Rush's Timeless Wisdom - Rush Limbaugh Audience Among Most Knowledgeable and Educated in All of American Media

RUSH: I just got this, and I’m not able to study it and really make a whole lot of sense out of it. It’s a Pew survey on who watches television and what the partisan political split of various TV show audiences is and all. You get down to what the Pew — P-e-w — survey of this stuff, you get down to one section, who’s got the smartest, who has the most knowledgeable audience, and on television — just listen to what this says. ‘On television, The O’Reilly Factor, has the most knowledgeable audience, 27% of the audience are college grads, which matches the national average,’ but, but:

Only three audiences in the Pew survey scored higher on high knowledge than O’Reilly at his Factor TV show. Regular readers of The New Yorker and the Atlantic, regular Rush Limbaugh listeners, and regular Weekly Standard and New Republic readers. I don’t know if there’s anybody above that. I don’t have that, because radio and this stuff is not part of the survey, at least from the website that I’m reading this from. But I have always known it. I have always known that you people are among the most knowledgeable, engaged, informed, and educated people listening to any media in the country today. I think I found documented evidence of it here from Pew, but it’s just a little aside in a story about television audiences.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just got this and I'm not able to study it,
and it really made a whole lot of sense out
of it, because it's about it's a Pew survey on
who watches television and what the partisan political split of
various TV show audiences is, and all they get down
and what's a Pew p U, p e W survey
of of this stuff? And you get down to one section,
who's got smartest, who has the most knowledgeable audience? And

(00:24):
on television? And just just listen to what this says
on television, it's the O'Reilly factor has the most knowledgeable
audience of the audience of college grads, which Matt's matches
the national average. But but only three audiences in the
Pew survey scored higher on high knowledge than O'Reilly and

(00:45):
his factor. TV show regular readers of The New Yorker
and The Atlantic, regular Rush Limball listeners, and regular Weekly
Standard New Republic readers. I don't know if there's anybody
above that. I don't have that because radio and this
stuff is not part of the survey, at least in
the website that I'm reading this from. But I have

(01:07):
always known it. I have always known that you people
are among the most knowledgeable, engaged, informed, and educated people uh,
listening to any media in the country today, and I
think I can't. I think I found documented evidence of
it here from from Pew, but it's just a little

(01:28):
aside in a story about television audiences. I had some
time to dig deep into this Pew survey for people
in the press, and it starts out here. I say
news audience is very widely in age, education, and how
much they know about what's going on in the nation
and the world. And then there's a ranking here of

(01:51):
various television programs. UH at any rate, judged by their
answers to three knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong
to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, The O'Reilly Factor,
news magazines, and online news sources, close behind the regular

(02:15):
audiences for NPR and The Daily Show. Uh. It doesn't
look good for the major broadcast networks at any rate.
Education age and knowledge college grads. This program number two
at thirty seven percent. The average age of the audience

(02:37):
of this program fifty one, and the high knowledge score
is forty eight. And it's number two. This program number
two in all of American media in education and knowledge.
It is uh preceded only by the weekly standard. New
Republic readers thirty eight percent, college grads thirty eight the average.

(02:59):
A yeah, so the lips are dragging us down a
little bit. Uh yeah, lip well that the lips may
be dragging down a weekly standard a bit