Reply #24: Do you really need to ask why?

[Stinky The Clown]

In any society or group there are some who are protected, no matter what they do. That's what happens with totalitarian regimes. It is what happens inside bubbles. It is what goes on in focused goal driven companies. If you say all the right things and do as your masters wish, you're protected. Your motives might be as ideologue or useful idiot, but that's a secondary matter. The message is what matters, Hannity delivers the message the powers that be in that particular society want out there. So he is protected.

This is not unusual. I bet you participate in other such societies where the most outrageous speech by some is tolerated, rewarded, and celebrated, even as less outrageous speech, but in opposition, is punished in sometimes very harsh ways.