Limbaughโs audience is often underestimated by critics who donโt listen to the show (only 3 percent of his audience identity themselves as โliberal,โ according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press). Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of โnews knowledge questions,โ Limbaughโs โDittoheadsโ โ the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience โ scored higher than NPR listeners. The study found that โreaders of newsmagazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR and viewers of the Daily Show and C-SPAN are also much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.โ
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Kevin D. Williamson is a former fellow at National Review Institute and a former roving correspondent for National Review.
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