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April 19, 2004

GARY FARBER NOTES that Rush Limbaugh appears to be peddling paranoia and conspiratorial lunacy. Shame on him.

Of course, David Shaw of the L.A. Times observes:

[P]aranoia and conspiratorial idiocy would be a big improvement on what Air America has been broadcasting. . . .

In fact, I think what ultimately annoyed — and disappointed me — the most about Air America was all the false, aren't-we-funny, aren't-we-smart laughter that virtually all the hosts gave each other. Four of Air America's six weekday programs have co-hosts — and two have three co-hosts apiece, liberal collectives that stand in stark contrast to the individual, every-man-for-himself approach of the conservatives. Maybe that's one reason they don't work as well as, say, Limbaugh's solo effort.

It shouldn't take a village to raise a radio program.

Ouch.

UPDATE: About a million emailers say that Farber is taking Limbaugh out of context, and that Limbaugh was obviously joking. None, however, dispute Shaw's characterization of Air America.