Thursday, November 16, 2017

Hannity quits TV, returns to job as used car saleman

Hannity's audience consists of uneducated, NRA gun nuts with castration anxiety.  Like Hannity, most of them are stuck with a sixth grade education and no job opportunities.  Finally Hannity quit, going back to something heknows about, used cars. 
No one thought he’d arrive at any other conclusion, did they? The first rule of populist talk radio is don’t cross your audience. Where they go, you follow, and there’s no reason to think they’re abandoning Moore. The prospect of Hannity urging him to quit was farcical from the start for exactly that reason. On the other hand, he can’t go all-in for Moore because no one knows how bad things might get. New accusers keep coming forward and Trump has stayed deafeningly silent about what he thinks Moore should do. Hannity’s audience tends to follow Trump — but not always, as we saw in the Moore/Strange runoff, which leaves Hannity uncertain of which way to move. If he backs Moore to the hilt and Trump cuts him loose, triggering a populist exodus from Moore, then he’s potentially on the wrong side of his audience. 

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