Air America's 'Deep Throat'; Plus, Bill Press Has Major Conflict Of Interest

The Radio Equalizer- Brian Maloney ^ | August 5th, 2005 | Brian Maloney

[chuckpez]

...Clearly, the DOI doesn't buy the liberal hogwash circulating around the Internet by Air America supporters and Bill Press on FOXNews, that Air America's newer owner has no connection to the old one, Progress Media, that it's all about Evan Cohen, the invisible bad man.

Then why does the DOI believe Air America's current owners owe the money? Why is Air America repaying it?

Is it because, other than Cohen, it's primarily the same people who continued on with the company after the sale?

[Boundless]

What an opportunity for liberal talk radio to find
some poor ghetto kid whose vacation was stolen,
and have him come on and sob about the big bad
radio network that was responsible.

What?
It was?
Oh.
Never mind.

Meanwhile, in the linked article: "... a letter from
the New York Department of Investigation appears to
demand it immediately place $875,000 in an attorney-overseen escrow account."

If that happens, expect AA dead air almost immediately.

[Cheburashka]

If that happens, expect AA dead air almost immediately.

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It will be almost immediate, unless someone like Soros steps up to the plate and loans/gives AA the money.

The question is: is it worth throwing more money into the AA sinkhole?

If the rich libs let AA die, there goes their dreams of going toe-to-toe with Rush and defeating him (and all the other conservative talk shows) on his own turf. It would be near impossible to start over with a new untainted Lib network and have anything credible before 2008. (Yes, I know I am implying that AA is credible, which is a major stretch.)

But is there anything worth saving now at the cost of almost a million dollars?

I think it's highly likely that some people involved with AA will be facing criminal charges in the next year. I don't know if he has any criminal involvement with this sleaze, so I don't want to imply that he has, but wouldn't seeing Al Franken in handcuffs be an American Express priceless moment?

[Fido969]

there goes their dreams of going toe-to-toe with Rush and defeating him"

The thing has been on the air over a year, and despite very strong publicity they have about a tenth the market of Rush. It just isn't happening, if folks are going to watch this they would be watching it by now. Hit shows take off very quickly, and this isn't going anywhere.

They have already lost that dream.

[rmgatto]

Al Franken frog-marched out of his studio. Stuart Smalley can only dream.

[MinuteGal]

Thanks for this post. The blog link led me to the "rest of the story" which provided some news about a current business interest of the loathsome Bill Press that I didn't know......and doubt if hardly anyone else here does, either.

Leni