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RUSH: NPR on Friday, a program called On the Media, their host is Brooke Gladstone, and she\u2019s speaking with a political reporter from WNYC (that\u2019d be the PBS station of New York) named Matt Katz about the presidential race. And they\u2019re talking about Trump and his decision to skip the debate.<\/p>\n

GLADSTONE: If the Beltway pundits were shocked at the audacity of Trump\u2019s debate snub, commentators outside the mainstream saw it coming a mile away. Talk radio guru Rush Limbaugh<\/a>…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: He is controlling the media. He controls the media when he\u2019s not on it. He controls the media when he is on it. He controls the media when he\u2019s asleep. Nobody else has been able to do anything like this short of the Kennedys, and they\u2019re pikers compared to the way Trump is doing this.<\/line><\/p>\n

GLADSTONE: To any of you who may have heard rumors of talk radio\u2019s decline, all I can say is: Not this primary season. This truly is conservative talk radio\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s NPR on the El Rushbo sound bites on NPR. Same program, same host, Brooke Gladstone talking to Matt Katz, the reporter. After that sound bite, she turns to Katz and says, “Matt Katz, political reporter for WNYC, is an avid listener to conservative talk radio. Has conservative talk radio taken a side, Trump or Cruz?”<\/p>\n

KATZ: They are mostily (sic) playing it coy, led by Rush Limbaugh who will sometimes have mild critiques of one or the other and his criticism is read very carefully like tea leaves to see what he really means. It\u2019s very interesting to see that, unlike previous elections, talk radio has two guys that are sort of — personify their ideal Republican candidate. Trump is starting to supplant Cruz and not because of ideological reasons. He has more pizazz than Cruz. Trump has this cross-cultural appeal. It\u2019s not all angry old white men who like him, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m told is consistent with the listenership talk radio. It\u2019s a little bit more diverse than you might expect.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here\u2019s two sound bites where at NPR they say, “Wait a minute, talk radio\u2019s not in decline, and it\u2019s not just angry white guys.” What did they put in the soup over there in the cafeteria at NPR? And here they are trying to read the tea leaves trying to figure out what am I really saying. You don\u2019t have to “read the tea leaves” with me! (chuckling) I tell you what I think. I don\u2019t speak in code. Anyway, there\u2019s more here. So after these two bites, talk radio not in decline, and, hey, you know what? “It\u2019s not all angry old white guys. It\u2019s a little bit more diverse than you might expect.”<\/p>\n

So then the hostette comes back and says, “Cruz\u2019s campaign chairman said that the reach of talk radio\u2019s greater than every other medium. I guess that\u2019s possible. Radio signals blanket the country even more thoroughly than TV signals, but does it have greater influence than TV?” Now, this is a fascinating question. The whole notion of radio signals blanket more than TV? You ever heard of cable? In determining which medium is dominant, that\u2019s not a factor, the coverage of the country by virtue of waves.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s content, content, content. It has always been content, content, content, and it\u2019s always going to be content, content, content. My contention is that you people, if you had to, would go out and get a couple of tin cans and a piece of string to listen to this program if that\u2019s the only way you could, no matter what tech advances there are. Because it\u2019s content, content, content. So, “Is it possible that radio is having greater influence than television, Matt? Is it possible?”<\/p>\n

<\/a>KATZ: It\u2019s hard to get a sense of the numbers. The role of it in the larger communication apparatus of conservatives is really the way to evaluate its influence, I think. They represents (sic) the grassroots, whatever that might mean.<\/p>\n

GLADSTONE: Is that another way of saying “the base,” which is another way of saying “the most extreme”?<\/p>\n

KATZ: Yeah! Yeah!<\/p>\n

GLADSTONE: (giggling)<\/p>\n

KATZ: I think that\u2019s totally fair. I mean, it\u2019s hard to understand until you listen how much these people can\u2019t stand their elected Republicans. They believe their elected officials have for too long neglected their voices.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, there is a type… You know, at NPR — and I don\u2019t want to be too sarcastic here, because they\u2019re finally getting some things right. But, “It\u2019s hard to get a sense of the numbers. The role of it in the larger communication apparatus of conservatives is really the way to evaluate its influence, I think. They [represent] the grassroots whatever that might mean.” “Is that another way of saying ‘the base,\u2019 which is another way of saying…?”<\/p>\n

These people don\u2019t know what the grassroots is! It\u2019s like it\u2019s foreign language to \u2019em, and they may not know. The grassroots is as far away from Washington as you can get. As far as these people are concerned, the center of the universe is Washington. “Grassroots? What do they mean, the grassroots?” But they\u2019re listening. They\u2019re trying to figure it out. Here\u2019s the final bite between these two…<\/p>\n

<\/a>KATZ: Absolutely. Rush is right when he says this<\/a>…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: “Talk radio,” it\u2019s a euphemism. “Talk radio” means the base of the party. “Talk radio” means the grassroots. “Talk radio” means “Tea Party,” what have you.<\/p>\n

KATZ: It is not just a medium. Talk radio represents a (sic) ideology. Polls indicate that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump will, in Iowa, finish in first or second place, and it is no surprise that they are the two most popular candidates on conservative talk. And if, uh, Donald Trump becomes the president, we will have a talk radio host as the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Weeeell. Wee-ee-eell. So you realize what this guy is saying, whether he realizes it or not? (interruption) What\u2019s he saying? What\u2019s this guy saying? When he says, “We\u2019re gonna have a talk radio host as president?” (interruption) Well, no, he\u2019s saying… (interruption) No, no. No, no, no. He\u2019s not saying that. He\u2019s saying that Trump has adopted the characteristics of talk radio in order to succeed. That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying. You think he\u2019s saying that talk radio will have so much influence that it will elect the next president.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what you think he\u2019s saying. He might be saying that; I don\u2019t know. But, “If Donald Trump becomes the president we\u2019ll have a talk radio host…” I think they see Trump and they see bombast and all that. “That\u2019s talk radio!” But then these guys went out and actually started researching, they found it\u2019s more than the bombast, it\u2019s more than anger, it\u2019s more than the white guys. “Oh, gee, you know what? This is really big. It\u2019s much bigger than we thought. Oh, wow.” This is NPR. Remember: “Without your pledge, we will not dust.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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