Hannity Marks Fifth Year In Syndication

RADIOANDRECORDS ^ | Sep. 15, 2006 | Al Peterson

[DuxFan4ever]

[Lunatic Fringe]

Hannity is a wanna-be. He mimics Rush and Levin. He is a completely unoriginal parrot. You can play 15 minutes of his show in a continuous loop and people would be unable to tell the difference.

[pillut48]

Sean is a great American! :-)

[Yorlik803]

Radio Blow-hard. I don't agree with Savage often but Hannities catch phrase " you are a great American" to every caller is stupid. If I dont like Hannity, but I am a Conservative, am I a lesser American.
Hannity is a blow hard. I dont listen, I dont watch his show. He is like a newer version of the old Mort Downey show.

[Tim Long]

I have to credit Hannity for bolstering my conservatism when I first became one. I used to love him on H&C. Now, though, it just seems that Hannity is incapable of independent thought, like most self-proclaimed conservatives these days.

[ConservativeGreek]

There is no depth there. Can't listen to his show.

Sorry, we listen to Howie Carr in that time slot.

[Mike K]

Michael Medved is my option to Hannity, although I must say that Hannity has a place in conservative talk.

That great American business is stupid.

[kjo]

Can't listen for much more than ten minutes. Why is every edition of his program a "special edition"?

[SittinYonder]

I don't listen to Hannity much anymore, mostly because my schedule no longer allows it, but IMO he puts on a good show. Sure, Rush is better, and I've been listening to Boortz since I was kindergarten.

But like him or not, he hit the airwaves on the absolute right day to bring a conservative message to a country that desperately needed as many conservative messengers as she could get.

[ARE SOLE]

I have to credit Hannity for bolstering my conservatism when I first became one.

Overall Hannity is good for conservatism, he brings in new converts who a lot of times quickly become more articulate and in depth in their views than Sean.

I don't hear much that's original from the guy, very little actually. But he has his place. He does bring in people from the dark side.

Lately he has started this thing of using four or five adjectives to describe the same subject and he speaks in this 3 word burst then a pause that make him sound a bit touched.

[humblegunner]

Radio Blow-hard

One of many. Radio sucks.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Ditto that. Rather listen to Medved. I don't think Hannity is a bad guy, I just don't find him engaging enough to want to listen to him.

On a side note, I got a huge laugh at how Mark Levin ripped into Savage the other night. I would love to see those two debate each other. That would make for some great comedy.

[knightofchaos]

Sean is great. He is more chearleader then debater though. He dosen't call people on not giving true facts or fallacies in their logic, but just calls them really bad. That has a place though, I think. I think its good to get the pure emotions going sometimes as long as I get my hardcore logic in with Rush, Levin and reading Coulter.

[humblegunner]

I get my hardcore logic in with Rush, Levin and reading Coulter.

Wouldn't it be cool if you could generate that hardcore logic yourself?

You would be independent! How cool is that???

[knightofchaos]

Excellent point, well taken :p

Thing is, you have to go somewhere for your info. Say what you want about Ann Coulter, but she gives some really great facts and quotes on lunes who hate America. Never heard of Alger Hiss in my entire life before Treason.

[DuxFan4ever]

Wouldn't it be cool if you could generate that hardcore logic yourself?

Who are you, Socrates? What's wrong with hearing what someone else has to say then making a decision of your own on what the person said?
Rather than sounding humble, you sound like the kind of person who is afraid to have his beliefs and views challenged.

[DuxFan4ever]

There is no depth there. Can't listen to his show.

Some 12.5 million people in radio-land out there don't see it your way. I guess they aren't as sophisticated as you. You're right, Hannity is just a rube construction worker with no substance.

[bmwcyle]

I listen to other pod casts.

[Lunatic Fringe]

You're right, Hannity is just a rube construction worker with no substance.

You have unwittingly veered into the truth. Hannity has no substance, no originality, and no charisma. He keeps calling Rush a "good friend" but I don't hear the same from the Maha Rushie. Every broadcast of his show is a "special edition" (*yawn*), and he has called the last three elections "the most important election" in our lifetime. It gets old.

[humblegunner]

What's wrong with hearing what someone else has to say then making a decision of your own on what the person said?

Oh, I'm sure canned opinions are fine for those who have none of their own.

The "someone else" is a radio talker whose trade is words designed
around a specific ideology, hardly objective or original.

Spin is bad, either leftward or rightward.