Rush Dumbaugh

Think Progress points out that EIB's latest smug, flatulent bellowing about ratings points is a bit off the mark:

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh, through his radio syndicator Premiere Radio Networks, sent out a press release titled “Limbaugh Leads the Race Against Liberal Talkers,” purportedly comparing his ratings to those of progressive talk stations.

The release lists ratings info for five cities — Austin, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Memphis — for Spring 2005 (March 31 to June 22). In two of those cities, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the stations that Rush claims he “defeated” didn’t switch to the progressive talk format until July 2005 — after the ratings period in question ended. Two of the other comparisons are also misleading. Rush claims to have won the ratings battle in Austin — but the progressive alternative is a low-watt station that broadcasts not out of Austin, but 20 miles away in bustling Pflugersville, Texas. The same is true of Rush’s performance in San Antonio, where the weaker progressive talk station is actually based in suburban Devine, Texas.

As for me, I didn't even KNOW there was an AM radio station at 1380 on the dial--until a friend alerted me to one of Air America's newest affilliates...now it's programmed into both my car AND home radios. And I'll look for the NOLA station the next time I hit the Crescent City.

So, Rush--take a pill and get over it (and we all know what kind of pill).