Have you been Hannitized?

[Vatar]

     So to speak... BTW, I gave up on Howie Carr in 1998, after he showed his true colors and joined up with his buddy Douchawitz to sue Imus for "defamation"

Interesting I've not done any research on him.  He just seemed a little less polarized than Hanity and is relatively entertaining.

[Eddie Coyle]

Interesting I've not done any research on him.  He just seemed a little less polarized than Hanity and is relatively entertaining.

      He's much better and smarter than Hannity. Boston/Mass politics and crime are his strengths and what he does best. But national politics he's out of his depth, tends to go what with is trendy-he's a registered Democrat but well known for his Kennedy hatred.

[Vatar]

      He's much better and smarter than Hannity. Boston/Mass politics and crime are his strengths and what he does best. But national politics he's out of his depth, tends to go what with is trendy-he's a registered Democrat but well known for his Kennedy hatred.

Odd he seemed a bit right of center to me. Must be for the ratings.

[The General]

Did anyone hear Hannity last week advocating amnesty now?  He says he has 'evolved' on the issue.  I don't listen to Hannity, but I heard this on Michael Savage's show... Amazing.  Hannity is a fraud.

Michael Savage on Sean Hannity Evolving on Amnesty for illegals - (Aired on November 9, 2012)

[Eddie Coyle]

Did anyone hear Hannity last week advocating amnesty now?  He says he has 'evolved' on the issue.  I don't listen to Hannity, but I heard this on Michael Savage's show... Amazing.  Hannity is a fraud.

        Shocked it took this long. Karl Rove has been advocating such moves, even though it will result in zero gains for GOP, because their mistaken belief that the heavily superstitious, I mean Catholic, "Hispanic" vote somehow shares their ideology. Because they go to church.

[Nucky Nolan]

        Shocked it took this long. Karl Rove has been advocating such moves, even though it will result in zero gains for GOP, because their mistaken belief that the heavily superstitious, I mean Catholic, "Hispanic" vote somehow shares their ideology. Because they go to church.

More than a few Mexicans and assorted Latinos are Evangelicals. In fact, there was a "conversion war" in Latino areas. The best strategy, to gain the Brown vote, is to run Rubio. Transparent pandering is a pathetic strategy.

[Juan]

As someone of Hispanic descent myself, I find the idea of the Hispanic vote absurd.  Just because people share the Spanish language doesn't make them a political unity any more than people who share English.

[Pragmier]

As someone of Hispanic descent myself, I find the idea of the Hispanic vote absurd.  Just because people share the Spanish language doesn't make them a political unity any more than people who share English.

To be fair, I did hear this election cycle various comments on how Fla Cubans and Ca Mexicans differ in voting patterns. While still an over simplification,  progress is being made.

Some sort of amnesty would not be a bad thing if properly done. Military service for the abled as a prerequisite is a good start. Or let the free market set a price for citizenship - it's one of our most coveted made-in-the-USA "products".

[ItsOver]

More than a few Mexicans and assorted Latinos are Evangelicals. In fact, there was a "conversion war" in Latino areas. The best strategy, to gain the Brown vote, is to run Rubio. Transparent pandering is a pathetic strategy.

I was surprised Romney didn't select Rubio as the VP.  I wonder if it was offered to him and he turned it down.  I don't think Romney got any votes he wouldn't have received anyway with Ryan as the VP candidate.

[TuffKitten]

OK... I was ACTUALLY looking to post a complaint about Coast2Coast being pulled off of WLS AM 89 in Chicago and is OVERWHELMINGLY REPUBLICAN EXTREME RIGHT WING now.

BUT, since you asked.  While lonely often I'm not suicidal.  Hannity can stir someone up just like that other individual, Rush Limbaugh, and Don Wade and Roma try as they do to hide it, are extremests as well.  Can't stand ANYTHING on that channel but The Roe Show in the afternoon and Kim Kommando on Saturday nights (of course, they pull her off to broadcast football or whatever game happens to be running or sponsoring them... she's not been on in WEEKS).

I'm totally and completely non-partisan.  I look at issues, read TONS of material, research until I'm blue and after all that, review body language and voice departations. 

It's very apparent to me that Hannity is just on for the what he probably feels is either the what some might think is funny (it's not), makes up crazy things just like Rush to get ratings (because people will call in just to argue with him... DON'T DO RL on the air!   It's our country and many people hear those two  and BELIEVE them.

Out of the studio, I bet he is just a regular guy.  NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE could keep up with his relentless ire and wrath.  He couldn't possibly be scripting this stuff.  He just, IMO, lets his tongue roll.  I only hear rumors about RL as I actually CANNOT bear to listen to even TWO minutes of his stuff.  He has issues that he needs to address so I won't run him down here (I don't, based on his consistent personality that he's resolved those issues).

Now I've images of Donald Trump "dancing in my head".  I'd better shut up while I'm ahead.

Sorry to anyone I offended.  I just enrolled and this was the first topic that popped up.   I think I should stay away from topics I feel very strongly on.  We are ALL entitled to our opinions and we all have different reasons for the opinions and decision we make and they need to make.  I respect all.  I just can't seem to get it into my how some of these radio/TV personalities actually are so capable of having so many followers/believer.

This may be offensive and I apologize in advance.  I hope it's taken as a joke (which it is).  If one likes to watch/listen to Hannity/Limbaugh/Trump, that is your right.  BUT, if they offer you a nice cool Dixie cup of Kool-Aide, please decline it.

[Corona Kitty]

Am radio is dead those right wing whack-o's on am radio are finished.

[MV/Liberace!]

hola to you new peeps.  glad you're here.  post often.

[TuffKitten]

Thank you, HV.  Yep, new "peep" here!  I'm looking forward to the various subject matter on this website and look forward to learning from and sharing with others!   

TuffKitten  >^*v*^<

[McPhallus]

BUT, since you asked.  While lonely often I'm not suicidal.  Hannity can stir someone up just like that other individual, Rush Limbaugh, and Don Wade and Roma try as they do to hide it, are extremests as well.  Can't stand ANYTHING on that channel but The Roe Show in the afternoon and Kim Kommando on Saturday nights (of course, they pull her off to broadcast football or whatever game happens to be running or sponsoring them... she's not been on in WEEKS).

I'm not sure what to make of 89 these days.  They are a symptom of radio today, I guess.  I've only caught Wade and Roma a couple of times, and every single time they insisted on having Blago on (during that whole fiasco) OR his wife when she was on that stupid reality show.  And they had the audacity to give Blago himself a radio show while he was awaiting trial (what a laugh that was).  And prior to that they had that sack of shit con artist Joe Aldeguerre before his business failed and he fled to California. 

[Nucky Nolan]

I was surprised Romney didn't select Rubio as the VP.  I wonder if it was offered to him and he turned it down.  I don't think Romney got any votes he wouldn't have received anyway with Ryan as the VP candidate.

Rubio is quite impressive. He did well on his trip to Iowa, one of the few states that count, unfortunately. I thought that Ryan would attract more votes since he's such a wiz' and wonk on economics. I guess that identity politics trump important issues.

[Nucky Nolan]

As someone of Hispanic descent myself, I find the idea of the Hispanic vote absurd.  Just because people share the Spanish language doesn't make them a political unity any more than people who share English.

That's a great comparison. Most folks seem to think that Latinos are all Mexicans. They don't realize that they come in all varieties. A lot of individuals don't understand that they could look like Scandinavians or SSA Black MLB outfielders.

[yumyumtree]

Well, now everybody is talking  about Hannity moving or leaving or something and Savage taking his place. Hannity had never been one of my favorites, but in Sept. 2009 something happened to make him go down even further in my esteem.
I don't normally watch TV but was on a little vacation and had it in my motel room. As you probably know, farmers in the central valley of California have been having water problems for several years. I see this as a fairly complicated issue with a number of causes. But a lot of people like Hannity blame Obama and a little fish called the Delta smelt, which is being protected. Hannity was down there demagoguing the hell out of an issue he has probably not studied deeply. He made a big deal of the smelt being 4inches long. They don't seem to understand that the size of a life form doesn't mean it doesn't have impact in its ecosystem. This is why listening to these people talking about science makes you want to tear your hair out. A comedian, Paul Rodriguez,  was also there. With all dues respect to Mr. Rodriquez, wouldn't it be better to take somebody with a background in agriculture or something? He did have a token person to talk about the opposing view, but treated him horribly. It was awful. It was also ironic that he made an issue of 40% of people down there bring on food assistance or going to food banks. This is not normally a demographic people like him care about unless it can be blamed on Democrats.

[yumyumtree]

Does anybody know if Hannity followed up on his threat to expose Savage? I didn't actually hear it, and Savage was not mentioned by name, but it seems fairly clear that's who he was talking about.

Savage and Levin also continue to jab at each other on their shows, without mentioning each others names, of course. Either here or on Free Republic people have speculated if its schtick to capture listeners attention, or real hatred. I think real hatred.

[Juan]

I don't care.  These people once presented themselves as caring about the country and trying to better it (in their views).  Now they are exactly like the morning drive DJs - trying to be outrageous for ratings.
As for Savage replacing Hannity - it's only on Cumulus stations.  Hannity is syndicated by Cheap Channel, so it was clearly a business, not a political move.

[wr250]

I don't care.  These people once presented themselves as caring about the country and trying to better it (in their views).  Now they are exactly like the morning drive DJs - trying to be outrageous for ratings.
As for Savage replacing Hannity - it's only on Cumulus stations.  Hannity is syndicated by Cheap Channel, so it was clearly a business, not a political move.

hannity just likes pitting people against each other on the air. he would put quick karl and nowhere in time on the air together so he can get his jollies from the arguing.

also clearchannel also owns premier, and the Noory (and all of arts C2C shows ). rush is owned by clearchannel as well.

[FallenSeraph]

I had to interview Sean Hannity when he came to Phoenix for a political thing. I felt sort of gawky there -- this stupid little 28-year-old reporter from the stupid little East Valley Tribune (R.I.P.) queued up with seasoned big-league journalists for our 15 minutes each with him. When it got to my turn, he was extremely kind, seemed genuinely interested in my stupid little career and treated me as if I were the lead reporter of The Most Important Newspaper in the World.

Later that evening at a post-event mixer a few hours later, he greeted me by name. He was standing around with McCain at the time. I felt kind of special.

He seemed like a warm, personable, caring guy. Granted, that's the way of savvy public figures and politicians, but not always. The former Surgeon General of the United States (Carmona, not Koop), for example, was a real dick. And a diva. A diva-dick. Or a dick-diva. Take your pick. That guy left a bad taste in my mouth for the rest of my life. (And that just sounded really wrong.)

Those are my deep thoughts on Sean Hannity. Nice guy or at least makes the effort. Being Irish wins him bonus points. As for his political opinions, sometimes I agree with him; sometimes I don't. He's easier to digest than Limbaugh.

[FightTheFuture]

I had to interview Sean Hannity when he came to Phoenix for a political thing. I felt sort of gawky there -- this stupid little 28-year-old reporter from the stupid little East Valley Tribune (R.I.P.) queued up with seasoned big-league journalists for our 15 minutes each with him. When it got to my turn, he was extremely kind, seemed genuinely interested in my stupid little career and treated me as if I were the lead reporter of The Most Important Newspaper in the World.

Later that evening at a post-event mixer a few hours later, he greeted me by name. He was standing around with McCain at the time. I felt kind of special.

He seemed like a warm, personable, caring guy. Granted, that's the way of savvy public figures and politicians, but not always. The former Surgeon General of the United States (Carmona, not Koop), for example, was a real dick. And a diva. A diva-dick. Or a dick-diva. Take your pick. That guy left a bad taste in my mouth for the rest of my life. (And that just sounded really wrong.)

Those are my deep thoughts on Sean Hannity. Nice guy or at least makes the effort. Being Irish wins him bonus points. As for his political opinions, sometimes I agree with him; sometimes I don't. He's easier to digest than Limbaugh.

I have never had the opportunity to meet Hannity, but I am acquainted with a few people who have and they said exactly the same thing.

I have been around Limbaugh a bit. He`s as down-to-earth and nice as the day is long. In fact, I`d go as far to call him humble. Not at all what I expected, but that`s pretty common with celebrities.

In fact, in my travels, I`ve met a few celebrities, here and there (golf tournaments, fund raisers, etc), but the only one from which I came away with a truly bad taste in my mouth, was Tom Cruise. A classic, snobby little Hollyweird, pip squeak.

[ItsOver]

Nice guy or not, Hannity's radio show just bores me.  Always the same.  Rant, rant followed by more ranting then two talking heads, one supposed con, one supposed lib, go after each other.  All the while, Hannity sounds like he's had one cappuccino too many.   

[MV/Liberace!]

Nice guy or not, Hannity's radio show just bores me.  Always the same.  Rant, rant followed by more ranting then two talking heads, one supposed con, one supposed lib, go after each other.  All the while, Hannity sounds like he's had one cappuccino too many.

i think hannity's show is a thousand miles beneath rush's in nearly every metric.  when i listen to rush, i feel like i'm hearing some of the best political analysis available anywhere.  it's up to me to sort that analysis and decide what i do and don't believe. 

there's no reason to listen to anything else if you want to hear a political talk radio show.  with hannity, everything just seems to come from a far less intellectual place.  i don't feel like i'm hearing cutting edge analysis when he pontificates.

[aldousburbank]

with hannity, everything just seems to come from a far less intellectual place.

Like from out his butt perhaps?

[West of the Rockies]

I cannot stand the guy's smug, smarmy mug.  He clearly thinks he is charming and dashing, but those constantly twitching, arching eyebrows make me want to throw coffee at the computer screen (or my car radio).  Sick of Hannity.

[McPhallus]

I cannot stand the guy's smug, smarmy mug.  He clearly thinks he is charming and dashing, but those constantly twitching, arching eyebrows make me want to throw coffee at the computer screen (or my car radio).  Sick of Hannity.

What did it for me was when he began bragging incessantly about how his hybrid SUV got a whopping 20 MPG.  So it gets 20 MPG instead of 15?  Wow, dude, that's totally amazing.  I'm pretty sure it was a "gift" from GM, and he got it in exchange for talking it up like it was the most amazing invention ever.  Pawn Vanity.

[George Drooly]

In fact, in my travels, I`ve met a few celebrities, here and there (golf tournaments, fund raisers, etc), but the only one from which I came away with a truly bad taste in my mouth, was Tom Cruise. A classic, snobby little Hollyweird, pip squeak.

Details?

[George Drooly]

i think hannity's show is a thousand miles beneath rush's in nearly every metric.  when i listen to rush, i feel like i'm hearing some of the best political analysis available anywhere.  it's up to me to sort that analysis and decide what i do and don't believe. 

there's no reason to listen to anything else if you want to hear a political talk radio show.  with hannity, everything just seems to come from a far less intellectual place.  i don't feel like i'm hearing cutting edge analysis when he pontificates.

And just in terms of performance, Hannity is a stumbling hack, and Rush is a maestro (better than Art Bell, even).

[steelbot]

Nope, but I've been Baptized, as were the ways of my parents growing up Lutheran.