Are you sure? He always seemed legitimately dumb to me, not like Limbaugh or someone who is more clearly trolling and in it for money.
Yes. He may be legitimately dumb, but he clearly is savvy at the art of
and does it well. He knows exactly who his demographic is and how to speak their language.
If you watched any of his former weekend show years ago, Hannity's America, he was clearly just throwing out bullshyt he doesn't even really believe to gin up angst, self-promote and get ratings. He would come up with a new 6 degrees of terrorist/radical/communist Obama separation every week.
He knows what he's doing. He follows politics closely enough to know nobody would give a shyt about this silly innocuous vid of Obama in 2007 and it wouldn't sway one single voter. He hyped it up all day to get ratings. The shyt is like wrestling.