What surprises me is
that no left-wing equivalent of Limbaugh has become popular cuz the Shrub
certainly provides lots of material.

The answer to that and not surprisingly why Libertarian radio attracts
listeners while their counter-culture equavalents do not is the same.
However your are wrong in saying their is no equivalent. The basis is simply
mindset. Radio require some mental acuity and ability to reason. The
equivalent to radio is TV and in some cases movies. TV requires no
attention span nor thinking ability. Nor in do movies (and I draw a
distinction between 'movies' and 'film.' The equivalent to Rush Limbaugh is
probably somebody like Jerry Springer, or the evening news provided by the
former 'major media.' Radio and it's equivalents invite discourse, debate,
the use of logic, facts and reasoning. TV, along with most movies are
propaganda efforts. The main purpose of which is to program those who
respond to 'emotion.' Two of the most recent and most successful
propaganda pieces though belong to the movie industry, not to television.
They are "Starship Troopers" and "Primary Colors." The former catered to the
idea that if you see the movie you don't have to read the book and the book
contains ideas supremely dangerous to the left wing mind set. So it's
purpose was to stop the spread of 'ideas.' Primary Colors was quite a
different piece of propaganda. It's purpose was to promote the notion that
no matter how immoral, untrustworthy, dastardly a person might be or for
that matter a 'statement' might be it's "OK" if they fully support the
accepted ideology. The phrase, vote for the lesser of two evils; i.e.
support evil if it supports the cause is an example. However in an open
debate the underlying premise of Primary Colors could not survive, while
the political and social philosophy espoused in Starship Troopers (the book)
would flourish.

M.

"Support a return to the two party system . . .vote Libertarian."