2010 was a huge victory and the tea party grassroots movement made it happen. 2012 will be even larger, imo, especially if we nominate Sarah Palin for pres. The tea party again will carry the day but this time, we'll have a national leader to rally around. Rush isn't as important to the victory as he is made out to be. His goal is to produce a successful radio show. Taking back our country is up to us.
The NYT sets the daily agenda and the rest of the MSM run with it.
It used to be that Limbaugh set the the talk-radio agenda and the others followed-up on the message.
Lately, with the shake-up in conservative talk-radio (see the threads on Citadel/Fareed Suleman), the medium is disorganized, too.
It's not necessarily a bad thing that the different segments of conservative talk-radio focus on different issues. That helps to focus on the many different issues. But there isn't the tight alignment in messaging like with the DNC-NYT-WaPo-CNN-NBC-CBS-ABC-Congressional Democrats-President.
We have Limbaugh-Hannity-Levin-Savage-Beck, and to a lesser degree Ingraham-Batchelor-Boortz-Hewitt-Medved-local hosts. Occasionally, Congressional Republicans will appear as guests. They don't coordinate around a daily theme, as each is strongly motivated to maintain their own distinctive persona and market.
The difference between liberal/conservative media is stark: Democrats are aligned with news gathering orgs with the legacy mission to report (distort?). Conservatives are aligned with entertainment outlets that inform.
The liberal MSM will never go away or change (one day, the NYT will be demed too big to fail). The conservative outlets have been subjected to radio market forces and manipulation (see again Fareed Suleman).
As long as people like Limbaugh say their first priority is to be entertaining, the Republicans with conservative messages to get out will always be underserved when compared to their Democrat counterparts.
-PJ