Limbaugh Accuses Fox News of Abandoning its Base — ‘You Don’t Turn on the People Who Got You Where You Are’

Breitbart ^ | November 13 2020 | PAM KEY

[knighthawk]

Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh on Monday’s broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show said Fox News was turning on its base conservative viewers.

Partial transcript as follows:

LIMBAUGH: There’s a key rule I’ve always believed in media, which is what I’m in. I’m in talk radio. And it actually goes back to the William Holden quote here in that movie, The Wild Bunch.

[LeoWindhorse]

I 100% agree with Rush

[zaxtres]

Fox turned on its base because it was being isolated and the young snowflakes in charge didn’t like that. SO they issued directives to steer the ship on a course that leans more to the port. In turn they abandon those on the starboard side. Its okay because the ship is going down and the call to abandon ship is not too far off. May the captain(s) go down with the ship including Rand.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Thank you, Rush! But, if you've just noticed the transformation of Faux Snooze into just another left leaning entity, it's been there for well over a year! Actually, longer.

The Murdoch boys, and their wives, have turned the channel on its head. Fire Roger Ailes (check)! Get rid of conservative voices on the network (check)! Accomplish turning the network into just another leftist propaganda machine (check)! Done!

Phuck Faux Snooze!

Continuing my tagline and haven't missed a beat!

[ronnie raygun]

Leave it to the snot nose woke snowflake siblings to ruin an empire

[pepsionice]

If you stand back and gaze at the Fox ‘players’...I would suggest that approximately 50-percent of them are Bush-era agenda people. They want the Uni-plan and strategy back in place. They aren’t really thinking about their audience, and if they do...they think that the majority (maybe 75-percent) will stick with them as they revert back to Uni-politics.

By March of next year...management will meet and discuss the numbers, and lack of viewers. Then three or four of the big names will be let go (Hannity for example). Dana Perino for example will get an evening hour...as a Uni-journalist. A couple of months into that...Fox will admit that both CNN and MSNBC own that time slot entirely.

News Max and OAN will both start picking up the Fox people let go, and by the end of 2021....Fox will have lost around 75-percent of their audience for the prime-time. Long-term, I will suggest Fox being sold off...probably to some Chinese media company, and evaporating by 2024.

[RoosterRedux]

It takes strength of character to do what's right when it's unpopular with your contemporaries.

The Murdoch boys and their wives didn't have that strength.

There's a hefty price to be paid for selling out your character for popularity.

[nathanbedford]

I do not doubt that the new blood controlling Fox News entertains no love for Donald Trump but I think Fox's problems go much deeper.

When the biggest show on cable news, Tucker Carlson, can be sponsored only by people seeking to sell pillows or rub on anointments there is something wrong with the business model-at least that is what the bright kids with the Harvard MBAs are probably telling management. They will tell management the idea is to bring in prestigious deep-pocket advertisers.

So it appears that the boycotts have finally succeeded. It was just a couple of years ago when Fox was sold but the news division was retained because the news division was earning $1 billion a year. I doubt that is still true. It might be that the boycott did not succeed so much and driving away eyeballs but rather succeeded in capturing easy prey on Madison Avenue who directed deep-pocket advertisers away from Fox by solemnly advising management that the Fortune 500 wouldn't dare tarnish its name by association with Fox News.

It might be that the situation has evolved is a perfect storm, with a new generation in charge, and increasingly assailed and isolated conservative media, a real downside for those who play on our side of the net socially as well as financially. If the Murdochs don't need the money, they might just need the social standing.

Whatever the cause, we can diagnose the disease from the symptoms and, as the article points out, they are mounting and they are all pointing in one direction.

Roger Ailes created a media giant by, with occasional exception, faithfully holding to the motto, "we report, you decide." If Fox is going to indulge fake reporting such as the early call in Arizona is alleged to be, half the support structure for the channel is cut away. The other half is its conservative flavor, the only place in town on television where one could obtain that perception of the news with superior production values. The other competing conservative channels have the good conservative bent but they simply do not yet have the production values. These cost money.

Enter Donald Trump or other syndicates with moneybags to see if they can bring these upstart conservative news channels into the big leagues.

[RoosterRedux]

You gotta Dance With Who Brung You!

[mewzilla]

This assumes Fox Corp cares about the bottom line.

[McGruff]

Fox News use to claim to be “Fair and Balanced”. Somebody better check their gauges because it’s listing badly and about to sink.

[Laslo Fripp]

Do you mean Ryan?

[nathanbedford]

When I was young, and that is a few light years ago, public speakers quoted the Bible (the King James Version, of course) and Shakespeare. These were the go-to sources for authority, illustration, or emphasis. Sometimes a serious speaker would reach for Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill but even these men were rooted in the Bible. Today, men whose opinion I respect such as Victor Davis Hanson and, of course, Rush Limbaugh are more often having resort to Hollywood illusionists to prove up their arguments. Hansen has quoted movies from High Noon to The Searchers and now Rush cites, The Wild Bunch.

These are good movies, indeed they are among my favorites, but incorporating them by reference as do these men of charisma and substance, I fear, tells us more about the state of America's morals and the state of its cultural attainment than it tells us about Victor or Rush.

Both of these men are very successful in gaining broader audiences and in advancing their politics. I say, whatever it takes but I am a little leery of letting Hollywood craft our parables.

[HighSierra5]

Paul Ryano.

[HandBasketHell]

If ever I needed to listen to Rush, it was this past week. He made it through Monday and then took off the rest of the week for treatment.

Rush has a way of recognizing false-hope news and cutting to the real hope in what Trump has to work with. I desperately need to hear where he thinks Trump stands in this fight against Evil. I don't trust anyone else but Rush.

[HighSierra5]

I haven’t watched Fux since the election and I haven’t watched TV in the last 10 days. My mind is clear.

[OKITRUMP77]

Same here.

[OKITRUMP77]

Same here.

[MarDav]

Likewise.

[MarDav]

Likewise.