Posted on 01/10/2005 2:01:25 PM PST by beyond the sea
Who was lucky/unlucky enough to just have heard the relatively, perhaps temporarily, spineless Sean Hannity suck up to Bob Scheiffer of CBS, then, have the excellent Bernie Goldberg on his show, Sean then asking things of Bernie that he was too apparently cowardly to ask Scheiffer before?
Darn, Scheiffer and Hannity must do a book tour together.
It's his choice. He can be soft and get the interview or be tough and lose the interview. He chose the latter.
I mean former.
Living in Seattle has one redeeming feature; I get Laura in the evening! (;>)
I miss Steve Malzberg on WABC though. Of course I may be biased as I used to be his webmaster;. But I think Steve could clean Hannity's clock anyday and at least he can think. I think in a year or two he will be back at a mainline station. He appears to be dying in the mroning hours at WWRL. But hey, they gave him a better offer and a better schedule. Shame on WABC for that.
I listen to Steve's show in divided doses. You're right. Shame on WABC.
does anyone know when H&C is filmed? it claims to be live ,but they have the same guests that were on3-6 hours earlier on hannity's radio show. i have trouble believing these same people wait 6 hours and come back on. also one night during a coomercial break, i switched to laura ingrams radio show and got to both hear her "live" on the radio and "live" asa panelist on H&C.
You nailed it! He never went to college, although he says he did. Rush didn't go to college, but at least he ADMITS it. I have a strong disdain for phonies.
To me she has a neck like an ostrich and a face like an Afghan hound--I'm a female though so I'm not sure if I'm qualified to judge boinking qualities.
Maybe a factor in a few cases, but too early to start saying Laura is being held back because she is a female. Her show hasn't been out that long. You don't start out on the top (usually). If people are interested in listening to her, no person interested in making money at the top is going to hold her back. Now Okra Winfrey isn't my cup of tea, but there's a market for her dribble and she's made lots of dough. The lefties would say she's got two strikes against her--maybe three if you count (no pun intended) her weight fluctuations.
Hannity seems to have a chip on his shoulder. He loses his temper and reverts to the proverbial Irish tough guy when he can't keep the debate going, which, unfortunately, is often. He does well on TV because Colmes can be even more obnoxious.
I don't know how the rest of you feel, but Sean made a big deal of the fact that he went to Vermont for a ski trip. It ticked me off.
Jumping Jeffords and Leahy. I wouldn't spend a penny in that state
Coming from a family of "proverbial Irish" tough guys, I can tell you that Cubby ain't part of the club. Maybe a broadcast from Baghdad would help change my mind on that. Hell, Franken went there.
Gosh, I have critisized Hannity somewhat on this thread but sometimes I do listen to him---
I didn't realize you have such low opinions of people like myself. I am a conservative, I live in fly-over country, but I do not live in a trailer house.
Geez, you are pretty uppity aren't you? I also didn't get a college degree---I guess I should hang my head in shame and find another website with others "of my kind"!!
I'm not so sure about the shared audiences business, although I suppose you have more experience in radio than I do. It would seem odd to me that they are paired up like they are all the time otherwise. Frequently, stations advertise the pair as their "1-2 Punch".
I suppose that Hannity's blue-collar background may appeal to what you have termed a "trailer trash conservative" audience, although I'll bet some folks will think you're poking at everyone in flyover country when you use that term. I presume you are referring to "those in Rio Linda" and not everyone who doesn't like cities or gets dirty to make a buck.
There is no doubt that Rush makes a great effort to approach on a more intellectual and classy level, and his presentation is slicker to be sure. Even detractors point that he has one hell of a good voice for the job and sounds authoritative. Much of his adopted mannerisms of selective stutter, table-rapping, and boisterosity are shtick, and I presume most of the audience gets that what he is really doing is mocking the media stereotype of conservatives in general. Rush does, of course, come from higher social circles than Hannity does. Rush quit school because he was sick of it, but he obviously did not stop educating himself. Hannity, I believe, went in and out of school, and despite what has been said here I do believe he holds a Business Degree. I don't know where from. It really does not matter, though, because Hannity does not speak as atriculately as Rush does. That roughness, though, might ultimately prove his ticket to success. You may be right.
Some folks see Rush as a milquetoast, but I have many friends from blue-collar backgrounds that are diehard Rush fans. Indeed, the owner of my local Welding Supply store is a dittohead.
I would absolutely love it if we had access to Laura Ingraham more, or perhaps Malzberg. In my mind, Mark Levin would be even better. I'm in KFYI territory, so we don't get any of these folks.
Remind me to never invite y'all over for a beer. I don't live exactly as you do and all you would do is bitch the entire time.
You too? I listen to Laura Ingraham, Rush, Dennis Prager, Micheal Medved and Hugh Hewitt on AM radio---
Does that make me trailer trash too?
Hey, his home station is right in the heart of the yapple, hardly red state stuff. There's a ton of reasons to rag on Cubby, his audience is not one of them.
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