New Survey Shows Overwhelming Support for Rush Limbaugh

New Survey Shows Overwhelming Support for Rush Limbaugh Wednesday October 22, 7:22 pm ET

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- By a nearly unanimous margin, Rush Limbaugh's listeners are sticking with the nation's No. 1 talk radio host, despite his current absence from the airwaves and recent admission that he is addicted to prescription painkillers. ADVERTISEMENT

In a survey of Limbaugh's audience conducted last weekend for Critical Mass Media by Burke Incorporated, an independent polling firm, more than nine out of ten listeners said that news of Limbaugh's drug dependency had not diminished their regard for him. Indeed, 22% of those questioned said they had gained respect for Rush "because of the way he is handling his problems," while only 8% said they had less respect for him.

An overwhelming 95% of the sample agreed that "Rush is human, he has made mistakes, and is entitled to a second chance with a clean slate." And more than 99% of those surveyed said they expected the show to be just as good if not better when Limbaugh returns.

Limbaugh continues to inspire enormous trust among his listeners. When asked to rate on a scale of one to 10 how much trust they "usually have" in Limbaugh (one being "no trust" and 10 being "complete trust") roughly half of those questioned put him at 9 or 10. His mean score among the entire sample was an impressive 8.2. When respondents were asked how much they will trust Limbaugh when he returns to the airwaves, the numbers were virtually identical.

The survey also indicated that the loyalty of Limbaugh's "dittoheads" extends beyond the host to his advertisers as well. Some 53% of those questioned said they would be more likely to use products and services offered by advertisers who stick with the show despite Limbaugh's current difficulties. Among the 50% of Limbaugh's audience who listen at least an hour a day, almost two out of three expressed this sentiment.

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This is not just dittoheads. I think it is Americans in general. I think we as a group tend to want to give others a second chance and are forgiving as a whole. Where Bill Clinton blew it was that he did not take responsibility for his actions. He flipped his whole problem on it's head and blamed others for his difficulty. I disliked him from the get go but if he had acted like a man and taken responsibility I would have at least have gained a grudging respect.

This is what liberals will never get about conservatives. They like to make us seem rigid and sanctimonious. We don't care if people fail. It is what they do with their failure that determines how conservatives will treat them. Bill Clinton will never be forgiven not just for his liberal policy but for who and what he has shown us he is as a human being. The same is true of his wife.

The way the liberal media will spin this current Rush survey will be to make it seem that all dittoheads are pathetically brainwashed. Instead of viewing this as wonderful example of how conservative Americans treat someone in the public eye who is troubled they will make it seem that we forgive only because we are stupid. They will not see that there is a difference between how Rush has acted and how Marion Berry behaved in situations that where very similar.

You have no doubt heard about the new "liberal radio network" that the Marxist DemocRATS are going to have up and running by January 2004.

Sheldon Drobny (a business man from Chicago) is a co-founder and is spending ten million dollars to help get it going --- "to compete with Rush Limbaugh", as Brit Hume put it, night before last night on his show.

Apparently it will be on the air for about 14-16 hours a day, and the individual shows won't be syndicated out to any other radio networks.

Brit had Byron York on around 6:30 Tuesday evening to give us some background information on who this Drobny guy is. I videotaped the interview.

York said that Drobny is one of the contributing writers for a far-left-wing web site called: makethemaccountable.com. York explained that the writings one will find there are the sorts of things one can expect to find on the extreme fringes of the left -- *and* the right. (Which is true --- we see their droppings right here on FR all the time).

York said that he emailed Drobny to ask him where was his proof to back up the 1-17-03 statement he made that "Bush has Nazi ties" (through his grandfather, Prescott Bush).

Drobny told him he got the information from a book. York asked him "what book?" Drobny told him that the book is entitled, "George Bush - the Unauthorized Biography".

York asked him who wrote the book. Drobny admitted that it was written by two followers of Lyndon LaRouche.

Brit then proceeded to inform the viewers about who LaRouche is. He said that some of LaRouche's followers were the one's who tried to disrupt that first DemocRAT debate that Fox carried, which Brit moderated. (The one where Al Sharpton got so irate and told them to shut up). The viewers were also told that Lyndon LaRouche publishes something called, "Executive Intelligence Review".

Drobny's cover has now been blown by Byron York and Brit Hume.

Brit told York that he is looking forward to more reports from him on this matter. So as this new radio network develops it looks as if we're going to hear more about it from both of them on a regular basis. Hahaha

I checked out that web site and see that the new radio network web page is linked from there:

anshellmedia.com

As an aside --- I heard that George Soros and some of his like-minded kook friends are also involved in financing the new "liberal" radio network. I'm wondering if Soros might be the other co-founder with Drobny.

Then, too, there's the Saudis. As Mark Stein pointed out, there are a LOT of people in our government (Wilson, for instance) on their payroll (See excerpt of his article below). It isn't much of a stretch to figure that people like Scott Ritter and those starting up this new radio network are pay-rolled by them, too.

Mark Steyn: With friends like the Saudis . . .
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 19 2003 | Mark Steyn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003888/posts

Excerpt:

....That would also include the pro-Saudi Middle East Institute, whose "adjunct scholar" is one Joseph C. Wilson IV.

Remember him? He's the fellow at the center of the Bob-Novak-published-the-name-of-my-CIA-wife scandal.

The agency sent him to look into the European intelligence stories about Saddam Hussein trying to buy uranium in Africa. He went to Niger, drank mint tea with government flacks, and then wrote a big whiny piece in the New York Times after the White House declined to accept his assurances there was nothing going on.

He was never an intelligence specialist, he's no longer a "career diplomat," but he is, like so many other retired ambassadors, on the House of Saud's payroll.

And the Saudis were vehemently opposed to war with Saddam.

Think about that. To investigate Saddam's attempted acquisition of uranium, the United States government sent a man in the pay of the Saudi government.

The Saudis set up schools that turn out terrorists.

They set up Islamic lobby groups that put spies in our military bases and terror recruiters in our prisons.

They set up think tanks that buy up and neuter the U.S. diplomatic corps.

And their ambassador's wife funnels charitable donations to the 9/11 hijackers.

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