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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic



I will just sit back  and watch Obama do his job and skewer every belief rush has:) To see him apoplectic  is a divine shiver in itself, but then Im comfortable with my ideology.

further condescension will be ignored
Lucy

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

Anybody know the official demographics of Rush's audience?  Any links to stats?  These would really tell the tale about the potency of his operation.

I suspect they are mostly single, older men with no children or families who feel marginalized by the tax system that favors married households and families. With limited or no family obligations, they probably spend money on large, fuel inefficient vehicles, and expect cheap gas to fuel their 'babies'.

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ORIGINAL: Crush

Seems like some don't want to live up to the First Amendment (US Constitution) except when it applies to their opinions.

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou
But he and conservative talk radio saved AM radio.  They really did, and it pisses American liberals off. 

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

Anybody know the official demographics of Rush's audience?  Any links to stats?  These would really tell the tale about the potency of his operation.

I suspect they are mostly single, older men with no children or families who feel marginalized by the tax system that favors married households and families. With limited or no family obligations, they probably spend money on large, fuel inefficient vehicles, and expect cheap gas to fuel their 'babies'.

Looking at specific news outlets and sources, men significantly outnumber women in the regular audiences for business magazines, political magazines such as The Weekly Standard and New Republic, Rush Limbaugh's radio program, and also the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. For each of these, men constitute more than 60% of the audience. Men are also significantly more numerous (at 58%) among the regular viewers of CNBC and C-SPAN and among daily internet news consumers. They are also disproportionately represented in the audience for talk radio, for literary and political magazines such as the Atlantic and New Yorker, and for late night television.

By contrast, women constitute a much larger share of the audience for religious radio (66% of the regular audience), the morning network television news shows (64%), and for the MSNBC cable channel. They also outnumber men among the regular audiences for TV news magazine shows such as Dateline and 60 Minutes, and for Larry King Live.

News audiences vary widely in age, education, and how much they know about what's going on in the nation and the world. Most regular consumers of news are better informed, better educated, and older than the average American. But the audiences for some news sources stand out in this respect.

Judged by their answers to three news knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, the O'Reilly Factor, news magazines, and online news sources. Close behind are the regular audiences for NPR and the Daily Show.

Audiences with the highest educational achievement, by far, are the literary magazines and online news outlets. Readers of news magazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR, and viewers of the Daily Show, and C-SPAN also are much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.

Some of these attentive and educated audiences also are older than average. The oldest audiences belong to the NewsHour (60% age 50 or older), the O'Reilly Factor (58%), Larry King Live (56%), network nightly news (54%), and Sunday morning talk shows (52%). The youngest audience ­ though also one of the most knowledgeable ­ belongs to the Daily Show, where just 23% are age 50 or older and 33% are under age 30. [emphasis added]

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ORIGINAL: KaineD
Rush is harmful to the republican party.  He's making party members look weak, he looks like he's the one in control, and he's pushing away all the sane, level headed people.

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY



hmmm .... Stephen Colbert .... Bill Maher ... John Stewart .... George Carlin ...

Why no outrage when they do (did, in Carlin's case) the same?

Firm

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

Thats just my opinion, but if you want to use my opinion and perceive it as some attack, be my guest.

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

"Men are also significantly more numerous (at 58%) among the regular viewers of CNBC and C-SPAN and among daily internet news consumers. They are also disproportionately represented in the audience for talk radio, for literary and political magazines such as the Atlantic and New Yorker, and for late night television."

Talk radio in general is 35% age 50 and older, Rush is 51% age 50 and older. So, yes, he does attract older male audiences.

Judged by their answers to three news knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, the O'Reilly Factor,

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

63% of Rush's audience is lacks college education. Again, no surprise there.

(and this is another non-attack on his audience, I assume? 

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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

My favorite current Rushism was his saying that the National Organization of Women spoke out to say it was ok with the Muslim doctor who beheaded his wife when she filed for divorce. According to Mr Limbaugh, NOW stated that is was just a matter of "cultural differences". Of course, in a statement aired on a less....how to put this nicely....less bullshit radio show, the head of NOW had no problems in stating without equivocation that her organization took a dim view of the beheading of women no matter that the culture of the beheader.

Way to go Rush....keep on feeding the fear, taking the drugs and popping the viagra. The cons need something to believe in and the rest of us can use the laugh.

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ORIGINAL: KaineD
Rush is harmful to the republican party.  He's making party members look weak, he looks like he's the one in control, and he's pushing away all the sane, level headed people.

In a partisan world, he is good news for the progressive side of the country, but Limbaugh and his ilk are fast disappearing anyway: their irrelevance will only increase over the next few years. What you are witnessing on this board is the swan song of a dying specie.

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

63% of Rush's audience is lacks college education. Again, no surprise there.

Please quote your source. (and this is another non-attack on his audience, I assume?  )

Firm

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

If you want to say Limbaugh is a comedian or entertainer I have no problem with what he says. 

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
he isn't the leader and he doesn't represent anyone but himself. There are a lot of conservatives who don't listen to him or really care what he has to say.

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

63% of Rush's audience is lacks college education. Again, no surprise there.

Please quote your source. (and this is another non-attack on his audience, I assume?  )

Your source. See the chart where it says only 37% of his audience is college educated. I apologize for doing the math in my head (gee, is that another non-attack?)