The right-wing has a number of pseudo-newscasters who slant the news and sometimes outright lie to push their political agenda. They are disgusting. But I believe there is one right-wing purveyor of hate and intolerance that is much worse than any of the others. Rush Limbaugh has resided in the bigotry gutter so long it should carry his name forever. And it looks like I am not alone in that opinion.
The Harris Poll did a survey to find out who the most and least respected news personalities were in the United States. Rush Limbaugh won the crown for least respected hands down -- no one else was even close. This was so in 2008 (when 42% named him least respected) and is still true in 2012 when an even higher percentage (46%) labeled him that way. The poll was done between January 16th and 23rd of 2,016 people nationwide. Here are the numbers of the top three, both for least and most respected:
LEAST RESPECTED
General Public
Rush Limbaugh..........46%
Bill O'Reilly..........31%
Nancy Grace..........23%
Republicans
Nancy Grace..........25%
Rush Limbaugh..........24%
Chris Matthews..........18%
Democrats
Rush Limbaugh..........66%
Bill O'Reilly..........45%
Sean Hannity..........23%
Independents
Rush Limbaugh..........49%
Bill O'Reilly..........31%
Nancy Grace..........25%
MOST RESPECTED
General Public
Diane Sawyer..........23%
Anderson Cooper..........19%
Brian Williams..........19%
Republicans
Bill O'Reilly..........29%
Sean Hannity..........25%
Rush Limbaugh..........22%
Democrats
Diane Sawyer..........28%
Anderson Cooper..........24%
Brian Williams..........24%
Independents
Diane Sawyer..........25%
Anderson Cooper..........21%
Brian Williams...........20%
This somewhat restores my faith in the general public. I also found it interesting that more Republicans had Limbaugh on the least respected list (24%) than had him on the most respected list (22%).
The news personality I have the most respect for is Rachel Maddow. About 16% of Democrats agree with me, and 7% of the general public.
That image looks like that Annoying Orange character.
ReplyDeleteI'm not fond of any of them..I like Bob on cbs.
ReplyDeleteThe shame is that other then Rachel the only straight news is on the Comedy channel.
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