<![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh was the first to collect leftist and media astroturf sound bites and edit them together into an audio montage, so you could hear for yourself just how orchestrated and contrived the messaging from the left really was. One of his most famous montages centered on the word “gravitas,” which the news media used in 2000 almost simultaneously when describing George W. Bush’s selection of Dick Cheney as his running mate. ]]>