Posted on 12/30/2012 6:12:24 PM PST by SMGFan
The right-wing Fox News host lost half his audience in the weeks after Obama's win
In a fitting coda to 2012, we’ve learned that the ratings for rock-ribbed conservative Sean Hannity cratered after Barack Obama won his second term, with viewers tuning out the Fox News Channel talk-show host in droves. According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox News colleague Bill O’Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his audience. So what happened to Hannity? The going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.
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He was a RINOmeny supporter.
I no longer have any use for Hannity.
I liked Mitt, but he had no chance, and those of us with a brain knew it.
Sean came out and said he’d “evolved” on the issue and now believed in the importance of “comprehensive” immigration reform. Haven’t watched or listened to him since. I doubt I’m the only one he lost because of this.
Sean says the same thing for six months straight.
The simpleminded repetitiveness is what turns me off with Hannity. I can’t take any more of his timeworn catchphrases....”Republicans want dirty air and water!”......”Rahm-Rahmbo-Deadfish-Emanuel”......”If you elect a Republican, black churches are gonna burn.”
A few weeks ago, I heard him use the dirty air and water one four times in one day. Enough is enough...his mind is on some kind of very limited loop.
Ye gads.
Hannity lost me when he began to make supplication noises to the Liberal cesspool by stating that he was “evolving” on gay marriage. Laura Ingram lost me when she said the Republicans would have to “soften” their stance on abortion. The whole Republican party is going to lose a lot of constituents for abandoning their principles. We don’t need another propoganda outlet for Liberal crap. I considered FOX the only outlet that even aired my positions; although they sometimes gave inordinate time to the Libs. I’d rather be without a political party than to support a bunch of craven cowards.
Bill O’Reilly has always been an expert fence straddler. In pretending to air all sides, he has actually always managed to give more coverage to Liberal ideology on a national scale than they could by themselves. His criticism of Conservatives has always been well-laced with “respect” for Obama and an overriding facination with interviewing him. Does anyone fail to recognize that O’Reilly’s hard-hitting question “ Why do some people hate you?”was a gift to Obama. While O’Reilly is informative for the most part, he actually doesn’t stand for much except himself. He knows better.
Hannity lost me when he began to make supplication noises to the Liberal cesspool by stating that he was “evolving” on gay marriage. Laura Ingram lost me when she said the Republicans would have to “soften” their stance on abortion. The whole Republican party is going to lose a lot of constituents for abandoning their principles. We don’t need another propoganda outlet for Liberal crap. I considered FOX the only outlet that even aired my positions; although they sometimes gave inordinate time to the Libs. I’d rather be without a political party than to support a bunch of craven cowards.
Bill O’Reilly has always been an expert fence straddler. In pretending to air all sides, he has actually always managed to give more coverage to Liberal ideology on a national scale than they could by themselves. His criticism of Conservatives has always been well-laced with “respect” for Obama and an overriding facination with interviewing him. Does anyone fail to recognize that O’Reilly’s hard-hitting question “ Why do some people hate you?”was a gift to Obama. While O’Reilly is informative for the most part, he actually doesn’t stand for much except himself. He knows better.
Hannity is a toadie for the GOP-e. He kisses Rove’s butt. I’m particularly sickened to how he seems to have more and more black callers to try and convert them by giving them free chit. It’s no different than the Democraps....and he’s wasting his time and money.
Won’t work, Sean. Give it up!
On his radio show, Hannity let’s the libs drone on and on for half of his show. The tv show is shallow and there are too many e-repubicans and liberals. Any time that beckel was on, I turned it off. Rarely watch or listen to him now. I haven’t watched Ted Baxter for a long time.
I think a lot of conservatives have moved on. A lot of us have shed our Lefty friends and acquaintances, redoubled our prepping activities, and continued to strengthen ties with like-minded conservatives and patriots.
LOL! Well said. Haven’t watched FOX, or any TV news here since election night. Greta, O’Reilly and Hannity hold the whole place together, and I can tolerate only Greta because of her guests. Fox has gone moderate left and I have not.
Happy New Year!
LOL! Well said. Haven’t watched FOX, or any TV news here since election night. Greta, O’Reilly and Hannity hold the whole place together, and I can tolerate only Greta because of her guests. Fox has gone moderate left and I have not.
Happy New Year!
I don’t necessarily dislike Hannity. But with a whole depressing year of Romney as candidate, and Hannity’s show constantly bringing in Rove/Morris and their GOP-establishment ilk to cheerlead, it made for nauseating results. For me it wasn’t just Hannity, but the entirity of FoxNews which drove me away. After the 2010 mid-terms, they dropped the tea party, stopped mentioning border/illegals issues, regional grassroots conservative topics, and practically morphed into a totally beltway-centric megaphone for the GOP-E.
I was a bigtime FoxNews viewer from its inception. The channel was pretty much my tv-set’s default position for years. But my viewership dwindled to nothingness during the past two years, as it became so unpalatable. I might still watch a half-hour per week nowadays at most, usually only stopping by the channel when I see appearances of Palin, Malkin, West or a few others of whom I still like to hear input from. But I certainly don’t just leave the network on, like I used to.
Having The Architect on plus he went all in on amnesty for illegals. I listened from time to time, but never again.
I stopped watching/listening when Hannity called Al Sharpton “my great friend.”
No doubt having the bastard Rove on kept me away.
He talks about the Tea Party a lot, but very seldom has any tea party guest
on. Mainly the GOP Rinos.
Wow. Suprised to see all the criticism of Hannity here. I like Hannity. He’s far more entertaining than Rush, more listenable than GB, and FAR more listenable than that grating self-absorbed rambler Savage.
After the election a lot of us were simply pained and angered at the election outcome plus so turned off about it all. Its nothing against Hannity but many just had to shut it off and deflect attention away from the political madness.
For his new theme song, I would suggest something unique, exciting and "out of the box"--like The Devil is Afraid of Music, Alone at Last, or Charleston Charley.
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