When Talk Radio Talks, Congress Listens

[Swede]

With Members taking cues from the echo chamber as well as their party leadership, it’s changed the way business gets done. Limbaugh and Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity can mobilize more voters than any press release or floor speech, so Members find themselves needing to be responsive or face their wrath.

A Republican strategist and former top Republican National Committee aide told Roll Call that Members have one of two reactions when constituents start a message with “I just heard on Rush today ...” — “joy and panic.”

Limbaugh has more than 20 million listeners, and most Members couldn’t dream of their message being so widely spread back home, the GOP strategist said.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_70/-202674-1.html

[somone]

1. And it's the powerful liberal media that controls Congress

:sarcasm:

[white_wolf]

2. Hell

I'd settle for a powerful liberal media influencing the city council much less Congress.