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The wingnuts know deep down that their thinking is wrong, so they need
their lunacy reinforced by fellow ditto heads. If they wanted facts,
they would tune to NPR.

I'm not arguing the veracity of Rush Limbaugh, but the nature of the whole
commercial talkradio genre. There are a lot of people who do not listen to
commercial radio.

Interesting sidenote: The teenaged son of one of my computer customers and I
were talking the other day. I mentioned various talkshow and magazine show
hosts. He hadn't heard of Ronn Owens, had heard the name Rush Limbaugh but
didn't know much about him. He didn't even know who Ira Glass is, BUT he knew
Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich (hosts of WNYC's Radiolab). We have heard the
future of radio and it is Radiolab. He doesn't listen on the radio, though,
he downloads the podcasts.