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Originally Posted by aceventura3
No more than Larry the Cable Guy is! Sure Rush has a radio talk show, but that is not my standard for mainstream media. I think of shows like Meet The Press, publications like the New York Times, News Week, etc, as the mainstream media. I think of Rush has having a fringe audience, perhaps that is why I don't understand why liberals seem to be obsessed with him. Like many, I now listen to his show when I am driving around just to see what all the fuss is about. Same with Beck. When I first saw his show, I thought he was a joke, and never watched again until, I was virtually forced to, just to see what he was actually saying.
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Wait.... an 8-year, $400-million deal with Clear Channel and over 15 million weekly listeners and you don't consider that mainstream?
Wow....since when is an audience of 15 million a fringe audience? The New York Times doesn't even have 1 million in its daily circulation. Does that make the Times a fringe newspaper? Even if you consider NYTimes.com's 18 million or so unique visitors, I'd hardly call Limbaugh's show "fringe." It's currently the most listened-to radio show in America.
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