Posted on 06/06/2002 7:08:33 PM PDT by codebreaker
I was surfing the dial during the nightly newscasts looking for details on our Presdients speech tonight and lo and behold Tom Brokaw in the first 5 minutes had video from the Rush cam and audio of Rush enorsing Dubya's actions like that was a stamp of approval from the grass roots.
I have never seen Rush featured so prominently before on a nightly newscast, is this the result of the heat we here at FR have been bringing down on El Rushbo since his Bush bashing Monday?
I honestly can't remember Rush making the evening newscasts ever since the 'hate radio' debates of 1995-and does he speak for us as a whole most of the time?
He does not appear on the list of members I have from 2001, so if he is a member, he is new. I would also point out that a picture of Tom Ridge appears on their page and, as far as I know, he is not a member - atleast as of 2001.
I wonder if they are trying to give Rush more press in order to hurt Oreilly ratings in this early formative period of his radio show's infancy.
To possibly make O'Reilly's "pilot program" fail?
Reason for this? Not to let conservative radio grow anymore as there are some new Lib shows coming to radio that need market share. They know they cannot take share from Rush but sure would like Bill out of the market.
I know I'm generalizing here, but the snippets I hear from Rush that indicate that to me are:
His acknowledgement that, however much we all dislike it, Bush has taken away a lot of issues for November; Farm Bill, Education Bill, CFR (knowing it will be legally challenged). His acknowledgement that even though we all want to pull the quick trigger on Iraq, that Bush knows he has to perform here and will do so.
These are just a few that indicate to me that Rush might feel, as he admitted with Global Warming, that he might have been a bit hasty with some of his criticism. I usually only manage to catch him for 45 min to an hour a day, so I don't hear all. Anyway, just MHO.
Does anyone truly believe the establishment media would trumpet someone who was calling the GOP grassroots to support the positive things the President is doing?
No, the liberal media thinks Rush is newsworthy only if his opinions fit their liberal viewpoint, which, lately, Rush's opinions do. Simple as that.
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