34 Comments

• paulddowling | Jan 23, 2013, 03:57 PM EST

  The reason Hannity's ratings have gone down is that the true believers who really thought that a poorly performing president would fail, if only the spotlight were kept on him and his feet held to the fire, were indeed stunned by Obama's win. But they don't blame Sean for trying to show Obama, warts and all. They have just been in such deep shock that the only way to recover from the feeling of nausea accompanying our Statist president's reelection is to tune out the news for awhile--all news, not just Sean. Not just O'Reilly. His audience will come back over time, once we have all recovered. We still have to fight the good fight. We shall gradually return to going to Tea Party meetings, etc. Keep in mind, even in the face of a media onslaught to demonize Constitutional conservatives, Obama only won 51% of the vote. And many just voted for him, rather than be accused of racism. But there are many Republicans coming up the ranks for future elections who are both ethnic and believe in smaller government and more freedom. The future will be an interesting place to travel.

• maryosullivan | Jan 07, 2013, 03:56 PM EST

  Recent Univ. survey shows those who listened to Fox were 18pc more likely to be dis-informed about world events than those who did not listen to any news Hannity has taken over from O'Reilly as chief attack dog

• Mairin67 | Jan 05, 2013, 04:35 PM EST

  A shame that a good Irish name like Sean Hannity is wasted on such a moron.

• rgray222 | Jan 05, 2013, 03:41 PM EST

  Now that the fiscal cliff turned out to be and entirely trumped up crisis to get people to pay higher taxes it seems so dishonest. 77% of all American will be paying higher taxes while Warren Buffet and the ultra wealthy got a tax break and will pay less. This president is becoming so transparent, the stimulus....the sky is falling, the omnibus spending bill the sky is falling,the bank bailouts..the sky is falling, insurance bailouts.. sky is falling the fiscal cliff the sky is falling. The only people that still fall for these blatant lies are the democrats and their spend at any cost agenda. Now that we have seen the fiscal cliff we find out it is a spending bill with more bogus stimulus money and actually increases the debt and deficit. What a shame.

• McNamara31 | Jan 05, 2013, 11:33 AM EST

  kaydog1 How do you think we arrived at this fiscal cliff? The factual "charted" truth is that during the previous administration (Bush 2) our country's debt rose by 5 Trillion dollars. During his father's administration (Bush/Reagan) the debt increased by 3 trillion dollars. All previous presidents including: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford and Carter kept the existing debt below 2 Trillion. What did you think... Obama was going to arrive in the Oval office in the middle of the greatest financial crash since 1929, click his fingers, and the mountain of accruing debt would vanish? Both the Clinton and Obama presidency's were left the task of cleaning the massive debt created by GOP presidents.Your statemented about "destabilize the country" is pointed at the wrong party and a simple google search will confirm it.

• Joe Kelsall | Jan 05, 2013, 09:08 AM EST

  Hannity and O'Reilly; a pair of right wing bluff merchants! For the benefit of the Republicans amongst us: tough! YOU LOST! Not only did you lose, you were routed! Now, the future for Republicans is bleak; the Black and Hispanic citizens have discovered the power of the ballot; in their hands lies the power. What has the GOP to offer them? Zilch! So, you can cry in your porage and snipe all you like at President Obama; you know him; he's the one with the cajones and the gift of fiery speech. Don't make any plans for change in 2016; your politics are passe. Tog go bog e.

• kaydog1 | Jan 04, 2013, 04:54 PM EST

  McNamara31, Pres Obama never passed a "first budget", or any other budget. And did you notice, that the Bill trotted out by the Senate to avoid the "Fiscal Cliff" was offered with only 3 minutes for Senators to read the 1504 pages? It was concocted by the Democrats, contains 60 billion $ in tax increases, and 74 Billion Dollars (US$) in tax exemptions for Democrat special interests. It's almost as if the Democrats were TRYING to destabilize the country.

• McNamara31 | Jan 04, 2013, 02:44 PM EST

  TomSwinford.. Thanks Tom, I really can't take the "soul-less" Sean Hannity. I think he is a disgrace to all things Irish.

• McNamara31 | Jan 04, 2013, 02:37 PM EST

  MegK311 ....Did you know that $5 Trillion dollars of debt, was already projected to occur in August of 2009, based on the economic "conditions created by and policies enacted by President Bush", this projection was issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) well before President Obama's first budget became law? That's another little fact you will never hear on FOX.

• McNamara31 | Jan 04, 2013, 02:27 PM EST

  peterson... Did you know, Bush took 977 days, or 32% of his total time in office, was spent on vacations. Hawaii is Obama's home. People go home for Christmas. Tell me, did you complain when the prior president took 977 days off while accumulating 5 trillion in debt with two unpaid wars and by the end of his term, was loosing 700,000 American jobs a month?

• peterson | Jan 04, 2013, 01:56 PM EST

  Obama's popularity is really slipping now. That is what happens when illegals are allowed to vote -- they are the ones that voted him back !! In the meantime, the Obamas are enjoying a three million dollar vacation in Hawaii !!

• MegK311 | Jan 04, 2013, 12:34 PM EST

  I don't want to follow Obama as he gets us deeper in debt every day. Look what the Democrats have done to California many cities are bankrupt and the whole state is heading in that direction followed by the rest of the country. California used to be a very attractive state to live in. Now people and businesses are leaving. Our taxes are the highest in the country. People have lost their homes and businesses that have been here for years have closed down. The unemplyment rate is much higher than other parts of the country. A member of my family has been out of work for over 4 years. So if you want to follow Obama and the direction he is going in then use California as an example of what is to come. The states that are doing well are run by Republicans. The trouble with the main line news media is if the news doesn't fit their liberal views then they don't report it. So most of you are getting 1/2 the news and the distorted truth. Hannity doesn't misinform his audience thats what the liberal media does.

• MegK311 | Jan 04, 2013, 12:25 PM EST

  McNamara31, excellent commentary. My compliments.

• McNamara31 | Jan 04, 2013, 12:19 PM EST

  Madeliene How would any Fox viewer "recognize the truth" when they have been fed misrepresentations and only the stories that support the Fox narrative? If a mother teaches her child the world is flat, the child only learns when they are given true facts from another source and become informed. You do not get facts or information from FOX, they feed bias and nothing more. If you don't like CNN try ABC,NBC,CBS, BBC,EURONEWS,RTE or possibly PBS for a week and get an informed viewpoint that comes from several sources rather than one despicable News Organization..

• Madeliene | Jan 04, 2013, 10:59 AM EST

  NOTrue Americans still want the TRUTH, and CNN does NOT give it, libs dod not listen to him anyway him anywayIrsh Cnrl waay 2 liberal!

• Frosty38 | Jan 04, 2013, 10:58 AM EST

  This makes me happy

• McNamara31 | Jan 04, 2013, 10:38 AM EST

  Hannity is part of a bigger operation keeping Americans misinformed and distracted from the truth behind our major problems. Hannity’s bosses, Roger Ailes and Ruppert Murdoch and his radio counterparts Limbaugh and Beck are intent is to control enough media outlets and mobilize low information voters whenever they want. Whether it’s a call from Karl Rove to start spouting anti Obama venom or a nudge from the Koch brothers to belittle the science behind climate change because environmental regulations cut into their massive profits, this little group of merry “soul-less men” are glad to do the bidding of the powerful. Ailes is marketing genius who knew the best way to define a true “prop” machine was to call it fair and balanced. Truth is, no one watches Hannity to be informed, they watch Hannity to have their Pre Existing biases reinforced, nightly, with a world view that you will find only on FOX. A view that subtly weaves its message against other races, against workers, against healthcare, against gun regulation, always stoking some paranoia and finishing with a commercial to “buy gold”. Slowly people who wanted to believe this misinformation, are seeing it for what it is, and always has been ….A lot of rich guys and corporations trying to stick it to the American people while increasing their ever growing profit margins and using the “soul-less” ones to achieve it.

• jetsnoone | Jan 04, 2013, 05:49 AM EST

  Romney offered lukewarm...even Jesus said "yuck"..... Ron Paul offered a true conservative platform but the c.c. Republicans don't have the balls. End the Fed, balance the budget and get American boys out of foregin wars said Ron Paul... the Republicans said no, they thought trashing Obama's miserable record would work... It didn't as the American people want real conservative (not neo-con) values!

• rassanmore | Jan 03, 2013, 11:44 PM EST

  where's my comment?

• MegK311 | Jan 03, 2013, 11:20 PM EST

  I am not listening to the news very much at the moment. I am just tired of politics. We spend too much time on our elections. Sean Hannity is not any worse or any better than other political commentators representing either party. I haven't stopped watching because I blame Sean Hannity for the way the election went. Sean Hannity is not a liar he backs up what he says with facts. I just need a break from the whole political process. There is so much rotteness, and lies and half truths and the Democrats can dish it out so all you liberals have nothing to boast about because you spread your share of lies to get Obama elected.

• Proud Canadian2 | Jan 03, 2013, 08:27 PM EST

  After reading these comments,it has kid of restored my vision of Americans. I do believe that most of you are finally getting that stupidity is not the way to go. That is to say that being a Repubican(Conservative) is moronic. It is time to join the masses and get behind Obama and help him get you out of the mess your in. We will try our darndest to get rid of George Bush the third here in Canada and maybe North America can thrive again. The old raicist,capitalists,and right wingers are hopefully going to be something of the past. Then we can live in a world of equality. Just saying

• jetsnoone | Jan 03, 2013, 08:26 PM EST

  Zionist tool always trying to rush American boys into middle east wars....

• durtymurphy | Jan 03, 2013, 08:22 PM EST

  If you want the Real Truth, Listen to Hannity, then belive the exact opposite. Dig it?

• branagh | Jan 03, 2013, 04:54 PM EST

  A mirthless,nasty individual and that's only for the personality aspect.

• WoundedKnee | Jan 03, 2013, 03:14 PM EST

  Hannity makes me ashamed to call myself Irish-American. Fortunately, he is Irish by name only, as he has never shown the slightest interest or knowledge of his Irish ancestry.

• Rebelforce | Jan 03, 2013, 02:09 PM EST

  The Democrats couldn't have had a better campaign ad than seeing all mouth no brain Hannity whining on air about paying a slightly higher tax rate on his $20 million salary if the "Socialist" Obama won re-election.

• kaydog1 | Jan 03, 2013, 12:53 PM EST

  "signalhere" - so now their Moms, their Dads, AND their family Commissars are each watching? Spendid news, Tovarich!

• miltonedunn | Jan 03, 2013, 10:59 AM EST

  dara is just a dumb s--t

• Opening Salvo | Jan 03, 2013, 10:27 AM EST

  Best news I've heard so far this year!

• wjb1tex | Jan 03, 2013, 10:12 AM EST

  If this is true then all the more reason to include it in the article. I suspect it wasn't there because it couldn't be verified. Could you please cite your source ? signalhere | Jan 03, 2013, 09:26 AM EST wjb1tex: MSNBC ratings up ~50% for Shultz, Maddow and O'Donnell.

• Butch1 | Jan 03, 2013, 10:09 AM EST

  When he consistently lied to his viewers for the past years leading up to the election by dispensing disinformation about facts and the polls and finally the real results occur within a few hours of the people voting, he own views in my opinion, felt betrayed. They have been in a bubble at FOX NEWS trusting only them for all of their news coverage because THAT is what they have been told to do. FOX goes after all the other news stations by dismissing them as "liberal" stations that you cannot trust. The problem is that those stations have been giving factual information pretty much all along. FOX has been lying to their views telling them that this election was "in the bag" and Romney was going to win and that Fox News' poll numbers were the only correct figures. Election night proved them wrong and Hannity was among the biggest liars of them all. Now he has to eat crow and his viewers cannot trust him anymore. This is what happens when you finally get caught up in your lies.

• signalhere | Jan 03, 2013, 09:26 AM EST

  wjb1tex: MSNBC ratings up ~50% for Shultz, Maddow and O'Donnell.

• hollabackgurl | Jan 03, 2013, 08:44 AM EST

  Please don't reveal Fox New's conspiracy to hoodwink low information voters. Sean Hannity is doing a great job assuring retirees they represent the future of the nation.

• wjb1tex | Jan 03, 2013, 08:37 AM EST

  How about the liberal pundits ? I am pretty sure all political oriented shows had a drop off after the election. Comparing one conservative to another doesn't tell a complete story. I know I don't watch much anymore. I watched a lot of MSNBC and I am a conservative. Just like to keep my blood pressure up there I guess. But now it's not so interesting and it wouldn't be if Romney had won either.