Hannity seems to be a pleasant, but not-too-bright fellow whose true calling should be making speeches at Sunday morning Knights of Columbus communion breakfasts.
too bad he missed his calling
“Hannity seems to be a pleasant, but not-too-bright fellow whose true calling should be making speeches at Sunday morning Knights of Columbus communion breakfasts.”
The Knights of Columbus no longer require speakers to have an IQ above plant life?
Anyway ... Diamond had a long-running philosophical battle with the media industry, especially after the mid-1990s when deregulation opened the door for the creation of these massive TV/radio/newspaper/internet conglomerates. He didn't hide his displeasure over all this, since he believed (rightly, in my opinion) that it promoted mediocrity in radio and TV. One of the things he resented was that he could never land a prime afternoon talk radio gig on a top station in the New York market, even as other less talented personalities got these slots. Sean Hannity became one of the them when he was promoted from his overnight show on WABC radio to the afternoon slot formerly held by the legendary Bob Grant.
From his show on a competing station, Diamond used to rail endlessly about Hannity's abject mediocrity. He'd never identify him by name, but he'd always complain about how the talk radio business was really in the gutter when "an unemployed construction worker from Long Island" (he knew everything about everyone in the business) could have such a lucrative career in the business. LMAO.