Do a lot of Americans take Sean Hannity seriously?

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I think Raptor's got it, since Inuyasha got banned, I don't think I've seen a single member here who would cop to watching FOX news, let alone quote any of their talking heads, and the only place I ever hear about these guys is from the forum liberals. Perhaps there's something to this Jon Stewart hypothesis, that his using them for material has given them an exaggerated clout in the minds of his audience, which perplexes us non-liberals who neither watch them nor know anyone who does.

In my experience it's mostly liberals that take Hannity seriously and listen to his every word just as they do wth Beck and Limbaugh. Even as a hate-filled conservative, I rarely ever take the time to listen to any talk show even if it is conservaive leaning. If I wanted to know what Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh are up to I'd just listen to the latest thing the libs are in a flap over.

since Inuyasha got banned

what? fox news showed anime? o.O

I don't listen to the conservative pundits at all. I cringe at their tone just like i cringe at the tone of rachel maddow and some others.

But i assure you. I live in the reddest city in this very red state of Utah, and i talk to these people every day. They seem normal until they start talking about current events.

One of them keeps telling me that the democrats want all the poor hispanic people to come here illegally from mexico so that they can vote for democrats.

When i counter that there are no reports of widespread voter fraud of any kind, let alone reports of undocumented immigrants attempting to vote in any substantial number, they look at me like i have missed some kind of pure truth that everyone else knows.

Our quite sensible public safety officials successfully got a law passed that allows undocumented immigrants to apply for and acquire a driver's license. The reasoning behind this is simple: This allows us to know who they are, to have them demonstrate an ability to operate a moving vehicle and a knowledge of traffic laws. It allows us to lean on them to get insurance. There is no downside - worst case scenario we know more about the people driving cars on the road, and more of them are insured. And their driver's license clearly shows that they are not a citizen.

Some racist nitwit got his panties in a bunch and we all had to dig up our birth certificates and social security cards to renew our licenses.

Because people actually believe this nonsense.

Well, that may be true for many of the liberals here on this forum. I know i don't waste my time with fox or msnbc. But i do watch the daily show, and the nightly show too, though i never really got into the colbert report.

My father tells me that years ago, someone he knows published an interesting piece of literary criticism contrasting Limbaugh before and after syndication - how his avowed views and boorishness changed with the larger audience. This was published in the early 90's, iirc.

But keep in mind that liberal punditry is on basic cable, and there really are people out there with antennas on their roofs and land-line telephones.

And they vote republican.