From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Rush's TV Show: Will it Succeed?
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Date: 10 Sep 92 20:24:06 PST
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In article <1992Sep8.015752.5822@afterlife.ncsc.mil> acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams) writes:
> Okay, tough question: what are the chances of Rush's tv show
> succeeding?
>

Depends :)

> I don't see it as very likely. In most places, its on late-night.
> I'm sorry, but I don't think that at midnight people are going
> to want Rush Limbaugh-style talk. After all, late night
> programming, except for Nightline, tends to be very light
> fare - Arsenio, Letterman, Leno... I don't think a lot
> of people are going to give up comedy and celebrity interviews
> for solid politics, especially very strong views like Rush's.
>

Rush Limbaugh's style is light fare, too.  Feminazi TV commercials
ought to be hilarious if done well...  As for other late night fare,
I am a night person.  I typically watch nightline, then Crossfire,
then C-SPAN.  Arsenio has an excellent show.  So does Letterman.
Jay Leno does not make me laugh - in fact, he comes across as a
hateful and vengeful person (to me).

> Also, while right-wing views are popular on talk radio, right wing
> TV shows have generally failed - look at Morton Downey. Admittedly,
> Downey took a far more abrasive style than Rush, but viewpoint-wise,
> they aren't that different.
>

Morton Downey Jr. and Rush may be alike in this way only:  They both
act like they have common sense.

> Knowing how he feels about interviews (hates them, unless it's a buddy
> of his), that's another strike against him. If the show will be
> interview-oriented, well then, I'm wrong here, but one hour of solid talk
> from one solitary person is a lot different from one solid hour of
> talk (without phone calls, its not a live show).
>

I doubt it will be an interview show.  I hope he does use a lot of video
clips - his funny commercials AND demonstrations of how the media bias
works.  He WILL be the most dangerous man on TV in that case.

All Rush has to do is to show just a little of the liberal TV broadcasting
that goes on in the Bay Area here, and people in the rest of the country
will be apalled.  I mean, the open talk of sex alone is typically not tolerated
elsewhere in the country.  I could care less that they talk about sex so much,
but they just look stupid instead of looking intelligent.  That's MY OPINION.


> And I'm willing to guarantee that if the show fails, he'll blame
> the "liberal media" for putting him in bad time slots.

Frankly, i do not see him failing.  However, I do not see him becoming
the king of late night, either.  He might be like Joan Rivers on daytime
TV - able to have a show of his own with its own following and enough support
to keep it on the air.

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