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"I've turned to Hannity, Michael Medved, and Drudge for moral compassing."

And who will you turn to when you discover that they too have feet of clay?

Chris, that was great essay and one with which I happen to agree wholeheartedly. It is stunning to me that conservatives could turn on Rush for the "unpardonable" sin of being human and having weaknesses just like everybody else. So what? It does absolutely nothing to negate or minimize the good he's done nor the value of his message, and not only that, but he has GAINED listeners as a result and he is no doubt better off for the change. He doesn't need fair weather friends any more than any of us do. In the long run, his audience will be bigger and better. It seems to me that Rush is more connected to his audience than he ever was, and I started listening to him during the first Bush presidency and if anything, I make even more of an effort to listen now than I did before. He definitely has "the passion" that some of our leaders would do well to "catch."

"I've turned to Hannity, Michael Medved, and Drudge for moral compassing."
"And who will you turn to when you discover that they too have feet of clay?"

Are you suggesting that Hannity, Medved, and Drudge have bought illegal drugs, laundered money, groped their maids, and toddled in and out of detox three times? Rush did.

Sorry, I thought that liberals were the gaggle of excusers and reprobates. I thought conservatives had some standards for their leaders and icons. Guess not! It's incredible how much damage the Clintons did to our sense of right and wrong in this country. Just incredible! It's like trying to actually believe that Dennis Miller is not the same Dennis Miller that so sorely trashed America, Bush I, and Reagan all those years and is now so conveniently making money off posing as a conservative. What has happened to conservatives' senses of decency and behavior?