Rush Limbaugh Defends Roger Ailes And Fox News Viewers From Rolling Stone ‘Hit Piece’

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by Matt Schneider | 5:41 pm, May 26th, 2011

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Fox News chief Roger Ailes is being profiled a lot lately, and now Rolling Stone magazine took a crack with their article “How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory.” Yet Rush Limbaugh has seen enough and took on the “arrogance and smugness” of the writer, and defended the intelligence of Fox News viewers in the process.

Rush read the following paragraph from the article as he attempted to dismantle every claim within it:

“According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers. They are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses, 17 points more likely to believe Muslims want to establish Shariah law in America, 30 points more likely to say that scientists dispute global warming, and 31 points more likely to doubt President Obama’s citizenship. In fact, a study by the University of Maryland reveals, ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network. That’s because Ailes isn’t interested in providing people with information, or even a balanced range of perspectives. Like his political mentor, Richard Nixon, Ailes traffics in the emotions of victimization.”

Rush suggested every opinion the writer was attempting to mock Fox News viewers for having (with the exception of Obama’s citizenship) was actually the accurate position on each issue. In other words, in Rush’s opinion, Fox News viewers are “much more connected to reality” than anyone at Rolling Stone. Rush concluded:

“Who in truth is worthless to news. Rolling Stone. This reporter. . . . Who in truth has been programmed to believe things that are in no way associated with the truth? This guy who wrote this hit piece at Rolling Stone and obviously their readers who lap this crap up.”

Listen to the clip below from The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

One half of GOP leadership sticking up for the other half. How surprising. Die Rush, die.
Sam M.

I think it was Ailes Viagra that Limbaugh had in his possession.
kvon

Facts are a funny thing. If they were made of butter maybe Rush would like them more.
Barack Must Go

Rush Limbaugh Defends Roger Ailes And Fox News Viewers From Rolling Stone ‘Hit Piece’

Obama has got to be having a covert op with one of those fellows over at the ” Rolling Stone “.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Phil-Bourekas/1538058627 Phil Bourekas

I’m sure the rolling stone reporter spent a lot of time asking Ailes questions, getting into his head, as opposed to reading other anti-fox articles and synthesizing those opinions.

“Die, Rush, die”. “Ailes Viagra”. Rush likes butter. I’m sure these insights and more are available from the rolling stone article too.

Stay classy.
Sam M.

Barack Must Go said:
Rush Limbaugh Defends Roger Ailes And Fox News Viewers From Rolling Stone ‘Hit Piece’

Obama has got to be having a covert op with one of those fellows over at the ” Rolling Stone “.

I’ll bet you have your nuts tied up in rubber bands.
http://www.facebook.com/SinghNitish nitish

a coupla days ago, Mediaite runs a piece somewhat mocking Media Matters influence
@ http://www.mediaite.com/online/ny-mag-relatively-responsible-arbiters-at-media-matters-deserve-credit-for-becks-demise-at-fox/

Huh? As we have noted here at Mediaite, Media Matters has struggled to be taken seriously by anyone apart from their own loyal following. That is not to say that we do not trust their investigative pieces. We often do. But, as we have reported before, the vast majority of their stories fall on deaf ears because they are not viewed as responsible arbiters.

today, they run a piece sourced from Media Matters…
is Mediaite outing itself as part of MMFA’s “loyal following” ?
James Randal

The fat pig should pop a few more pills….
Barack Must Go

Sam M. said:
I’ll bet you have your nuts tied up in rubber bands.

How much?
Kitsune

Publius219 said:
One half of GOP leadership sticking up for the other half. How surprising. Die Rush, die.

Remember, as long as you’re a progressive, it’s perfectly OK to call for people’s deaths!
seek

lol again the Maryland survey. The kids were too dumb to know the answers they claimed were wrong – were provably right. We chalked it up to ill informed students. Glad to see Rolling Stone went with their survey.

look who funded the poll:
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/12/20/soros-funded-university-poll-says-fox-news-viewers-most-misinform

ahh shucks Ollie, it’s just a quinky dink!
JasonMays

seek said:
lol again the Maryland survey. The kids were too dumb to know the answers they claimed were wrong – were provably right. We chalked it up to ill informed students. Glad to see Rolling Stone went with their survey. look who funded the poll:http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/12/20/soros-funded-university-poll-says-fox-news-viewers-most-misinform ahh shucks Ollie, it’s just a quinky dink!

Hilarious…. this the same day a video of kids at Georgetown who “love free speech” as long as it’s not Conservatives speaking freely.

Liberals are dangerously stupid.
Rgentum

the intelligence of Fox News viewers

An oxymoron.
Pablo

Oh, yeah. Big time Republicans, heeling to Roger Ailes.

“Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us,” said David Frum, the former Bush speechwriter. “Now we’re discovering that we work for Fox.”

I’ve got some bad news for you Dave. You’re unemployed. You don’t work for anyone, let alone Fox. That includes the Republican Party, which you also do not work for. You don’t work for National Review. You don’t work for AEI. You don’t work for anybody, Dave. Unless you’re pulling a check from Spooky Dude.
J Baustian

seek said:
lol again the Maryland survey. The kids were too dumb to know the answers they claimed were wrong – were provably right. We chalked it up to ill informed students. Glad to see Rolling Stone went with their survey.

look who funded the poll:
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/12/20/soros-funded-university-poll-says-fox-news-viewers-most-misinform

ahh shucks Ollie, it’s just a quinky dink!

I am just surprised that it took Rush this long to 1) learn about the poll, and 2) learn how unreliable it was.

The WorldPublicOpinion.org poll was published December 230 2010, and was thoroughly debunked at the time.

We’ve discussed this over and over the last few days, as part of the threads about Fox being the most-trusted network for news.
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-OLeary/1023443846 John O’Leary

Once again – a biased perspective from this Mediaite columnist. He doesn’t challenge Rush’s belief that Fox’s position was “actually the accurate position on each issue.” This columnist gives conservatives a free pass on at least 75% of his posts. Soon we’ll need a publication to referee these Mediaite pieces for media bias. How about mentioning the irony most people would find in Rush Limbaugh being the arbiter of “arrogance and smugness”??