A “Hannity” Prediction

7:06 pm EST January 13th, 2009 | Media, Republicans | 14 Comments

hannityEven though his opening night did big ratings, one year from now Hannity’s show will have a lower average rating than “Hannity & Colmes”. It will still probably do better than the shows on MSNBC and CNN, but a Colmes-less show will do worse. Why? No liberal strawman phony liberal like Colmes to knock around anymore will end up equaling a boring Hannity.

File this away in the prediction folder.

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14 Responses to “A “Hannity” Prediction”

  1. SaveFarris says:
    January 13, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Easy call to make when you’re coming off an election year and EVERYONES numbers will be down

  2. bryan says:
    January 14, 2009 at 3:29 am

    They need a Mega-Colmes (new comic hero?) to issue a serious beatdown on this guy. But actual political debate would mean Hannity would have to do some actual research and viewers might check actual facts and not those guys version of the facts.

  3. joaquin says:
    January 14, 2009 at 8:27 am

    The Mega-Colmes has been tried on the radio and TV. Hasn’t worked.
    I’m sure you here will disagree, but I believe that they haven’t worked because of a lack of believability/credibility due to a lack of passion.
    I’m not saying that Liberals aren’t passionate, they sometimes are, but most Liberals, especially ones that hold office, will run from the word Liberal and will never label themselves as such.
    If you run from what you are and you shroud yourself with moderate, progressive, and centrist veneers, how can you project passion? How can you be taken seriously?

    http://howisthatobamavoteworkingoutforyou.blogspot.com/

  4. Duros62 says:
    January 14, 2009 at 9:37 am

    They need a Mega-Colmes (new comic hero?) to issue a serious beatdown on this guy.

    Bill Maher, maybe?

  5. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    January 14, 2009 at 9:59 am

    SaveFarris: “Easy call to make when you’re coming off an election year and EVERYONES numbers will be down”

    Except his show started after the election, so it is not being affected by the election bounce.

  6. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    January 14, 2009 at 10:01 am

    bryan: “They need a Mega-Colmes (new comic hero?) to issue a serious beatdown on this guy.”

    Duros62: “Bill Maher, maybe?”

    Hell yeah!

    I would love to see that debate, because it would not even be close. Pure ass-kicking of the nth degree.

  7. Rheinhard says:
    January 14, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Actually, much as I love him, I wouldn’t want Maher opposite Hannity. I’d want somebody who can toss off a witty rejoinder, sure, but who also has large swaths of wonky facts and data at their disposal who can rebut all of Hannity’s canned talking points with solid information. And then smile at him innocently before Hannity realizes that there is a shiv in his back.

    Rachel Maddow.

  8. SaveFarris says:
    January 14, 2009 at 10:30 am

    CSS, we all know that at the one year from now, the story will read:

    “It seems when Alan Colmes left his gig with Fox News, he took 18% of Hannity’s viewers with him. On the first anniversary of Hannity’s solo show debut, he averaged 1.12 million viewers from January 09-January 10. However, from January 08-January 09, Hannity & Colmes averaged 1.37 million views. Rachel Maddow, the highest rated news anchor in the 9pm hour among 18-25 year old same-sex single women DVR owners making between $72000 and $72500, commented that “America has clearly rejected partisan news programs. They want the whole side of the story.”

  9. Duros62 says:
    January 14, 2009 at 11:14 am

    Rachel Maddow.

    Oooh, you tease.

  10. Parthenon says:
    January 14, 2009 at 11:15 am

    Hannity any liberal = suck.

    If they have a backbone, he just keeps repeating his four lines for that day as they calmly (or heatedly) try to make a point.

    If they don’t have a backbone, he just keeps repeating his four lines for that day as they sit there politely nodding and making assenting noises.

  11. ed says:
    January 14, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    I predict that Hannity will continue to utter bullshit nonsense and compare liberals to terrorists and label them “evil.” I’m bold that way.

  12. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    January 14, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    SaveFarris: “CSS, we all know that at the one year from now, the story will read:”

    Or is could read…

    “From the start of his show to its first anniversary…”

  13. Sean D. martin says:
    January 14, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    CSS: Except his show started after the election, so it is not being affected by the election bounce.

    Are you referring to just Hannity’s show? True, it didn’t start until after the election. But OW was comparing ratings to “H&C” which has been on for something like 12 years.

    Farris does have a point in that ratings for these types of shows are all likely to drop after the election year we’ve just had. So comparing ratings in 2009 to 2008 and saying any drop is due to Colmes leaving leaves out at least one more significant factor. A better comparison to make would be H&C in 2005 to Hannity’s show in 2009. Or, comparing any changes in rates from 2008 to 2009 to those from 2004->2005 and 2000->2001.

  14. ed says:
    January 14, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    Whatever. At least we can all agree that Hannity’s a fuckin idiot. Well, he is.