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Ignorance is a marketable commodity. It can be directed, in a democracy, towards supporting what's good for the few, at the expense of the many. Rush Limbaugh, as just one example, has been paid over a billion dollars to create a pool of malleable ignorance which the GOP can access to stay in the government that they are committed to destroy.
There is simply no other explanation for the election of a completely dysfunctional Congress with the lowest approval level of any other in history.
"Leaving Fox News has turned out to be a pretty good business move for Glenn Beck. By the end of this year, 18 months after he got out of the 24-hour cable news business and struck out on his own as an internet broadcasting pioneer, Beck will have doubled the revenues of his company, Mercury Radio Arts, from $40 million to $80 million, according to The Wall Street Journal."
So says Forbes .. WSJ .. *
Glenn Beck Closes In On The $100 Million Mark - Forbes
Still, that's just hear-say... (read-write?)