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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: JBTFD who wrote (126502)3/15/2012 1:44:24 PM
From: sm1th6 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 224749
 
Enlighten me.

I'll try, but I doubt it is possible. Rush is entertainment, nothing more. Anyone who listens to him for more than a few seconds understands his bias, he doesn't try to hide it. Media Matters pretends to be unbiased, objective reporting. Big difference.

I think the statistics are something like 10 to 1 amount of hours advantage that right wing talk radio has over any liberal equivalent.

Do you include NPR in the left side of that comparison? If there were a profit to be made in left wing talk radio, there would be more of it. Nobody forces any radio station to carry Rush, they do it because sponsors pay for adds. They have apparently concluded there isn't much of a market for left wing talk radio. But then we don't expect you to understand free markets, you want the govt to legislate some fair distribution of talk shows.



To: JBTFD who wrote (126502)3/15/2012 2:07:13 PM
From: longnshort6 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224749
 
So a guy calls rush yesterday and tells him he has a new conservative book out, the guy knows Rush's brother and says your brother wrote a blurb on the back cover.

Rush says what's the name of the book, looks it up on books on line and right then and there buys an E copy of it.

at the time the book is 304,000 on amazon, by the end of the show it's number 4.

Tell me advertisers don't know the power of Rush and Rush is finished.lolol