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Except for Hannity and Liven who seem to have a great friendship, I don't see or hear other talk show pundits talk much about the others. Its the way its always been even before Beck came along. Except for one host, “Savage”, they all seem to respect the others when their names do come up on their shows. Savage of course is different. he will tear into Rush, Beck, Hannity, and the rest like a rabid pit bull because he's so ego driven.

If they are slow to embrace Beck, however its not because of his very recent collaboration with Oreily, or because they don't think he is a real conservative, or think he's too conservative. It probably is more because he goes rogue, and they are not sure just how close of a tie they want in case beck crosses a line someplace.

He doesn't follow the typical program pattern for a conservative talk show host. Red phone that is a Hot-line to the White House in case they want to talk to him???

A pattern set By Limbaugh long ago has been broken, and not all are comfortable with it quite yet. Like him or not, though, he is reaching out to a large market not yet captured by Rush, Levin, Hannity and the rest, and that is the Women and the young adults. I strongly feel we should let Beck do what Beck does best, and Rush, Levin, Hannity, Boortz, Savage, Medved,ngraham, and all the rest do what they do best - and stop tearing each other down. Just what the left wants our host to do. Divide and Concur.

I apologize if it came across I was tearing Beck down. That was not my intention.

I like your answer. There have been a couple of others with good answers on this thread. Others feel the need to lecture or insult. I look them up and they seem to follow the same pattern - impressive resumes which probably gives them the need to believe themselves above others.

I don't need lectures. I am just trying to start a conversation.

Getting back to your post, I also want to comment that I like what Rush is doing lately. As FNC gets more and more viewers, he is "appearing" more on different FNC programs - via phone, of course. I see this as part of a strategy to spark the curiousity of new viewers and have them tune into his program.

A pattern set By Limbaugh long ago has been broken, and not all are comfortable with it quite yet.

About time. I realized... not sure how long ago... that most of the talkers were out of gas. Hannity is out of gas. Levin is pretty much out of gas. Limbaugh is not quite out of gas... By out of gas I mean, Hannity can filibuster, Levin can rant, but I don't hear anything I haven't heard them say a million times, so it all sounds like Blah, blah, blah. Limbaugh is still relevant because a) the junta singled him hout, b) he still thinks outside the box, and c) he IS after all the father of right-wing political talk radio.