If I ever hear Sean Hannity ever attack affirmative action again I will post this story on twitter
Listening to Sirus progress today the guy who wrote this story was being interviewed.
Mr anti affirmative actions own son is a beneficiary of entitlement having a rich Dad. And don’t get me started on the Hannity attack on John Kerry’s private plane. Old Sean owns a private plane while pretending to be a average Joe. I’m sorry but Sean’s son took a place away from a deserving student at this rich private college. The story has some more intrigue to it.
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/17/sean-hannitys-private-plane-and-the-wake-forest-tennis-team-a-morality-fable/
“During a broadcast about two weeks ago, Fox News personality Sean Hannity seized on a favorite trope, saying that former Secretary of State John Kerry, recently appointed to a post as climate envoy by President Biden, "frequently enjoys the comfort, the convenience of his very own private jet" while advocating for policies to combat climate change. Publicly available records, however, raise abundant questions about Hannity's own use of his private jet in support of his son's tennis career at Wake Forest University, and his relationship with the team's star coach, Tony Bresky.
More broadly, the story exposes uncomfortable truths about the quiet leverage of wealth, power and race in collegiate athletics, particularly in low-revenue sports such as tennis that don't have as many eyes on them, or marquee athletes. As the "Varsity Blues" college admissions bribery scandal demonstrated, those programs have been particularly ripe for exploitation, some of which, in those cases, veered into criminality. The Hannity example does not appear to rise to that level — no specific crimes have been alleged, and the grand jury investigation has been closed — it shines a light into one of the NCAA's many legal gray zones, where law and ethics may not always go hand in glove.
One NCAA compliance official at an Atlantic Coast Conference school — that is, a school in Wake Forest's conference — told Salon it was "not possible" that a random player with Patrick Hannity's relatively modest statistics could land a spot on a top-tier team without the backing of family money or influence. Many schools will happily pay tens of thousands of dollars to keep an athlete on the bench for four years "if it's worth that million-dollar donation" coming at some point down the road, the official said.”
White rich conservative privilege because Daddy is Sean Hannity.
Imagine the outrage if it was one of Preidents Obama’s daughters who got that position on a tennis team because of Daddy.
Sorry if this was posted before...first time I heard it and I got the 
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rankings (judged on the article's own link) appear to be above board and qualify him as a legit 4 star recruit.
The NCAA criteria
https://www.ncsasports.org/mens-tennis/ratings-recruiting-guidelines
now from the Wake forest site (unless this is all made up he was a 4 star recruit (so hit that criteria), and was ranked higher than the 190th in the nation cut-off, he was as high as 114th, and ended up 157th in the nation, plus he was a New York state finalist)
https://godeacs.com/sports/mens-tennis/roster/patrick-hannity/2650
Background
Joined the program in January as a mid-year enrollee... A four-star recruit, Hannity was rated as the No. 157 prospect in the nation and has been as high as No. 114 in his high school career... Was ranked as one of the top 10 recruits from the state of New York and was a 2015 New York State doubles finalist... Was a member of the National Honor Society.
Even if tuition is (I'm guessing) something like $200K over 4 years, it's still way less than a $1 million donation to the school. The issue with Lori Laughlin was that her daughter couldn't get accepted at UCLA unless they finagled some way to get her on a sports team with a fake scholarship. Laughlin was definitely wrong, and she was cheating a deserving student out of an education by her actions.
The issue with Hannity's son is quite different. I'm assuming the boy had decent grades and would have been accepted at Wake Forest or another tony private college even without an athletic scholarship. So OK he's a decent tennis player. But if he quit the team and gave up the scholarship, Daddy can still pay his tuition.
