Posted on 04/30/2013 12:11:50 PM PDT by Yaelle
Rush's caller asked him when he was going to do another "inaugural speech" like the one he did at CPAC four years ago when he famously said he hoped Obama fails.
After the call, he mused that some evenings when everyone was asleep, he'd sip an adult beverage and think about possibly buying some time on network TV to try and reach Americans who don't get info anywhere else. (Snerdly cracked that he could get that time cheaper on NBC.)
Of course Rush ended with a "Shhh, don't tell anybody. This is just something I wonder about when I'm alone" (paraphrased), which means attacks will be all around by tomorrow morning from the lib press. "How dare he?" "Who does he think he is?" "No one wants to hear his racist blather!" Etc.
But what do conservatives think? On the plus side, the critics will be all over his half hour no prompter or note speech, so even if low info voters don't actually watch, they can't avoid the constant critique of it. If Rush aimed for the critics and their antagonism, he might head them off at the pass and reach people and change minds, especially if he did it a few times. And if the ratings were good enough, the network might even cancel some dating show and pick him up for prime time! If MSNBC cared about money, maybe they'd hire him to do a Point - Counterpoint with Maddow! (A girl can dream; he'd wipe the floor with that ball of sarcasm in a boy's Eton suit.)
like ala Ross Perot style? Should have done it before Nov 2012 and gotten America really fired up. Maybe even educated some idiots along the way.
I’m wondering just where the hell all the like-minded people with money have been hiding since the Citizens United decision? They ought go be pummeling Obamaclown with paid ads.
Rush tried TV once before and wasn’t very good at it. He could wipe the floor with any adversary but that’s not his style. When you hear someone on the radio come at him with some idiotic liberal view point, Rush is always very polite and non argumentative. (almost to the point of annoyingly so) A “Point/Counter point” would be best handled by Mark Levin.
He should do one minute commercials on the networks in prime time.
It would be more effective.
I’m old enough to recall his last TV show. I thought he did fine, but he did not and foreswore TV. It’s hard to imagine him doing it again. But I wish he would.
I believe we conservatives should be devising ways of toppling the current secular progressive wire services and networks and cable news sources, both at their origins and in our local, hometown news outlets. They must be toppled and replaced.
This is bigger than Rush buying an hour of time. We need conservatives buying time 24/7, and taking over the AP, Reuters, and the BBC.
I think that until he and Levin get their heads out of their hind ends about the difference between Rubio and a Conservative, they both need to shut up.
Yes, I am serious. Because it ain’t helping our cause.
But nothing he can say would change the course of this ship of state. We're dismasted, heading for the rocks and the captain is in his stateroom preening in the mirror.
I am more concerned by his over the top blind support of Marco Rubio. I don’t care what Rubio’s hope is, he is supporting the destruction of the GOP and installing a permanent one party government. Rush knows this and yet supports his good friend as a naive but good man with good intentions, you know those things that the road to He77 is paved with.
Buy some time during the NBA playoffs.
Absolutely.
Nobody’s better than Rush!
I still remember that speech - one bright light in a very dark time - hope he follows through....
He should do one minute commercials on the networks in prime time.
It would be more effective.
Yes! Brevity and repetition would be the absolute best way to reach the most. Great idea!
I think he forswore doing a regular show, with makeup and scripts and 4 hours of heavy prep time. But the short commercial idea is pretty good.
The networks put his show on in variable time slots, made it very hard to garner a following. His show was fine and memorable. I still see those women fireman candidates, in their bunkers trying to put up a ladder.
Rush is a valuable voice, but everyone knows him by now. He’s mostly preaching to the choir at this point. I don’t think low information voters are going to stay tuned in to him long enough to get anything out of it.
I think it would be great though if he’d pay for air time for new conservatives voices like Ted Cruz.
I’ve wondered the same thing. Looks to me like the “Conservative” movement in the U.S. is dead.
He used to have a TV show, but the stations in the major markets ran him after 1AM, then they’d start moving it around without notice, making it difficult to record.
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