Ulfie: While Rush may disclaimer himself as entertainment, he sure doesn't say that very often. He makes a bunch of proud boasts of being correct, right, "excellent", etc. I listened often enough, and never heard a disclaimer of "this is entertainment only". Taken as presented, he is a political pundit, spinner, and much raker with a very specific agenda. You may take it as entertainment, but millions of dittoheads take it as truth and fact, and that sucks.
Mike: You consider yourself a dittohead? Youch. Maybe I can better understand some of your posts and points of view. You might want to get your views of the world from someone slightly closer to center, maybe Falwell?
Wig: The US two party system has created the gap you see, where people are forced to choose between A or Z with nothing in middle. Just as importantly, people like Rush and his ilk on both sides only serve to further polarize people by making people (like Mike) think that extremism and politic profiteering (piling on, drumming people out, etc) is the best way to do business. The system doesn't make it easy for people to come to the center, especially because the dislike of people from the other party make it impossible (Oh my god, they have democrats in there? I'm a republican, this must be a liberal plot! or they have republicans, must be some conservative christian god mongering plot!).
The SMART people are falling prey to the notion of the crowd, being dittoheads or pinko commies or whatever the name are this week - polarizing themselves and make it harder and harder to get the center to work.
Alex