The number I saw for Limbaugh is about 14 million. Certainly
higher, but considering that he's the keystone of conservative
talk radio, 2/3 of his number is hardly as pathetic as you
seemed to be implying.

I agree that Franken is not so hot so far, but honestly to
me it sounds like he's just trying to imitate Limbaugh's
style. I gather that you are fairly conservative. I'm pretty
liberal - so to me most right wing radio sounds pretty
boring as well. Bush-bashing is certainly more entertaining
to me than Clinton or Rodham/Clinton-bashing.

At least the left wing commentators don't
harp on Richard Nixon the way right-wingers continue to
bring up his opposite number from the 60's - Jane Fonda.
One man's red meat is another's crapola, or whatever.


Frank Dresser wrote:
"Larry Ozarow" wrote in message
...

NPR morning Edition has about 9 million listeners. Almost
twice the audience of the "Today" show which is the leader
of the morning TV news magazines.



I'm sure Rush's afternoon numbers are higher, and that's not counting all
the Rush clones on the radio. But you raise a good point.

I doubt the new liberal radio hosts will get a small fraction of NPR numbers
unless they can let liberalism somehow seem at least a bit hedonistic, at
least once in a while.

I listened to Franken again today. Same Bush bashing grind.

Frank Dresser