

I will have to assume that Hannity's anger at Media Matters indicates that the campaign to strip him of sponsors is working.

Recently Hannity attempted to get one of the Roy Moore accusers on his show.

Her lawyer's response probably did not do much to help his mood either,

Fox News host @seanhannity tried to book one of Roy Moore's accusers for an on-air interview, and she replies with this EPIC response: pic.twitter.com/Y2MSavM6G2

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) November 19, 2017

Courtesy of Raw Story:

 “Mr. Hannity chose to believe and support Roy Moore immediately after learning about the numerous accusations against him describing sexual assault, child molestation and harassment.” 

“Mr. Hannity has belittled, defamed and engaged in an on-air intimidation campaign against the victims of Mr. Moore. He is totally uninterested in discovering the truth,” she said. 

“It is laughable to assume that Mr. Hannity is capable of conducting a fair and balanced interview. He is not known for journalistic integrity. He is merely seeking an opportunity to publicly attack and further defame Mr. Moore’s victims,” she continued. 

“Well, that’s not happening,” she concluded. “Not on my watch.”

Yep, sucks to be Hannity right now. 

I really think that Fox is ready to pull his show already, and are just looking for an excuse to do so.

Losing all of his advertisers and supporting a known pedophile seems like more than enough reason.

New defense for Roy Moore courtesy of Rush Limbaugh. "Did you know that before 1992 when a lot of this was going on that Judge Moore was a Democrat? "

Courtesy of the Daily Rushbo: 

RUSH: So no matter what the real stories are here and no matter what the evidence is, these guys, these people on the Republican side are making it clear they’re going to prevent this guy from ever being seated in the United States Senate. 

Did you know that before 1992 when a lot of this was going on that Judge Moore was a Democrat? You didn’t know that? How about all these people now saying, “Oh, yeah, yeah, everybody here knew about Judge Moore. Oh-ho-ho, yeah, good old boy we’ve known about Judge Moore for a long time.” While he was a Democrat. Nobody said a word. When he supposedly was attracted to inappropriately aged girls, he was a Democrat. For what it’s worth.

I guess I'm supposed to have a response to this, but words fail me.

In other news apparently Roy Moore has removed a list of endorsement from his website:

Roy Moore's campaign website no longer contains a list of endorsements. 

A message on www.roymoore.org said the list of endorsements "is currently being updated." A list of names was on the site as recently as yesterday. 

The change comes after a host of Republicans have pulled their support from Moore in the wake of allegations he had improper sexual contact with two teen girls when he was in his 30s. 

Yeah I think that list of endorsements is being updated to zero.

Also yesterday two new accusers stepped forward to point the finger at Moore:

Gena Richardson says she was a high school senior working in the men’s department of Sears at the Gadsden Mall when a man approached her and introduced himself as Roy Moore. 

“He said, ‘You can just call me Roy,’ ” says Richardson, who says this first encounter happened in the fall of 1977, just before or after her 18th birthday, as Moore, then a 30-year-old local attorney, was gaining a reputation for pursuing young women at the mall in Gadsden, Ala. His overtures caused one store manager to tell new hires to “watch out for this guy,” another young woman to complain to her supervisor and Richardson to eventually hide from him when he came in Sears, the women say. 

Richardson says Moore — now a candidate for U.S. Senate — asked her where she went to school, and then for her phone number, which she says she declined to give, telling him that her father, a Southern Baptist preacher, would never approve.


A few days later, she says, she was in trigonometry class at Gadsden High when she was summoned to the principal’s office over the intercom in her classroom. She had a phone call. 

“I said ‘Hello?’” Richardson recalls. “And the male on the other line said, ‘Gena, this is Roy Moore.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ He said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m in trig class.’ ” 

Jesus, he actually had her paged at her high school. Damn that is some aggressive stalking right there.

The other woman says that the teenage girls at the mall all talked about how to avoid Moore, and were told “just make yourself scarce when Roy’s in here, he’s just here to bother you, don’t pay attention to him and he’ll go away.’”

The next story to pop up concerned not a teenage girl and an unmarried stalker, but a woman in the beginnings of divorce proceedings and an already married Roy Moore.

Courtesy of Al.com:

Once the papers were signed, she and her mother got up to leave. After her mother walked through the door first, she said, Moore came up behind her. 

It was at that point, she recalled, he grabbed her buttocks. 

"He didn't pinch it; he grabbed it," said Johnson. She was so surprised she didn't say anything. She didn't tell her mother.

She did however tell her sister who confirmed her story.

For their part Moore's legal team is focused on the yearbook he signed, because they are pretty sure that suckers a forgery. Never mind all of these other stories that confirm Moore's behaviors.

And that is good enough for Sean Hannity who, based on a letter Moore sent him, is back on the Roy Moore for Senator bandwagon.

Okay so was Rush implying that the only reason that Moore used to be a pedophile is because he was a Democrat, and once he switched parties he was cured?

Is that argument?

Damn, that much stupidity just makes my head hurt.

It appears that Roy Moore has lost the support of Sean Hannity.

Video: @SeanHannity says Roy Moore has 24 hours to clear up all the "inconsistent answers." If not, he'll be calling for Moore to drop out pic.twitter.com/S5iOSfTTzB

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 15, 2017

Courtesy of Politico: 

"For me, the judge has 24 hours," Hannity said. "You must immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies that I just showed." 

Hannity's break with his original comments follows a cascade of Republican figures distancing themselves from the GOP candidate, including the Republican National Committee. 

Hannity on Friday defended Moore after an interview where he stopped short of flatly denying allegations that he sexually assaulted teen girls when he was the Etowah County district attorney. "How do you know if it's true? How do we — what's true? What's not true? How do you ascertain the truth? What happens when it's 38 years later?" Hannity asked. 

When asked in that interview if he ever dated teen girls, Moore replied, "Not generally, no." 

On Tuesday, Hannity altered his position. 

"Between this interview that I did and the inconsistent answers. Between him saying 'I never knew this girl,' and then that yearbook comes out," Hannity said. "You must remove any doubt. If you can't do this, then Judge Moore needs to get out of this race."

Gee all of those poor Keurig coffee machines had to die for nothing.

But not to fear, Roy Moore may have lost the support of Sean Hannity, but he can still count on the support of Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks: 

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said he plans to vote for Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race because of the importance of the conservative agenda. 

"America faces huge challenges that are vastly more important than contested sexual allegations from four decades ago," Brooks told AL.com in a text message. 

"Who will vote in America's best interests on Supreme Court justices, deficit and debt, economic growth, border security, national defense, and the like? Socialist Democrat Doug Jones will vote wrong. Roy Moore will vote right. Hence, I will vote for Roy Moore."

Well they certainly breed a special kind of asshole in Alabama, don't they?

Of course this statement only comes after a reporter literally chased Brooks down a flight of stairs.

Asked whether he believes Roy Moore over his accusers, Rep. Mo Brooks tells @TomLlamasABC, "I believe the Democrats will do great damage to our country." https://t.co/6GyWp8aqrX pic.twitter.com/L2OepQOkhR

— ABC News (@ABC) November 14, 2017

Yeah, special kind of asshole alright.

Russian bots now flocking to support Sean Hannity in response to boycott of his show. Things that make you go, "Hmm."

Per @SecureDemocracy's Russian propaganda tracker (3pm):

-#BoycottKeurig is now the #1 overall hashtag & #1 trending hashtag in Russian-linked influence networks (20,300% increase in use).
-"Keurig" is the #1 topic in Russian-linked influence networks (35,600% increase in use) pic.twitter.com/f0VYzyZVhn

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) November 12, 2017

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

Fox News’s Sean Hannity is getting support from Russian-linked social media accounts after they began amplifying a protest by the American far right against Keurig coffee machines when the company pulled advertising from Hannity’s show. 

Keurig is among five companies that removed ads from Fox's Hannity over the weekend following his coverage of sexual misconduct allegations against Roy Moore, who is running for U.S. Senate in Alabama. 

On Twitter the hashtag #BoycottKeurig is now number one in overall hashtags promoted by 600 accounts connected to Russian influence efforts tracked by the German Marshall Fund. The hashtag #standwithannity and the variant #istandwithhannity, #boycottkeurig, and #keurig are among the top trending hashtags promoted by these accounts.

Wow, it's almost as if the Russians and the conservative media were somehow in cahoots.

Nah, that's just crazy talk.

Right?

Advertisers bail on Sean Hannity in response to his defense of Roy Moore.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Two companies have said they will no longer advertise during Fox News’s “Hannity” after critics called for the companies to pull their ads over Sean Hannity’s coverage of the sexual misconduct allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R). 

Realtor.com and Keurig both said they are stopping their ads from airing during the show after being questioned about the advertisements on Twitter. Neither company specifically said their decision was over Moore coverage, but only made the announcement in response to critics. 

“Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We are adjusting our media buy to no longer include this show placement. –MS,” Realtor.com wrote to a Twitter user on Friday who tweeted a clip of Hannity’s Fox News show at the company. 

Keurig said in a tweet to the president of liberal group Media Matters for America that the company is stopping its ad during Hannity’s show. 

“Angelo, thank you for your concern and for bringing this to our attention,” the Keurig account wrote to Angelo Carusone. “We worked with our media partner and FOX news to stop our ad from airing during the Sean Hannity Show.” 

Another company, Eloquii, said Hannity is blocked from its advertising list, but did not specify on what medium.

Mediaite has been pressuring advertisers to pull their ads off the Sean Hannity Show for years, but apparently for some companies it actually took defending pedophilia for them to pull the plug.

Here is a list of advertisers for whom that is still not a deal breaker.

It appears that not even Fox News can continue to provide cover for Roy Moore.

Courtesy of Newsweek:  

On Friday night, Sean Hannity opened his prime time Fox News program by playing an audio recording of his interview, conducted on his radio show the day before, with former Alabama chief justice Roy S. Moore, now running for a Senate seat from that state. Hannity then turned to a panel of three pundits, asking them whether Moore sufficiently defended himself against the damning allegations of child molestation and sexual misconduct that surfaced in The Washington Post the day before.

“You ended his candidacy,” declared Geraldo Rivera, citing Moore’s inability to unequivocally say that he had never dated teenage girls when he was in his 20s and 30s, after he’d left the U.S. Army and turned to law. “I would urge Republicans to postpone the special election,” Rivera said.

Gregg Jarrett, a Fox News legal analyst, was no more kind. “I found his answers to be unconvincing and implausible, his entire story to be, in a word, unbelievable. Which means he’s lying.” Moore has called the allegations against him “fake news,” suggesting that The Washington Post was motivated by a political agenda.

Jarrett said Moore “should step aside.” A few congressional Republicans have made similar calls, but Moore has vowed to stay in the race. He will have to continue without funding from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which will no longer support his candidacy.

Remember this discussion tool place on Fox News, on Sean Hannity's program.

Trump calls Hannity almost every night so that Hannity can tell him bullshit bedtime stories before the Tangerine Fuhrer falls asleep with a mouthful of masticated Big Mac and his tiny orange dick in his hand.

Once Fox News bails on Moore, all he will have left is Steve Bannon, Breitbart, and Right Wing radio.

And they may well bail on him as well at some point.

If you think Donald Trump is losing his mind over these Mueller indictments watch his constant defender Sean Hannity essentially have a psychotic break on air.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

On Monday night, Fox News’ bombastic host Sean Hannity delivered what he called his “most important monologue ever” — and attempted to, somehow, blame Bill and Hillary Clinton for Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election that the latter lost. 

At one point, Hannity referred to the former Democratic nominee as “President Clinton” before correcting himself and calling her “President Clinton wannabe” — a slip of the tongue that Twitter certainly didn’t miss.

Later in the segment, he began to raise his voice when discussing his distress with a lack of indictment for Clinton over her private email server scandal. But it was when he began touting the Clintons’ relationship to Russians that were cited in the infamous “golden showers” dossier that he becomes the most unhinged. 

“Of course, they use Russian sources, bought and paid for by Hillary, the DNC and Obama to smear Trump and influence the election with Russian lies,” Hannity claimed. 

"President Clinton?"  Somebody needs to get Dr. Freud on the phone STAT!

How weird is it to hear a commentator on a conservative news outlet arguing that federal indictments are not fair?

What is not so weird however is the desperate attempts to deflect blame, minimize these indictments by the Mueller team, and Hannity's obsession with pointing the finger at Hillary Clinton.

Fox News came into its own during the Monica Lewinsky years, and attacking the Clintons is their bread and butter after all.

I typically avoid watching anything on Fox News, and what I do see I usually find irritating, but I have to admit that this Hannity segment was pretty damn entertaining.

The only thing that could have made it any better is if he had actually started banging his head on his desk.

Oh well, maybe next time.

Eric Bolling, who swore to clear his name, is the latest sexual predator out at Fox News.

Courtesy of Variety: 

Fox News Channel will part ways with host Eric Bolling, a host and contributor whose on-air presence at the 21st Century Fox-owned network had been growing in recent months, after allegations surfaced that he had harassed colleagues there, the network confirmed Friday. 

“Fox News Channel is canceling ‘The Specialists,’ and Eric Bolling and Fox have agreed to part ways amicably,” the network said in a statement.” We thank Eric for his ten years of service to our loyal viewers and wish him the best of luck.” A Huffington Post report had disclosed allegations that Bolling had sent lewd messages to colleagues via smartphone. 

Bolling, a former commodities trader and best-selling author, had been a longtime co-host of “The Five,” and more recently helped launch a new late-afternoon show, “The Fox News Specialists.” He also anchors the Fox News program “Cashin’ In.” Fox News intends to keep Bolling’s co-hosts, Eboni Williams and Kat Timpf, as contributors. The show will be replaced at 5 p.m. eastern with an hour of news coverage for the foreseeable future, with rotating anchors holding down the slot. 

Bolling had vowed to clear his name.

It appears that Bolling had the same success at clearing his name as OJ. 

You may remember that Bolling was suspended early last month for texting pictures of his junk to female colleagues, who I'm sure were just thrilled to receive photographic evidence of his shortcomings.

And don't buy that crap about agreeing to part ways, Fox News is doing damage control right now so once those accusations against Bolling were made public his days were numbered. 

So should we start taking bets on who gets the big heave ho next?

My money is on either Sean Hannity or that scuzzy Jesse Watters fellow.

Russiagate through the eyes of Sean Hannity.

You know the sad part is that this is not even an exaggeration.

Of course there might be a reason that Hannity is so hesitant to report on this whole thing truthfully.

#NSA friends tell me they have Hannity in OPERATIONAL calls with known RIS agents. Team Mueller has it all. He is going down. SAD!

— John Schindler (@20committee) August 4, 2017

John Schindler worked counterintelligence for the NSA.

New lawsuit claims that Donald Trump worked with Fox News to concoct story that Hillary Clinton had DNC staffer murdered. Update!

That guy on the left is Jay Sekulow, Trump's attorney.

Courtesy of Bloomberg: 

President Donald Trump collaborated with Fox News to concoct a story claiming a Democratic National Committee staffer was killed in retaliation for furnishing information damaging to Hillary Clinton to Wikileaks, according to a lawsuit by a private investigator for the slain man’s family.

Rod Wheeler -- the investigator, a former Washington police detective, and an occasional Fox News contributor -- claims in his lawsuit that the president read the Fox story before it was published and suggested the insertion of quotes falsely attributed to Wheeler supporting the story’s premise. Trump wanted the story published to divert attention from the widening investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, Wheeler claims.

The complaint’s first paragraph includes screen shot of a May 14 text message to Wheeler from another Fox News contributor that reads: “Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It’s now all up to you. but don’t feel the pressure." 

Seth Rich was killed on a Washington street in the middle of the night last year. The crime remains unsolved. The story was published on May 16 and later retracted by the network, according to the complaint. 

Fox News didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

So just mull that over in your mind a little.

Donald Trump worked with is propaganda outlet, Fox News, to frame Hillary Clinton and the DNC for murder.

And the really troubling part is.....I'm not surprised.

Nor am I surprised by this:

The White House previously denied knowledge of Fox News' false report on Seth Rich. pic.twitter.com/Qcmf3lpaFt

— Adrienne Watson (@Adrienne_DNC) August 1, 2017

There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that these people are unwilling to do to gain, or retain, power.

Here is a response from Fox News:  

Wheeler alleges Fox News and the Trump supporter intended to deflect public attention from growing concern about the administration's ties to the Russian government. His suit charges that a Fox News reporter created quotations out of thin air and attributed them to him to propel her story. 

Fox's president of news, Jay Wallace, told NPR on Monday that there was no "concrete evidence" that Wheeler was misquoted by the reporter, Malia Zimmerman. The news executive did not address a question about the story's allegedly partisan origins. Fox News declined to allow Zimmerman to comment for this story.

There is "no concrete evidence." Well that's an interesting way to phrase it.

And the fact that they declined to comment on Trump's participation in pushing this narrative speaks volumes.

Update: Okay here is a more aggressive denial from Fox News:

Statement from @foxnews news president Jay Wallace on Rod Wheeler lawsuit claims: pic.twitter.com/bbXDqsZydx

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) August 1, 2017

Gee, if only we trusted the word of Fox News.

Update 2:

—@SarahHuckabee: "The White House didn't have any involvement in this story"

(FWIW, Spicer told me he was told about it before publication)

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 1, 2017

 Okay so we are now asked to believe that once Spicey read this news that it did not find it's way to Donald Trump.

Seriously? 

Originally scheduled to receive the William F. Buckley award, Sean Hannity will no longer be the recipient after Buckley's son expressed outrage.

Courtesy of CNN: 

Fox News Channel star anchor Sean Hannity will no longer receive the conservative Media Research Center's William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence at its September 21 gala, sources familiar with the situation tell CNN. 

Buckley, the founder of the National Review, who died in 2008, was hailed in his day as "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States." Giving an award in his name to Hannity -- a pugnacious talk radio host who has shared conspiracy theories on his popular cable news show -- had caused hand wringing among some conservatives. 

It also caused distress among Buckley's family -- in particular his only child, best-selling author Christopher Buckley. 

A source familiar with the situation tells CNN that Christopher Buckley "expressed great dismay" at the announcement that the award would go to Hannity, who has spent a great deal of time insulting conservative intellectuals on Twitter, particularly since he became a strong supporter of Donald Trump.

Buckley, sources say, called the Media Research Center and expressed his disapproval. Sources tell CNN that the MRC acquiesced and will no longer give the award to him. Hannity has since been removed from the gala website.

Apparently there were a lot of behind the scenes attempts at damage control over this, with both sides suggesting that there was a "scheduling conflict."

However Christopher Buckley responded to that by saying, "perhaps Mr. Hannity has been offered the Ronald Reagan Great Communicator Award on the same evening and had decided to leverage upwards."

Oh yeah, THAT'S going to leave a mark.

I am old enough to remember watching William F. Buckley sparring with liberals and fellow conservatives on TV.

Even back then I totally disagreed with his politics, but I never once thought of the guy as ignorant or lacking in intelligence. Far from it in fact.

To have given a knuckle dragger like Sean Hannity an award named after him would have been an insult to the memory of a such an eloquent, if often acerbic, conservative giant.

Just a reminder that the big scandal facing President Obama eight years ago at this time was that he used the wrong mustard on his hamburger.

At this point in the Obama presidency, a big scandal for Fox News was when he ordered the wrong mustard. pic.twitter.com/fB0PTmM8L8

— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) June 8, 2017

Courtesy of Raw Story:

In news from eight years ago that appears to be from some alternate reality, Obama left the White House and went out for a local bite to eat with vice president and BFF Joe Biden in May. The two politicians ordered hamburgers, MSNBC journalist Andrea Mitchell reported at the time, with the sitting president requesting mustard on his red meat.

The story was featured on Sean Hannity's show, Hannity's America, as a screen showed a photoshopped image of Obama surrounded by bottles of mustard with the words "PRESIDENT POUPON" plastered on a red and white banner.

Yep that was all the conservative media had to work with back then, and let's face it from "Fast and Furious," to Benghazi, and to the poorly functioning website during the launch of Obamacare, they really never had any real factual scandals to work with.

Now compare that to today when we have Russian interference in our elections to benefit the current president, numerous folks in the administration and campaign being fired, and multiple serious investigations directed at the current occupant of the White House and his associates.

Yeah, I bet the Trump folks WISH that the only scandal they were facing was that Donald Trump used a snooty brand of mustard.

Eric Trump on Democrats: “To me, they’re not even people. It’s so, so sad. Morality’s just gone." Really?

Courtesy of The Hill:

President Trump’s son Eric Trump on Tuesday said Democrats are “not even people” to him after their obstruction of his father’s agenda. 

“I’ve never seen hatred like this,” he said on Fox News’s “Hannity” Tuesday night. “To me, they’re not even people. It’s so, so sad. Morality’s just gone, morals have flown out the window and we deserve so much better than this as a country." 

“You see the Democratic Party, they’re imploding. They’re imploding. They became obstructionists because they have no message of their own.” 

Trump additionally criticized the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) leadership without directly naming Chairman Tom Perez. 

“You see the head of the DNC, who is a total whack job,” he told host Sean Hannity. “There’s no leadership there.”

This from the son of the man who made a name for himself, and one can argue based his campaign, on attacking President Obama and questioning his legitimacy to even hold office.

And this hypocrisy comes on the same day that we learn this about Eric Trump and his charities.

Courtesy of the New York Daily News:  

President Trump's son has hosted charity golf tournaments over the past decade and raised money for child cancer research, but some of the proceeds were funneled to the Trump Organization, according to a report published Tuesday. 

The charity events, organized by Eric Trump since 2007 at a Trump-branded golf course, ostensibly raised millions of dollars for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital. 

Donors contributed more than $500,000 that they believed was being used to help sick children. In fact, their donations were going to other Trump-connected charities, according to Forbes magazine. 

Trump’s practices, if true, would violate federal and state laws on self-dealing and misleading donors.

Stealing money from kids with cancer, and it's Democrats who are not quite human?

Despite numerous reports to the contrary, Sean Hannity showed up for work last night, and immediately started obfuscating for Donald Trump.

If you did not get through that entire fourteen plus minutes I don;t blame you, I did not make it through last night myself.

Thankfully TPM offers the low points:

“I have to start tonight on a personal note of something that happened last week. Now, I was asked by the family of the DNC staffer that was killed in July to pull back covering the story of the death because their son and their family was hurting,” he said on his show. “Now out of respect for the family’s wishes, well, I decided for the time being not to discuss it unless there were further developments.” 

“But I also promised you, my audience, my loyal audience, that I will not stop investigating. I will not stop asking questions,” he continued. “And at a very high level, the bottom line here is the family wants the truth and I think the country deserves the truth, because this impacts so much of what the narrative in this country is now about, which is the left and their conspiracy theory. Now I can report, I am making progress. We will have a lot more coming probably sooner than later.”

First off before his "vacation" Hannity was on the Seth Rich story like white on....on...well on the average Fox News viewer.

So for him to suddenly start considering the feelings of the family sounds more like he received an ultimatum and caved in order to keep his show.

Secondly Hannity, and his supporters, have come up with an interesting response to those calls for this advertisers to abandon his program.

He is joining with a group called #StoptheScalpings, formed by two Right Wing talk radio hosts Melanie Morgan and Brian Maloney, in calling for a similar attempt directed at Rachel Maddow.

Courtesy of Think Progress:  

Stop the Scalpings is targeting Maddow because she “has been the biggest purveyor of lies and propaganda in the media today,” Morgan writes. She goes on to allude to Maddow’s regular coverage of the Trump campaign’s shady dealings with Russia, which she dismisses as a conspiracy theory despite an active FBI investigation and the appointment of a special prosecutor. 

“We will continue to announce the advertisers that finance these efforts and support these hosts who allow lies and conspiracy theories to permeate the airwaves,” she continues. “If Media Matters ceases these type of assaults, we will do the same… Until then, we will list every advertiser that supports hosts like Rachel Maddow, an outright liar, and someone who deceives the public and defames conservatives on a daily basis.”

In other words these idiots are now attacking actual journalism in an attempt to protect their right to broadcast fake news and conservative disinformation.