[ansel12]

When Limbaugh began his national program, his manner was often criticized as jarring and brash, and his venue -- talk radio -- was new and decidedly declasse for the National Review readership and Buckley fans.

I was National Review readership and a Buckley fan, you don't speak for all of us, I don't know why you claim we felt that way.

[Rockingham]

Not all, and not a majority thought that way. Yet the criticisms and views I described were often expressed by conservatives. The potency of Limbaugh and talk radio was not apparent at the start.