I happened to turn on Rush in the car today and figured something out

[freshwest]

6. I've talked with people trying to debunk him for twenty years.

And I listened to him for years. The idea is to see just how high the crazy is. He was talking this crap in the 1990s. A constant media presence, several hours a day, and reruns of his shows all weekend. And in some parts of the country, his is the only voice within those hours.

All GOP. And he was a bigger part of the Newt Gingrich takeover of congress in the nineties than some want to admit. He rehashed to the bigotry of the 1950s and had a cult following, also a morning TV program then. He went all that summer talking about Hillary Clinton's death panels. It sure got out the vote.

And the warmups for his act were far more vicious than him, which always made him seem reasonable. You cannot erase that many thousand of hours out of the human brain anymore than you can the same from Infowars which follows and pretends to be the anti-GOP side of the spectrum. And it turns out both are related to Koch brothers organization, except that the Koches are on record regarding their payoffs to Rush.

Why doesn't anyone understand that when these guys, O'Reilly and Beck, are making a hundred million a year or more, even if their ratings go down, that the money is coming from deep pockets somewhere?

The Tea Party was created by the Koch brothers, and the starve the beast gang was created by Gorver Nordquist, all with the same intent: to destroy the Demcratic Party, liberalism and progressives. And if some innocent blood, or as they say, liberal blood needs to be spilled, so be it.