Posted on 05/25/2011 8:22:44 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
Scary Reid jumping to conclusions.
Rush’s value to me is two-fold. He is a good source of information and he motivates me positively. I can hear the news from him and don’t walk away in despair. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
selectively
he ignored the results of the 2010 elections
but this one district - he sees a message in it
The NYT sets the daily agenda and the rest of the MSM run with it.
It used to be that Limbaugh set the the talk-radio agenda and the others followed-up on the message.
Lately, with the shake-up in conservative talk-radio (see the threads on Citadel/Fareed Suleman), the medium is disorganized, too.
It's not necessarily a bad thing that the different segments of conservative talk-radio focus on different issues. That helps to focus on the many different issues. But there isn't the tight alignment in messaging like with the DNC-NYT-WaPo-CNN-NBC-CBS-ABC-Congressional Democrats-President.
We have Limbaugh-Hannity-Levin-Savage-Beck, and to a lesser degree Ingraham-Batchelor-Boortz-Hewitt-Medved-local hosts. Occasionally, Congressional Republicans will appear as guests. They don't coordinate around a daily theme, as each is strongly motivated to maintain their own distinctive persona and market.
The difference between liberal/conservative media is stark: Democrats are aligned with news gathering orgs with the legacy mission to report (distort?). Conservatives are aligned with entertainment outlets that inform.
The liberal MSM will never go away or change (one day, the NYT will be demed too big to fail). The conservative outlets have been subjected to radio market forces and manipulation (see again Fareed Suleman).
As long as people like Limbaugh say their first priority is to be entertaining, the Republicans with conservative messages to get out will always be underserved when compared to their Democrat counterparts.
-PJ
It's Farid Suleman, not Fareed Suleman.
-PJ
The only program I listen to is Rush. Three hours a day is enough. I listen mainly to keep my spirits up and I find Rush very entertaining. I don’t listen to get my marching orders. Intelligent people know that the MSM has chosen sides. The MSM isn’t the powerhouse they once were, in fact, they are becoming a bit of a laughingstock.
While Repulbicans are playing catch-up on organizing their MSM message to be more like the Democrats, the Democrats are already moving onto the next frontier of messaging, social media.
Sarah Palin has already figured out how bypass the MSM via the internet social networks, and the MSM are attacking her there as being less serious because the nature of the outlet, while at the same time building up their own presence there.
What people like Limbaugh can do, if they he genuinely believes in the "Golden EIB Microphone" and "Excellence In Broadcasting," then he should back-channel a series of seminars with Congressional Republicans to teach them how to be as effective as he is in messaging.
Who else besides him is seen as the guru of this subject for conservatives? If not him, then who CAN teach our candidates how to do this?
-PJ
Like you, I am aware of the issues and don't need to hear it from someone else to keep me informed.
But I do believe that people like us are far less a population than we may think.
I do believe that the mass of voters do wait to be told what to think. The numbers are too large to suggest otherwise. There were almost 120 million votes cast for president in 2008, one-third of the US population.
Even if the MSM ratings suggest that only a few million households watch those shows, combined with newspapers, magazines, and comedy shows, people are waiting to be told what to think.
-PJ
In a word, the People. The People have the power to hold their candidates/representatives accountable.
Like Rush just said, if the Republicans fail to act, the tea party will form a third party. Palin as our nominee and an active tea party candidate movement will save the day. We hold the power.
and imposing a heavy responsibility on him that belongs on our shoulders
jus sayin
Yes, they do but they aren't listening to Rush or other programs. That's where you and I come in. We go out into the communities and use our influence to educate others. If someone around me spouts some inane comment, I set them straight. Most of them have what I call "bar stool intelligence". It's usually based on what they heard from some other uninformed individual. Those folks are easy to convince but you have to do it with patience and a smile. Conservatism and it's virtues is an easy product to sell, if it is done properly.
They need to use someone with class, unfortunately too many don’t.
Interesting site though.
However your insistence that Rush is doing it wrong falls on deaf ears
and your bam bam point that the voting public is led and not dependable is undocumented too
the 2010 midterm elections prove your theory is bullshit
those that voted in majority are as smart, educated, and as pissed off as you
67 percent of America dumped the democrats like a dog squattin a turd, even for elected dogcatchers
TSA threatened and apparently Texas blinked.
I see Limbaugh's success in two parts: 1) reward for taking the vanguard in conservativism and influencing politics and leadership in our direction, and 2) an investment in ensuring the sustainability of this.
There is no doubt that Limbaugh has been successful in mobilizing Republicans by pioneering the AM radio medium to counter the MSM.
But people invested in Limbaugh by supporting his show, supporting his sponsors, supporting his charities, and supporting the knock-offs that Limbaugh inspired.
Now they're looking to him to make due on that investment, and that means sometimes putting aside the stories of golf trips on private jets, smoking cigars with world leaders, and other fruits of his success, and sometimes getting dirty again and paying back the hard returns on that investment to those who expected it when necessary.
We see in hindsight how necessary a time the 2008 election was. The 2010 election was a necessary time. The 2012 election is too consequential to be cavalier about it now.
The NY-26 special election should be a wake-up call on how serious the Democrats are taking all the elections, now including state judicial elections. We need to mobilize all our forces, too, to close the gaps for 2012 that are being shown to us now.
We don't have many leaders who are today in a position to do this now. We only have the few people that we invested in to be in place now to do this.
-PJ
-PJ
i have no such expectations of rush
my guess is that if rush changed into something he is not now, his popularity and influence would plummet
It should be but it won't be. Republicans are cooked for 2012.
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