When he starts one of his one-hour-long "questions" I press my mute button. When I finally see his jaws stop flapping, I instantly turn the sound back on again.
I can tell from the answers he gets what his predictable repetitive questions were, so nothing's lost to me. It works !
To boot, his over-talking and interruptions disrupt his guests' narratives and serve to throw their timing and trains-of-thought off.
Why he hasn't learned to harness this incredibly annoying trait of his after years of professional interviewing, I don't know. It has to be a latent ego-urge that he's incapable of controlling.
Other than that, I never miss his show. His redeeming values of excellent conservatism, grit, doing exposes, forthright talking, truth-telling and genuine earnestness plus featuring interesting/valuable guests and analysts outweigh my complaints....all with the help of my "mute button", of course.
Leni
“It has to be a latent ego-urge”
I think it’s the ego thing, too. Ditto for Dobbs. It’s annoying, but I never have a primal urge to throw shoes at the TV. But when the lib talking heads begin their filibustering, I have... well... urges. I HATE those people.
And I agree that the overall content of his shows redeems the small annoyances. His guests and panels are excellent; the investigative journalism they’re doing can’t be beat. You can tell Sean’s passionate about the corruption, and not simply “doing a show”.
I love Sean. And with love in my heart, I agree that if he were wanting to take on a new year’s resolution to do any self improvement at work, a suggestion would be to ask briefer questions, and to only interrupt when the waste of time by a stammering guest is egregious. Sean my dearest,as you see by the newly retired brilliant elderly broadcasters in 2017, brevity and the genius of knowing how and when to remain in the background are endearing qualities.
Sean is an amazing broadcaster. But,like Trump should maybe run some of his tweets by someone who could edit out his personal sensitivities, Sean could break the habit of too long questions and monopolizations. He’s so good. He can put the cherry on top of his excellence by adding subtlety.
I agree with every word of that.
Thanks for the tip. Hannity is shouting it from the rooftops.
With limited outlets, I’ll take what I can get for now.
He drives me nuts with that, too. There are people with important information to share, and he just talks right over them — mostly about himself.
Not me. I just change stations. Consequently, I don't listen to "Mr. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat and Repeat Again, ask a guest a question and interrupt in a nano second", anymore!
“I learned a long time ago how to deal with Hannity’s running-of-the-mouth disease.
When he starts one of his one-hour-long “questions” I press my mute button. When I finally see his jaws stop flapping, I instantly turn the sound back on again.
I can tell from the answers he gets what his predictable repetitive questions were, so nothing’s lost to me. It works !
EXACTLY RIGHT. Hannity suffers from excessive motor mouth disease, with unfortunately few cures in his case.
To boot, his over-talking and interruptions disrupt his guests’ narratives and serve to throw their timing and trains-of-thought off.
Why he hasn’t learned to harness this incredibly annoying trait of his after years of professional interviewing, I don’t know. It has to be a latent ego-urge that he’s incapable of controlling.
Other than that, I never miss his show. His redeeming values of excellent conservatism, grit, doing exposes, forthright talking, truth-telling and genuine earnestness plus featuring interesting/valuable guests and analysts outweigh my complaints....all with the help of my “mute button”, of course.
Leni”