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- Subject: Re: Prediction: Limbaugh had hit his peak; He will soon fade out
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.011700.18505@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone)
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:16:59 EST
- References: <1992Dec14.104035.26545@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Dec14.171046.15828@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec14.171046.15828@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.104035.26545@news2.cis.umn.edu> prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
- >>I see myself as a bleeding-heart liberal, but I used to love listening
- >>to Rush Limbaugh's punchy right-wing rhetoric. No more! He now comes
- >>across as an issue-less cry baby. For a guy of his type to e popular,
- >>there must be an enemy. Clinton, by virtue of his middle-of-the-road
- >>approach, is not a good target. Rush, all of a sudden, sounds vacuous
- >>and stupid. He is adopting a more fundamentalist christian rhetoric to
- >>keep his base, but it is a wrong move, just like Bush's. Majority do
- >>not care for this.
- >>
- >>So, watch Rush's ratings to fall and for him to fade. Dear friends,
- >>he is suddenly yesterday's newspaper.
- >
- >I'll make you the same bet that I've made every other idiot who can ignore
- >reality - $100 that at the end of Clinton's 100 days, Rush will still be
- >on the TV and radio, with at least as many affiliates that he has now.
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- You are absolutely right here in that Rush does not need a majority
- in order to support his show; if even 10% of America tunes into
- radio / late night on a regular basis, and he captures 10% of that,
- he's doing well *ratings-wise*. Politics-wise is another matter, of
- course.
-
- Chris
-