“…A week steeped in right-wing media reveals a Republican Party far more despairing than the lamestream knows…”

“..On the sixth day, I listened to Glenn Beck – and I saw that he was good.

Or if not exactly good – then honest-to-God funny.

I had tuned in as part of a thought experiment then entering its final lap: an attempt to put myself in the Republican brain by spending a solid week listening to, watching, reading, surfing, and otherwise gorging on conservative media.

As would also be true of an overdose of liberal media – it was lulling me into a stupor – and I was desperate for a jolt.

Beck provided exactly that, in the form of comedy -

- and to my astonishment, I found myself laughing out loud—with him, not at him…”

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Frank Rich on Right-Wing Media — New York Magazine.

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