Posted on 10/18/2008 1:40:08 PM PDT by vadum
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press tested the political knowledge of 3,612 U.S. adults and found that the audiences of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity with Alan Colmes were the best informed about U.S. politics.
On two questions that asked respondents to identify the majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrats) and to identify the current U.S. secretary of state (Condoleezza Rice), "Hannity & Colmes" viewers scored 84% and 73% respectively. Among Rush Limbaugh listeners, the scores were 83% and 71%.
On a question involving international affairs in which the respondents had to identify the prime minister of the United Kingdom (Gordon Brown), 59% of readers of The New Yorker and the Atlantic got it right, compared to 57% of NPR listeners.
Indeed, the evidence is in, Conservatives and Republicans are more informed and more intelligent than those simpled minded circus fleas better known as liberals and Democrats.
I also tiered the rankings by gaps of 5 in the total, and skipped ranks where the gap was over 5.
teir.rank_in_tier show: House Condi Total
1.1 Hannity & Colmes: 84 73 157
1.2 Rush Limbaugh: 83 71 154
2.1 NPR: 73 72 145
2.2 New Yorker/Atlantic: 71 71 142
2.3 Colbert Report: 73 65 138
3.1 O’Reilly Factor: 70 60 130
4 (none)
5.1 C-SPAN: 63 59 122
5.2 NewsHour: 66 52 118
5.3 Daily Show: 65 48 113
5.4 CNN: 59 48 107
6 (none)
7.1 Letterman/Leno: 51 42 93
8 (none)
9 (none)
10.1 National Enquirer: 44 32 76
Good question.
I would say the latter since few would find Rush entertaining if they were uninformed on the subjects he discusses. Rush does not really provide information as such. He provides analysis and opinion about topics which his listeners are already aware of, and he does so in a very entertaining fashion.
Precisely whay the study was done. The targets need to be identified.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
Duh, anyone who’s ever talked to a democrat knows this. Liberals are incapable of debate, facts are met with anger, logic is met with emotion.
They don’t know that their anger is a result of cognitive dissonance and or a gestalt implosion.
They need to be deprogrammed like cult members, many Hillary voters have been converted, we need to keep bombarding them with facts.
Sean Hannity should be proud. FReepers are always putting him down for intellectual challenges, but his audience is 1% smarter than Rush’s.
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