RADIO TIDBITS

Fats Limbaugh was asked by a caller what his credentials were to talk about global warming and Fats made a classical reply: "Who has to have credentials?" Wingers have been denigrating expertise since the 80s because their radical agenda has little or no empirical support. Fats completed the meme by later claiming that credentials are elitist.

In his intro, Hannity tried hard to paint Obama as a flip-flopper and claimed that Obama "does not have core values and principles to guide him." He later said that "the issue here is character" and that reminded me that Jonathan Chait was right to point out how the GOP tries to focus on the spurious character issue instead of policy positions.