But why would there be a market for these racketeers? Does that not imply there are conservatives out there to consume false-conservatism? Or is Rush’s audience, for instance, entirely made up of liberals slowing down to see the car wreck?
Not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing or being devil’s advocate. The left (and enablers like Joe) are now dismissing all of talk radio, internet, and Fox News as just manufacturing for conservatives. Like Robert Kennedy Jr, they are creating a narrative that Fox and conservative media is just all lies to spread false propaganda (and Joe adds ‘making people rich’ as another motivator).
This whole thing is crap. The base voters that make up the conservative wing of the GOP are by any measurement more informed, more involved and more on top of the issues than any other group.
The left is now trying to disqualify any argument to Obama and the left as manufactured rather than have to debate the issues.