Limbaugh Listeners Rock
I just couldn't let this go by without sharing. I listen to Rush Limbaugh once in a while, if I'm in the car while he's on. I find him hilarious, and wildly intelligent and entertaining. I read an article today on salon.com that derides Limbaugh's audience as ignorant, among other pejoratives. Anyone who knows anything about Rush Limbaugh's audience knows that these people are anything but ignorant. From a recent cover story on Rush in the Sunday New York Times Magazine:
"Limbaugh’s audience is often underestimated by critics who don’t listen to the show (only 3 percent of his audience identify themselves as “liberal,” according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press). Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of “news knowledge questions,” Limbaugh’s “Dittoheads” — the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience — scored higher than NPR listeners. The study found that “readers of newsmagazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR and viewers of the Daily Show and C-SPAN are also much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.”
You may disagree with our views, but we are an educated bunch, and base our opinions on rational observation and study. Feel free to disagree with us, or with Rush's rhetoric. I don't always agree with him myself. But don't call me ignorant. I am well-informed and form my opinions accordingly.
"Limbaugh’s audience is often underestimated by critics who don’t listen to the show (only 3 percent of his audience identify themselves as “liberal,” according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press). Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of “news knowledge questions,” Limbaugh’s “Dittoheads” — the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience — scored higher than NPR listeners. The study found that “readers of newsmagazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR and viewers of the Daily Show and C-SPAN are also much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.”
You may disagree with our views, but we are an educated bunch, and base our opinions on rational observation and study. Feel free to disagree with us, or with Rush's rhetoric. I don't always agree with him myself. But don't call me ignorant. I am well-informed and form my opinions accordingly.
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