Truth is, Air America in particular and “progressive talk” in general isn’t faring well in the radio ratings because the audience for talk radio is itself made up overwhelmingly of middle-aged, white, Republican, conservative males, according to a 2004 study by the Pew Research Center.

So the right-wing radio talkers are in fact, “preaching to the choir.”

Moreover, only 17 percent of Americans overall listens to talk radio, which airs overwhelmingly on the AM band, while more than 80 percent listens to FM radio.

Only one talk show — George Noory’s overnight “Coast to Coast A.M.” — can successfully compete against FM. And that’s because “Coast to Coast A.M.” avoids politics altogether and focuses instead on offbeat subjects, such as spirituality, UFOs and extraterrestrials, the paranormal and ancient prophecies (It helps that Noory’s show airs on the overnights, for the format would never work during the daytime hours).

The Statesman (bugmenot) is reporting that Air America has been ditched in Austin in favor of Spanish speaking programming: Air America, the home for defiantly liberal talk radio, has quit Austin’s air waves, though it can still be heard online……

Rush wasn’t referring to soldiers who don’t support the war as “phony soldiers” (as the left alleges), but rather referred to actual phony soldiers, specifically Jesse Macbeth.

The left really does have a Phony Soldier problem. It’s just not the Rush Limbaugh problem that they fabricated.