{"id":32198,"date":"2018-04-23T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32198"},"modified":"2018-04-23T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:46:14","slug":"republicans-on-parade-4-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/republicans-on-parade-4-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 4\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the one hundred thirteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Faux Noise<\/em> host, Bullshitologist, Trump Sycophant, and Welfare Queen Sean Hannity. He is so honored for his Republican hypocrisy and greed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fox News Sean Hannity was outed Sunday for having vast real estate holdings<\/a>, 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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to the report broken by The Guardian, Hannity has several shell companies set up to navigate 470 different homes in 7 states.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, I want to apologize to Sean,\u201d New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens began. \u201cI once called him Fox News\u2019s dumbest anchor. He\u2019s clearly the shrewdest real estate developer. I think it\u2019s 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<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephens noted that Hannity has said over and over he isn\u2019t a journalist, though his determination seems to shift back and forth depending on what is the most expedient at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe proves it every single day,\u201d Stephens continued of Hannity\u2019s lack of journalist chops. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The following video is identical to the one in the article, but is from YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n