Rush Limbaugh claims global warming is a hoax and conservatives eat it up, while Limbaugh laughs all the way to the bank. The same with his talk show cronies like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.
Creating fodder for their conservative audience is exactly what these commentators get paid for doing. So, they go all out, including editing clips to show only what they want people to hear, as Laura Ingraham recently did on Bill O’Reilly’s show to accuse and malign Al Gore. Loyal listeners to conservative TV or radio talk shows don’t get their news anywhere else. They check their brains at the door and seize upon every word, as if it were gospel.
For this reason only, one could speculate that Fox News has higher ratings than CNN and MSNBC. Republicans and conservatives are so hang-dog over the election of President Obama and his popularity, that they are drawn to the safe haven of rhetorical liberal bashing that lays at the alter of Fox News.
According to Dana Milbank’s article in the Washington Post May 12, 2009 Limbaugh recently claimed that he is the architect of the global warming naysayer’s movement. Milbank reports on this line of conversation delivered by Limbaugh during a recent program