Political commentator Sean Hannity was one of the big losers in the 2012 election

New York Daily News ^

[Lake Living]

I agree with many of the comments posted here. Hannity seems lost. He is best when he is doing political commentary and explaining the issues (when I listen, I only listen to him on the radio) . When he has on guests or takes calls - especially from critics - he seems to not be able to handle it. He rarely makes the conservatives’ point/s forcefully, he is often disrespectful (and I understand you can’t be nice to hostile callers but…), he caters to the Rhinos and seems to still want to be friends with those who are our political enemies. Worst of all, I seem to learn little that I did not already know.

[SaraJohnson]

He sniffed Karl Rove’s shorts, too.

[Jeff Winston]

That would be uncharacteristic.

What Hannity usually does is have some liberal on, make a total and absolute fool of him, and then throw him a bone of politeness so maybe the dummy will come back on a future show and get ripped to shreds again.

Very entertaining. But you have to appreciate subtlety.

[donna]

Admittedly on little evidence, I've started thinking that Hannity is trying to split his time 50-50 with liberal guests. I'm guessing so when the persecution comes Hannity can claim to be balanced.

Am I just imagining this?

[freekitty]

Neither are conservatives. Both are media controlled. Stick with Rush and Levin.

[Eaker]

Very entertaining. But you have to appreciate subtlety.

I have never witnessed Hannity "ripping" anyone up. Not ever.

He gives the left a voice they would never have without him. I also know entertaining when I encounter it and never did listening to Hannity. As to subtlety Hannity is no more subtle than a third grader.

Did you miss the part about him being Chester the Molester? I sure didn't and don't feel it is excusable for an old pervert to be saying this kind of thing on the air.

[untwist]

If you review Hannity’s overall presentation and conclude he is not conservative, then you are living in a delusion. And no, I am not his PR guy. I am a very conservative voter and the Hannity I see is always confronting liberals with the truth when he has them on his shows.

The problem I have with his attackers is that they sound as bad as the leftists who complain that Anderson Cooper isn’t liberal enough. You sound ridiculous when you say Hannity is not conservative. All you need is to see the intro’s to his TV show to know where he’s at.

Again, he’s not perfect, but he is very much a powerful voice for conservatives. By the way, I don’t know this Flipper story you are talking about.

[Conservative4Ever]

Yeah, carpet kitten pretty much did it for me. Bleeech.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Its not unusual to see ratings go down a bit after the high pitch intensity of an election campaign. Also alot of conservatives (myself included) were kind of depressed after the election so we just stayed away from the cable news shows. I even went two whole days without looking at my facebook page.

[KamperKen]

"I liked Mitt, but he had no chance, and those of us with a brain knew it."

Who had a chance in your opinion? I'm not sure any of those who ran this year stood a chance.

[Eaker]

If you don’t know who Flipper is you are either not really a Hannity listener, don’t have a good memory or are lying. Pick one. Educate yourself at the link below.

http://bit.ly/Ve3sTG

As to me living in delusion and sounding ridiculous, kiss my butt. You are the liberal going ad hominem with no facts proves that you are a liberal. As to “attacking” him I was simply stating my opinion. If I wanted to attack the pervert it would be simple as I just have to state the truth.

Finally, don’t you understand that I will never listen to this douche bag again? Do I need to use smaller words? A different font? Another language?

[Nowhere Man]

I stopped listening to talk, including Hannity, Rush, Ingraham, Etc after the election. All the endless whining, the childish optimism, and nothing good ever seems to come from it. When I think of Hannity, I think of Joe The Plumber, Dick Morris, and all the other useless crap that hasnt ever won an election, and never will. Frankly, it was easily the most depressing election in my lifetime. I don’t know that a conservative will ever again be elected, and I’m just working on putting away enough resources to make my family truly globally mobile as this country slides into the ditch.

Yeah, I know. When Fox called the election for Bronco Bama, Mom literally went to the bathroom to throw up. Myself, the only bright spot in my life is I got a good job, temp to hire, very well paid for 9 months, I think I have a good chance of getting hired. At least I'll be moving into the lower middle class, but a lot of people are going the other way. I resolve to put money aside for a rainy day and get as many debt monkeys off of us as we can and just try to survive and even thrive if I can. I did score quite well, basically out of the blue, but everything else is sinking fast.

I was hoping this was like 1980 but we are not the same nation we were then plus I consider Bronco Bama "a Black Swan." I'm reading that book by the same title where a "black swan" is an unexpected outcome due to unknown and/or unaccounted for factors. Bronco Bama for his whole like is a black swan. He got into the Senate because of Ryan's sex scandal in 2004 and Alan Keyes, as much as I like him, jumping into the void without really going through the process and that help to screw it up. The 2008 election of him was a Black Swan too. Many, including myself and many here, though, "nah, he's too new and radical to get in, Hillary will take the nod." Well, again, the black swan struck. Now it is 2012, the black swan came out the third time. I think with the bad economy, the Arab world on fire and so on, Romney was a shoe in, or should have been, The Black swan struck again and we got Bronco Bama again. Known factors, we have too many on the take and I believe fraud had a role, but even then, Romney should have come out on top, if it wasn't for the Black Swan.

Just think if Ryan kept it in his pants, we might be saying "Barack who?"

[Texas Songwriter]

I think Hannity was doing everything he knew to do to defeat Obama.

[cblue55]

I’ve stopped watching anything on FOX news, and though I’ve been a Rush listener for 20 years, I no longer have the stomach for talk radio - It’s just too depressing. Also stopped reading my local newspaper which is useful only for fishwrap. The good news is my blood pressure is down and I am a much happier person.

[X-spurt]

I probably like a lot of others turned off FNC and Hannity because I was saturated with too damn much politics.

As to Hannity, his shows are no more than a series of trying to start fights, damn little trying to get to the bottom of or sanely discuss politically important issues. The guy’s show thrives on the pissoff and he never cared if we conservatives were the target.

[manic4organic]

I’ve pretty much stopped watching FNC at all except for Red Eye. Gutfeld is the best thing on there. Most everything I need (news and otherwise) is right here on FR.

[fabian]

yes..but is Savage still really angry.? That constant mean ranting turned me off pretty fast. But prager is one of the best out there.

[untwist]

I listen to the radio show sometimes and watch the TV show at least in part most nights. Never heard of Flipper. Not lying.

Sorry I upset you. I am not liberal. I hope we can be on the same side sometime. I just don’t think it is good to be so abrasive. Best to you.

[Tolkien]

I too, stopped watching Fox news and listening to Hannity years ago.

Too much misinformation and sucking up to liberals.

Does anyone have a backbone? Fox and Hannity lost theirs years ago.

[DennisR]

Agreed. Hannity is for the conservative cause, so why beat him down?

Yes, that election was very depressing. Like getting kicked in the stomach.