{"id":263056,"date":"2018-02-05T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=263056"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:47:11","slug":"kimmels-ignorance-and-the-eib-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/05\/kimmels-ignorance-and-the-eib-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel\u2019s Ignorance and Our Audience Size"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, sometimes I feel petty even mentioning this, but if I don\u2019t say it, I don\u2019t know who will. You heard the story that Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s out there saying the only reason that there are liberal talk shows is because you need a certain amount of intelligence to do one, and conservatives just don\u2019t have enough intelligence to do a talk show. I assume he means late-night TV talk shows.<\/p>\n

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Now, Kimmel is a funny guy, but he\u2019s an idiot. He really is an ignoramus. He doesn\u2019t know what he doesn\u2019t know. He\u2019s one of these guys that doesn\u2019t know what he doesn\u2019t know and thinks he knows everything because he\u2019s got a pipeline to Chuck You Schumer\u2019s office when it comes to health care.<\/p>\n

So there are a number of different conservative websites doing counter stories, and what they\u2019re doing is publishing lists of conservative talk show hosts who are obviously brilliant and using evidence such as how many books they have written and how many speeches they give and all that sort of stuff. And I invariably make this list, and they mentioned that I\u2019ve written a bunch of books, nine books and so forth.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019ve got this audience figure out there, weekly cume of 13.75 million. And we\u2019re almost double that. And I\u2019m wondering, where does this number come from? It doesn\u2019t come from us. These are conservative blogs publishing this. So it\u2019s probably from a trade magazine or newspaper that also doesn\u2019t have the numbers. So they\u2019re speculating and guesstimating and all that. You know, I say this stuff, I don\u2019t mention it 90% of the time I see it. I mean, it was in the Washington Examiner<\/a>, which is a conservative paper. Then there was one mention in the — I forget where.<\/p>\n

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So it\u2019s obviously coming from a trade source. But we are going through the roof. We are at peak audience. In 29 years, the audience has never been larger than it is now. Subscribers to the website never larger than it is now. Now, I can\u2019t tell you how gratifying it is. And it\u2019s all because of you people being out there and admitting it when people come along and ask you. But I see that number, it used to be 14. They\u2019ve got us losing audience. And this is in so-called favorable media. Now, none of the other intelligent hosts in the list\u2019s audience are even mentioned. Well, Dennis Prager\u2019s in there on this list and Andrew Klavan and Ben Shapiro, I mean, the list is endless.<\/p>\n

The idea that the reason that there aren\u2019t any conservative late-night TV talk show hosts is that they don\u2019t have enough intelligent ones, that\u2019s not the answer. The people that do the hiring for these positions are not going to hire, wouldn\u2019t dare hire a conservative. Can you see me being hired to do the CBS Evening News? Oh, if they wanted ratings, but they would never live it down if they tried. Well, they wouldn\u2019t do it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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