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  1. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Hairdo Hannity, LOL!
    Most adept at telling half the story, stating things out of context and cherry picking what he ‘reports’ and I use that the word ‘report’ in the broadest sense having nothing to do with journalism

  2. tracht47

    tracht47 said, 7 months ago

    Hannity, you are no journalIST!

  3. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 7 months ago

    I wonder if Hannity, or anyone at Faux News ever watches The Daily Show With Jon Stewart?

  4. Michigander

    Michigander said, 7 months ago

    Hey, they forgot Bailoutist :)

  5. gbrucewilson

    gbrucewilson said, 7 months ago

    Hannity is not a journalist. He is a commentator. He is being paid to give his opinion, not report the news. If you don’t watch Fox News, you are in a lonely group. Their primetime lineup draws double the audience as the rest of cable news combined. They slant right, but bash the GOP almost as much as the dems. MSNBC is on Obama’s payroll and proudly admits it.

  6. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Fox used to have a draw, but even they are losing viewers. Odd that Glenn Beck is doing so well, but then a lot are watching him as a comedy show! Hannity still doesn’t get the ratings cable shows “Hannah Montana” or “Sponge Bob Squarepants” does!

  7. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 7 months ago

    They can always borrow “ists” (for a price of course) from MSNBC’s Matthews or Olbermann

  8. DianeKovacs

    DianeKovacsGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Perfect :)

  9. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 7 months ago

    It’s beyond me why anyone would watch Faux News. It’s about the most biased source out there…how many other news services use Republican talking point papers as if they’re fair and balanced reporting?

    The last straw for me was when Brit Hume was reporting on exit polls (Ohio, I think) during the Kerry-Bush election. After reporting that the poll was favoring Kerry, he said something like, “That’s no good…we need that state!”

    A legitimate news station would have at least admonished him for that. Faux probably gave him a bonus.

  10. tracht47

    tracht47 said, 7 months ago

    Fox news is to journalism as professional wrestling is to sports. Hannity is just a guy with a big mouth and a microphone. He never lets facts get in the way of a good argument.

  11. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 7 months ago

    Trach–sounds like you are talking about Olbermann–or Bill Press

  12. tracht47

    tracht47 said, 7 months ago

    howgozit- I’m talking about a lot of them. There is too much commentary and not enough news on prime time cable. There is also a difference between expressing an opinion and deliberately distorting facts. When Olbermann has gotten facts wrong, he has apologised, I’ve heard him. When has Hannity ever admitted he was wrong?

  13. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 7 months ago

    Had to switch to “ists” because Reagan ran them out of “isms”. They’ll never run out of “bs”.

  14. deadheadzan

    deadheadzanGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    I love the couple with the lap cat. They add hominess to Luckovich’s cartoons.

  15. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    The cat is wishing they’d watch Food Network, get hungry and go into the kitchen where they’d open a can.
    The cat is no fool… Hannity sure is!

  16. anng628

    anng628 said, 7 months ago

    Hannity could have stopped at “socialist”.

  17. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Hannity could have stopped…

  18. gbrucewilson

    gbrucewilson said, 7 months ago

    Dale, You are wrong on ratings. In the most recent, O’Reilly was third in ALL cable. He beat Sponge Bob. The two shows above him were WWE. Ten of the top ten cable news shows are Fox News and Beck is now 3rd behind O’Reilly and Sean. The Fox audience is growing while others are shrinking. This probably relates to the fear many people have about what is happening to our country. As the negative numbers go up on Obama, the Fox News ratings go up because they tell the truth.

  19. anng628

    anng628 said, 7 months ago

    Thursday, February 26, 2009
    February Ratings: Fox News Beats CNN and MSNBC Combined in Total Viewers
    Media Bistro reports:
    Fox News was the ratings leader during prime time and total day during February 2009 — its 86th month on top. FNC averaged more Total Viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined in prime time and total day.

    FNC had nine out of the top 10 programs in cable news last month in Total Viewers. The O’Reilly Factor was #1 for the 99th consecutive month, and was up 33% in Total Viewers compared to February 2008. The other top programs included Hannity (up 38%), Glenn Beck (the 5pmET hour was up 100%), The FOX Report with Shepard Smith (up 30%) and On the Record with Greta Van Susteren (up 24%).

  20. anng628

    anng628 said, 7 months ago

    Too bad all of these people didn’t tune in BEFORE the election.

  21. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 7 months ago

    anng–those are the facts; but you can bet those blasting Hannity will say they are lies.

  22. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    gbrucewilson says “As the negative numbers go up on Obama, the Fox News ratings go up because they tell the truth”

    So if something is popular that makes it the truth?

  23. fennec

    fennec said, 7 months ago

    Plus, a bunch of us can’t stand to watch ANY of those “news” casts. That may tend to skew the numbers.

  24. gbrucewilson

    gbrucewilson said, 7 months ago

    Dale, “Truth” is in the eye of the beholder. What explanation do you have for the ratings increase at Fox News while the others are going down? Hannity is clearly far right and bashes Obama at every turn. O’Reilly is a “traditional” thinker, but many of his listeners (including me) think he loves Obama and makes excuses for him. Beck hates both parties equally, but talks more about Obama because he is in power. Beck has exploded in popularity because he expresses the fear that much of the country has about the future. Rather than listen to others in the media and draw your opinion of Fox from that, listen to Fox News for a few weeks and see for yourself. I think you will be surprised how much sense it makes.

  25. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 7 months ago

    I think Fox has become popular again because Democrats are in charge, and they’re willing to put forward any attention-attracting, Democrat-hating whack-job (e.g., Glenn Beck) that gets them ratings. I find it interesting that right-wingers think the media is slanted left – Fox is explicitly, overtly, proudly biased right.
    And it is worthy of note that Beck is about to launch a standup comedy tour, which should make you think about his “news commentary”…

  26. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Cable Television 3/30 - 4/5/2009


    1. WWE Raw ( Mon 10 PM )

    2. WWE Raw ( Mon 9 PM ) USA

    3. NCIS ( Tues/Wed ) USA

    4. NCIS ( Mon ) USA

    5. O’Reilly Factor ( Wed ) FoxN

    6. Penguins ( Sun 10 AM ) Nick

    7. Spongebob ( Sat 2 PM ) Nick

    8. Penguins ( Sun 10:30 AM ) Nick

    9. Sponebob ( Sun 2 PM ) Nick

    10. Penguins( Sat 10 AM ) Nick

    So unless Hannity is on “The Penguins of Madagascar”…

  27. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 7 months ago

    That’s kind of depressing to see WWE Raw in the top spots.

    But it also explains a lot.

  28. anng628

    anng628 said, 7 months ago

    “……Fox is explicitly, overtly, proudly biased right. ”

    Motive….you should have completed the sentence by stating that ALL of the other news programs are slanted LEFT - CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, CBS, etc etc etc…..

  29. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Yeah, because they’re all owned by huge corporations, and everyone knows that huge corporations are slanted LEFT.

  30. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 7 months ago

    anng - you didn’t read my message, did you? I did say right-wingers think the media is slanted left, but Fox is deliberately biased right.

    In fact, studies have shown that reporters are often of a more liberal persuasion, but publishers and corporations, which control access, are not. Ask any reporter, and you’ll hear about stories that are turned down because it would offend an advertiser. Fox, by contrast, doesn’t even try to be objective. It is a right-wing mouthpiece.

  31. charliekane

    charliekane said, 7 months ago

    How ‘bout we throw in an exorcist for Glen Beck. Colbert’s send up of Glenutwad is priceless.

  32. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    Anthony 2816 says:
    Yeah, because they’re all owned by huge corporations, and everyone knows that huge corporations are slanted LEFT.

    Big corporations are always slanted with the political wind, now LEFT.

  33. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 7 months ago

    But Oldlegodad, the right have been complaining that the mainline news organizations like CNN have been left-biased for decades, so it’s not a new thing with us finally getting rid of Bush.

  34. gbrucewilson

    gbrucewilson said, 7 months ago

    Dale, I don’t know the date of the ratings list I saw, but the top four were WWE, WWE, O’Reilly, Sponge Bob. There is a second list for Cable News shows. On that list Fox News has all top ten slots with Hannity being number two.
    Motive, I think it is interesting that a “Democrat hating whack-job” has such high ratings. Are you saying half the country is “Democrat hating whack-jobs”? If you would listen to Beck you would see he blames both parties for our problems. His ideas may be conservative, but his politics do not favor the GOP. My suggestion is watch MSNBC for a few weeks and then watch Fox News for a few weeks. It will be obvious that Fox is less biased than MSNBC.

  35. cdward

    cdward said, 7 months ago

    Of course, it could be that more liberals watch less TV. I for one don’t have TV at all – or to be more precise have a television set that is attached to a DVD player but no antenna or cable. I don’t depend on the increasingly shallow news that television offers.

  36. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 7 months ago

    gbrucewilson, you are slowly getting my drift… O’Reilly brags he has the highest rated CABLE show which is never true. He’s the highest rated cable NEWS show which is a different thing ( and less viewers ).

  37. wbr

    wbr said, 7 months ago

    oh well luck can not be funny or accurate all the time

  38. tracht47

    tracht47 said, 7 months ago

    ^
    But he was this time.