I'm amused and bewildered by the surprise elicited from the news that limbaugh wants obama to fail. Of course he does, he's not patriotic, he's a side-show barker and needs to speak this way to get attention. Worse, he can't remain relevant if "the other side" succeeds.
But what I really don't get is how blind he is. For nearly 20 years limbaugh gained wealth and notoriety as his ideological compatriots ran the country. And his audiences were huge. But guess what? A generation of white males, such as myself, and such as those who are now dissilusioned with the military, etc have grown up to voting adults. And we don't listen to limbaugh [1]. What I mean is that a generation of men who should have grown up to be the next generation of "angry white men" simply aren't "angry white men". Limbaugh's audience is graying and those that might have been expected to replace them did not appear. Why? Because of the failure of the very "medicine" Limbaugh advocated so successfully. We watched while the partisan, hard headed, old-fashioned form of governing and way of looking at the world limbaugh insisted was best failed.
Limbaugh will continue to make money and be the voice of a breed. It just happens that its a lot like the panda - to dumb to breed itself. But the panda has a leg up on the "politically relevant angry white male"; the panda doesn't bite those who try to help.
[1] I can't get the data on demographics for radio without an Arbitron subscription, but I can look at the traffic to his website.
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