Did you ever wonder - why are there so many right wing talk idiots with their own shows?

As it turns out this is not entirely an accident. For the last 30 years, a few very wealthy right wingers have been funding things like think tanks and publications. Throw Fox News and Clear Channel into the mix and you end up with air waves over run with reactionary bile. In the years since all of this has been happening, the political discourse has been pushed very far to the right. That's why we're here.

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