I’m simply trying to demonstrate why it is that millions of Americans have turned to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and other right-wing outlets for the news, to the exclusion of almost everything else. They’ve wearied of the uncomplicated, left-leaning picture of the world presented by the mainstream press for three decades. Too many anomalies piled up in the minds of right-leaning newsreaders—and they eventually chose a different model.

