There are good and prudent reasons why an influential media figure may want to keep his preferences to himself. For one thing, if he makes a public endorsement early, then callers will want to waste precious airtime arguing with him, like people do here. It would detract from the program and become boring.
It also would distract the people fom attending to the real threat, the 'rat liberals, and the creatures emerging from their fetid swamp of a party.
“Citizens Crime Comission
Archives of Rudolph W. Giuliani
1095 Avenue of the Americas
March 6, 1997, 8:15 a.m.
The Empire State Building is such an important landmark... such an important symbol of America that, like so many other places in New York City, when a tragedy happens there, it receives a great deal of attention in the media.
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Because of this transformation of perception, when this latest tragedy occurred, instead of having to defend New York City, we were able to focus national attention on the real problem, which is GUN CONTROL (emphasis mine).”
excerpt http://www.nyc.gov/html/rwg/html/97a/ccc.html
Rudy used this tragedy to push his gun CONTROL agenda.
There are good and prudent reasons why an influential media figure may want to keep his preferences to himself. For one thing, if he makes a public endorsement early,...
What?
I didn't say Rush should "endorse"... I did say that Rush should say which candidates are conservative. And it took Rush a long time to finally say it.
You do understand the difference between endorsing a candidate and pointing out which candidates are the conservative candidates, don't you? After all, the topic of Rush's show is conservatism, is it not.