O’Reilly vs. Limbaugh

Peter Beinhart: “There are various ways to describe the civil war rising inside the
Republican Party: insiders versus outsiders, pragmatists versus
true-believers, establishment versus Tea Party. Here’s another: Bill
O’Reilly conservatives versus Rush Limbaugh conservatives.”

“O’Reilly and Limbaugh are both conservative; they both idealize an
older, pre-lapsarian America that they believe leftists want to destroy
in the name of progress. The difference is that Limbaugh’s conservative
vision is more static and more personal. For O’Reilly, traditional
morality is not an abstract, coherent set of beliefs; it’s the folk
wisdom of ordinary people at any given moment, and it can change.”