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Thursday 30 April 2009

…in the past, the paranoid stylings of media ideologues like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck were simply background ranting to the more reality-based lead vocal of the party’s actual politicians. But now the election is over. The candidates have all gone home. And the GOP’s party structure is in tatters. There are no credible political leaders left to drive the conservative conversation. That leaves a power vacuum on the front line that the right-wing hate talkers are now rushing forward to fill. When Rush Limbaugh is considered the GOP’s spiritual leader and Glenn Beck is its leading prophet, the conservative movement’s entire discourse is now driven by whatever outrageous rhetoric seems most likely to boost Fox’s ratings. The moral hijacking of the movement has begun, and nobody should be surprised when these folks finally end up in the same moral abyss these kinds of leaders always bring their followers to. Sara Robinson

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