President does the right thing (dismissed global warming report)Rush Limbaugh

rushlimbaugh ^ | 6/4/2002 | Rush Limbaugh

[tiki]

It IS Clinton's EPA. He had 8 years to fill it with cronies who stay on when a new president is elected.

[deport]

I can think of 20 million reasons why you're wrong.

Can you explain the 20 million thing..... is that unique listeners in a hour, day, week, etc,?
Or is it total listeners in a week, many of which have tuned in each day... thus repeat counts

I've looked for rating numbers to see how they actually rate the listeners in radio but can't find anything. I think it is Arbitron that does the ratings...

[Diddle E. Squat]

Since you asked, I'd vote for you.

[UnBlinkingEye]

Here is a news flash genius.

Thank you for acknowledging my intellectual prowess.

WE DO HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.

Review the Constitution and consider the laws, regulations and tax burden we have. Then think about the UN, NAFTA, WTO and other bodies that apparently supersede our sovereignity.

[Pokey78]

I worked in radio for a number of years.

Those are Arbitron numbers, and anyone can take them and shape them any way they want.

When "the book" comes out, you'll hear every radio station in town declare "WE'RE #1!" And they will all be correct. It just depends on how you read the numbers.

[Texasforever]

This is no slam at Rush. The fact is that Rush built his career on 8 years of Clinton and the anger he generated amongst folks that finally had a public forum to vent it in. Rush even pondered out loud what would happen to conservative talk radio once Clinton was gone and a Republican president was elected. Political talk radio only thrives when there is an audience angry enough to listen and call in. Rush is no idiot, he is stirring the pot to keep the juices flowing and keep a large enough audience to stay in place.

Look at it this way. How long would FR last if everyone were fat dumb and happy? I come here for only one reason, there are still enough folks around to debate, argue and yes even flame to make it interesting. This article points out one important thing though, Rush knows he went overboard and knows that he had to do something but his ego will not allow an admission that he really jumped the gun on this one. I hope he has at least enough class not to spin this later as Bush did this because Rush shamed him into it.

[Texasforever]

Review the Constitution and consider the laws, regulations and tax burden we have. Then think about the UN, NAFTA, WTO and other bodies that apparently supersede our sovereignity.

You have yet to point to an Unconstitutional example other than what is in your own mind. Try again.

[oldvike]

Ultimately the buck stops with the President in matters like this. HOWEVER, it's very likely that this report was put together by career people within the EPA and approved by Christine Whitman. I doubt the President even saw it before it went to the UN.

Having dealt with the EPA at both the state and federal levels I can tell you without a doubt that many policy decisions are made by lower rung individuals without any quality control from up top.

I'm glad to hear the President has poo-pooed this report and believe him when he basically says he had no part in it. The President has done quite a few troublesome things in the past few months, but this ain't one of them. It's basically a non-issue now. Too bad the cretins that released this report will only be re-assigned to new jobs as opposed to fired.

[Pushi]

Someone at the EPA needs to be FIRED

I sent Bush an e-mail about 10 days ago and told him there were a number of people in his administration to whom he should show the door.

[oldvike]

I'm not 100% sure. I heard Rush explain it once and got the impression that it represented the number of different people who had listened to the show within any given week. It doesn't mean they were all listening at one time, just that they all heard the program at some point during the week. Pretty confusing if you ask me.

[UnBlinkingEye]

how's your man doing? still stuck at 1%?

To me the important thing is how politicans affect America.

I'm against uncontrolled immigration, particularly illegal.

I favor American workers over multinational corporations.

I don't like our role as globocop.

I think the federal government should be limited to the role the founders envisioned.

I believe the Republicrats are corrupt and should be removed as any other cancer in a body.

[deport]

Those are Arbitron numbers, and anyone can take them and shape them any way they want.

My question really is the 20 million that is tossed about by Rush and his followers. This isn't unique listeners is it? In other words he may have 20 million in a week but if someone listens 5 days a week then he is counted five times..... so if he has a bunch of daily repeat listeners then in effect they are counted several times is that correct.

[UnBlinkingEye]

Does the EPA serve at the will of the President or are they beyond his control?

[Jorge]

So, you are going to believe an AP report and Rush over reading the President's actual words?

No...what I meant was that President's actual words were a dismissal of the Global Warming report in my opinion, and Rush, and the AP report apparently agreed with my interpretation.

[pgkdan]

I wonder if you could lay out your bio so that we might see your conservative credentials. Just to see how they match up against Limbaugh's.

Rush has been remarkably consistent all along. He's a conservative American, first and foremost. He'll criticize Bush when Bush needs it...somewhat often so far, and he'll be the first in line to congratulate and compliment the President when he lives up to his conservative billing. Rush may have jumped the gun yesterday, but he was man enough to reverse course today...he deserves credit for that.

Thanks for defending Rush...he's been one of the TRUE stalwarts of the conservative movement and he deserves as much credit as anyone, anywhere, that the GOP is where it is today.

[Pokey78]

It's called the cume persons, which is the total number of different people who tune to a radio station during the course of a daypart for at least five minutes.

He takes all the cume persons from each of his affiliates for his time slot and adds them together to get the 20 million.

I've never bought into this (not just Rush's ratings, but anyone's).

[deport]

got the impression that it represented the number of different people who had listened to the show within any given week.

Thanks.... I have no idea.... just trying to understand

[oldvike]

Does the EPA serve at the will of the President or are they beyond his control?

Like I said, the buck ultimately stops with the President. However, the EPA is a totally out of control agency that honestly believes it answers to no man.

[Pokey78]

See reply #76.

[UnBlinkingEye]

Thanks for defending Rush...he's been one of the TRUE stalwarts of the conservative movement and he deserves as much credit as anyone, anywhere, that the GOP is where it is today.

You mean bending over and trying to appropriate Democrat positions whenever they can?