It’s not Rush. If Rush were suddenly off the air would you still be a conservative? I know I would. Rush preaches to the choir and is entertaining in doing so but I don’t think he’s “influential” in that way.
Now a name that has suddenly cropped up in my mind that I didn’t think of before is Matt Drudge.
Who is Jon Stewart “preaching to”, if not young-to-middle-aged ‘intellectuals’?
Limbaugh has much more influence on American life than does Jon Stewart, who has a 1/2 cable show with a fraction of Limbaugh’s audience. I don’t recall Jon Stewart being called out by the opposition on the floor of the House or Senate; some loony Dem does this to Limbaugh once a month or so. Hell, the phony President even lectured the GOP congresscritters not to listen to Limbaugh, because “that’s not how DC works.”