Right wing talk radio and Fox News don't really want a Republican President

[Fumesucker]

Yeah, they have a political agenda but money comes before politics (or anything else for that matter) for these slimeballs and there is nothing on this planet that will increase their ratings and hence their income than a Hillary Clinton Presidency.

RW talk radio and Fox are all about anger, anger is addictive and will keep people tuning in to get another fix. A Republican government doing what they say they want is the last thing the rabble rousers actually want because then their target audience will not be as angry and they will lose a percentage of them and with that loss comes a loss of income.

They are pushing their audience toward the most extreme candidates, Trump and Carson, because they think those will be the weakest Republican candidates in the general. Yes, the base will come out and vote like crazy for them but for both parties the base cannot win on their own, they need some swing voters and any halfway sane swing voters are going to go to the Democratic candidate rather than the obviously unhinged Republican one.

Follow the money.

[CanonRay]

1. I think Rushbo is literally killing his audience

Hate and anger are why middle aged white men are dying younger, IMHO.

[underpants]

3. Great point

His audience is past middle age though

[underpants]

2. Interesting theory

Aside from the horror of a Repubmican President (not even consider they even worse prospect of one from this current crowd) Fox News would be a mess suddenly turning to sunshine and lollipops. They can't control their own crowd now much Boehner couldn't control his poo flinging caucus.

[3catwoman3]

4. Intriguing premise.

If true, then I hope they get exactly what they want - a Democrat in the White House.

[bbgrunt]

5. well, haters gotta hate--it's what they do.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. If one looks to the Demographic of

the Fake Noise-Reich Wing Radio,what is it. Older White persons,who suffer from the Oppression Complex,many living at or below the poverty line,and some who are very vocal and able to be financially self sufficient. The item that really sticks out is,they for the most part are the boomers who as children were given the best education,health care,and opportunities for high paying jobs with retirement defined pensions. And to think they as a group refuse to pass the same opportunities to their children and Grand children. Try this on,heard this from a Wing Nut Rellie,if my kids don't have their crap together by the time they are forty,well kiss my butt,cause I ain't sharing. Wow,and he was just plain lucky he was able to have a decent retirement,defined pension,early buy out at a double rate,and his children received free Post High School Education due to a divorce. I think we all have one or more of these cases in our family tree. And to think,it never bothered my spouse and I that from time to time we helped our parents during their so called retirement years. What to hell has happened to our country?

[Fumesucker]

7. Not completely but to a big extent they have been radicalized for profit

I was a commute time talk radio listener for about a decade from the late 80's through the late 90's, what I figured out is that the stations and the hosts don't give a damn whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, all they want is your ears and making you angry will keep you tuning back in.

In my case listening to talk radio didn't make me conservative, it drove me even more liberal as I found one error of fact or logic after another. Once I figured out that their only aim was to make the listener angry I stopped listening.

Money is the object and political radicalization is more of a convenient side effect for them. Liberals aren't nearly as likely to tune in to a liberal talk show as conservatives are to tune into a conservative one and conservatives just won't listen to a liberal show so you end up with an overwhelming percentage of conservative shows all competing with each other to make the listeners as angry as possible.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Seems the so called Talk Radio format is the for

Conservative and Liberal. Just scream the same themes day in day out. The big take away that I have seen is,one,each group preach the same end justifies the means . Two,the Conservatives bottom line is fascism. Three,we liberal folks want to make our Nation more responsible to the next generation and in that lies the fact that our elected representatives tend to succumb to what is know as the Washington Virus and tend to follow the money and power and ego trips. When Raygun and his crew refused to follow the Fairness Doctrine, all hell has broke loose. Of course Billy did not do us any favors either.

[WillowTree]

9. Don't kid yourself. They all did just fine during the Bush years.