Any list that places Laura Ingraham and Glenn Beck as more influential than Sean Hannity, whose audience on a bad day is a high multiple of theirs, is seriously deficient. Also, Drew Carey and Ron Paul are libertarians, and Rudy Giuliani (numbe one on the list!) and Joe Lieberman are liberals who are realistic on foreign policy matters. The
Daily Telegraph is a conservative newspaper in the British context, but this correspondent has something of a tin ear with regard to understanding American conservatism.
Someone once said that America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language. This article supports the truth of that adage.