Laura Ingraham may be correct. It would seem as though the Murdoch affiliates are addictive to their audience to the point of being able to sell ANYTHING to the electorate, including snake oil.
...While the Tea Party (click title to entry - thank you) has scored some serious successes in this primary season, there is one race in which its candidates suffered nothing short of a humiliating defeat: the GOP Senate primary in Illinois. None of the five candidates who challenged Representative Mark Kirk from the right were able to win many votes. The strongest among them, attorney Patrick Hughes received public endorsements from Conservative radio hosts Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, got only 19 percent of the vote to Kirk's 57. It seems that the people have spoken....