What if Conservative Media is Insulated from Electoral Losses?

Ziegler said he wanted to see the entire system torpedoed and rebuilt.

�I think the conservative media is the worst thing that has ever happened to the Republican Party on a national level,� he opined.

�Take a look at � now this is not Rush's fault. But if you look at the presidential elections before Rush Limbaugh became nationally syndicated, I believe Republicans won five out of six,� he said. �After Rush Limbaugh became truly nationally syndicated ... if you start in 1996 and what I anticipate will happen in 2016, Republicans will have lost five of the seven presidential elections, once he became syndicated.�

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The talk show host concluded: �Here's what I'll be very disappointed in. If Trump does lose, as I am very confident that he will, and let's say it's not super close, if he loses by a significant margin and Sean Hannity and people like him have not experienced some significant career pain, if not destruction because of their role, then it's over. It is over. Because if there is no price to pay for conservative media elements having sold out to Donald Trump, then guess what? It's going to happen again and again and again. ... If that doesn't happen, then I think we're done. It's over.�

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Folksonomies: media confirmation bias

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Donald Trump broke the conservative media

Periodicals>Newspaper Article: Darcy, Oliver (20160826), Donald Trump broke the conservative media, Retrieved on 2016-09-09

Folksonomies: politics ideology