I think Limbaugh has a lot of second-tier influence on the media, and it goes like this:
Limbaugh blows hot air out of his hind end. Real news programs report that "Rush Limbaugh says so and so, and the White House responds with.... -- or "and the White House refuses to respond". The response, or lack, is then discussed and pontificated.
I think that that's what's happened here. Limbaugh and Savage set up straw men that the regular media grabbed hold of: "Is it a bad thing that Sotomayor is empathic? What do you think Chet?"
Limbaugh sets the topics we discuss because the media is so afraid of appearing biased that they treat him like a fellow journalist instead of as the mildly entertaining ass-hat that he is.
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Limbaugh blows hot air out of his hind end. Real news programs report that "Rush Limbaugh says so and so, and the White House responds with.... -- or "and the White House refuses to respond". The response, or lack, is then discussed and pontificated.
I think that that's what's happened here. Limbaugh and Savage set up straw men that the regular media grabbed hold of: "Is it a bad thing that Sotomayor is empathic? What do you think Chet?"
Limbaugh sets the topics we discuss because the media is so afraid of appearing biased that they treat him like a fellow journalist instead of as the mildly entertaining ass-hat that he is.