“Can you say JEALOUS?” Limbaugh told POLITICO in an e-mail.

Brooks wrote that despite the “remarkable volume” of hosts like Limbaugh, they display “utter weakness” in terms of actually delivering voters. For that reason, he argued, the Republican Party leadership should stop paying attention to them.

“The funny thing is that the GOP is not concerned with talk radio,” Limbaugh said. “I’m going to ignore it on air. If Brooks guests on Letterman sometime, I’ll mention him.”…

Limbaugh brushed off the Times columnist’s criticism by asking “how many Americans know who David Brooks is?” — a view supported by another popular conservative radio host.

Mark Levin, author of the best-selling “Liberty & Tyranny,” asked two questions in an e-mail to POLTICO: “David Brooks? Does he run Brooks Brothers?”