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Originally Posted by Dave
The facts are that Sean Hannity is an extremely popular commentator in America, having one of the highest rated nationally syndicated radio shows in America. Hannity is very much a Conservative Commentator. His show really does lean politically right, and that is okay, just as okay as if someone had a sucessful show that leaned politically left.
The comments stating Meat Loaf was on a show that "probably no one watches" is absolutely not true. According to the HuffingtonPost.com website (which is extremely left leaning), Sean Hannity's debut show (which featured Mr. Loaf on the panel) recieved an average audience of 2.9 million viewers. Sean pulled in more viewers than both his competiting political talk shows (Rachel Maddow and Larry King) combined. Further, Sean's debut night sparked a higher average viewership than he was served with his former co-host, Alan Combs.
As for pro-liberal and pro-conservative..until Meat Loaf comes out and states his political leanings, none of us can be sure. Actually, I was surprised to see Al Sharpton leaning with the conservative notion of keeping government controls away from artistic expression. Least we forget that Tipper Gore (wife of former US Vice-President Al Gore, current liberal environmentalist) was the individual responsible for starting the modern witch hunt and shutting down artist's rights to create work without fear of having their creations "banned" or "stickered" by a supposedly free government.
Food for thought...
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You are right about Hannity's popularity with the conservatives. I'm definitely not like him. Just before his show came on, I saw the end of O'Reilly's show; most of the really out-there commentators and their shows are loud and extremely opinionated, and you either love them or hate them intensely.
Meat has been rumored to be on the conservative side for a long time, but on that show, when he had a chance to speak, he was more conservative-middle-of-the-road, like Sharpton has become on certain issues, hence they being on the same page several times during the program (I agree on your surprise on Sharpton's latest leanings, but being in NY and hearing him often, he's been mellowing in the last few years). When Meat mentioned bailing out porn, he was being funny, but also making a sharp point about the bailouts in general, which I thought was interesting and a very smart analogy from him. And even if one is shocked about the lyrics out there available for very young kids to hear and buy, Tipper Gore's obsession with censoring turned off a lot of people, so that anything that smacks of censoring is very much rejected no matter how reasonable it may be to keep very young kids protected.