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...The former plastics salesman grew increasingly alienated from the stunt politics championed by talk radio conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, who had once been an ally....
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...While the most inaccurate readings of the other side of the aisle come from uneducated conservatives, fuelled by partisan media (Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh, etc), educated Republicans actually have much lower...
...On the radio, Rush Limbaugh was drawing ever larger audiences and spawning a host of copycats (Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity etc)....
...Edward Luce is the FT’s Washington bureau chief ………………………………………….. Party people The Tea Party will have its day in the sun on Tuesday when Americans elect the country’s 112th Congress....
...Mr Limbaugh, whom the White House last year mockingly described as the de facto leader of the Republican party, also seemed to discourage listeners from making donations....
...Last year the White House tried to elevate Rush Limbaugh, the bombastic talk radio host, into the leader of the opposition....
...“Glenn Beck makes Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity look like level-headed philosophers,” says Karl Frisch, a senior fellow at Media Matters, a liberal watchdog....
...Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host, spoke for a large number of conservatives when he described the award as a display of humour by God that was designed to “emasculate the United States”....
...Washington’s Republican leadership has ceded much of the initiative to conservative talk radio hosts, such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, both of whom have stoked the idea that Mr Obama is a Nazi in sheep...
...showing Mr Edwards fussing over his hair....
...Hour after hour, Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-radio host, makes such assertions to a daily audience that can reach 20m....
...Mr Limbaugh, meanwhile, is loving every minute of it....
...“John Edwards set the terms of the healthcare debate,” says Leo Hindery, Mr Edwards’ senior adviser. “We saw the Obama plan as similar but a little bit mushy. You couldn’t really pin him down.”...
...Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio conservative, caused a stir this week when he said he hoped Barack Obama would fail....
...It is safe to say that Mr Limbaugh will not be on the guest list....
...Mr Limbaugh sarcastically describes Mr Obama as the “Great Unifier”....
...Lacking a clear national leader has also made the party vulnerable to the appeal of fringe supporters, such as Rush Limbaugh, the talk-radio host, or the groups that organised last week’s anti-tax “tea-party...
...In this age of dampened American spirits, some look back wistfully on an earlier time when presidential contests were filtered through impartial and upstanding television anchors, such as Edward Murrow or...
...“Obama has thrown his grandmother under the bus, and then drove the bus backwards and ran over her by calling her a typical white woman,” said Mr Limbaugh....
...Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing talk radio host, “has had maybe 10 times the impact on a general public that Novak had”, adds Richard Wald, a Columbia University journalism professor....
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