Nader Blasts 'Hot Air America'

Newsmax ^ | 4/2/04

[areafiftyone]

Things turned ugly on the new liberal talk radio network "Air America" Wednesday night, with guest Ralph Nader blasting the Democratic Party's counterweight to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly as "Hot Air America." The perennial candidate said the fact that Democrats couldn't hang onto what he described as their presidential victory was the party's own fault.

And for good measure, Nader blasted ex-President Clinton as "a draft dodger."

It was all downhill from there, as Nader and Rhodes screamed at one another for the next ten minutes.

Some selected highlights, as transcribed by the Web site "The Daily Kos":

On Clinton

RHODES: You know the Democrat's policy, you know when the Republicans talk about regime change was the Clinton administration's policy, but it was regime change from within. It was never military action on our part on Iraq. That was not the policy . . .

NADER: . . . You know, Clinton was a draft-dodger so he wasn't willing to take on the Pentagon. And he wasn't willing to take on the Congress on many huge military expenditures and that starved many of the necessities back home among the American people --

On Nader's Presidential run

RHODES: How many ways to Sunday do I have to tell you. We can't afford you.

NADER: I'm sorry, Can you afford freedom? Can you afford choice? Can you afford civil liberties? --

RHODES: Gimmie a Democrat President!

On "Hot Air America"

NADER: -- can you -- is this the way you want to start Air America? You want it to be Hot Air America?

RHODES: Oh, no, you see --

NADER: -- Log on to the web site votenader.org --

RHODES: -- Ralph, let me tell you something. If you did get to be president, tell me who you would caucus with. Tell me who you could get to vote for your ... views and visions, and your, your bills! Who is an independent other than Bernie Sanders and Jim Jeffords? Who are you gonna count on? You -- let's say you win. Okay?

NADER: You can't win without a huge mobilization of voters --

RHODES: -- let's say ya do --

NADER: -- that would replace many members of Congress.

RHODES: -- let's say it's seventy years old, from your house in Connecticut, your little house --

NADER: -- now wait a minute. now wait wait wait. You're --

RHODES: -- you are, you are ready to do this.

NADER: -- listen, listen. Now you're getting nasty.

RHODES: I'm not!

NADER: You are ruining the first day --

RHODES: I'm not ruining anything.

NADER: -- the first day of Air America.

RHODES: This is Air America.

NADER: -- you're not letting your, you're not letting your guest be, have a chance to speak. You're --

RHODES: I asked you a question. --

NADER: -- you're not letting your guest have a chance to speak.

More bickering

NADER: -- you've got a very bad interviewing technique --

RHODES: -- uh uh uh. I am not --

NADER: -- and you're not going to get an audience by overtalking --

RHODES: -- interviewing you --

NADER: Do not overtalk!

RHODES: I am not ... interviewing you!

NADER: Do not overtalk!

RHODES: I mad at you! Don't you understand the difference?

NADER: Fine, just close up and start screaming to your audience.

RHODES: [laughs] Look. Don't tell me how to do radio; I've done it for twenty years. You screwed up the last election, and now you want to screw up this one, and I'm pissed!

NADER: (pause; speechless) You know, you ought to be ashamed of yourself because you --

RHODES: But I'm not! You know you should --

NADER: -- you agree with me --

RHODES: -- be ashamed of yourself! --

NADER: -- you agree with me on so many issues. You really ought to be ashamed of yourself.

RHODES: I'm not ashamed of myself. I can't afford you! [End of Excerpts]

[areafiftyone]

That's what you get Ralph for sucking up to Kerry. Did you really think that the Dems were going to give you a break?

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[mlbford2]

I give 'Err Amerika' 18mo tops. Lib audience has no interest for this type of media.

[areafiftyone]

Yup I do too. AIRHEAD AMERICA on the SNOOZE STATION!

[cripplecreek]

Wow, Nader actually has some good points.

[al baby]

I give 'Err Amerika' 18mo tops. Lib audience has no interest for this type of media.



THey be to busy watching gerry springer and ricky lake

[Badeye]

It will be off the air within thirty days of the November election. This is not a serious attempt at creating a "liberal talk show"....its a very creative way of getting around CFR.

[Dr Snide]

Dead Air America is more like it. I listened to it for a little bit yesterday. The problem is that I wasn't even getting angry, just bored. Which means those people who are not liberal won't bother listening because its not entertaining. Its like NPR only not as funny (Franken-stein has NOOOO talent). It was Al Franken interviewing Hillary Clinton and I wasn't mad because is was just repeating Democratic talking points. I could just watch CNN or any of the broadcast networks and get the same view so what is the point.

[MrB]

You know the Democrat's policy, you know when the Republicans talk about regime change was the Clinton administration's policy, but it was regime change from within. It was never military action on our part on Iraq. That was not the policy . . .

I love it when the leftocommies admit that their leaders and their philosophy is so damn cowardly that they refuse to actually take any action that might have some negative reflection on themselves, regardless of whether it will save 100k's of lives.

[French-American Republican]

Nader should have known better. The interview just goes to show how the 'rats aren't running on their leftist ideology; they're just a bunch of scum blinded by their hatred of Bush. That's what they're running on - Bush hatred.

[not-alone]

Many at DU were upset with this and all the host reading scripts.Last night Randi had her facts wrong, as usual, and won't let anyone correct her. Lots of criticism on DU

[cripplecreek]

The interview clearly demonstrates why this media and so many democratic campaigns have failed.

This Rhodes guy seemed more interested in telling Nader what to think than in hearing what Nader does think. Its just not a winning strategy.

[French-American Republican]

Gotta agree there. Not even liberals will keep listening to it. Why? Because it's boring and whiny. There's a reason why Rush is so popular even among those who hate him.

[Constitution Day]

NADER: Do not overtalk!
NADER: Do not overtalk!

Bwahahaha!!

[UB355]

There is a joke of a station that Dishnetwork carries on 9415. Same old tired liberal garbage. They already are doing on-screen fund raisers ala PBS.

[French-American Republican]

Rhodes isn't a guy. It's a man-hating psychopath.

[Petronski]

[Guillermo]

THey be to busy watching gerry springer and ricky lake

Exactly.

If the Democrats didn't mobilize thousands of busses on election day that roam around the ghettos begging people to get on so they could take them to the precincts, they'd be a minority party in every state.

[MrB]

I liked Rhodes' quote better:
"I am not interviewing you, I'm mad at you."

Yeah, way to attract guests and conduct informative segments.

Of course, this summarizes leftist philosophy - it's all about MY feelings, not about reality.

[KellyAdmirer]

Being rude to Ralph and ticking him off really doesn't seem like such a smart strategy for the liberals, but I have no problem with them doing it....