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Title: Sean Hannity Ratings Plummet, Loses Half His Views After Election
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The Inquisitr
URL Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/464388/sea ... lf-his-viewers-after-election/
Published: Jan 1, 2013
Author: Nathan Francis
Post Date: 2013-01-02 16:59:15 by X-15
Keywords: neocon, whore
Views: 329
Comments: 10
Sean Hannity’s ratings have plummeted after the 2012 election, as the conservative television host saw his audience dwindle after GOP challenger Mitt Romney failed to unseat President Obama. Hannity saw his audience fall by about 50 percent after the election ended. Though it was not entirely unexpected that Hannity’s ratings would drop after the biggest political event in the last four years, his decline was sharper than other conservative pundits, Salon noted. Bill O’Reilly saw his viewership drop by only about one-third. Among the important demographic of viewers aged 25-54, Sean Hannity’s ratings were even worse. More than half of what is known as the “money demo” stopped watching. Many believe that Sean Hannity’s ratings suffered as a result of his failed rhetoric. Throughout the election, he hyped up Mitt Romney’s chances to win the election, seizing on the Republican’s strong performance in the first presidential debate to all but call the election. From the New York Daily News: “So what happened to Hannity? “The going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen. “Before the election, Hannity was riding high in the ratings and topped thought leaders on the right, like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and talk radio bulldog Mark Levin, who predicted Obama would lose in a landslide.” As his ratings dropped, Sean Hannity also saw himself the center of attack from the right. Outspoken actor Ed Asner in early December claimed that Hannity was “behind on his rabies medicine.”
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#1. To: All (#0)
Title should have read "Viewers", not 'Views'
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
He wasted zero time -- zero -- "evolving" on immigration.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#3. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#2)
Ha! SH never struck me as holding any deeply thought thru political beliefs. No offense to pretty boys, but SH is a pretty boy talking hairdo who was a carpenter (?) before morphing seemingly over night into a highly paid radio/TV celebrity spouting "conservative" political opinions. He does what he's told to do by the folks who write his pay checks. And if it means doing a 180 degree about turn "evolution," SH's their man to follow thru. He wasted zero time -- zero -- "evolving" on immigration.
#4. To: X-15 (#0)
I think it is to be expected that most news/opinion shows lose viewers after elections are over. People who watched regularly during the Election Campaign have suffered a sort of burnout - and, besides, it really doesn't matter to them what's happening in Congress or in the world because they have no influence on events anymore. The shows that keep their audience frequently have different formulas - not necessarily different politics - but, e.g., include interviews with all sorts of guests, instructive or amusing, some comic relief with humorous news, and USEFUL advice for consumers.
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
Hannity has never had an original thought. he is nothing but an establishment mouth piece. Many believe that Sean Hannity’s ratings suffered as a result of his failed rhetoric.
The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they'll say, 'Well, he looks good doesn't he?'
#6. To: scrapper2, Prefrontal Vortex, X-15 (#3)
Ha! SH never struck me as holding any deeply thought thru political beliefs. No offense to pretty boys, but SH is a pretty boy talking hairdo who was a carpenter (?) before morphing seemingly over night into a highly paid radio/TV celebrity spouting "conservative" political opinions. He does what he's told to do by the folks who write his pay checks. And if it means doing a 180 degree about turn "evolution," SH's their man to follow thru.
The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they'll say, 'Well, he looks good doesn't he?'
#7. To: Shoonra (#4)
Yada yada... Shoon, you're sort of, almost growing on me...like a DHS employee bunion who shows a personal sweet sensitive personality... Like I said you are almost sort of likeable in a way...well, as much as a goose stepping DHS snooper can be kind of tolerated. Don't get your hopes up about not being suspect indefinitely... I think it is to be expected that most news/opinion shows lose viewers after elections are over.
#8. To: scrapper2 (#3)
I never once thought of Sean Hannity as a "pretty boy." If he is a "pretty boy" then I must have severely underrated myself. The only thing Sean has going for him in my opinion is talk radio, he has a good voice for it and is good at talking nonsense which is mostly what talk radio people do. His move to Fox TV did change him, he wasn't always as much of a talking head for the elite as he is now. No offense to pretty boys, but SH is a pretty boy talking hairdo...
God is always good!
#9. To: RickyJ (#8)
Well, maybe 'cause you are a guy. I never once thought of Sean Hannity as a "pretty boy."
#10. To: scrapper2 (#3)
Indeed. He does what he's told to do by the folks who write his pay checks.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
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