Hannity’s show is more of a Trump rally than an actual Trump rally. I don’t see the problem…
Trump was a;ways going to be a flash-in-the-pan, because his rallies are repetitive, boring, and geared only to the small cohort of far-right-wing idiots who support him.
When even a rabid right-wing group like FoxNews won’t give him the free airtime he thrives on, it’s easy to see that the thrill is gone (to paraphrase B. B. King) and that Trump’s allure to Republicans is fading.
This is part of the reason that his statements have gotten more extreme and less factual—if that is indeed possible.
After the Blue Wave hits, he’ll get even worse. For Trump, there is no bottom.
Trump will panic at the thought of declining ratings. Perhaps he’ll pull a stunt like Vince McMahon and pretend he’s been killed in a fiery car crash.
Important threshold here if he bores FOX viewers so much that three weeks before one of the most important midterms in this country’s history they’d rather watch the regular lineup. A few weeks after the election, an Atlantic reader with experience in publishing wrote in anonymously to predict that eventually everyone, the all the people you can’t fool all the time and even the some of the people you can fool all of the time (looking at you, FOX viewers), would just get bored with the unchanging routine. “There will be some settling down around the time of the inauguration, followed by a steady slide. People only have so much patience for temper tantrums. Narcissists get old and ugly, especially when overexposed to sunlight,” this person said. And here we are. It isn’t over, and it’ll take a generation to clean up. But the only place Trump’s going is down, and the only question is how steep the slide will be.
Trump is boring, his shtick is very old by now. And his voice is like gravel fed thru a wood-chipper.
I’m sure this has been discussed before, and I’m certainly no expert on campaign finance/election law, but wouldn’t televising Der Drunpfenfuehrer’s transparently political Nuremburg rallies amount to a (likely illegal) campaign contribution? And no, I’m not so naive to think this is anything but a academic exercise given the likelihood (as in hell freezing over) that the FEC or the federal courts would take any action. (And wouldn’t it be cheaper to just show Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, since they could cut that for commercials.)
When you’ve lost Fox State Television you’ve lost the Tea Party.
(Sorry, Walter)
This is being treated as some kind of rip on crazy Donald, but in fact, it’s a media service to the Republicans. As always happens in October of an election year, the national political press is pulling out all the stops to get their Republicans over the finish line (big corporate tax cuts at stake).
Coverage of Donald’s rallies would remind Americans of how much we have lost—how dangerous this man is, and how the only real “mob” in America is the savage Republican voting base, shrieking “lock her up” and screaming death threats at the press.
By airbrushing the rallies, and presenting only the most genteel clips on the nightly news (interspersed with glowingly affectionate interviews with Melania, excerpts from that astoundingly mendacious USA Today editorial about health care, plus disparaging coverage of the MeToo movement), the networks and cable are sparing the Republicans what would otherwise be a major negative: the spectacle of their president in a public space.
It is simply the case that the men who own and run the six corporations that control 90% of America’s news outlets do not want the Republicans to suffer major losses in November. Those men like their tax cuts, are thrilled by the ascent of a pro-corporate, anti-democratic, activist Supreme Court, and deeply resent the impact of the MeToo movement on an overwhelmingly white, male corporate power structure.
They’ll be airbrushing the GOP from now till Election Day. The Democrats, on the other hand, are in for some brutal attack journalism over the next few weeks: Hillary can tell them all about it, just in case they’ve forgotten how it works.
Funny part is, as reported by DB, is the WH is “looking into this” and has sent former Fox exec Bill Shine to Fox to fix it. 
OT: Now we know the history of Melania Trump’s anti-bully campaign:
“I could say that I’m the most bullied person in the world.” (ABC News)
#BeBest
Couldn’t happen to a nastier demagogue.
We have a First Lady to match the worse president ever. The gold-digging whore should not be given a free pass anymore. The “Free Melania!” slogan is absurd, she sticks with Trump because that is in her best interest.
Mel thinks she’s the most bullied person in the world? Poor baby married the biggest bully in the world.
Best news I’ve heard all week. I mean, how many Trumpists who can’t be bothered to change the channel to watch Trump, will go to the extra bother of showing up at the voting booth? This may be a better sign for us than most people realize.
This was just Fox News covering for Trump’s stupidity, nothing more. If they’d aired his rally during the hurricane their viewers would have gone ballistic, possibly affecting Trump’s image.
Call me if Fox refuses to air his rallies next week.
Perhaps, but I think we’re all reacting more to the fact that Amanita Adolf’s* ratings are declining, rather than Fox not airing his Nuremberg Rallies.
(*Can’t decide which is better: Amanita Adolf or Mushroom Mugabe?)
Both are great!
It’s a sign that his fans, while still slavishly following him, are getting bored with the me-me-me ranting. What are the sizes of the crowds at his rallies? I would guess that they are diminishing.