Good comments.
I agree about Sean. He is family and we love him. But, we also listen enough to know exactly where his faults are.
He should listen to the complaints because they would be useful as a critique of his show.
He has many talents but those talents can become corrupted in pursuit of his goals. When his goals become promoting Sean, selling his books, luring people to his website for more funds, and being willing to cater to outlandish dems to bring them on his show - we see what he is doing and we complain.
We are not idiots willing to take repetitive pablum and filler in honor to just pay homage to his money-grubbing, ego trips. We are there for content and we are often disappointed.
On the otherhand, look at Rush's show. It is always entertaining, different, intuitive. We also complain when he drifts off to sports, sexual innuendo or whatever.
Sean needs to realize you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Give us worthwhile analysis, interviews, information and fun and we will gladly listen. Try and use the show as his own altar or to continually sap the public for money and you will receive many negatives and turned off people.
Sean just does not understand that the public has more options than to just listen to his ego trips, his sales promotions, his repetitive rhetoric, and his constant promotion of everything that promotes Sean. Give us something of interest - we are more intelligent than he gives us credit for.
Some of Sean's interviews have been quite painful to listen to. I've ended up even feeling a little sorry for some of the libs he has had on because he has misunderstood or misinterpreted what they had said. Sean then comes off as an wild hothead who isn't even listening to the person he is interviewing. The conservative point of view he purports to represent ends up looking ridiculous because his interviewing skills and polemics are weak.