At the beginning of this year, a rash of stories popped up in liberal media, promising that the death of conservative talk radio was imminent – and this time, the critics of hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage insisted, they had the hard numbers to prove it.
The critics had latched onto a story that appeared in Crain’s New York Business (a subscription-only newsletter), which announced: “A new Arbitron report shows Rush Limbaugh’s ratings down 33 percent from a year ago and Sean Hannity down 28 percent over the same time period.”
“Is right-wing talk dying?” John Avlon asked hopefully at The Daily Beast.
“Are we sick of Rush Limbaugh yet”? Alex Pareene asked at Salon.com, adding gleefully, “We might be!”
But how exactly did Rush Limbaugh lose one-third of his audience over 12 months?
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He didn't lose the audience, the records are being juggled.
You're right on that donjusko.
Google is also cooking the books. My url as was 1, 2 or 3 for eight years. Then Google switched to images on top of the urls and my url was dropped from the first fifty pages. That was very unlikely to be true. Then my image kept getting different urls from my site. Now my image isn't on the first eight pages but others using my TM image are up there ahead of mine. It's not based on popularity anymore, it's based in politics or sometimes money. http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm
" Arbitron"…a Media Matters' Soros' rag from the communists/progressives continue to manipulate the truth…please, who's listening? You know, the one who is waging war on Fox and other conservative media…New ?
Don, just like most "government" statistics…Obozo, our Liar in Chief said 80% apaproved an increase in taxes!! Probably then 99.9 % are in favor of Obozo's re election!! 112% think he's doing a good job!! Statistics don't lie, but statisticians are liars all!! Maybe that's the problem!!!
just as bad as the one sided polls put out by the left.
Pretty soon we'll need to have our own version of Radio Free Europe right here in America. If you don't know what Radio Free Europe is do your homework.
You can manipulate the truth very easily in radio as is evident. If you compare revenues to listener's you will find that there is no way you can have a 10% increase in revenues by losing 33% of your listeners. As
usual Liberals will stop at nothing to destroy a conservative. Disturbing that Joseph Goebbels type journalism is being applied here.
I've been listening to Rush since he sold "spatulas". They have always been afraid of him. Their doing everything they can to get rid of him. We will get rid of them first, before the next election I hope.
I am with you on that. Getting rid of "them" will be hard to do. They control the banks, radio, television, most Federal judge ships, one third of the Supreme Court and the puppet they put in the White House and his VP.
Hi 1oldcoyote2, don't forget controlling Google too. How come Alexa keeps calling you a second handle of James (I think it James something, anyway he's a troll, your not)
I've never had anything to do with Google so don't know much about them other then that they are quite biased.
As for Elixia, she's very paranoid and self centered as is quite evident. She gives one the impression that she's had many sexual encounters with her brothers and father as she's always bringing inbreeding up like she's THE authority on it. She well could be.
As for James, James is James and I am me. She's too dumb to know any different.
Maybe you could lay off her a bit, please!
She might be able to realize the difference then, this OT sh*t has been dragging
out a little too long now.
I have seen many other points in the past where you and her have been in agreement
before and I've seen you and the assistant professor disagree before. (Haven't
seen him lately – QQ)
I'm sorry Gary, I responded to donjusko when he asked me a viable question as to why the imbecile keeps saying James and I are the same. We ARE NOT and she just keeps it up because she's too ignorant to know the difference. Please take it up with her. No matter who I respond to or if I just post, she's there like a spoiled brat wanting to pick a fight. – I don't know what your OT + QQ mean but the same to you!
OT = Off topic
QQ = Crying Eyes
I know as soon as he is back on with his ego, he will really think we miss
him. QQ
Gary QQ is also your eyes bugging out looking at something.
I kinda had something like that in mind first time I saw you do that.
Thanks!
You're right, Gary. Thanks for affirming that I'm missed.
James please explain how you can be missed? You have to go somewhere first? how is life treating you?
1oldcoyote2
No one is as dumb as you look!
If you do not want me to respond then all you have to do is not make crude or rude remarks pertaining to me in your post, responses or comments!
But you will not!
You have a mouth dirtier than a wicker toilet seat.
Imbecile?
Sweetie the only imbecile here is you!
To even think that anyone is buying this act of yours is absurd.
Talk is cheap, but so are you.
Ignorant?
Is this the best you can do?
Do you even know the definition of ignorant?
Nobody says that you are dumb. They just say you were sixteen years old before you learned to wave good-bye.
Spoiled brat?
Most likely!
But that is my problem & not yours since I am so gifted & you are not.
Some people are has – beens. You are a never was.
Pick a fight?
No!
You pick the fights not me.
I just finish them by making you look foolish.
The cream rises to the top. Sadly so does the scum such as you.
Hang on! Your life is about to go on a roller coaster ride like you have never seen before.
Gary you haven't seen James because he thinks if he hides behind aliases or team members that I will forget about him. Look at my disputes with James which would go on & on with numerous post. Then see if you do not see the very same similarity to 1oldcoyote2? As for James i will get my pound of revenge so do not worry about 1oldcoyte2. I made a deal & I am living up to my part of the deal
Alexia,
I somehow see that James may not be really behind a bunch of aliases.
All the paid Barrybots are targeting mainstream sites like MSN, yahoo,
anything connected with AP, CNN, ad infinitum.
It is entirely possible for people to in general have the same overall
political leaning and yet disagree over some minor stuff, but easy to
make mountains out of mollhills.
Pause when agitiated.
molehills.
Gary sorry but I respectively disagree & do not buy your theory. No pausing for me! Things have already been put in motion & I plan to enjoy watching.
No pausing for me! Things have already been put in motion & I plan to enjoy watching.
Well if something happened to James maybe she did do something. I guess I better just apologize for something I didn't start. Why is it that this one person has problems with all these people at one time? interesting, oh I don't know maybe just maybe they were all wrong. That has got to be it. But since "Things are already in motion" I guess it is to late to apologize for nothing.
ROTHFLMAO This is a action portion of this post, if you don't know what it means you have not be paying attention.
ireuel you are such a candy! If you are not a alias of James or a team member then you have nothing to worry about or apologize for unless you want to continue to push my buttons jerk!
You in fact started by first insulting me sissy! So just cut out the b.s. as if you are innocent? Man up! That is if in fact you are one?
All these people at one time?! Lol! If I wanted to I could constantly change my name & manufacture all kinds of aliases like you guys but i choose not to. So that is a lame comment by you.Gee what a idiot you are.
Lol! All of you lil weenie men attacking lil ole me a woman & I make all of you look like fools.
The thing that terrifies me most is that someone might dislike me as much as I loathe you.
Well, Gary, Cougar "respectively" disagrees with you. But since it's obvious to everyone else here that I'm not any of the other people s/he has claimed, I'm not worried about what may be "in motion." The president and directors here all are intelligent folks who value evidence over bluster.
And after all, even people who actually knew me and the president–and who had been major donors–have try to get me fired, even before I had tenure, over things I actually HAD said and done. (I'm not shy about voicing my opinions, even in the local paper, which makes the whole "alias" idea even sillier.)
As for my absence, I've been busy being grandpa this week, and finding more useful stuff to read and write. I suspect that will continue, since I can't imagine learning much new here (especially since Caleb is gone and the site is probably now on automatic, used to bring traffic to Joe Farrah's and Floyd Brown's other sites).
But thanks to you and ireuel and others for trying to provide some reason for someone who obviously is incapable of responding to it.
James do not make your problems mine! Whatever life brings you is no concern of mine. Most likely a lot of unhappiness in the future. Nice to hear that the president & directors are intelligent. I would be alarmed if they were fools such as you.
James i know all about you from both the local papers as well as others. the fact is that you are not very well liked & you know it.
Nice about the grandpa thing but absent you have not been. I must agree that the reading & writing thing you have done a lot. James you never learned anything when Caleb was here so really there is nothing new there.
James i agree! You should take yourself & all of your fools to some site which caters to retards.
1oldcoyote2 sweetie I can assure you that paranoid I am not.
Self centered most likely?
Just as everyone else is to a extent.
I find your filthy comments referring to my having sex with my brothers or father SICK!
Just as you are SICK!
I can assure you that if either of us is a inbred that it most definitely it would be you.
James is James & I am me?
Prove it!
If it is so then you are a coward for letting James take the fall for your actions.
Me dumb?
No you are! Just read your post stupid! My question is who is sitting in the chair today?
Your post go from illiterate to some what educated.
Sweetie keep it up & i will keep it up until you have had enough! You have no idea the storm heading your way.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
1oldcoyote you have no idea how much revenge I can extract from someone. Trust me when I say that in fact if you are not one of James aliases or one of his team members it would be in your best interest to cease immediately. If not? Then carry on as you have for it will not matter for you anyway. Information on individuals can be attained if one has enough money to do so. If i were you I would not press my luck. Keep in mind i am the spoiled brat that you referenced to.
Stupid 1oldcoyote2! Just plain stupid is what you are.
donjusko you have your opinion I have mine! Point is 1oldcoyote2 has serious mental problems.
They are trying to kill anyone who does not follow their agenda. Soros organizations, are legion and will smear Limbaugh, Hannity and Baier with anything they can find, and if there is nothing they will make it up. We saw how they hated Glenn Beck, and when they were unable to dispute his facts, they set out to destroy him. I miss him, for no one ever educated the public to the DC pols.duplicity as Beck did. Fox lost a Star, and will now be just another station. I think the attack on Rupert Murdoch English Newspaper, { he also is the owner of Fox news } was the work of a devious group, that plans to turn the USA into a Global Union. We all know who is funding this movement, and the reason it is not fully covered by the lame street media, is because they are in cahoots. I am sick of the Matthews, Maddow, Schultz and Ammapour and Sawyer, because the script they follow is pure propaganda. . No thanks, if I want to see a puppet show I'll watch an old Punch and Judy show ,or Kukla, Fran and Ollie..
Beck will be back and another station will be on top. Rush may go back to selling spatulas, he doesn't need the support of anyone, he's got faithful listeners.
“A new Arbitron report shows Rush Limbaugh’s ratings down 33 percent from a year ago and Sean Hannity down 28 percent over the same time period.”
…….may I kindly say BULL SHIT.
I think Arbitron may had been bribed by this administration as well and is targetting who
they are sending surveys out to. I haven't received any polling pack form Arbitron since
prior to the election.
Conservative talk radio is strong. Probably, like everything else, they got it backwards. The ratings most likely went up 33% and 28% respectively. Or they got it exacly correct from a polling liberals.
B-I-N-G-O !
Why Do The Bottom Of The Barrel News And TV Stations All Sound Like They Are Reading Off The Same George Soros Media Page, Yikeess, Liberal Goons, Rush Limbaugh Is Number One In The World, And FOX News Is The Only Station For Balanced News, Yikeess, That Leaves Very Few Colored Folks And State Workers For The Big Soros Media Empre And Bill Moyer AtheistsBS, Yippee, God Bless America And Sarah Palin.
I don't believe Rush or Savage or Hannity has lost any of their conservative audience. And Glenn Beck is more popular than ever. I don't believe any polls put out by the left and their MSM. Their questions are always twisted to elicit a particular response. You know like the joke, Are you still beating your wife?