Ari Melber has a smart piece in The Nation concerning NYT conservative OpEd columnist David Brooks and his contention that conservative
radio hosts “are, paradoxically, a lot like well-behaved children. They are
seen — splashed across magazine covers and endlessly profiled — but not
heard, politically, since they do not swing elections.”

“The talk jocks can’t even deliver the conservative voters who show up at Republican primaries,” Brooks observed. Melber disagrees: “After the summer of townhalls and what’s shaping up as the autumn of GlennBeck… it is hard to see things through Brooks’ bifocals,” he notes. Melber also mentions something obvious that no one else did — “As the top conservative at the Times and an alumnus of Rupert Murdoch’s Weekly Standard, Brooks… is, unavoidably, in direct competition for opinion leadership with the “talk jocks” he knocks.