No he hasn’t earned a tenth of Rush’s audience, and neither has any other “Progressive” alternative they’ve tried: Jim Hightower, Mario Cuomo, Randi Rhodes, Al Franken, and now Big Ed.
It’s like I told an interviewer once, when he asked about the failure of left-wing talk radio: “No one wants to hear ‘America sucks’ three hours a day.”
It’s almost embarrassing the way Ed copies what he thinks Rush sounds like, though.
Your average big city has ten times more people than the amount of listeners to those shows.