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RUSH: I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard this or not, but last week, Fox News became the most-watched cable channel of all of them throughout all of last week, including the USA Network. In fact, Fox was the number one, most viewed cable network of all them, throughout all of last week — not just cable news. All of cable. During the Boston bombings and the subsequent manhunt, Fox averaged 2.874 million viewers during primetime, 1.77 million in total day. <\/p>\n

Now, is that not fascinating? To become number one in all of cable you don\u2019t even need three million viewers, that\u2019s how fractured it is. That\u2019s how many cable networks there are divvying up the American audience, 2.874 million, and 1.77 million in total day. CNN was in third place, 1.985 million in primetime, 1.3 million in the daytime. MSNBC dropped off the radar. They ended up in 19th place, fewer than one million viewers tuned in in primetime. Fewer than 600,000 in total day. <\/p>\n

Now, this is big for one reason. CNN used to be it. Now, CNN benefited from being the only cable news network for a while. As recently as 1988, when this program started, the only cable news network was CNN. That was it, CNN plus the networks and newspapers, that was it, when this program started. Fox didn\u2019t come along until 1996. CNN used to be the go-to network when any disaster or major breaking news occurred. And even as Fox has overtaken CNN in recent years, that dynamic not all that long ago still held when there were major breaking news, like the war, CNN would get the viewers. They don\u2019t anymore. <\/p>\n

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Left-wing liberal cable news networks are dying, and how are they dealing with it? Becoming more left-wing and liberal. They\u2019re becoming more radical, and they\u2019re becoming — I\u2019ll tell you, folks, it dovetails with my often recently expressed theory that there isn\u2019t any news anymore, that every time you turn on cable TV, all you\u2019re getting is the Democrat Party agenda. You know what the primary focus of MSNBC and CNN is? In addition to promoting and expanding the Obama agenda, which happens to be the Democrat Party agenda, but believe me, it\u2019s Obama driving it with these networks, the reason they exist and the narrative of every story they put out is how conservatives are wrong and how Republicans are wrong, how you can\u2019t agree with them and how they\u2019re bad, how they\u2019re rotten. Those are the two narratives that make up CNN and MSNBC. And the cable viewing public, well, all of cable, but the news viewing public is not interested. <\/p>\n

\"large\"<\/a>Now, some people are hearing this and are saying, “Well, Rush, it ain\u2019t all that hot because Fox ain\u2019t all that conservative anymore.” And I understand that. People remark to me, “You know, it\u2019s not what it was.” And they give me examples, all the liberal commentators that happen to show up there and people say, “The only real conservative on that network anymore is Hannity.” Which, in a strict sense, may be true. But the one thing still that Fox does, Fox reports news. During the day, Fox reports news. Now, at night Fox News is talk radio on television, but during the day they report news. And they cover things the other networks don\u2019t cover. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re at CNN today and you see this or you\u2019re at MSNBC, what\u2019s the reaction, what do these people do? They\u2019re gonna double down with more liberalism. They\u2019re gonna double down with more radicalism. They\u2019re gonna tell people the audience is stupid. They\u2019re gonna tell themselves that the audience doesn\u2019t understand them, that they\u2019re not sophisticated enough. And they\u2019re gonna wear this low ratings, no ratings, as a badge of honor. <\/p>\n

At the White House Correspondents Dinner, I guarantee you, which is Saturday night, at the White House Correspondents Dinner, CNN and MSNBC will be praised and called out and singled out for the great work that they\u2019re doing. Fox News will be laughed at, impugned, made fun of, while Fox News executives and staff are there. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t go to the thing anymore. You know, politics is show biz for the ugly, and I gave up on this thing 20 years ago, maybe even longer. Why go sit in a room of 3,000 people that don\u2019t like you? <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t put it in their face if I showed up. At any rate, I just wanted to point this out. But stop and think here, folks, 2.8 million viewers primetime wins over every cable network: HBO, USA, Food Network, E! Entertainment, TMZ, you name it. <\/p>\n

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Well, I\u2019m just sitting here thinking about that, but I don\u2019t want to go there. Because people would then say that I\u2019m bragging, that I bring it up for that. I\u2019m not gonna compare my audience ratings to this. It\u2019s two different things, two different balls of wax. Anyway, congratulations to the people at Fox. It\u2019s a big deal because the really important thing about this is what they have done with CNN. Folks, CNN used to own it. A story like last week, they used to own it, but now CNN — John King is apologizing. John King said it was embarrassing what happened last week \u2019cause they ran with whatever stuff they were told. They ran with all this stuff that turned out not to be true. Well, let me find the number here. Hang on just a second. It\u2019s audio sound bite number 17. John King, and this was on the radio in Washington this morning. Here\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n

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KING: When you do something like this, it\u2019s embarrassing. One thing you do have to do is look straight in the camera and say, “We were wrong.” In this case we had two reputable sourses, one of mine and one of a colleagues of mine who have been reliable in the past and who simply had bad information. And we went with it, and we had to correct it. The best way to deal with it is to look people in the eye and say, “We make a mistake, here\u2019s how we make the mistake,” and then move on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Now, if last week was embarrassing, then every week must be, because last week was not that out of the ordinary. I mean, last week might have been a little different in the focused importance of the news, but getting things wrong? Go back to Newtown, go back to Columbine. I mean, these people, after the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting, what did they do? Tea Party. They are alienating statistically half of the country that\u2019s a potential viewing audience, they\u2019re alienating. And apologizing, I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s gonna count. <\/p>\n

Anyway, it isn\u2019t news anymore and that\u2019s where this is all falling apart. And I tell you, what I take from this, we have not reached the tipping point where the vast majority of people in this country are liberal. We\u2019ve not reached it. We are still being governed by a minority, and I think it\u2019s a pretty small minority, actually, in real terms. And it\u2019s governing against the will of the people in this country. The percentage of thinking in this country, the radically left liberal, is not the majority. It\u2019s made to look that way. It\u2019s made to appear that way. But these audience numbers blow that to smithereens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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