HOW INFLUENTIAL IS JOHN PODHORETZ?

Back in the day, I assumed he was a major conservative pundit and when I read this part of his most recent NY Post column about the House Baggers,

This is how people who are more comfortable on the margins than in the middle of things behave. This is cannibalism, not political combat. This is unreason, not reason. This is temper, not temperament.

This is anarchism, not conservatism.

I decided to use LexisNexis to search TV and radio transcripts for J-Pod over the last year. The result? One -

National Public Radio
November 7, 2012 Wednesday
SHOW: All Things Considered 09:00 PM EST
Statistician Nate Silver Scores Big On Election Night
ANCHORS: David Folkenflik
GUESTS: Joe Scarborough, Nate Silver, John Podhoretz, Karl Rove, Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier
LENGTH: 859 words

I'd say that J-Pod is in the twilight of his influence.