Hume To O’Reilly: Limbaugh And Talk Radio Driving GOP To “Suicide Missions’

Brit Hume told Bill O’Reily that conservative talk radio hosts are causing the Republican Party to go on “suicide missions.” Citing Rush Limbaugh, Hume correctly points out that the party is so bereft of the ability to govern that it’s taking its cues from conservative talk radio.

While he wouldn’t go so far as to say conservative radio hosts are “calling the shots” in Congress, he did say that they have used their “real influence” to promote primary challengers against what they view as insufficiently conservative incumbents. “Keeping radio talk show hosts off their back” Hume said, “is one way” for members of Congress to avoid that fate.

As Bill O’Reilly summed up Hume’s point, “You believe that in Congress, if somebody has to run every two years as they do, and they get on the wrong side of a powerful radio voice… they can really do them bad damage if they promote the other guy.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.