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Yesterday, a transcript from Rush’s radio broadcast focused on the host’s conclusion that Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, has found a method for overcoming leftist bias in the media. The example Rush used was the recent  media bashing of Rudy Giuliani’s saying that the president doesn’t love America.

 

Rush sets the stage by saying that, “So, the standard operating procedure, media hears about it, first thing they do is act shocked and outraged, start bashing Rudy. 

 

“The next thing they do is go to prominent Republicans: "What do you think about what Rudy said?  Are you prepared to condemn Rudy Giuliani for saying President Obama doesn't love America?"  The setup is, the media is gonna make sure that other Republicans throw another Republican overboard, which, I cannot tell you how frustrated that has made me over these years. I've been doing this program 26 years, and I've watched it for every one of those 26 years, and I have watched Republicans dutifully comply.” 

 

It’s Rush’s belief that Republicans “do so 'cause they want to be in good graces with the media. But it doesn't get them in good graces with the media.  So after they throw the Republican overboard -- this is way it used to work, and may still, in isolated occasions.  After the media succeeds in getting other Republicans to throw Rudy overboard, they then go to Republicans a second time and say, "Will you now admit that Obama is somebody who loves America?" 

 

So they get a double whammy out of it.  They go to the Republicans to get a Republican to throw one of their own overboard, which has always worked, and then they go back a second time demanding that the Republicans validate the Democrat and say that the Democrat's a good guy, the Democrat is not what that idiot Republican alleged that got all this started.  This is how Republicans sell out their own and have been doing that for as long as I've been doing this.”

 

However, although these kinds of tirades against the media are Rush’s stock and trade, and have been from the beginning of his stellar radio career, in this case he may be overreacting a bit. Because, statistics show that the so-called “liberal’ media is not only steadily losing audience, some outlets are almost out of business altogether.  

 

According to adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard, Friday, February 20th ratings show the following audience results:

 

Total day: FNC: 250 | CNN: 126 | MSNBC: 104 | HLN: 117

 

Primetime: FNC: 301 | CNN: 150 | MSNBC: 149 | HLN: 103

 

Which means that Fox outdrew its closest competitor by 2 –1 in both categories and Turner’s HLN by almost 3 times the audience size.

 

So, while Rush is correct in his analysis of how the leftist media tries its best to get Republicans to degrade and destroy each other, the listening audience is not only well aware of the tactic, they don’t even tune in to the left anymore. Which is another reason why the mid-term elections were an anti-Democrat landslide and Rush can stop worrying. Because on the other side of the coin, the president sets his party back immeasurably worse every time he opens his mouth.

 

That's it for today folks.

 

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