On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace:
WALLACE: When you look at Glenn Beck and you see this explosion, what do you feel?
LIMBAUGH: Well, I'm kind of -- I'm kind of proud.
WALLACE: No envy, no competition?
LIMBAUGH: No, no, no, no, no. I mean, my radio audience is astronomically high. I'm -- look it, in 1988 there was nobody doing what I'm doing. Nobody. You had -- CNN was the only cable network, and you had the three networks and the newspapers.
And now look. Now look what's out -- all of this conservative media: conservative talk radio, television, Fox News, the conservative blogosphere. I mean, I -- in one way, I could -- I could -- if I wanted to have my ego to be as big as Obama's is, I could say, "Look what I created."
So any success out there on my side, conservative media -- damn, if it's going to help us get this country back, bring more in.
So, according to Limbaugh, Fox News is an example of conservative media. He helped create Fox News. Fox News is on his side.
This is extremely telling. Limbaugh is as about as far to the Right as you can be without wearing a hood, yet he still considers Fox News conservative. I can't imagine a person on the far Left - a Socialist or devout Green Party member ever advocate for MSNBC as a progressive media outlet. There's so much more to the Left of MSNBC, it would be ridiculous to make that claim. It shows just how far down the path Fox News is, and how the false equivalency between Fox on the Right and MSNBC on the Left is ridiculous.
The standard conservative talking point is that Fox is down the middle while the rest of the news outlets (except for the WSJ, Washington Times, and the NY Post) are controlled by the liberal media establishment. I'm glad someone on the Right, especially the leader of the Republican Party, is willing to admit it: Fox News is part of the conservative media movement launched and nurtured by the success of Rush Limbaugh.