They were never Republicans, Kevin McCarthy, and many of the people at Fox News, certainly not the Murdoch family.  I have been wary of them all for a very long time, and we are seeing this same frustrated transition in our local Butler County politics.  People who thought they were staunch conservatives are now being kicked off slate cards because the Central Committees are pushing them in ways they’ve never been pushed before.  This is why I recently wrote the Parable of Weeds, to explain this process we are in now, where RINOs are being exposed who were always there, but hid in the background of politics when the media had a lot more control over the process than they do now.  So it doesn’t surprise me in the least to see the Republican House retiring and wanting to give the Democrats the majority back as Speaker Johnson is pushing to have an impeachment of Joe Biden.  These people were always controlled opposition folks, and they have been caught.  This is also why these last four years of not having Trump was necessary, even if it was painful.  Our political system was not set up for us, it was connected to all kinds of maniacal interests that did not have our best interests in mind.  But we didn’t know for sure.  Just remember, we never had a majority in the House; we had controlled opposition.  We needed to root them out to get accurate representation, and that process is happening as we speak as Kevin McCarthy has announced his retirement going into 2024.  He’s not wanted, and he’s not the first to leave.  Politics is a blood sport, but these guys thought they were going to control the score of the game, and they are learning that they bleed just like everyone else. 

I’ve never been much of a Sean Hannity fan, but I have had several chances to meet him. One time, I think it was around 2009, when he had a big rally at Kings Island ahead of the Tea Party movement, right after Obama was elected.  I didn’t make myself available even though it might have looked like a great opportunity at the time.  There were other times but my relationship with Clear Channel radio and Bill Cunningham sent additional cautions to me that I am glad that I listened to.  I always thought it was strange that a Democrat playing a conservative on WLW radio spent each Christmas with Sean Hannity down in Florida with other big-time radio personalities.  It was a kind of networking event that said a lot about the participants, and I have always kept my distance, even though the door flung open to that world for me many times.  As soon as Trump became available in 2015, I started looking in that direction for real results, while many of these fake characters further dug into the RINO lifestyle.  And that was never clearer than when Sean Hannity on Fox News hosted a debate with Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom as if to say to the world, that these two people are who Fox News thinks should replace Trump and Biden as presidential nominees, and that anybody would listen.  As if they knew who we should be voting for better than we did.  That arrogance was unmistakable, and the debate I thought was a disaster even though in the following week, everyone kept referring to it as a big “throwdown,” especially on the Clay and Buck Show, the “not conservative” replacement for Rush Limbaugh.  I understand perfectly well why Rush kept his distance from all these characters, and felt he needed to maintain intellectual distance. 

I remember well that I was in the New Mexican desert very near the Trinity test site when I heard on the radio that Rush Limbaugh had died.  That was a rough period because Biden had just stepped into the White House after a stolen election, and good guys like Rush and most of Trump’s team were falling away and under severe legal scrutiny.  It was a very dark time.  Yet Sean Hannity never seemed to be impacted.  He played everything loose playing his role of controlled opposition without upsetting his bosses at Fox News.  And to keep everyone watching, he’ll put President Trump on for an hour-long show, as he did after the DeSantis debate with the communist governor of California, Gavin Newsom.  And Trump went on because he’s a business guy who will talk to anybody about anything, all the time.  And that comes with the territory.  But boy, have we learned a lot about these various personalities over the last few years, really since that announcement of the death of Rush Limbaugh and the term of Trump for the first time ending in the White House.  As I write this I am finishing my reading of an early copy of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. book The Wuhan Cover-Up which is a jaw-dropping confession to many of our worst nightmares about how the Covid virus came about, how it was funded, and how tight the global network is in concealing and advancing information that ended up killing millions of people as a bioweapon.  And the biggest criminals in the whole matter were the same people telling us that we should be picking Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom as viable options, rather than Trump. 

With the writing clearly on the wall now with Trump and that Hannity debate with DeSantis and Newsom going nowhere, it showed how dumb both of those guys are.  I don’t get much of a chance to see Gavin Newsom and hearing him talk was extraordinarily alarming, as he’s an obvious con man who may make women blush with the opportunity to drink a bottle of wine with him, but he’s an overt communist that increasingly Fox News lusts after for the same reason that women do.  And the DeSantis brand is permanently destroyed, never to return.  We have big problems in the world, huge problems as revealed in The Wuhan Cover-Up, and these are the people Fox News presented as options?  The polling for Trump is clear: people don’t like the world that these RINO Republicans have provided, and they are done with it, much the way I have been since early in the 2010s.  I’ve always stayed away from the controlled opposition.  I’ll talk to anybody, but I don’t give them my support unless they show me there is more to them.  And for me, there has never been anybody but Trump, and now lots of the RINOs in Congress are learning that many feel exactly as I do.  Rush Limbaugh understood it, but Sean Hannity never did, nor did Bill Cunningham at Cincinnati’s WLW radio.  It was always fun for them to pretend to be conservatives, but we aren’t in that kind of world anymore.  And that kind of television for stupid people that Fox News has been providing with these alternative debates is a thing of the past.  We are at war with those perpetrators of the controlled opposition and we should be.  In the coming weeks, I will be talking a lot about The Wuhan Cover-Up book and election fraud, which Fox News knowingly played a part in.  And there is a lot of punishment coming toward those who brought great harm to the world on purpose.  And retiring from Congress won’t save them from what’s coming because they played a part in evil that must be punished.  And that’s not called “radical.”  It’s justice for the kind of world we deserve.  And if we don’t, the future will never forgive us.

Rich Hoffman