The REAL reason that Sean Hannity aggressively defended Cliven Bundy during and after the BLM standoff.

Courtesy of Media Matters:  

Bundy and Hannity's promotion of state ownership of federal lands gives airtime to an issue that conservatives have long been campaigning for but have had difficulty getting voters excited about -- an issue in line with the land interests of the Koch brothers. Slate reported on April 23 that the Fox News corporate, financial, and political interests being served by Hannity's promotion of Bundy lie in the network's connection to the Koch brothers: 

Bundy's anti-federal agenda is closely aligned with that of Charles and David Koch, major Republican donors who have been pushing for states to gain control over federal lands - so they can be sold or leased to people like the Koch brothers in deals. 

Fox News Network and Sean Hannity have a particular interest in the promotion and realization of such Koch interests because their funding depends on it -- Hannity receives major funding and large ad buys from Koch-affiliated Heritage and Tea Party Patriots. 

Hannity's Koch-affiliated funders have a long history of promoting the privatization of public lands and condemning the federal ownership of land. Tea Party groups have supported local efforts to transfer federal lands. Heritage has advocated shrinking the U.S. government's control by selling its physical assets such as "huge swaths of land (especially out west)." Heritage was also a loyal promoter of the Federal Land Freedom Act of 2013, advocating for the transfer of federal land management to state regulators for energy resource development. 

Giving airtime to an issue that is obscure but significant to his conservative funders makes perfect sense for Hannity. Politico reported that Heritage began sponsoring Hannity in 2008 and in 2013 Hannity began advertising for the Tea Party Patriots, "lending his name to fundraising drives, hosting its leaders on his radio and Fox News shows, and even using the Fox airwaves to promote the Tea Party Patriots website."

What did Deep Throat say in "All the President's Men?"

"Follow the money."

Fox News is a money making enterprise. They take the side of whoever pays them the most money.

Traditionally that has been conservative big business owners, like the Koch brothers.

Nothing Fox, or ANY Right Wing outlet receiving funding from conservative sources, say can be taken as the truth. Not that most of us would anyhow.

And remember in an attempt to get the idea of state ownership of federals lands into the public arena, these people almost incited a massacre that could have spread into an actual civil war.

We the People, my ass!

Their real motto should be "All for one, and fuck the rest of you."