While the media hypes the water balloon fight between the Democratic front runners, the GOP is in a gloves off slash and burn self destruct mode on talk radio which is not reported, except surprisingly now, by conservative radio talk show host Michael Medved. This just may be the first thing I ever agreed with on AM talk radio!
The big loser in South Carolina was, in fact, talk radio: a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight.
For more than a month, the leading conservative talkers in the country have broadcast identical messages in an effort to demonize Mike Huckabee and John McCain. If you’ve tuned in at all to Rush, Sean, Savage, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, and two dozen others you’ve heard a consistent drum beat of hostility toward Mac and Huck.
In other words, the talk radio jihad against Mac and Huck hasn’t destroyed or even visibly damaged those candidates. But it has damaged, and may help destroy, talk radio. USA Today Story
If you have missed what has been happening on the AM dial of late, it is Rush Limbaugh and company going ballistic because their proclaimed candidate to save America from Democratic Socialism and Slavery, Fred Thompson, failed and fizzled. This group of hard core conservatives have not only been trashing both McCain and Huckabee so hard it makes the Obama/Clinton fight look like a wet cotton ball fight, but they are attacking each other for backing McCain or Huckabee. So with Rudy on the slide, Rush and company are now left with only flip flopping Mitt Romney to hold the conservative banner, which only frustrates them further.
Who would of thought that the demise of Right-wing radio would have been brought on by Right-wing Radio infighting?