Can we put in a little plug in for Hannity and his “the lady doth protest too much” carefully worded tweets.
Which indicates :
A) In spite of what he has been saying on his show, he knows that Cohen is a giant sleazeball who is going down and going to drag down anyone associated with him, and
B) He probably knows what a sleazeball Cohen is because of some shady real estate scam Cohen set up for him, which like our pres he is going to deny all knowledge of.
Not really a SRIOTD, but features Sean Hannity, so I thought I would this here.
The gaping hole in Sean Hannity’s story about being Michael Cohen’s client
Now, I think that Hannity is a stain on our nation, but my first thought was ‘why am I hearing about who his lawyer is???’ If he doesn’t want anyone to know… Why should anyone be hearing about Cohen’s client list? I mean, unless he is appearing on his client’s behalf in court, or making statements on his behalf, wouldn’t privilege apply?
edit: Guess I took to long to post it…
I love Hannity’s line from the article:
Isn’t paying an attorney for his advice, and expecting those discussion to be priviledged pretty much the definition of being his client?
It figures Hannity would be stupid enough to think it works like that. In reality, discussions within the scope of legal representation are privileged even if the attorney is working pro bono or doing a personal favor, and discussions outside that scope are not privileged no matter how much money changes hands.
The better question is “what kind of competent attorney would only charge $10?”
It feels like Hannity thinks Cohen has the option to hand over a privilege. “For this $10, I would like one (1) privilege, please!”
One that’s only worth $5.
It’s using the form to achieve the result. I was given a horse once, and drew up a contract of “sale” from the previous owner to me “for one dollar in hand and other valuable consideration” (and handed him the dollar, much to his amusement) so as to formalize the transfer of ownership.
Alex Jones gets a chance to explain his theories about how the Sandy Hook shootings were faked in court.
We know what kind of attorney he is, we’re haggling over the price, now.
Ajit fucking Pai
Elizabeth Pierce is accused of “forg[ing] guaranteed revenue contracts to fraudulently induce investors to invest more than $250 million in a fiber optic cable network in Alaska,” …
put this woman in charge of the Broadband Development Advisory Committee.
To realize her plan to build a fiber optic system that would service Alaska and connect it to the lower 48 states, Elizabeth Ann Pierce allegedly convinced two investment companies that she had secured signed contracts that would supposedly generate hundreds of millions of dollars in guaranteed future revenue from the system. As it turned out, those sales agreements were worthless because the customers had not signed them. Instead, as alleged, Pierce had forged counter-party signatures on contract after contract.
Naturally, Pai was impressed,
“She did an excellent job leading the BDAC through its first two public meetings. I am sorry to see her go and wish her all the best in her future endeavors.”
Future endeavors which will probably involve doing the stripey laundry.
Another Republican Congressman is resigning. Charlie Dent of PA.
The weird part is that he’s resigning before the November election, meaning that the election to replace him will occur in the gerrymandered 15th District, whereas the November election for his seat will be in the non-gerrymandered 7th District.
If he’s smart, he’ll just say he’s a performance artist playing a fictional character, like his lawyers did during his divorce. But he’s a narcissistic asshole, and not a very smart one, so he’ll probably fuck that up… like he did during his divorce:
It doesn’t look good for Alex Jones: In the best case for him, the court rules the plaintiffs are public figures, which means their claim has to pass the Sullivan test, which means they have to show actual malice on Alex’s part, which is tough, but it’s a bar they seem to have a good shot at clearing:
Bolding mine. I think that’s where Alex is in trouble: He said some serious shit, and he knows (or ought to have known) that his audience takes it very seriously indeed, up to the point of harassment campaigns and death threats, which would definitely infringe on the rights of the defendants to, like, live and not have their homes vandalized.
Michigan Republicans tried to pass a law to mark ***legal ***immigrants’ drivers licenses with a yellow star. You know, like the one the Nazis used to identify Jews?
This is today’s thread winner - though it’s early.
Bravo, bravo, bravo <insert scene from The Fifth Element>
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/678f274e-be31-4a48-8e10-edc380af2599
Despite only supplying the set-up for that punchline, I’m honored. I’ve always thought that being the straight man is the harder job, as compared to the actual joke.
Do’t be silly. That’s a pentacle, not a magen david, and it’s handy to remind us that all immigrants are Satanists.
That’s why Abbott got paid more than Costello, IIRC.
See, even people afflicted with deafness can still be elected to Congress. Isn’t America wonderful!
I wonder what combination of drugs, insanity, torture and psychoses causes this sort of outcome. He should be preserved and studied by science.