re: #288 palomino
sure, he’s a pos, and I wouldn’t give a flying fuck about him either, except for his army of dittoheading teabaggers. The fat fuck shapes much of the discourse, so he can’t be ignored.
Actually, he can be
For all his ‘influence’, for all his “power’, for all his following (more on that in a moment) he doesn’r ofetn (if at all) get his way. Neither Bush in 2000 nor McCain in 2008 were his choices
And as far as that following. He claims 17 million listerners per week
Well ,, seeing that he is on 5 days a week , that come out to less than 3.5 million a day. He’s on over 200 stations, so thats 17,500 people per station. In that many of those staions are in large cities, thats really not that much