Maybe Americans Are Catching On

For five years we have been watching one of the most dishonest and incompetent presidents this nation has ever seen and that president has been backed to the hilt by right wing media types. But Bush's approval ratings have been dropping ever since Katrina and the fiasco that followed. I suppose it finally dawned on tens of millions of Americans that if Katrina is a close-up example of how Bush operates, one can begin to understand why Iraq is such a mess.

Raw Story has an article on the falling ratings of right wing websites and blogs:

An odd thing seems to have happened to mighty right-wing talking head media juggernaut. They are still talking, but fewer people seem to be listening -- at least on the Internet.

Alexa.com -- http://alexa.com -- which is owned and operated by Amazon.com, tracks online usage for all Web sites, large and small. At Alexa.com, you can check a site's activity up to the minute, or follow its trail back for many years.

At U.S. Politics Today, we thought it might be interesting to see how the right-wing media machine was doing. Not well, it turns out.

During the past three months, for instance, http://rushlimbaugh.com traffic ranking has declined 18 percent. He still huffs and puffs away daily on radio, but advertisers might want to double check the size of his audience. If the bottom has dropped out on him online, it likely has had a similar trend line with his radio show.

Even Fox News, that gold standard of right-wing media, is down 13 percent. Here are the numbers: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.foxnews.com

Ann Coulter is coining money by attacking widows and orphans -- a new game for her since she's run out of Democrats, living and dead, to defame and verbally pillage. You would think with all of the attention the promotion of her new book has given her would raise visitor numbers at her Web site, http://anncoulter.com. Nope. Traffic there is down 10 percent.

What was it that Churchill said? Something like, it's not the beginning of the end, but maybe it is the end of the beginning. We have a long ways to go to turn things around in this country but there are, at last, some encouraging signs. Bush may remain unrepentent for another two and a half years and for all I know he may relish doing nothing about our problems but Americans are about done with the right wing talk and know in their hearts that a time of getting some work done is coming.