The Right Wing media extremists' mentor is a son of a communist.

There is nothing wrong with engaging low information voters, so long as there is a moral imperative to seek to end the misinformation that lines their lives. To ignore that moral imperative is to state they are incapable of discerning the truth. Whether they conduct themselves morally once informed is a separate problem, enter Limbaugh and the Right Wing that benefit from exploitation of this reality.
 
Published on Monday, January 26, 2009 by CommonDreams.org 
by Thom Hartmann 

Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years (click here)

 

This weekend, House Republican leader John Boehner played out the role of Jude Wanniski on NBC's "Meet The Press."
Odds are you've never heard of Jude, but without him Reagan never would have become a "successful" president, Republicans never would have taken control of the House or Senate, Bill Clinton never would have been impeached, and neither George Bush would have been president.
When Barry Goldwater went down to ignominious defeat in 1964, most Republicans felt doomed (among them the then-28-year-old Wanniski). Goldwater himself, although uncomfortable with the rising religious right within his own party and the calls for more intrusion in people's bedrooms, was a diehard fan of Herbert Hoover's economic worldview....

Jude Wanniski was a journalist. He passed away in 2005. He is the prophet to the Right Wing's extremism. Their pursuit of extremism began in the 1990's after President Bill Clinton took office. Mr. Wanniski's father was a communist. Just sayin'. It speaks to Gingrich and "The Contract with America."

Op/Ed
8.27.2013

The Tragedy of Rush Limbaugh's Low Information Voter Theory (click here) or Also Known as Tabloid Journalism

...But it was not until I came across a book written in 1986 that I became more familiar with a possibly less ethereal cause as to why Jude’s embrace of popular opinion became so antithetical to conservative orthodoxy.  It has a bearing on why it is so difficult for Republicans to adapt to the changing demographics of America – a hurdle that I see them correcting in the 2016 election, whether Limbaugh relinquishes his attachment to LVI or not.  The Republican Party has reached a stage of dissatisfaction where it may win in spite of Rush more than because of him. In a chapter of Sidney Blumenthal’s The Rise Of The Counter-Establishment this appears:...