Rachel Maddow Rises! Sean Hannity Falls!

Rachel Maddow has improved in ratings. 

I state this prediction that in late 2013, Rachel Maddow, the liberal agitator of MSNBC will surpass the conservative agitator Sean Hannity of Fox News in ratings.

Last year, when I looked at the Mediabistro daily ratings count, I seen some things that got me thinking that the mighty Fox News is failing in ratings. Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren have been anchors of the primetime lineup on Fox News. They're seeing drops in their ratings!

Fox News continues to be America's most watch cable news channel, but it's starting to show cracks! The network was hoping that President Barack Obama was going to lose the election. It didn't turn that way! So of course, Fox News will now have four more years of their sworn enemy!

The post-election hangover seems to subside. And the causalities of the election are getting stomped on hard. Karl Rove and Dick Morris were benched by Roger Ailes this year. Rove threw a temper tantrum on November 6, 2012 when Fox News declared that Ohio and the presidency went to Barack Obama.

Dick Morris on the other hand, went on The O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly and Hannity's program. That turd of a man told Hannity's gullible audience that perennial loser Mitt Romney would get 325 electoral votes against President Barack Obama. That proved to be wrong.

Now the ratings are in and the conservative agitators over at Fox News are starting to notice the rise of liberal MSNBC.

When listening to Sean Hannity's daily radio program, he constantly mentions NBC News, Chris Matthews by name when attacking the network. Hannity refuses to acknowledge the actual channel MSNBC, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O'Donnell, Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow by name. He is aware of the rising ratings of his competitors. That's why he loops the angry rhetoric of Ed Schultz every time he goes into the rants of media bias against politicians.

Hannity's losing big time.

Earlier, I stated that Sean Hannity needed President Barack Obama to stay relevant!

Sean Hannity's ratings took a nosedive after the election. Hannity openly boosted that President Barack Obama will lose in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. He is responsible for the president winning reelection.

It's proven true, because now in this second term, Hannity needs to continue agitating his gullible audience into believing that the president is a radical, Jeremiah Wright is still damning America and Bill Ayers is plotting revenge against the government.

According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox News colleague Bill O’Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his audience.

The New York Daily News' Dan Kaplan reports that the going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on November 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.

Before the election, Hannity was riding high in the ratings and topped thought leaders on the right, like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and talk radio bulldog Mark Levin, who predicted Obama would lose in a landslide.

Those voices — and many others like them — all but drove the political coverage on Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs.

But as Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic just after the election, “Outside the conservative media, the narrative was completely different.”

Because in reality, statistics proved the presidential race was in fact never even close — despite the lopsided picture delivered to faithful viewers by Hannity and those who shared his opinions.

Wrote Friedersdorf: “The right-leaning outlets like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh’s show are far more intellectually closed than CNN or public radio. If you’re a rank-and-file conservative, you’re probably ready to acknowledge that ideologically friendly media didn't accurately inform you about Election 2012.

Some pundits engaged in wishful thinking; others feigned confidence in hopes that it would be a self-fulfilling prophecy; still others decided it was smart to keep telling right-leaning audiences what they wanted to hear.”

And when the dust settled, it turns out Hannity’s viewers opted to vote again — with their remotes.

Adding insult to injury, two of Hannity’s rivals on MSNBC, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow, held onto huge chunks of their audiences, while at CNN, far less politically polarizing host Anderson Cooper lost almost none of his viewers postelection.

It got even worse for Hannity in the “money demo” of viewers 25-54, who are prized by advertisers.

So in other words, Hannity is..... Well you know!

Rachel Maddow is an American television host, political commentator, and author. She hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC. Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio. Maddow was the first openly gay anchor of a major prime-time news program in the United States.

As a protege of Keith Olbermann, Maddow filled-in for Countdown with Keith Olbermann, her first time hosting a program on MSNBC. Maddow described herself on air as "nervous." Keith Olbermann complimented her work, and she was brought back to host Countdown the next month. The show she hosted was the highest rated news program among people aged 25 to 54, a key demographic in ratings.

For her success, the next Monday, Olbermann ranked Maddow third in his show's segment "World's Best Persons". In July 2008, while Olbermann was on vacation, Maddow filled in again for several broadcasts and, on July 21, for half the show. Maddow also filled in for David Gregory as host of Race for the White House.

Olbermann began to push for Maddow to get her own show at MSNBC, and he was eventually able to persuade Phil Griffin to give her Dan Abrams' time slot. A fan and friend of Maddow's, Olbermann was able to use his influence, which had become greater as his ratings rose.

Since 2008, Maddow seen a strong rise in her ratings! Her rise comes at a price! The strong criticism along with it. Once you're on the top, they'll be many trying to take you down. Proof positive that Sean Hannity seen his lumps and he's taking them hard!