Posted on 01/02/2013 7:35:01 AM PST by MuttTheHoople
Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity predicted a Mitt Romney landslide in the presidential election. When that didn’t happen, Hannity’s audience abandoned him in droves. According to Nielson numbers, Hannity has lost about half of his audience since the election. This sort of drop is not unusual. News shows generally have higher ratings in the months leading up to elections. But compare Hannity’s numbers to Fox colleague Bill O’Reilly’s. O’Reilly lost about 30 percent of his audience. Both Hannity and O’Reilly still have numbers that top 2 million viewers per night, so they’re still cable powerhouses. But Rachel Maddow on liberal MSNBC will now occasionally beat Hannity. This ratings reversal would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, when Hannity regularly had an audience two or even three times that of Maddow’s.
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It’s mostly due to his guests and Hannitys personal lack of raw talent. The same idiots over and over with the same drivel about “how we can get the GOP back on track” crapola. They’re always selling a book and are now in the “no credibility” category. Hannity has never been an entertainer, which is paramount.
Mark Levin and Rush are a different story. They actually have something of substance to say and contribute, and they do it with a comedic flare. You actually learn something from Rush Levin.
Glenn Beck same way. He’s entertaining and doesn’t rely on guests.
Hannity lost me many years ago when the guy in NYC took a plunger to the arse from a crazed cop. Hannity kept saying it never happened and had the cop’s dad on for the entire time that the story unfolded. When it turned out to be true, the story disappeared from his show.
“I never miss The Great One though.”
Same here. As an expert in Constitutional law, he is awesome!
No one is expected to listen to Levin every day!
Roger that, I'm the same. It's the same revolving door cast of characters, night after night, screaming and arguing over the same things. In other words, a bore. If you've seen one Hannity show you've seen every Hannity show.
And the high school football toss.....childish.
Personally I have zero tolerance for any liberal these days, and have to question the ideological commitment of anyone who does.
Rush stopped using liberal hosts years ago. I cannot imagine Levin allowing Tamara Holder to guest host his show.
Hannity is not smart but he used to have it in him to really go after someone on his show. He can be a pitbull. Ten , fifteen years later, millions of dollars later, kids, etc and now he is a very comfortable guy with a lot to lose. Not what is needed anymore. We need warriors preferably ones with brains. See Mark Levin and Andrew Wilkow.
Turned off Hannity months ago.
Rush will be next unless he gets back to what he used to do best... using humor to show the utter vapidity and sleaze of the left.
Right now, Mark Levin is my man!!
Sock it to ‘em, Mark.
bINGO
And then there’s Michael Medved.
I believe that viewers are dropping off of Fox for the same reason I have. We have just witnessed the most massive voter fraud in history and we don’t hear a peep about it. Obama’s plan to make himself ‘El-Presidente for Life’ can now not be stopped. There is nothing that will be done about it, so it’s time to plan for when TSHTF.
Beck is too much the showman, O'Reilly is too much the jerk. I just like Rush....dunno what I'll listen to when (if) he ever retires.
Lately Rush doesn’t move along like he used to. He repeats himself far too much as if he doesn’t prepare as well as he did before.
And the constant drumming on the desk gets irritating.
Still little Sean repeats everything Rush had just said.
holdonnow is the man!
In all fairness, it was not Hannity that said that Romney was going to win in a landslide. It was Michael Barone and Dick Morris. Rove and Rassmussen said it was too close to call. You can dismiss Morris, but when Barone said that Romney would win big, you had to pay attention, because Barone is supposed to the smart one. Barone said Obama would win in 2008.
Rush used to call David Bonior the “Pit Yorkie” of the left.
Hannity is the Pit Yorkie of the Right. Constantly yapping, occassionally nipping, but in the end, he is of no true consequence.
Agree completely with everything you stated. That “train” crap is utterly pathetic, as is his unbelieveably irritating habit of repeating his inane points: “It’s not enough to X, it’s not enough to Y, it’s not enough to Z, it’s not enough to (blah, blah, blah).”
I’m actually listening to all of these shows much less nowadays, as they only appear to be stating the obvious and there is nobody actually doing anything to reverse the trend; they just complain about it and rant that things should be different.
Repetitive is exactly right. I feel like I am listening to a parrot when he’s on the radio.
Hannity has been a joke since around 2005.
I call his shows, “Conservatism for Beginners.”
Things come and go. There’s nothing new about that. It says more about Hannity than the public, at large.
Something happened to me when Obama was re-elected. I was stunned. It felt like I had been fed a bunch of hype.
I have not watched any tv news since November 6th. All I used to watch was FOX, but I can’t listen to it any longer. I feel like it’s over - the good guys have lost. I have no doubt that enough people feel the same way, thus the drop in all FOX ratings.
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