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- From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
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- Subject: Rush Butchers Facts for his own Agenda
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.060812.13762@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 06:08:12 GMT
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- I agree with the person who said that Rush is starting to sound petty and
- vindictive. Before Clinton got elected Rush was moderately clever, but
- now he seems to be on a Jihad or a Vendetta, neither of which sit too
- well with the american consumer. But that's not why I am typing -
-
- Wednesday or Thursday (?) Rush responded to the NYT poll on the political bias
- of newscasters and reporters. The numbers ar 44% liberal, 16% conservative,
- a few % socialist, communist, etc..., and 36% moderate.
-
- This of course is in direct contradiction to Rush's (and Bush's) common
- cannard that the press is so terribly unfair and liberally biased.
- So what does rush do? He claims (numbers +/- a percent or two
- because I don't have a perfect memory for this kinda stuff);
-
- "Well, all 36% moderates are just liberals in disguise. Of the 16% who
- claim to be conservative, at least 5% are liberals [not moderates] in
- disguise. So the real number is 11% conservative, and the rest are
- liberals or worse"
-
-
- Well, this is how rush thinks - if we don't like the facts, call them
- liars and readjust the numbers until they suit your agenda.
-
-
-
- With that in mind, what about the 13 million listeners Rush claims?
- Well, first of all he admitted this last week that only 3 to 3.5 million
- listen on any regular basis. Now lets apply Llimbaugh math;
-
- Of those 3 million probably 1/2 of them are ottid heads like myself.
- Of the remaining 1.5 million, .5 million probably only listen because they
- agree with a few things Rush says, and like the entertainment value.
- So that leaves less that 1 million people who actually agree with
- much of what he says...
-
- Since there are an estimated 150,000 members of the KKK, that means
- rush is only about 6 times mroe popular than the KKK.
-
- If anybody disagrees with my methods, then you have to disagree with
- Rush's methods too.
-