Here is a clue as to why you are getting the reaction you are. The libs and Rush haters generally use the vacation line a lot, there are even DU threads just like this, guessing when Rush will take a vacation and trying to use that to get his fans upset with him.
As for the time, talk radio numbers actually drop during daytime hours on holidays, it isn’t like prime time specials. Rush has a very small operation and he is close to his staff. For him to be on the air means all his support staff also is on the air. Some lesser known hosts, they are willing to take the chance of subbing and losing a holiday for the exposure hoping for a Hannity like breakthrough.
Oh...Ok...I w unaware of those attacks, as I rarely go to DU, and usually because someone posts a link to one of their threads here. (I think the last time was over 6 months ago.
I was unaware about the ratings drop, but I wonder if that is because people don’t expect to get anything other than replacements and second stringers.
If FNC *did* put together “Holiday Specials” for Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, I know it would be “apointment TV’ for me. Part Holiday related news stories, Part concert, part Interviews, part ‘laugh In”. With Holiday music and factoids, Part Hee Haw, with the FNC women as the :”Hee Haw Girls...” ...OK so maybe the Hee Haw bits would be a step too far, but to this old geezer, done tounge in cheeck, it could be quite funny! 8oD