He still is slaughtering his competition on the other networks in his time slot. That however is more of a case of his competition, (MSDNC, CNN), of continually shooting themselves in the foot with their slanted, liberal broadcasting, and non stop praising of Hussein. He has good guests and content, it's just his presentation that is going off the rails. I think you hit the nail on the head. His ego, along with his finances, have become tremendously inflated. As was said in the movie "Wall Street", "Money makes you do things you don't want to do". Bill T.