Arbitron can’t be right? Rush has too many listeners!!

This post is really not about Rush Limbaugh or his ratings. It’s about the ratings in general in the deal and how the left views them. I don’t listen to Rush because he comes from 11-2 and I am at work. So I don’t listen. I will pass by his web site from time to time and look at what he has to offer. But that is not the reason for my entry here.

My purpose for writing this is what does the left look at when Arbitron comes out with these ratings. I was looking at several threads with tons of comments on them and the left seems to think all is falling apart for the right on talk radio. Air America is just walloping them at every turn. What? In the three biggest markets in the country, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Rush mops up the competition. And these cities are bastions of liberality. I didn’t even care to look at any ratings from anywhere else. It would have been more of the same.

I mean Arbitron just puts out numbers. These numbers give us the picture of who listens to the radio at various times of the day. Rush Limbaugh leads the competition by a long ways. The numbers show it. The figures show he is way ahead of everyone else. So what’s the deal? How can seemingly intelligent people look at these numbers and have the ideas they have? The fact is 5.9 is much larger than 1.4! Also, 4.8 is considerably larger than 1.4. So the numbers are there. Don’t try to spin them any other way. Those figures are etched in stone for all to see.