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Rush making profit for the cable networks

Posted: March 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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While our president’s policies manage to continue to tank the stock markets and erode confidence, Rush Limbaugh demonstrates how to generate income for a business:

Fox News and CNN each aired Limbaugh’s keynote speech to the CPAC Saturday afternoon. It was the biggest draw all weekend on cable news.

• From 4:46pm-6:20pmET Fox News averaged 511,000 A25-54 demo viewers and 2.22M Total Viewers. The network peaked at 6pm with 602,000/2.73M. FNC also produced an hour Sunday night at 9pmET with speech highlights which drew 454,000/1.66M. It was Sunday’s most-watched cable news hour.

It wasn’t known by Rush the CNN was going to carry the speech but they hit the jackpot too:

• CNN added another 222,000 demo viewers and 932,000 Total Viewers for their Limbaugh coverage from 4:47pm – 6:12pm.

And they have continued running with the story as well, it was a wise move for them.

And what about MSNBC, you know the network that only shows one 50 second clip over and over?

• MSNBC stayed with their documentary programming which, from 4pm-7pm, averaged 163,000 demo viewers and 374,000 Total Viewers.

After all what profiteth a network if it gains views for a day but angers it’s niche market? It also explains why Letterman goes on the attack but still hasn’t managed to come up with any joke critical of Obama.

P.S. If you don’t understand the line above then you need to read this post.

Steyn Nails it

Posted: March 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Mark Steyn puts his finger on Steele’s problem:

in all the Rush-bashing, I was more disturbed by Michael Steele’s wretched performance. His initial reaction – that Rush’s show is “incendiary” and “ugly” – revealed:

a) that he never listens to it;

b) that he takes his cues from the mainstream media, for whom Rush is invariably “angry”. They don’t listen either. Rush is a lot of things, but “angry” isn’t one of them

Does this mean that we have selected an “affirmative action” candidate? Steyn’s conclusion:

In two brief soundbites, Mr Steele has managed to suggest to his own party base that he has a lazy disposition that reflexively shares the liberal biases, and to allow the wider world to portray him as a craven squish. This is not encouraging. At the very minimum, he does not appear ready for primetime.

This is a large mistake but not yet a fatal one, it remains to be seen if Steele can learn from the mistake or not.

Morning Joe: Serious Glee

Posted: March 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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The mask is dropping fast

6:06 a.m. I haven’t seen the set so happy since the election of Obama.

6:09 a.m. Joe is making the war point back.

6:12 a.m. Yup look at that lineup coming up, its going to be the bash Rush day again. It would be nice if at least one of the conservatives they talked to on the radio would be allowed on to defend.

6:14 a.m. I conclude that Scarborough is not going to be running statewide in Florida.

6:24 a.m. You know times have changed when pregnancy is celebrated that way, I like it. Very nice maturity dress too.

6:36 a.m. This woman is editor of the Financial times and she is preaching socialism?

6:42 a.m. Mika: “Couldn’t all these bailouts hurt more than not doing it?”

6:44 a.m. Freeland in a few months it won’t be the economy keeping you up at night, but it is worth it.

7:01 a.m. “The woman slut themselves out” Mika’s mom instincts are really solid.

7:24 a.m. For some reason they play Hugley saying he doesn’t want incendiary rhetoric but then compares the republican convention to Nazi Germany, that clip doesn’t make it.

7:27 a.m. Steele proved Limbaugh right. Conservatives will let republicans know when they are their party again.

7:29 a.m. Rush is keeping the conservatives in. The White house is happy. Chuck Todd does say that the Whitehouse might regret it next year.

7:48 a.m. You might need someone to restore confidence but you have to have policies that inspire confidence as well. What good is having great cheerleaders when you are the Detroit Lions?

8:05 a.m. Wow Tina Brown has not mentioned Rush once.

8:09 a.m. They are right Clinton has been a very active Sec of State so far.

8:12 a.m. The cut the deficit in have is insanity, this was said by a NY TIMES REPORTER!

8:12 a.m. Eugene Robinson: “5 years from now we will all be clutching our groins.” Does that mean he wants Obama/America to fail?

8:15 a.m. No wonder the focus is on Limbaugh, when they have to defend the actual Obama policies they can’t.

8:29 a.m. Herbert doesn’t want to talk economy, I wonder why?

8:33 a.m. Auto zone has a profit since of course people are fixing their cars instead of buying new ones.

8:35 a.m Good news people are still flushing their toilets!

8:49 a.m. That duck hunt game looks cool

Rush leads because nobody else will

Posted: March 2, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know people are complaining about Rush Limbaugh taking the “leadership” of the Republican party David Frum for one:

Rush knows what he is doing. The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush becomes as leader of the ardent remnant. The better conservatives succeed, the more we become a broad national governing coalition, the more Rush will be sidelined.

Yeah the one thing Rush really wants is for conservatives to do bad. What planet is Frum on?

Apparently it is the planet of style not substance; to wit:

On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims. This president invokes the language of “responsibility,” and in his own life seems to epitomize that ideal: He is physically honed and disciplined, his worst vice an occasional cigarette. He is at the same time an apparently devoted husband and father. Unsurprisingly, women voters trust and admire him.

Listen to this description, nothing concerning what he has actually done, all smoke and mirrors.

Now listen to how he describes Rush:

And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as “losers.” With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence

Hey he’s loud , successful, smokes, has faults, and is fat! I guess that means he must be wrong about things.

What nonsense. Leaders lead. Rush is leading because nobody else is willing, who will lead, Romney? HA! Huckabee? Steele? HA!

When someone steps up, and articulates the conservative position with confidence and without fear then Rush will be able to recede into the background. The alternative is cowering and that will not do.

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