{"id":287844,"date":"2018-10-10T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=287844"},"modified":"2018-10-11T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T06:30:09","slug":"taylor-swift-drives-voter-registration-but-not-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/10\/10\/taylor-swift-drives-voter-registration-but-not-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Drives Voter Registration, But Not Ratings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Somebody help me out here. What did Taylor Swift come out and say the other day? Did she come out anti-Trump or did she come out&#8230;? (interruption) She came out pro-Democrat. Did&#8230;? (interruption) What? (interruption) Oh, yeah. It was Tennessee. She came out against [Marsha] Blackburn. Right. Now, what did the media say? The media said record turnout, record voter registration after Taylor Swift. How many people bought that?<\/p>\n<p>That is such caca!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-287841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-101018-Taylor-Swift.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-101018-Taylor-Swift.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-101018-Taylor-Swift-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>There\u2019s no way to measure that.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>But the reason I bring this up &#8212; and I don\u2019t know Taylor Swift from a pile of coal. I don\u2019t know the difference. You could put a bag of manure and a bag out there and I wouldn\u2019t know the difference in Taylor Swift. Now, the story is Taylor Swift-led American Music Awards hit all-time low in ratings. Well, how in the hell can that be if she\u2019s generating massive record voter registration and then hosts a television show with all-time low record ratings? Don\u2019t misunderstand. I don\u2019t know one thing or the other about Taylor Swift. I\u2019m not comparing her to a bag of manure. I\u2019m saying that\u2019s how insignificant&#8230; But I\u2019m saying, the Drive-Bys try to take these things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re so is desperate for good news. They\u2019re desperate.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Adrian in Ketchikan, Alaska. It\u2019s great to have. We don\u2019t get in calls from Alaska; so this is great. How are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m doing great. Thank you. I appreciate everything that you do for us fighting the fight on a daily basis. I was just calling to make a comment about Taylor Swift. In 2016, Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry were out there banging down college dorm doors telling people to get out to vote, and obviously that didn\u2019t work. Miley Cyrus was crying after Donald Trump was elected. I think most of us mainstream Americans, middle Americans aren\u2019t afraid of the Democrats and Taylor Swift telling people to vote.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, I totally understand that. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I tried to say that I could go either way, up or down, inside out, backwards, forwards, on Taylor Swift. My comment was on the media reaction to Taylor Swift. So here\u2019s Taylor Swift. She comes out and says she can\u2019t stand that woman running for the Senate in Tennessee. Just can\u2019t stand her! The media, desperate, then reports that Taylor Swift\u2019s comments caused massive Democrat voter registration.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re just making it up. Then the president announces he\u2019s gonna have lunch with Kanye West in the Oval Office tomorrow. What happens next? Mr. Jay-Z and Mrs. Jay-Z, Beyonce, come out and denounce Kanye &#8212; and Kim Kardashians, a twofer. They denounce Kanye and his wife, Kim Kardashians. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift hosts some music awards show last night; nobody watched it. The ratings plummeted to an all-time low.<\/p>\n<p>So how can it be that Taylor Swift sponsored, inspired massive voter registration drive after criticizing a Republican Senate candidate in Tennessee? You know, where is this massive belief and support? If she\u2019s got this popularity and people can\u2019t wait to do what she says and express their support, then why didn\u2019t the same people turn out and watch her show? &#8220;Oh, we\u2019re not supposed to ask the question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two different things, Rush! You can\u2019t extrapolate voter registration drives and audiences for awards shows.&#8221; I can. You people can make it up left and right. I can draw my own analogies. I can ask these questions. I\u2019m happy to hear you say out there that this stuff doesn\u2019t intimidate you. I think it hasn\u2019t intimidated average Republican voters in a long time. Elected Republicans are a bit all of different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The media said record voter registration after Taylor Swift.  How many people bought that? 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