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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSean Hannity in 2008: "If you cheat on your wife, are you going to be honest with your country?"
Sean Hannity said in 2008 that presidential candidates who have affairs have a character issue because they are living a life thats a lie. Hannity, who made the comments during a discussion about the affair of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Hannity & Colmes, also said that Americans have a right to know before we elect somebody whether the candidates have had such affairs. He also speculated, If you cheat on your wife, are you going to be honest with your country?
In a subsequent episode of Hannity & Colmes, Hannity went further, stating that If you take a vow, a promise, a pledge, a solemn vow, and you promise to love, honor, cherish, be faithful to, in good times and in bad, richer or poorer, better or worse, and be faithful, you know, till death do you part, if you don't -- if you can't keep that vow, why should people not be suspect that you keep a vow to, you know, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?
President Donald Trump is currently under fire for paying hush money during the 2016 campaign to conceal affairs with model Karen McDougal and adult actor Stormy Daniels. Hannity is Trumps confidant and top propagandist.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/25/sean-hannity-2008-if-you-cheat-your-wife-are-you-going-be-honest-your-country/220790
kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)Id love to see the backpedaling and lies he would be spouting.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Conservative ethics are situational by nature. If they can hang a judgment on a Democrat, it's a timeless, deathless rule that is more immutable than anything the Medes and the Persians ever thought up. When a Republican does it, well, there are about 62,935 nuances and shadings that you have to take into account, and doggone it if it totally absolves Donald Trump from cheating on his wives. Talmudic scholars don't get that deep into the weeds.
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)"Conservative" ethics are not only situational but THEIR sins have an expiration date.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)ox·y·mo·ron
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noun
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
heaven05
(18,124 posts)personal bootlicker of his boss, trump. And he licks EVERYTHING off, no matter where trump walks....
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Then donnie will really be speaking in tongues.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)lpbk2713
(42,755 posts)Only because he is on the (R) side of the fence.
And they don't have a code of ethics or morals.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)And now ... here we are!
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)blm
(113,047 posts).
marble falls
(57,079 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)These things skip a generation.
badhair77
(4,217 posts)thus the difference for Sean.
Omaha Steve
(99,608 posts)Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)...that is so say if he is still in office in 2020.
Initech
(100,067 posts)And if I recall, Jesus hated the hypocrites.