Reuters has an opinion piece that blames Fats and other radio freaks for the GOP's decline in presidential politics...
Right-wing talk shows turned White House blue
By Paul Goldman and Mark J. Rozell
April 11, 2013
Conservative talk show hosts and Fox News blame the “lamestream” national media’s “liberal bias” for the GOP’s poor showing since 1992. Yet the rise of the conservative-dominated media defines the era when the fortunes of GOP presidential hopefuls dropped to the worst levels since the party’s founding in 1856.
Since conservative media began to flourish, only once (2004) has the GOP candidate captured more than 50 percent of the popular vote. And that candidate, President George W. Bush, had the lowest re-election results of any conservative chief executive in U.S. history.
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