Sean Hannity, You're NOT a Great American!

Well you know I'm no fan of his and I think it's sad that such a small percentage goes to actual charity. Now I disagree with the idea that he's a fraud. As sad as it may sound, MANY charities are far worse. Public Administration and Non-Profit Management was my major in college and I was disgusted by the number of charities where 3% goes to actual charity. One of the worst big charities, who most people think is a great organization, is the American Cancer Society. Their coffers are full and their employees are VERY well paid. How much of the donations actually go to helping people with cancer? Around 20%. I remember the worst in Florida though were the ones using telemarketers. The Florida State Troopers charity and the Police Athletic league gave 90% to 97% of donations to the telemarketers that gathered them. Now anyone who has ever gotten those calls knows that they are the rudest telemarketers you will ever talk to. Even worse, once you donate to one charity over the phone (as I did before I knew better), they will ALL call you since they store AND SELL your information and many charities use the same firm for telemarketing. I strongly recommend people ALWAYS research a charity before donating so much as a penny. Charities for thing like veterans, firefighters, and cancer sound great, but that doesn't mean it's a good charity and there are no laws federally or in most states that have ever required a charity to spend any amount beyond a penny on their actual cause.

I am neither a fan nor a detractor of Sean Hannity since I don't do "personality politics" but I was intrigued by your post and decided to check it out. Turns out that it's just not true, or at least, not verifiably true. Sean Hannity does those concerts for the Freedom Alliance. This is not Sean's charity, it was founded by Oliver North. Sean isn't even on the board of directors. He's not listed as an employee. He draws no salary from it, in fact, several of the top directors of the charity take no salary at all. The charity has been give 4 stars by Charity Navigator and is Certified by the Independent Charities of America. If you want to have a look at their tax statements, they have them all available online. Although it may be true that in 2008 there were 167 recipients sharing $802,250 which means a little over $4000 each on average, there were also cash awards to 429 other recipients totalling $266,651 and expenses of $301,162 spent for "Morale, Welfare and Recreation" for more than 12,000 recipients. This totals more than 1.3 million dollars in charitable expenditures. Sean Hannity and Freedom Alliance both deny the allegations that FA has paid for luxury travel accomodations for Sean or any of his travel expenses. In fact, both Hannity and Freedom Alliance say that he pays all his own expenses. The blogger got all the information from "The unnamed source, citing an unnamed "guy" at Fox News Channel". Of course, this "unnamed source" must be more reliable than the spokesman of a well-established and highly-rated charitable organization. That's why he's unnamed... only reliable sources hide their identities.

That is disturbing, if it were true. After reading Rollo's post, I will reserve judgment.

That's a shame. He could help so many other people with that money, instead of keeping it for himself.

I don't watch or listen to anything Hannity has to say, I learned a long time a go that he was another radical nut that's just in it to line their pockets.

well some money is going where it is supposed to, which is better than nothing. so he is helping, if not as much as is claimed.