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AIR AMERICA: THE SAGA CONTINUES (Al Franken Makes Outlandish Salary Demands)
Michelle Malkin ^ | January 25, 2006 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 01/25/2006 1:50:20 PM PST by PJ-Comix

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To: TheEditor

Even liberals don't listen to AA; but then, they already have NPR.


21 posted on 01/25/2006 2:06:48 PM PST by kjo
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To: PJ-Comix

She is like nails on a chalk board to work for....funny enough...it was while I was working on her show I discovered FR in 1999 when I met Freeper Seeking The Truth and went to interview him after being assaulted by a Clinton lover while he was holding a sign off a major road in Boca.


22 posted on 01/25/2006 2:07:24 PM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: PJ-Comix

They will go under within the next year. Nobody is buying what they are selling and you cannot stay in business by not turning a profit. Seeeeee ya Air Enron!


23 posted on 01/25/2006 2:08:12 PM PST by Buffettfan
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To: PJ-Comix


Most likely to support his crack habit...


24 posted on 01/25/2006 2:09:01 PM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: PJ-Comix
Randi is probably on the books for <$150.000. Radio does NOT pay well. In large markets, yes, but the AE air staff was betting on the come.

The other thing to remember is that Raunchy Roads had/has no "star power." Frankin was a bit of a draw, but outside the cities where she had worked before (or the free clinics where she had been treated to antibiotic-resistant venereal disease) she was/is an unknown.
25 posted on 01/25/2006 2:09:18 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: My Favorite Headache
She is a brain-dead former AOR Rock jock who used to bang Jack Russel from Great White on the side...

Would that be the Jack Russel that burned down that nightclub and a good many of his fans in the process?

26 posted on 01/25/2006 2:09:38 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: TheEditor
Included was a staggering base salary boost to $1,725,000, plus fringe benefits and potential bonuses, after less than a year on the air.

LOL!!! Err Amerika is paying Franken about $2M ??

I love free enterprise!

Out of curiousity, I have some questions: How much is Franken giving to charity? To the poor? To the homeless? How many African-Americans does Franken employ?

27 posted on 01/25/2006 2:10:35 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: PJ-Comix
Franken successfully insisted the entire base sum be paid in advance

Stuart Smalley may be a liberal icon, but even he is no dummy considering AA's history.

28 posted on 01/25/2006 2:12:23 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: PJ-Comix
Franken successfully insisted the entire base sum be paid in advance

Stuart Smalley may be a liberal icon, but even he is no dummy considering AA's history.

29 posted on 01/25/2006 2:12:26 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: My Favorite Headache

Did you know Brian Craig?


30 posted on 01/25/2006 2:13:15 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: Maceman

I used to be able to watch that guy. Now he has turned into a left-wing hack of the lowest order. I will never watch anything with him in it again.


31 posted on 01/25/2006 2:13:36 PM PST by vpintheak (Liberal = The antithesis of Freedom and Patriotism)
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To: pookie18
O'Reilly's doing a segment on Air America tonight.

Phone sex?

32 posted on 01/25/2006 2:13:59 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PJ-Comix

Franken may be an idiot, but he is no dummy. He was smart enough to get the money up front....and AA was dumb enough to pay.


33 posted on 01/25/2006 2:16:23 PM PST by Feiny (Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.)
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It shouldn't be too hard to find another charity to steal money from so the man can be paid.


34 posted on 01/25/2006 2:16:39 PM PST by vollmond (Careful with that axe, Eugene!)
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To: PJ-Comix

I do see a way out for the Air America people.

"According to his contract, only death, disability or resignation would lead to any repayment."

So, if Al dies, he has to repay the money.....


35 posted on 01/25/2006 2:21:54 PM PST by Feiny (Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.)
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To: InsureAmerica

$1 MILLION? I know people who will act like an ass for far less than that, some at no cost.........

Lets start a list!

people who will act like an ASS for free!

1 Al Gore

2 Babs Streisand

3 Jesse Jackson

4 Michael Moore

5 John Murrah

6 Cindy Sheehan

7 John Kerry

8 Howard Dean

9 Barbara Lee

10 ????


36 posted on 01/25/2006 2:23:37 PM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: kjo
I tuned in to Err America on WTWK, at the beginning of the year. It was ESPN Radio during the 3PM (EST) hour.
37 posted on 01/25/2006 2:25:54 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: EGPWS
The result: what is quite likely talk radio's largest-ever and most overpaid entourage, mostly from the ranks of Al's Harvard research team.

Research team? What the hell do they "research"? Bong design?

38 posted on 01/25/2006 2:29:14 PM PST by lesser_satan
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To: PJ-Comix
I bet Randi Rhodes will be PISSED OFF to find out how much Al Franken is scamming from Err America. I doubt if she is even getting 10% of his salary.

Once heard her show - she was making jokes at AA's expense.. lead me to believe that all is not harmonious over there.. she claims she's on Clear Channel stations? Hadn't heard that before..

39 posted on 01/25/2006 2:31:45 PM PST by ziggygrey
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To: LtKerst

Eddie Murphy played a pretty good ass in Shrek, but it wasn't for free.


40 posted on 01/25/2006 2:34:32 PM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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