Rush v. Ahnuld Through the Eyes of CNN
Uh, CNN Does Have A Smaller Audience Than Rush
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Unhappy with the fact that Rush Limbaugh has a bigger audience between 12pm and 3pm than it does, CNN has tried for years to discredit him. Behold their latest attempt, in which they misuse a quote of Arnold Schwarzenegger's to proclaim Rush Limbaugh totally irrelevant and "a myth."
Arnold, on NBC's Today Show, was asked about Limbaugh calling Arnold a closet Democrat. Arnold's response was, "Limbaugh is irrelevant." The quote clearly related to Arnold doing things as Governor of California, a liberal state where, frankly, Rush's audience is in the voting minority -- Schwarzenegger can govern like a liberal now that he can't run for re-election any more. His true colors are shining through. [UPDATE: As LibertarianHawk points out, Campbell Brown also took Rush out of context when talking to Ahnuld. She equated being conservative with being Republican, something Rush did not do. Rush actually said Ahnuld ran as a conservative and has been acting like a liberal.]
CNN, though, has taken the opportunity to proclaim Limbaugh totally irrelevant to the national dialogue.
Okay, pay attention to this CNN: Rush Limbaugh has the largest audience in the United States. According to Talker's Magazine, his audience is 13.5 million listeners per week in the fall of 2006, a number that will only go up as disaffected conservatives return to him as the 2008 season heats up and the Democrats keep stumbling. The next largest radio show? That's Sean Hannity (Rush's former sub-host), who in most markets comes on right after Rush, keeping Rush's audience. To match Rush, you need to combine Neal Boortz, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Bennett, Michael Medved, and Hugh Hewitt or combine the listening audiences of Sean Hannity and Michael Reagan.
Oh, if we're just going to work off the left, combine 10 Alan Colmes's or Al Franken's and 1 Randi Rhodes and you'll come close.
So, CNN, if Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant and Schwarzenegger's comment "could indicate Limbaugh's power and influence is fading," you might as well lay off the rest of your staff and turn out your lights because Rush still gets a larger audience than you.
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Should be interesting. Probably some kumbaya with a little woodshed action followed by cigar talk and bashing of common foes.
"The pain inflicted by your country's indifference is tenfold that inflicted by your ruthless captors."
Rep Sam Johnson on the House floor commenting on his experience as a Vietnam POW
She said that he accused Arnold of not being a Republican.
He's never said any such thing. He accused Arnold of not being a conservative -- which is hardly news to anybody and is not the same thing as Campbell said in her question.
Moreover, of course Schwarzenegger isn't Limbaugh's servant. He reports to the people of California -- which is among the least conservative populaces in the union.
So there really isn't a "side" to take in this little dust-up. What Limbaugh said -- that Arnold is no conservative -- is entirely defensible and hardly debatable. Arnold's response is, likewise, hardly debatable.
Go Rush and all of conservative talk radio! The mainstream media is indirectly helping all of the "new media" to improve upon their audience support by continuing their "political leftist bias" ranting. The sooner the mainstream media falls over a cliff, the better the overall media coverage will end up being for everyone! I just wish that there will soon be many more "conservative leaning" as well as many other truly "non-leftist" television and radio channels coming into existence sometime in the future. We still desperately need some truly "all neutral, all of the time" news television and radio channels to exist throughout the world. The Fox News Channel comes the closest to this, but it's only one channel. Also, the Fox News Channel has been slowly moving leftward every year.