I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
What? Air America in a swing state??
Fristula?
OOO, nice plug for Rhodes and Franken. Saying they'd make the station more successful!
Oh yea, Frist!
OT -- today's letter, sent via http://www.georgewbush.com/
GetAc...Newspapers.aspx :
To the Editor:
With inspectors on the ground and no weapons of mass destruction in the country, George Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq. Now, with almost 1,000 soldiers killed and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, George Bush claims we are safer.
However, when asked this week about North Korea and Iran (two-thirds of the "Axis of Evil") having developed nuclear weapons during his presidency, "he opened his palms and shrugged," as reported by the New York Times. (http://tinyurl.com/4f584) "I don't think you give timelines to dictators,'' he now claims.
Two avowed enemies of the U.S. now have the ultimate weapons of mass destruction. Is this consistency? Is this leadership?
Anyone know when Air America Radio is going to come back to Chicago?
dc-too
And LA??? I want my AAR!
Yay!
This is so cool!!!!! You go, WHAT!
Speaking of Philly, Kerry will be making an appearance at 1:30 in front of the art museum.
Yo, AA in da Cradle u' Libbity!
WE'RE NOT WORTHY!!!
WE'RE NOT WORTHY!!!
Our prayers have been answered.
Media consolidation is driving minority programming off the air! These evil corporations must be stopped!
Media consolidation ...
I would generally agree with you. But I think in this particular case it's an issue of supply and demand and ratings.
Whoever runs this station knows that AAR will pull big ratings because people in the city want to hear it. If they dont jump on the opportunity someone else in the market will, and they will miss out.
AAR started in San Diego this week, however the signal is very week in the North County where I live. A.M. 1360.
There are some rumors that a station in Denver (760 KKZN) may be getting Air America. It's advertising a program change but being very secretive about what that change is. The station is currently running segments making fun of bush and the administration though. it's just speculation but it'd be awesome if it's true. This frequency can be heard almost throughout the entire state (and some parts of nebraska I"m told). so I'm hopeful. I"ve already changed the presets in my car radio in hope.
WHAT is owned by Inner City Broadcasting, which also owns Air America's flagship station, WLIB, in NYC. Inner City is black-owned, and the owners have apparently decided that, especially during this election year, having Air America on the airwaves was a service to both the black and white communities. Also, one of the Morning Sedition cohosts on AAR is Mark Riley, a longtime news and public affairs host from WLIB.
Now, WLIB has a much better signal than WHAT, so it would probably be better if, eventually, AAR switched to another station. Problem with that, though, is -- as is the situation throughout the country -- the AM stations with good signals are either owned by megacorps like Viacom and Clear Channel, or by religious broadcasters who would never in a million years lease time to AAR.
Just with my memory and a quick web search or two, here's what Philly's AM ownership looks like, aside form WHAT: WIP (sports talk), KYW (all news) and WPHT (right-wing talk) are all owned by Infinity (Viacom); WFIL and WNTP are owned by Salem (Christian radio); WDAS is owned by Clear Channel; WPEN is owned by Greater Media, a small (by comparison) chain based in NJ; the stations at 860 and 900 have weak signals and are daytime only.
Of those stations, the only ones I could ever see airing AAR are WPEN, which has a relatively successful nostalgia format, WIP, a successful sports talk station, or WDAS, a low-rated black gospel station owned by Clear Channel. (And, IIRC, WDAS doesn't have a very good signal, though it does have a 24/7 license.) But the ratings on the first two would have to tumble dramatically before they would ever consider switching to AAR.
A.) Get rid of the vacuuous morning twirps.
B.) Give morning slot to Randi Rhodes.
C.) Bump up Mike Malloy to Randi's old slot.
D.) 86 the friggin' "pirate" jackassery on Franken.
E.) One (two tops) "Oy,oy-oy Shows" per week.
F.) Give Garafolo something with caffeine in it.
G.) Hire a "funny" comic with a vicious streak (I'm seeing Bobby Slayton).
H.) Fer chrissaks, switch to a Linux/FreeBSD server instead of supporting M$. What next? WalMart ads?
I.) ?????
J.) Profit
AArrghhhhhhhhhhh!
I just did another quick web search because I had noticed that one of the Christian radio Salem Broadcasting stations in Philly had changed its call letters. It used to be WZZD and is now WNTP. (Some of us old folks fondly remember 990 on the AM dial as top 40 WIBG.)
Turns out that this self-proclaimed Christian chain has switched to a talk format with some very un-Christlike far right hosts, like Laura Ingraham and Dennis Prager.
(/monchie bangs his head against wall)
AAR is on a Clear Channel station in Portland, OR KPOJ. Due to AAR and Ed Schultz's success in the Portland market, the station is going from 5,000 to 25,000 watts. Unfortuantely, KPOJ is going to carry some sports shows and game broadcasts. Oh well...
Been listening to AirAm since the start. Quickly realized that only two shows appealed to me -- Franken's, and Garofolo's -- and kept listening to new shows as they made their debuts. Now, I'm thinking only Franken's show is worth hearing. Smart, funny, most relevant.
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High time. And a smart move by WHAT. They'll get - and deserve - lots of new listeners. The issues AA covers are not black or white issues, but touch us all.
High time. And a smart move by WHAT. They'll get - and deserve - lots of new listeners. The issues AA covers are not black or white issues, but touch us all.
Now if they would only come to New Orleans.
If they did start broadcasting in NO, Mississippi and Texas would probably invade, along with the Shreveport Army O' God and Terry Bradshaw.
Kate O'Beirne of National Review seems to be one of the few who remembers Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations who took his own life in 1996. The first enlisted man to rise to that position, Admiral Boorda killed himself when Newsweek began to investigate the propriety of two "V" decorations, awarded for valor in combat, that he had worn on an off for several years. Admiral Boorda died believing he had mistakenly worn the award. Two years later, the Navy issued an opinion stating that he was not in error, that he did in fact deserve the "V"s.
When Admiral Boorda killed himself, it was only natural for the two Boston papers to seek out the opinions of their own local, decorated Vietnam Navy veteran, Sen. John Kerry:
"Is it wrong? Yes, it is very wrong. Sufficient to question his leadership position? The answer is yes, which he clearly understood," said Sen. John Kerry, a Navy combat veteran who served in Vietnam. - Boston Herald, May 18, 1996
"The military is a rigorous culture that places a high premium on battlefield accomplishment," said Sen. John F. Kerry, who received numerous decorations, including a Bronze Star with a "V" pin, as a Navy lieutenant in Vietnam.
"In a sense, there's nothing that says more about your career than when you fought, where you fought and how you fought," Kerry said.
"If you wind up being less than what you're pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you."
Of Boorda and his apparent violation, Kerry said: "When you are the chief of them all, it has to weigh even more heavily." - Boston Globe, May 18, 1996
There is a big difference between William Calley and John Kerry. William Calley is a proven war criminal. For John Kerry we only have his word as an officer and a gentleman.
What is the War Hero Afraid of?
Form 180. Release ALL the records.
The Al Franken Show on the Sundance cable/sat channel premieres next week.
L.A. still waiting for Randi and all to reappear.
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"Form 180. Release ALL the records.
Papertiger"
Scrape, scrape, scrape. It's like a bent bumper rubbing on a tire after hitting a trash can leaving the strip bar at 2 AM. Have another beer, asshole.
Papertiger will next make 1,000 US soldiers magically LIVE AGAIN! They're not really dead, they're just sleeping, and it just so happens that in many of the cases their arms and legs are sleeping on different sides of the street.
Too bad Bush didn't think they needed body armor. Nope, had to invade right away, no time for inspections to finish, and no time to outfit the men.
Time to GOLF. That and standing on the Portico giving America the bird is all that Bush ever does. Oh, and lie. Did I mention LIE? Boy loves to lie.
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Wow!. Great. Maybe this will finally put 1340 out of business,it's a racist station. Better to listen to 990, and Real Americans like Bill Bennett, Hewitt, Ingraham, Michael Savage. Air America will die, just after Bush wins big in November. Huffel gets crushed by Arlen too.
Randi Rhodes is a blowhard polemicist. I agree with a whole lot of what she says. But she's nothing more than a blowhard polemicist.
All she does is scream her opinion at the top of her lungs, and denigrate those who have differing opinions, without even giving a passing moment to explaining why she is right or why they are wrong.
A lot of right-wingers say things like "Michael Moore is the left's equivalent of Rush Limbaugh." They're wrong. Randi Rhodes is the left's equivalent of Rush Limbaugh. Or, perhaps more accurately, the left's equivalent of Michael Savage.
Incidentally, Moore has no right-wing equivalent, as far as I can tell - in his own words, "they don't know how to be funny".
Or, perhaps more accurately, the left's equivalent of Michael Savage.
I've never heard anyone suggest that Randi Rhodes lies on a regular basis, nor have I heard her tell a listener to "get AIDS and die."
Sure. But if you haven't heard her yell at and insult people who disagree with her without going into any reason why she thinks she's right or they're wrong, or cut people off who agree with her before they explain why they agree with her just so that she can say "Yes, you're right" and then resume ranting, you haven't heard her show.
Hilarious that trolls think such comments have any weight.
Savage IS an admitted racist. Anyone who embraces his hate-speech is not an American.
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Why do you think that I'm a troll?
More interestingly, why do you think that I "embrace his hate-speech"?
Air America is co-opting another black radio station? Say, that's a winning strategy.
That network is a straight-up suckfest. Do people even listen to it anymore? I know that real Americans don't.
KPOJ quintupled their ratings by adding Air America. Hint: if you have an AM station with crappy ratings, try picking up Air America. Arbitron will reward you with ratings, which means more turkee for your station, whether it's a dinky 1000-watter or a Clear Channel/Infinity 50,000 watt boomer.
KPOJ will be broadcasting Portland State football games - only 11 or so a year. Sports on the weekends is good to take the place of repeats of the week's AA programs.
Cheney you, Toby and Orville. And RealPhiladelphia, here's something you're used to: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (Just like you did to Santa Claus and Mike Schmidt.)
Cheney you, Toby and Orville.
Interesting. I call someone a polemicist. In that person's defense, someone uses polemics against me.
Seriously, why are you telling me to fuck myself? What did I say that is incorrect (ridiculous literalist interpretations of "the left's Savage" aside)? Is she not a polemicist blowhard?
Note that that's a totally different question than "Do you agree with what she says?". I (mostly) agree with what she says. But I still think she's a blowhard polemicist.
If your answers to those questions are "No, she is not a polemicist blowhard", and "Yes, I agree with what she says", then I have a third, fourth, and fifth question for you:
(3) Is it possible that someone that you agree with is a blowhard polemicist?
(4) If the answer to (3) is "Yes, it is possible": Do you know of any blowhard polemicists that you agree with?
(5) If the answer to (4) is "Yes, I do": Who?
Orville - she can be, but she can be surprisingly well-informed. And some of her pieces, like last week's reading of letters from one of the troops who survived a nearby suicide bomb attack, are excellent, and even the nuanced stuff you'd expect from more "serious" commentators.
(4)and (5) - Ed Schultz.
Us libs need red meat thrown to us. We're tired of milquetoasts like alan colmes representing us in the media. It's time to eviscerate Dubya and the henchmen who run this country, and put them on the unemployment line on Jan. 20 and in jail months later.
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