I have believed for years that it's "comfort and confirmation" that drove conservatives to talk radio. Now it's television, too.
How about "comfort, confirmation and NEWS" - CNN and MSNBC having turned into Pravda and abandoned the news business. If you don't like Obama to begin with, all the adoration is enough to make you hurl. I watched CNN off and on during the Bush years. But not now.
Here are the best excuses I can think of: maybe a lot of middle-of-the-roaders have just tuned out on all the cable news noise. Maybe other people have better things to do with their lives than listen to pandering pundits. Maybe more generous souls accept that Obama's doing the best he can in a very tough job, and they don't want to hear the details because they know the stars are not shining on America right now.
But, then again, maybe all of the above are wrong. Maybe it's simply the need for an enemy, the desire to detest is greater than the power to tolerate; maybe it's the need to blame somebody else for the bad things that are happening in our lives that drives viewers to Fox. Perhaps those viewers are the next generation of the rich socialites in the old New Yorker cartoon, who dressed up to go to the newsreel theatre and hiss FDR. Only now they can do it at home, watching FoxNews. Maybe the joy of defeat is underestimated.
Pathetic.
Who is seeking "comfort and confirmation" here? And if this list of excuses don't make the cut, will you go and produce another list? Fox beats CNN by 2 to 1 because Dems suddenly decided they don't care about the news? Or maybe Dems are so hip they only watch news on their iphones? Yeah, that must be it.
Face it guy: Fox beat you when Bush was in office, and it's beating you like a drum now that Obama is in office. So it can't just be because of party affiliation, can it?
Maybe they are just producing a better product. Has this radical notion crossed your mind? |
