“Ya! He’s been “desperate” for 15 years.”
Longer than, I suspect.
What fascinates me about his success is that it proves there are a lot of people with attitudes similar to his who seem to enjoy listening to him because they like hearing him abuse callers and call powerful people names. He is in reality what critics wrongly call Rush Limbaugh, someone who works on the worst impulses of his followers who seem to be very angry folks who decide their political positions on emotion rather than intellect.