This is a Salon article. We’re nothing but mind-numbed robots that follow talk radio hosts to our doom as far as they know.
Those "leading radio hosts" have followed, not marshaled, the conservatives.
Camille Paglia's analysis, "Blood-and-guts politics," gets most of it correct except for her attribution of rank and file Conservatives' attitudes toward McCain. When she states that "...conservatives marshaled by leading radio hosts have hotly rebelled against the onrushing nomination of Sen. John McCain..." she is wrong. In fact, it is Conservatives who have marshaled the radio talk show hosts. For just one example, on the leading Conservative web site, Free Republic.com, members there have overwhelmingly, and for a considerable time before Rush or Sean took up issue with McCain, rejected McCain as their choice for the GOP front-runner. Now that the issue of McCain has become contentious within the GOP, let's get it right: Conservatives are not led by radio talk show hosts.
-- Rudder