‘Most Americans couldn’t care less’ about Drudge, Rush and Fox

Feb. 1, 2013 9:28am Eddie Scarry

Timothy Egan writes in the New York Times that “fewer and fewer” voters are taking cues from “kooks with microphones” in the conservative media:

Yes, the pyramid of political dissemination is still in place: from Drudge, to Rush, to Fox, to Republican politicians in green rooms, trickling down to all the lesser Drudges and Rushes in the wacko-sphere.

They wheeze and whiff and hyperventilate. They claim there is a war on this, and a war on that (Christmas, God, golf pros). They have one mode: outrage, designed to get the pulse up, to generate a flight or fight reaction. But for all their huffing and puffing, the bloviators of the far right can no longer blow any houses down; most Americans couldn’t care less. …

So yes, Fox and friends can still crush their own… But that only drives the Republican Party further to the fringes. Virtually everything the broadcast bullies are against — sensible gun measures, immigration reform, raising taxes on the rich — are favored by a majority of Americans.

The only way to know if this is true is to know if voters ever took cues from conservative media in the first place. Other than a study that says Fox News…, when first launched, may have influenced less than 1 percent of the vote in the 2000 presidential election, evidence to support the theory is scant.

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Comments (6)

katzkiner
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:25am
Most of America will not think anything is wrong till the EBT card does not work. Most can not think more 30 mins. ahead. Everyday 14,000 more Americans need foodstamps.Nothing wrong here. Can you visualize the casualties when the cards stop feeding America? 50 MILLION +

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bryang2k3
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:14am
Yea, we’re a dying breed.
The problem is, as we on the right die out, the country goes down the crapper.
My main thought on this is, we’re screwed.

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budahbabe
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 12:27pm
Glen, you need to get a Television station. We need to support that so more people can hear what you are saying. If anything we need more Conservative News and Radio not less. MSM is how the left and the Government get their propaganda out as well as Hollywood and Music, so we need more not less.

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KayElle
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 10:32am
If the “conservative media” had no influence, the White House and its lap-dog press wouldn’t be hell-bent on suppressing it. http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/29/kirsten-powers-the-wh-war-on-fox-news-continues/

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- TruthSeekingTexan
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:42am
  Kayelle: You speak the Truth!
  
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searching for the Truth
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 9:44am
Drudge is neat !

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