# What's your opinion of Sean Hannity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677 "2004-03-11T11:31:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/1 "2004-03-11T11:31:50Z")
Good talk show host? Annoying? Good entertainer? Whiner? What do the people say? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/2 "2004-03-11T11:36:11Z")
I find the “angy conservative” talk show hosts to be annoying. In case the conservatives haven’t noticed, they now control all three branches of government. Hannity is just another Rush Limbaugh wannabe. I don’t watch his show because I don’t think Colmes is an effective counterpart. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/3 "2004-03-11T12:55:11Z")
I listen to his radio show, but I don’t watch his tv show…generally because there’s something else on I want to watch. I find his pro-Christian stance somewhat annoying at times. He had Pat Robertson and Newt Gingrich’s sister on his radio show talking about gay marriage, and Pat Robertson comparing gay marriage to incest and bestiality got a big :rolleyes: from me. On the other hand, I think Hannity’s got some good views on the war and the current administration. And believe it or not, he does not agree with Bush’s policies 100% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/4 "2004-03-11T13:24:47Z")
I find him to be extremely weird looking. In fact I can’t get past his looks. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/5 "2004-03-11T13:47:40Z")
I don’t give a damn about him, myself. Just another full-of-it pundit. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/6 "2004-03-11T14:47:18Z")
Extremist nut-job. Lies and knows he’s lying. Pawn of the ultra-rich “destroy America for profit” crowd. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/7 "2004-03-11T15:00:51Z")
hmmm…I thought Colmes was the weird looking one. Hannity is annoying because often his “in your face” approach is too contrived and I’ve seen him make personal insults to those he disagrees with. ---
**Author:** ![Stover9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stover9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stover9)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/8 "2004-03-11T15:05:46Z")
Hannity is an annoying bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/9 "2004-03-11T15:33:47Z")
Sounds to me like you haven’t been properly Hannitized yet. Oooh I just _hate_ that word. Whenever he uses it, my brain’s context equivalency circuit wants to substitute the phrase “brain washed”. ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/10 "2004-03-11T15:52:25Z")
He is an extremist maggot. Check out the title of his book: _Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism_ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/11 "2004-03-11T15:57:22Z")
More annoying than James Carville. I’m a keep government off the peoples’ back type of conservative (anti Patriot Act, anti Gay Marriage Ammendment, anti English only, pro gun). He really isn’t on most issues. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/12 "2004-03-11T16:20:26Z")
He’s VERY annoying. I agree with him about half the time on political/social issues but he’s a shitheeled toad. He can’t argue very well, and his radio show is just a bunch of brown-nosers and you can tell he really gets off on people telling him how great he is. I hate listnening to his show and I’m sorry Atlanta put it on the air…that’s all thats ever on for my ride home from work these days…bleh. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/13 "2004-03-11T16:58:07Z")
I couldn’t stand listening to him when he was on WGST in Atlanta: I thought he was amazingly bland, jingoistic, and self-righteous… in no way a match for the entertaining and challenging Neal Boortz. It is not at all surprising that Hannity made his way to Fox News. But as bad as Hannity was, his replacement was far worse, Dave Stone, a man who could bring race into almost any issue be it airport funding, welfare reform, election politics, etc. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/14 "2004-03-11T17:24:34Z")
I can’t stand him. I disagree with both his opinions and the manner in which he voices them. It doesn’t help that my coworkers (at a _retail copy shop_, no less) insist on listening to him at work, despite the fact that they know I dislike it. (No, manager won’t make them turn it off.) ---
**Author:** ![Magnolia\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Magnolia\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magnolia_B)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/15 "2004-03-11T20:13:53Z")
I’ve listened to his show a few times lately, and find him pretty boring. Especially after listening to Boortz in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/16 "2004-03-11T20:35:08Z")
I usually listen to the last half hour of his radio show on my drive home from work. Generally I agree with his positions on most issues, but sometimes his attitude is hard to take, especially when he is going at it with someone he disagrees with. Sometimes I just have to change the station. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/17 "2004-03-11T21:03:42Z")
I’m pretty conservative politically so I agree with most of what Hannity says, but I can not stand to listen to him. He spends a large portion of his radio show shilling his book-du-jour and TV show. He spends an equally large part telling us how humble he is. The rest is Hannity talking over the top of someone else, whether he agrees with them or not. I don’t think the man could be quiet for more than 10 seconds at a stretch if his life depended on it. Neil Boortz is rude and politically incorrect, but at least he’s entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Chicago\_Faucet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chicago_faucet/32/13910_2.png) [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/18 "2004-03-11T21:34:32Z")
I was first introduced to him through his TV show, about two years ago. Then, recently, a new FM talk station in Pittsburgh started carrying his radio show. If I would ever call his show, I have two topics to discuss with him: "Sean, I have some constructive criticism. I feel that your show is little light on subject matter. There are too many commercials, and you do a little too much self promotion.: And, “Sean, what do you have to say to the young Conservatives out there who are not religious in nature?” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/19 "2004-03-12T00:06:20Z")
Even when I agree with him, Sean Hannity makes me want to punch him in the face. God, but he reminds me of some I of the people I went to college with. Smug, self-righteous, and oh, so condescending. I used to think of myself as fairly conservative – then I met these guys, and discovered I just didn’t want to belong to that club, even if they would have me. I referred to them as “the Hitler Youth” and went out of my way to avoid them. Someone asked me what I thought of a certain prominent member of that clique. My reply: “now I know why God invented Democrats.” ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677/20 "2004-03-12T00:58:18Z")
Yet Another Conservative Pundit Idiot™®. Whatever happened to the Republicans you could at least grudgingly _respect,_ like Barry Goldwater? All we get these days are guys who yell a lot and think disagreeing with them is a high crime. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-of-sean-hannity/233677.md?page=2)