They know when they re being taxed to death. Dennis Prager is among the most unconventional talk masters. He s the author of a widely read introduction to Judaism and a book on anti-Semitism, and is one of the most popular Jewish lecturers in the country. We talk about everything except cooking, poetry, and architecture. Prager thinks the success of conservative broadcasters is related to conservatism s reliance on logic.
Liberalism is much more a feeling than a thought process.
I feel bad about racism. I feel bad about poverty. It tends to be the humor of the excluded, with a mordant quality. An increasingly alienated middle class can identify with this laughter from the outside that lampoons liberalism s objects of ritual veneration. Limbaugh s sense of humor is surely one of the secrets of his popularity.