Sean Hannity Under Fire After Trump Campaign Uses His Book For Fundraising

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Fox News host Sean Hannity is under fire for crossing ethical lines after President Donald Trump’s campaign team offered signed copies of his forthcoming book in exchange for donations to the campaign.

In an email sent from Trump Headquarters to subscribers, which was posted online by Daily Beast politics editor Sam Stein, the campaign offered to send signed copies of Hannity’s new book, Live Free or Die, to supporters who make a $75 donation.

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Most major news organizations bar journalists from contributing to political campaigns. Hannity, who regularly stumps for the president on his TV and radio shows, has even been rapped by Fox News in the past for similarly inappropriate conduct.

Following Hannity’s appearance on stage at a Trump rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 2018 ― during which he lauded the president and attacked all others in the media as fake news ― Fox News told HuffPost it “does not condone any talent participating in campaign events” and said the incident was “an unfortunate distraction and has been addressed.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/sean-hannity-book-trump-campaign-071202346.html

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Didn't someone on MSNBC lose their job for contributing to a campaign?

[Pantagruel]

2. IIRC Keith Olbermann

got in trouble for making small campaign donations?

[Pantagruel]

4. MSNBC

suspended both Olbermann and Scarborough for making contributions during the 2010 elections.

"Nov. 5, 2010

Keith Olbermann, the leading liberal voice on American television in the age of Obama, was suspended Friday after his employer, MSNBC, discovered he made campaign contributions to three Democrats last month.

The indefinite suspension was a stark display of the clash between objectivity and opinion in television journalism. While Mr. Olbermann is anchor of what is essentially the “Democratic Nightly News,” the decision affirmed that he was being held to the same standards as other employees of MSNBC and its parent, NBC News, both of which answer to NBC Universal. Most journalistic outlets discourage or directly prohibit campaign contributions by employees.

Mr. Olbermann’s contributions came to light in an article by Politico on Friday morning. He said he had donated $2,400 to the campaigns of Representatives Raúl M. Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and Attorney General Jack Conway of Kentucky, who lost his Senate race to Rand Paul. He told Politico, “I did not privately or publicly encourage anyone else to donate to these campaigns, nor to any others in this election or any previous ones, nor have I previously donated to any political campaign at any level.”

On Friday evening, no one at NBC suggested that Mr. Olbermann would be fired.

Reaction was swift and mixed, with some condemning Mr. Olbermann’s donation and many others saying that they saw nothing wrong with it."

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3. This only applies to journalists and news organizations.

Definitions of these terms would have to be stretched beyond recognition to include Hannity and Fox.

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5. Hannity is probably on the trump campaign payroll

[Totally Tunsie]

6. He's got a lot of nerve lifting the NH state motto for

the title of his book. Couldn't think of anything original?