Posted on 03/29/2018 2:46:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: We have a theme today. It would be we indict the media again. Nothing is as it is reported. Nothing may be extreme, but it’s pretty close.
We learn more about the so-called March for Our Lives. It is nothing. It was nothing as it was presented, nothing like it was presented to be. And we touched on this briefly yesterday. More data has poured in since and we will be able to update you as the program unfolds today.
The Roseanne TV show, there was a story in Deadline.com and the headline: “‘Roseanne’ Revival’s Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood, Prompts Soul-Searching.” Now, I mentioned this one too yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, that the point that I made about this, and I made this point twice yesterday, and I want to make it again, the Roseanne character is not a conservative and this show is not conservative.
Now, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not knocking it. But with the context of this story, “‘Roseanne’ Revival’s Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood, Prompts Soul-Searching,” I don’t know that Hollywood will ever figure out why this program rated as well as it did, but there are a lot of people assuming that — and, by the way, here is the audience break down. This is fascinating. This was the number one TV show two nights ago, and it dwarfed This is Us and other recent, big ratings success shows. It dwarfed them.
In adults it has a record in a lot of recent years. Eighteen million total, in the adult demographic, this has blown away everything. And so now Hollywood supposedly is soul searching. The number one market where this program had the highest audience as a percentage of that market was Tulsa, Oklahoma. But that’s not what’s shocking. In New York City, this show did not finish in the top 20. In Los Angeles this show did not finish in the top 30. And yet it had the highest ratings of any prime time TV show that anybody can remember in recent years.
This is what is going to shock Hollywood. This is what’s going to shock the media. Because don’t doubt me on this: Everything is programmed to succeed in New York and Los Angeles, because if you do, then you pretty much — let me put it to you this way, and I learned this when we were introducing and rolling out this program. And I don’t want anybody to feel insulted here. And, by the way, the Roseanne numbers kind of disprove this a little bit, but just in terms of numbers.
For this program to succeed, we had to be on the air in New York because advertisers wanted their products advertised to that large market. And if we couldn’t get on the air in New York, we didn’t have a chance of going national. And that is true. I was told that, and it’s true. I was also told this. Remember, we started with 56 radio stations. And the combination of the audience in those 56 stations didn’t even make a dent in what our audience in New York was to become.
And here were the facts of life. If we could get this program on in the top 20 markets, we would have 82% of America covered. Well, we went on to have 110% of America covered. We have over 600 radio stations. But that’s just an indication of where people live. Now, the Roseanne show turns that upside down. There is no way this program could have succeeded being number one in Tulsa. No offense, Tulsa. We own Tulsa, and no offense.
But for this show to have an audience of 18 million and to not finish in the top 20 in New York City, the Tri-State market, nor finish in the top 30 in Los Angeles, whoa! The demographics on that will blow your mind. So advertisers are gonna be looking at that, ABC is gonna be looking at that, all kinds of, quote, unquote, experts are gonna be looking at that and trying to figure out, holy smokes, this throws everything we’ve ever believed upside down. We can have the highest rated show ever and nobody in New York watch it?
Now, given that and Hollywood’s supposedly doing a lot of soul-searching, do you really think they’re gonna act on that? Do you think Hollywood’s gonna start making TV shows that have no interest to people in New York? And further, why didn’t this show have any interest in New York? Why didn’t it have any appeal to people in Los Angeles? Well, there’s a lot of answers to it. I mean, in both cities, you’re talking about high concentrations of raw leftism, raw liberalism. And as part of raw liberalism, you have raw hatred.
But not only that, in Los Angeles and Hollywood, you have some of the biggest class elitists that you have ever run into in your life. And a program set with a lunch bucket family in Illinois is gonna be considered putrid by a bunch of left-wing elites. They don’t care about those people’s lives. They don’t want to watch a TV show about their lives. They don’t care about their problems, because they’ve already made up their mind that they’re a bunch of hayseed hicks. And to add insult to injury, they probably voted for Trump.
I mean, these numbers are really astounding. I mean, it may be a little inside baseball here, but these are turn-the-world-upside-down numbers. This kind of thing is not supposed to be possible. You’re not supposed to be able to win anything if you don’t show up in the top five in New York City. I mean, there’s a reason why all these highfalutin sitcoms on NBC and CBS are situated in New York City and secondly in Los Angeles.
If they tried to do a version of Seinfeld, say, in Oklahoma City — he-he-he-he — well, it doesn’t exist. I don’t think you could find a soup Nazi in any of those locations. But the end result of this now is Hollywood doing some soul-searching. You know, as Mr. Snerdley accurately pointed out yesterday, Hollywood media is a bunch of copycats. But they don’t want to copycats this. That’s why they’re doing the soul-searching. They don’t want to copycat this.
They don’t want… I guarantee you Bob Iger is not running around LA smiling and beaming with pride. “Hey, Bob, we love that show you got about that middle class bunch of hicks in Illinois. Way to go, Bob!” This is not gonna get Bob Iger and his wife all the favorite cocktail party chat. “Bob, what are doing to us? You bring that piece of junk back and it ends up winning? We told you, Bob! We told you! You can’t do that! You can’t expose these people!”
But the key that Hollywood’s gonna look at here? More than likely, they’re gonna look at this and they’re gonna see what they always see: The dividing line in America is conservative versus liberal, in their world. They miss the class elitism — even though they practice it, even though they are card-carrying members of ruling class, upper-class elite clubs. And, by virtue of their membership in these elite clubs, they condescend and look down upon anybody who’s not an elite, to anybody who lives in the Midwest.
Upper or middle or lower, it doesn’t matter. But if Roseanne’s TV show is not conservative — and it isn’t, folks. And I’m not trying to throw cold waters on anything here. So why did the Roseanne show rate? What’s behind this? What could it possibly be, if I’m right and this has nothing to do with conservatism versus liberalism? In other words, people didn’t tune in because they heard there was some brand-new conservative show.
And they want to stick it to the libs and the conservatives feel sort of like reborn, “Because now we’ve finally got a show of our own in prime time and we’re gonna support it and we’re gonna let people know we watch it!” Well, that’s not what happened. The truth is something that the Hollywood moguls and execs and other media titans are gonna have an even bigger problem with. This show, in my humble expert opinion, attracted the audience it attracted solely because people heard that it was going to be supportive of the president, Donald Trump.
Not because it was gonna be conservative, not because it was not gonna be liberal, but because it was going to be conservative. What did I tell you yesterday? This Roseanne family as portrayed on this program is a bunch of Democrats from 20, 30 years ago. These are blue-collar Democrats that Reagan succeeded in getting in the eighties. These are the Democrats the Democrat Party no longer wants — no longer wanted — except at election time.
And the Democrat characters portrayed in this show know full well. That’s why they voted for Trump. You’ve got the modern day Democrat Party leading the way in ruining these people’s lives by virtue of open borders — amnesty for illegal immigrants who cannot speak the language, who will work too cheap to keep wage scales up everywhere else. These are forgotten voters by the Democrat Party, and Roseanne in her interviews even explains it and even on the TV show.
“Hey, we lost our jobs. We had no future. Trump said he’s gonna bring our jobs back, and he did.” These are the kind of people, when Trump starts talking trade deals, their ears pick up. These are the kind of people when Trump starts ragging on NAFTA, their ears pick up, because they think NAFTA and all these trade deals have cut their lives out from under ’em. So what’s Hollywood gonna do if it has the guts to realize that this program practically set a prime time ratings record because it was pro-Trump?
It’d be bad enough if it was conservative, but it’s not that. This is pro-Trump. What does the mainstream media eat, breathe, and live on today? Trump hatred. The entire reason for the existence of all mainstream media today is to destroy Donald Trump, is to force Donald Trump out of office — to humiliate Donald Trump, to embarrass Donald Trump, to expose Donald Trump as a fraud and as a pretender, as an unqualified bupkis who is a boob that’s ruining things, who may have cheated with Russia in order to win the election.
How do they go from that to copycatting this program and have a bunch of other series that are pro-Trump? I don’t see it. But if they do (chuckles), what, then, happens? What if all of a sudden there’s more than Roseanne? There’s a couple of other prime time sitcoms or shows that feature characters predominantly, starring roles who are pro-Trump? You think the left is insane now? Wait ’til something like that were to happen.
And what if it happens in the fall when they introduce new shows for the fall TV season going into the midterm elections and all of a sudden we have a couple of shows that feature starring characters that are pro-Trump? Now, remember our theme today. Nothing… It seems like nothing is as it is reported in the Drive-By Media. The March for Our Lives is the most recent example. I can’t wait to get to those details for you. Something else that I also pointed out in great detail yesterday… (interruption)
Oh, the Pence thing. Yeah, you can prove it. Here’s another bit of evidence on why this Roseanne show is not conservative, folks — and again, I’m not trying to throw cold water on anybody’s party today. But what did Roseanne ’til that idiot Jimmy Kimmel on his show when he was ragging on Trump? She said, “Don’t! Be careful! Because you know what happens if we get rid of Trump. Guess who’s next? It’s Pence.” You see, Roseanne is pro-gay marriage, and Trump never has come out for pro-gay marriage.
She might think Trump is for gay marriage, but he’s never said that he is. But she doesn’t like Pence because she thinks that Pence is anti-gay. And that stems from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana when he was the governor. She and others think that whole thing was an anti-gay piece of legislation or proclamation. In the Roseanne family, I think there’s an LGBTQ character or a gay character or what have you.
So the family is not cultural, and the whole thing here is not about left versus right. It’s a class thing. It’s elitists versus working class. The Roseanne show cast, the characters, that family is a bunch of working-class people that feel like they’ve been forgotten and disgraced and displaced by their own country.
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Anybody here indulge in plot development?
OK. Here goes.
Roseanne comes on in episodes 1 and 2 as a lovable, straight talking mom who had only eyes for Donald Trump. Result? Ratings blowout and all Trump lovers love Roseanne.
Episodes later she starts to question herself given the relentless media assault of “FAKE’ news. Reciting only the MSM version of events. she starts to turn on the President, little by little giving in to Jackie’s interpretations.
As October rolls around and the 2018 campaign heats up, Roseanne dumps Trump and urges “Anyone but Trump”.
Only one way to interpret main stream (ABC) media and why they are risking this.
Your prediction is plausible.
And once Roseanne takes that turn, the ratings will surely tank, a “jump the shark” moment.
Corner Gas was the Canadian Sein, and it took place in the middle of nothing. Rather appropriate for a show about nothing.
Neither were a large segment of Trump's voters. Like Roseanne's working-class Conner family, these are people who don't particularly care one way or another about gay marriage or abortion but they care about their jobs and a standard of living that they saw evaporate during the past three presidential administrations. This is why they voted for Trump.
Rosanne Barr is a liberal, but she did vote for Donald Trump.
I heard Rush’s take on this today, but I’m not sure I buy in.
I do hope he’s right though.
ABC may extend it afterall (lol) but as of now the revival is only scheduled for 9 episodes.
Pray for revival because this sexual perversion is an open door to Islam.
Rosanne at one times was friends with the Clintons this ended some time around the end of her marriage to tom Arnold. her ex husband is still a close friends with Bill Clinton but publicly she despise Hillary for being corrupt. I don’t think that she is an uber supporter of trump. just one of the blue collar pedigree democrats ( parents were blue collar and still holds to those values) The party walked away from this group years ago. I don’t thin that Rosanne Bar will turn on trump in a planed way but if someone she thought was better then trump came forward she is not a loyalist.
I tuned in because I heard that Roseanne was pro-Trump, and that the show would have some pro-Trump things in it (though in recent years I don’t ordinarily watch network comedy shows). I’m pleased that it had such high ratings, and plan on tuning in next week too.
Neither the writing nor the delivery of the lines seemed very good to me, though. The actors appeared to be rusty. Sometimes shows get better as the episodes continue, though. Let’s hope this one does. Anyway, as long as it continues to give some favorable attention to pro-Trump sentiments, I’ll watch occasionally.
The most it can probably achieve, though, is to make some particular Trump issues — and Trump himself — seem not quite so “deplorable”. I expect it to be on the left in many respects, and just a step above being on the left in everything (a welcome change, though).
> “Corner Gas was the Canadian Sein, and it took place in the middle of nothing. Rather appropriate for a show about nothing.”
I liked both Corner Gas and Seinfeld, and have watched all their episodes in rerun or on the net. Of course “Corner Gas” wasn’t as big-city in attitudes as Seinfeld — not surprisingly — and not as centered on dating and sex. I suppose they had some things in common, though (the quality of the funny lines, for one, and some interesting plot twists).
I’ve followed Roseanne on Twitter for a long time. I would say she is hard right on many issues, to the point of what could be considered conspiracy theorism (pizzagate, spirit cooking, etc). I have no doubt that her Trump support is as unwavering as any Trump supporter on this forum.
Fred Thompson
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