But Limbaugh also has been blamed for things he had no hand in, such as withdrawal of Judge Kimba Wood for consideration as attorney general. In fact, Limbaugh actually said the fuss over Wood not paying an employee's social security taxes was silly. Whatever the real power of talk radio, it has some worried. The danger is you may be creating a false consensus. Lichter says there may be something to that.
Angry people have a chance to get in quickly.
The founding fathers didn't want pure democracy. This takes upwellings of public anger and deposits them in Washington at the speed of sound. Total democracy is not a good thing. Still, he notes that the voices on talk radio are not votes and are thus tempered by the representative system. And the thing that helped foster the rise in talk radio, the perception of a biased media, is not good, either.