RUSH: This is Alex in Jacksonville. It\u2019s great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is my first-time call and I\u2019m super excited. I just wanted to call you just to say, you know, I\u2019m 23, I\u2019m a Millennial, I\u2019m a Hispanic and a conservative woman. So that\u2019s like, you know, odd right there. But I just wanted to affirm that, you know, yes, young people really are listening to… You were talking about this earlier. They really are listening to AM radio and talk radio more. You know, we don\u2019t trust a lot of… Especially Christians. I\u2019m a Christian. We don\u2019t trust social media and, you know, CNN for news anymore, and you feel like you can trust, you know, talk radio. So I just wanted to say that, yeah, people are — we\u2019re definitely leaning more toward talk radio.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I appreciate your saying that. We here at talk radio have audience research, ratings and so forth, and we know that what you say is true. But it\u2019s tough to ballyhoo it. It\u2019s, “Hey, man, we\u2019re…” I mean, it\u2019s true. The audience of this program today is larger than it has ever been. I mean, by six, seven, eight million people. Twenty-six, 27 million people a week now. For the longest time the audience was steady at 20 to 22, depending on the vagaries of ratings.<\/p>\n
And we know that it is a lot of young people tuning in. The rest of the media hasn\u2019t caught up with this yet because they\u2019re still living in their little silos where they think talk radio\u2019s old, it\u2019s outdated; so is radio. “Everything is social media today, everything is television today, everything is videos, everything has to be visual or young people aren\u2019t interested.” We know that that\u2019s not the case, and your call here validates that and I\u2019m thrilled.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m thrilled that you\u2019re out there. Can I ask you a question about something?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You said you\u2019re 23 and obviously, if you\u2019re listening here, then you\u2019re politically savvy. You\u2019re politically aware. I want to run a quote by you. There\u2019s a woman that used to be on Fox News as a contributor. Her name is Kirsten Powers. She went over to CNN, and she was on the air Friday. I just want to get your reaction to this, okay? She said that all white females who supported Donald Trump were racist. All! She was referring to white females who support Trump and said, “They\u2019ll say, ‘Well, I\u2019m not racist.<\/p>\n