Tuesday, May 23, 2017

BloggeRhythms

Anyone still doubting the political bent of the majority of the media ought to give some consideration to polling data published in the past two days.

The consistently accurate Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll posted today shows that “46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.” 

Not surprisingly, “seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans approve of the job Trump is doing versus 82% of Democrats who disapprove."

However, at the very same time, others having political differences with the POTUS post strikingly different results.  

William Steakin writes @ aol.com: “While President Donald Trump is overseas on his first foreign trip as commander in chief, the heap of recent negative polls has continued to pile up.

“The latest, a survey from Reuters/Ipsos, shows Trump with 38 percent approval rating, which represents a sharp drop as well as his lowest rating since Inauguration Day when he entered the White House with historically low numbers.” 

Similarly, Contact Reporter David Lauter @latimes.com reports today that: “President Trump’s standing in national polls has consistently declined since the end of last month. His approval rating now sits at the lowest point of his presidency. 

“The percentage who approve of Trump’s job performance is now below 40% in the two major polling averages, done by Real Clear Politics and the Huffington Post. He’s at the lowest level of his presidency so far and far lower than any previous president at this point.”

Then comes Jonathan Easley @thehill.com who writes: “In the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Trump has a 39.6 percent approval rating and 54.7 disapproval rating.”

But then, farther down, Easley adds: “On the upside, the poll shows that most of those who voted for Trump are sticking with him.

“He is holding on to 90 percent of his voters and his ratings are still above approval ratings for both the Democratic and Republican parties,” Mark Penn, co-director of the Harvard-Harris survey said. 

“Among all Republicans, Trump’s job approval is at 85 percent. A Reuters-Ipsos survey released last week showed signs that Trump’s base might be cracking, with only 75 percent of Republicans saying they approve of the job he’s doing.” 

While pollsters continue to produce questionable statistics, the POTUS himself proceeds with his quite productive overseas trip about which Rush offered another insightful comment, saying: “Trump did another first on this trip in Israel today. He made history. He’s the first sitting president to visit the Western Wall. Now, other presidents have been there as candidates or after they retired, but none before Trump ever, as a sitting president. George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Hussein O all visited either when they were candidates or as private citizens. And none of them were accompanied by the Israeli prime minister. Now, an interesting thing about this. Trump and Melania went to the Western Wall today, and men and women go to different areas of the wall.”

Then Rush took the possibilities further, building on the POTUS’s having said he was “deeply moved by his visit to the wall, thanked the Israeli people, spoke of the unbreakable bond of friendship with Israel and America, and expressed his desire for Israel to have peace.”

Addressing Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia where he said “many things can happen now that could have never happened before, Rush focused on King Salman’s expressing his strong desire for peace and the leaders in Saudi Arabia pledging to help eradicate terrorism and work on the peace process too. 

All of which led Rush to propose: “Wouldn’t it be funny, wouldn’t it just be…? 

“You know me; I don’t think Middle East peace is possible without somebody surrendering. I just don’t. This has been going how many thousands of years. Peace in the Middle East? I just never believed doctors, nurses, clean water, Red Cross units, and negotiations are gonna solve this. But what if (laughing) the most progress ever made toward peace in the Middle East happened with Donald Trump as president? Can you imagine? It is gonna be unacceptable to these people that some clunky outsider who doesn’t know right from wrong, boorish from polite — somebody so unsophisticated — can come in and command the respect of both sides. 

“We’ll wait and see. 

“Time will tell.” 

And then, Rush went into one of his trademark narratives where he put the practical realities of current ideological persuasions into true perspective. 

Rush said: “We ought to have somebody start that narrative, get that meme floating around, get some people to start tweeting that out: Donald Trump could be a one-man U.N. You know how that would drive ’em crazy out there. It would literally drive ’em crazy, ’cause then Trump would come out against climate change as a one-man United Nations. Here’s… 

“No, Trump will never get the Nobel Prize! If Trump ever actually oversaw a legitimate peace, a laying down of arms between the Israelis and Palestinians and everybody else, they still would not give him the peace prize. There’s no way. How dare you ask me? Do you think he’d get the Nobel Peace Prize? There’s no way! If they give it to a guy just three months after he’s been inaugurated — if they give a guy like Obama a peace prize on the come — and here’s a guy who expanded every war we’re in, who did not close Club Gitmo (scoffs), and they give him the peace prize? They ought to demand it back. But they won’t.” 

While Rush’s analysis certainly has significant merit, Trump’s attaining acknowledgement of accomplishments may not be as insurmountable as in the past. And that’s because the voting public continues to access other sources of information outside the range of the mainstream media.   

Today Content Marketing Manager, Daniel Sevitt, posted the following chart @similarweb.com, showing the US Media Publications ranking for April. 

 msn.com                   1   1    0  1764.4 M
espn.com 2 2 0 1393.4 M
drudgereport.com 3 3 0 1248.2 M
news.google.com 4 4 0 1165.8 M
cnn.com 5 6 1 841.0 M
finance.yahoo.com 6 5 -1 827.9 M
sports.yahoo.com 7 7 0 741.4 M
foxnews.com 8 8 0 671.4 M
nytimes.com 9 9 0 538.0 M
buzzfeed.com 10 11 1 481.4 M
washingtonpost.com 11 10 -1 446.1 M
huffingtonpost.com 12 12 0 351.4

The results show that Drudge is well over the billion mark in total pageviews with none of the MSM sites coming close. And it’s a sure bet that those logging on to Drudge for access to news reports all day long, aren’t searching for links to leftist media outlets. And those are the kinds of things that ought to be giving Rush and his listeners great hope for the future.

That's it for today folks. 

Adios

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