Now we finally know the size of Fox News/Limbaugh’s audience, and it ain’t a majority of Americans by a long, long, long shot:
Ten percent of Americans believe environmentalists intentionally sabotaged the oil rig Deepwater Horizon off the Gulf Coast according to a poll released Tuesday, apparently as part of a ploy to reduce Americans’ support for offshore drilling.
The surprising finding was contained in a poll released Tuesday by Public Policy Polling. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh floated the idea on his nationally syndicated talk show.
If I were a dishonest, lying son of a you know what, I’d go into the right wing hate talk radio racket. It’s an easy gig. You can make bullshit up off the top of your head, abuse prescription drugs all you want, sexually harass the women who work for you, and never, ever have to worry about facts. Too bad I have a conscience.
Damn you Jiminy Cricket!
Isn’t destruction of your conscience the first step to becoming a psychopath. Lying and being a republican is then easy. 10% Morans? 40+% voted for McCain/Palin and are still loyal to their Repub evil. Americans need to “come to Jesus” or get a good opposition party. This way can’t last.
10% morans is a low-end estimate.
Well, technically we don’t know the size of Limbaugh’s audience from this. We only know the percentage of Americans who both listen to Rush and take him seriously. It’s possible that a lot of people listen to him just for laughs.
Then again, talk radio is a medium where you don’t need a majority of Americans to listen to you to dominate the ratings. That’s why the Rush Limbaughs of the world can afford to encourage Republicans to pursue actions that alienate huge chunks of the American populace.
For all its problems, more people still watch the nightly network news than listen to Limpballs.
The link to RawStory is “<a htref=” instead of the correct “<a href=”. Had to view the page source in order to follow the link:
RawStory: Environmentalists intentionally caused oil spill
My apologies. Should be fixed now. Thanks for the information about my linking error.