Fox sweeps Rush Limbaugh under the rug

[Joanne98]

by Jed Lewison

Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 07:45:05 PM PST

Question: How do you know when the powers that be at Fox News Channel think something is bad for the Republican Party?

Answer: They ignore it.

With the above axiom in mind, it seems pretty clear that Fox thinks Rush Limbaugh is a problem, because since his ascension to the top of the GOP power structure started to turn south, Fox has barely paid him any attention, fair, balanced, or otherwise.

Here's the numbers, excluding the evening commentary shows (Hannity and O'Reilly, with 19 mentions, and Maddow and Olbermann, with 42 mentions):



As you can see, while CNN and MSNBC covered the controversy extensively, Fox lagged far behind, covering Limbaugh 75% less frequently than the other channels.

The striking thing here is that all last week, Fox promoted their live coverage of Limbaugh's speech, encouraging their audience to watch.

Now, however, they aren't paying nearly as much attention, preferring to ignore a problem that they helped to create, implicitly admitting that Rush is no good for the GOP.

One wonders when Fox will be forced to apologize.

But hey, at least in the meantime they got the topic off of Bobby Jindal.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/3/1488/49216/647/704136

[annabanana]

1. heh. . . pretty telling, IMHO. . . . . .n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Very telling

apparently the powers behind the GOP were all for promoting Limbaugh until it backfired on them. It shows that they really don't feel they have a politician capable of being the spokesperson for the party at this time.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Last night Greta Van Sustren gave RushBo an entire segment with even "The Mannity" making

a guest appearance to sing praises to the new "Dear Leader" of their GOP. :shrug:

[HillWilliam]

4. HA! I hope "Poppy's man" Ayers

is crapping up his back.

They made the monster and let it loose.

Now it's consuming them.

:popcorn:

[nxylas]

5. Wow, that's gonna be one bulging rug

Big, too, if it's going to cover Rush completely.

[falcon97]

6. Beat me to it..... n/t

[musiclawyer]

7. I can't fathom why Obama just doesn't call them out ( Fox News)

I mean, people listen to him. Not indirect such as boycotting. But say direct and out loud factually "Fox is not a legitimate news organization and that's why I don't call on them...whatever... "You're basically a sophisticated propoganda arm of the GOP." That would havwe very far reaching reverberations