NEW LIBERAL DOSE OF STATIC

New York Post ^ | 4/01/04 | JOHN MAINELLI

[kattracks]

Gets nighttime slot.Liberals who have been moaning about all the conservatives on talk Liberals who have been moaning about all the conservatives on talk radio launched a counter blab- attack yesterday.

Putting big money - some $30 million - where their mouths are, they debuted "Air America," a collection of lefty yakkers who vow to challenge Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and about a half- dozen other conservative heavyweights.

[kattracks]

Franken, Air America's biggest-name star, promptly repeated potshots he's taken for weeks...

Franken already having problems coming up with new material?

[freebilly]

Gee, Moore Gore. Be still my heart. When do Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and James Carville make appearances...?

[Keith in Iowa]

In the end, this ErrAmerica will have the same impact as a gnat landing on an elephant's arse.

[Semper Paratus]

Franken already having problems coming up with new material?

He'll be filling with music within a week.

[NYCVirago]

Franken and his sidekick, Minnesota Public Radio's Katherine Lanpher, spent nearly an hour with Bob Kerrey on the 9/11 hearings and also interviewed Al Gore, activist Michael Moore and, surprisingly, Watergater G. Gordon Liddy.

The Liddy interview is not so surprising. He and Al, believe it or not, are good friends.

[capitan_refugio]

In the Los Angeles radio market, the "Err Amerika" liberals are on some AM station called KBLA. I've never listened to it before, and I understand it was primarily used for Korean language broadcasts. I bet the kimchee is going to hit the fan!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Liberals said Franken was just nervous and would work it out. Someone tell these morons that a first show has to be a dog and pony best effort. If they were serious about a real network, clips of that show are what's going to be pitched to potential advertisers. If it was my ad dollars in play, after hearing samples of it I would tell any of my staff that they're fired if they even consider doing business with the lib network.

[Caipirabob]

As another FReeper suggested, the biggest hurdle for Franken will be showing up for work for several consecutive days in a row.

[dawn53]

"Today is . . . an end to the right- wing dominance of talk radio and the beginning of a battle for truth, for justice . . . a battle indeed for America itself - not to be grandiose," said pit-bull humorist and Saturday Night Live alumnus Al Franken, the network's kickoff host.

It's indicated that they left parts out of this quote. You don't think he really said, " truth, justice and the American way", do you, LOL?

[Defendingliberty]

I won't last, Frankin will insult core beliefs of the average Democrat listener.

[sr4402]

Being a Rush fan, I decided to try Air America to see if it would be a challenge to him (or Sean). This is what I found to be different:

They can't stay on one subject. Rush and Sean will stay on a topic and give it all its got. Al and Micheal Moore went from OPEC to Bush to Micheal Moore's book and back in only a few sentences. It wasn't worth trying to follow it.

I didn't hear any value they were adding to the airwaves. No cogent thoughts, no transcendent values - but I wasn't expecting that anyway. After all, what can you expect from liberal barf.

[Semper Paratus]

Someone tell these morons that a first show has to be a dog and pony best effort.

Only restaraunts get a mulligan on opening night. If Air America was a Broadway Play it would have been closed today.

[Wright is right!]

"As another FReeper suggested, the biggest hurdle for Franken will be showing up for work for several consecutive days in a row."

This is the one factor no one who wants a bully pulpit like a radio or TV show stops to consider. You have to be in the same place at the same time every single day. You have to come up with enough NEW material to fill the show up each and every day. It's not like a comedy tour, where you do 90 minutes of the same gags over and over again in a different city each night.

This is the real reason X-42(i) never got down to a TV talk show deal. He rarely would have "been there."

This so-called network is really just an expensive campaign dais designed to circumvent CFR rules and allow the Dems an unfettered platform from which to bark at their faithful. It will go away right after the election. With almost ZERO notice by the Media.

Michael

[SpinyNorman]

Franken, Air America's biggest-name star, promptly repeated potshots he's taken for weeks at Limbaugh - "My show will be drug-free" - and Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly: "This is 'The O'Franken Factor' . . . with a 'Zero Spin Zone. Sue me. Please. "

Will he be tested to prove that? After his admitted voluntary, non medicinal use of both cocaine and LSD, his kevtching of Rush Limbaugh's misuse of pain medications (for pain, not the high Franken pursued) is a bit hypocritical.

Imagine that. Dishonesty and hypocrisy from day 1.

Is there a priest in the house?

[thingumbob]

"Imagine that. Dishonesty and hypocrisy from day 1."

But that's the whole reason behind having this station.... In Hitlers' Germany they called this PROPAGANDA.

[capitan_refugio]

The liberals are not interested in making a profit or even continuing with the "network" after the election. This is just soft money being used to bash Bush in the form of a 24-hour radio infomercial. Any "advertisers" know what the demographic is going to be - young, dumb, and gullible. They are not on the air to sell a product. This is a political exercise.

[capitan_refugio]

"This so-called network is really just an expensive campaign dais designed to circumvent CFR rules and allow the Dems an unfettered platform from which to bark at their faithful. It will go away right after the election. With almost ZERO notice by the Media."

BINGO! I couldn't have said it better.

[dirtboy]

Franken and his sidekick, Minnesota Public Radio's Katherine Lanpher, spent nearly an hour with Bob Kerrey on the 9/11 hearings

Imagine the outrage if 9/11 commission member Tom Kean sat in with Rush for an hour.

[Libertina]

launched a counter blab- attack
Enuf said ;)