Posted on 04/23/2013 7:50:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: I don't know if you've heard this or not, but last week, Fox News became the most-watched cable channel of all of them throughout all of last week, including the USA Network. In fact, Fox was the number one, most viewed cable network of all them, throughout all of last week -- not just cable news. All of cable. During the Boston bombings and the subsequent manhunt, Fox averaged 2.874 million viewers during primetime, 1.77 million in total day.
Now, is that not fascinating? To become number one in all of cable you don't even need three million viewers, that's how fractured it is. That's how many cable networks there are divvying up the American audience, 2.874 million, and 1.77 million in total day. CNN was in third place, 1.985 million in primetime, 1.3 million in the daytime. MSNBC dropped off the radar. They ended up in 19th place, fewer than one million viewers tuned in in primetime. Fewer than 600,000 in total day.
Now, this is big for one reason. CNN used to be it. Now, CNN benefited from being the only cable news network for a while. As recently as 1988, when this program started, the only cable news network was CNN. That was it, CNN plus the networks and newspapers, that was it, when this program started. Fox didn't come along until 1996. CNN used to be the go-to network when any disaster or major breaking news occurred. And even as Fox has overtaken CNN in recent years, that dynamic not all that long ago still held when there were major breaking news, like the war, CNN would get the viewers. They don't anymore.
Left-wing liberal cable news networks are dying, and how are they dealing with it? Becoming more left-wing and liberal. They're becoming more radical, and they're becoming -- I'll tell you, folks, it dovetails with my often recently expressed theory that there isn't any news anymore, that every time you turn on cable TV, all you're getting is the Democrat Party agenda. You know what the primary focus of MSNBC and CNN is? In addition to promoting and expanding the Obama agenda, which happens to be the Democrat Party agenda, but believe me, it's Obama driving it with these networks, the reason they exist and the narrative of every story they put out is how conservatives are wrong and how Republicans are wrong, how you can't agree with them and how they're bad, how they're rotten. Those are the two narratives that make up CNN and MSNBC. And the cable viewing public, well, all of cable, but the news viewing public is not interested.
Now, some people are hearing this and are saying, "Well, Rush, it ain't all that hot because Fox ain't all that conservative anymore." And I understand that. People remark to me, "You know, it's not what it was." And they give me examples, all the liberal commentators that happen to show up there and people say, "The only real conservative on that network anymore is Hannity." Which, in a strict sense, may be true. But the one thing still that Fox does, Fox reports news. During the day, Fox reports news. Now, at night Fox News is talk radio on television, but during the day they report news. And they cover things the other networks don't cover.
If you're at CNN today and you see this or you're at MSNBC, what's the reaction, what do these people do? They're gonna double down with more liberalism. They're gonna double down with more radicalism. They're gonna tell people the audience is stupid. They're gonna tell themselves that the audience doesn't understand them, that they're not sophisticated enough. And they're gonna wear this low ratings, no ratings, as a badge of honor.
At the White House Correspondents Dinner, I guarantee you, which is Saturday night, at the White House Correspondents Dinner, CNN and MSNBC will be praised and called out and singled out for the great work that they're doing. Fox News will be laughed at, impugned, made fun of, while Fox News executives and staff are there. That's why I don't go to the thing anymore. You know, politics is show biz for the ugly, and I gave up on this thing 20 years ago, maybe even longer. Why go sit in a room of 3,000 people that don't like you?
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It wouldn't put it in their face if I showed up. At any rate, I just wanted to point this out. But stop and think here, folks, 2.8 million viewers primetime wins over every cable network: HBO, USA, Food Network, E! Entertainment, TMZ, you name it.
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Well, I'm just sitting here thinking about that, but I don't want to go there. Because people would then say that I'm bragging, that I bring it up for that. I'm not gonna compare my audience ratings to this. It's two different things, two different balls of wax. Anyway, congratulations to the people at Fox. It's a big deal because the really important thing about this is what they have done with CNN. Folks, CNN used to own it. A story like last week, they used to own it, but now CNN -- John King is apologizing. John King said it was embarrassing what happened last week 'cause they ran with whatever stuff they were told. They ran with all this stuff that turned out not to be true. Well, let me find the number here. Hang on just a second. It's audio sound bite number 17. John King, and this was on the radio in Washington this morning. Here's what he said.
KING: When you do something like this, it's embarrassing. One thing you do have to do is look straight in the camera and say, "We were wrong." In this case we had two reputable sourses, one of mine and one of a colleagues of mine who have been reliable in the past and who simply had bad information. And we went with it, and we had to correct it. The best way to deal with it is to look people in the eye and say, "We make a mistake, here's how we make the mistake," and then move on.
RUSH: Right. Now, if last week was embarrassing, then every week must be, because last week was not that out of the ordinary. I mean, last week might have been a little different in the focused importance of the news, but getting things wrong? Go back to Newtown, go back to Columbine. I mean, these people, after the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting, what did they do? Tea Party. They are alienating statistically half of the country that's a potential viewing audience, they're alienating. And apologizing, I don't know that that's gonna count.
Anyway, it isn't news anymore and that's where this is all falling apart. And I tell you, what I take from this, we have not reached the tipping point where the vast majority of people in this country are liberal. We've not reached it. We are still being governed by a minority, and I think it's a pretty small minority, actually, in real terms. And it's governing against the will of the people in this country. The percentage of thinking in this country, the radically left liberal, is not the majority. It's made to look that way. It's made to appear that way. But these audience numbers blow that to smithereens.
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Unfortunately the low info types get their news free off the airwaves:
For the week of April 15, 2013, “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” averaged 8.49 million Total Viewers and a 2.0 rating/8 share/2.34 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research.
4 times foxnew's ratings..... < / curb >
I love me and really miss me. I hope I come home soon.
People who suffer from BDS are unable to see Bush as he really is, he and his dad with the help of Rove dismantled almost everything Reagan did.
GW is a big government New World Order socialist, in fact both he and his dad pumped the idea of a New World Order.
So here’s just a few things Bush did that are socialist, you list what he did that was capitalist:
A. Drug benefit for the elderly.
B. AIDS money to Africa.
C. Auto bailout.
D. Attempted amnesty.
E. No teacher left behind.
I know there are a few more but can’t recall them.
So now it’s your turn. I see Bush as he really is, sad to say I voted for him twice.
So please list his conservative creds.
Fifty percent of Americans (conservative Americans) are serviced by one half of one cable channel (FOXNews) Almost no competition on the conservative side. Easy pickin's...
The other 50% of Americans are serviced by CBS, NBC, ABC, all the newspapers except one, all the cable outlets but one, all the news magazines... etc... the liberal side is one tough market to compete in...)
You're selling the man short, sick. But that's par for the course for you.
You seem to take a strong dislike to anyone on our side who's bright, successful, passionate, or effective. And woe be unto them, if the people actually love and admire them. You will make it your business to run them into the ground on this site.
You purposely left out ‘ or dead wrong’ which is in the case of your hero Rush as those links showed.
Maybe that is why you love him, you need someone who tells you things that will be proved wrong.
Many suckers really believe him when he says things like McCain then Romney will beat Obama in landslides. He is effective at that for sure.
Chasing cars on the highways is not for me,
Much as I admire the guy, I can't argue with that. If there was ever a time for action, this is it.
The great thing about Rush's business is that he only has to be smarter than those who believe him, like those who believed him that McCain and Romney would win big.
Trump played that game too.
If Rush were merely a pollster or prognosticator, I'd have to agree with you, but predicting winners and losers in political races is about .00001% of what he does.
You want to hang him for being wrong about a horse race and ignore how good he is at what he really does, which is read our enemy and deconstruct them on-air for the public.
Like I said, you can't stand real leadership on our side. Seems to be your chosen task in life to tear them down wherever you find them.
SURE it does!!!
(If you own the TRACK!!!)
They're all around us. Perhaps you're one yourself.
The problem with conservatives, is they're not naturally the rebellious sort. They tend to mind their own business and hope that others do the same. They don't think like liberals, who are always networking and collaborating to bring their perceived enemies down.
Conservatives also understand that, fundamentally, their way of life is the one that predominates in this country - despite the never ending attacks, erosions, and leftist advances over the last century. In that wise, they're in a defensive position, while the left is positioned on offense.
Those of us who frequent this website understand that the field is shifting, and that the left has almost turned the table to the point where their preferred way of life is predominant. We correctly see that it's time for conservatives to go on the offensive, and quit merely fending off and enduring the attacks of the left.
Quite a question you posed there. It strikes to the very heart of the current political/cultural dynamic in America.
Brain wipe?
Your reply is interesting. My view on the last 237 years, is that the conservative ideal/idea, has never been respected. Our Constitution is against human nature, if only by the vanity of self governance. Now, we are past a tipping point. Perhaps, there is still time for recovery. Conservatives have never had a problem, lest the weak. We now live in a society/culture that has succumbed to a low variable, and it is crushing the life out of everyone. The Builders have left the room, for a time. We are in for a long rough road. I pray that civilization survives.
Also...Thank You for your thoughtful response.
Since we're dipping our toes ever so slightly into philosophical waters here, I'll give you my take on that.
In my view, the Framers constructed our Constitution with an eye toward underscoring some fundamental concepts that were set forth in the Declaration of Independence. The phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." was a landmark point in our understanding of man's essential nature. It then naturally followed that the formal constitution of our new government should follow those lofty precepts.
The Framers, being the wizened people that they were, also recognized that men who are granted authority over other men, have a tendency to abuse that power over time. Such is the flip side of our true nature as beings. Thus, they included in our Constitution, a set of checks and balances to thwart, and hopefully prevent, such a predictable occurrence in the future.
It was even said at the time of our founding, that the Constitution was crafted for a moral people, and that it was wholly unworkable for any other. That has been proven to be true by the generations of the last 75 years or so, who in their moral degeneracy, have looked to undermine, cancel, and overturn the Constitution at every opportunity.
Fortunately, the American Experiment gave birth to a new strain of people who's genes still run strong in our population. If it were not for the truth and strength of the basic American character, this nation would have long ago succumbed to the dark forces which seek to abolish it.
I don't think there's any argument that we're living through the worst onslaught of attacks against our fundamental way of life, and yet - we still stand, daunted, but resolute in our determination to survive this scourge.
Don't let the barking moonbats deceive you. They are not winning, despite the deluge of demoralizing propaganda they're raining down on us. One of the chief reasons this website is so valuable, is that it acts as a truth filter for patriotic Americans who might otherwise be convinced to surrender to the horde. Don't buy the hype. They cannot, and will not defeat us, so long as we "bitterly cling" to what we know is right, and maintain our determination to resist their evil.
I know how you feel.
Never give in or give up. Thank you, for standing with Our Founders. May we all stand together, come what may.
Thank you, FRiend. I'd rather die while spitting in their eye, than lie down and surrender.
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