The Rightwing Grassroots As Victims

Conor Friedersdorf (as quoted by Andrew Sullivan) makes a very good point about the right:

The right’s fringe problem at this moment in time is one that elites have
created as much as any crazy fringe righty. Outfits like Fox News, people like
Glenn Beck, talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh — these outfits deliberately
play on the worst impulses of the conservative base, stoking their paranoia and
misleading them about reality, all for the sake of bigger audiences and greater
revenues. That ought to outrage anyone who actually respects the grassroots, and
has their best interests at heart.