Posted on 04/15/2004 7:40:27 AM PDT by Republican Red
OK ... I put this last in today's notes .. but you know it had to be here. Air America, the much ballyhooed liberal talk radio network, is already on the ropes. Apparently they're bouncing checks.
Listeners in Los Angeles and Chicago, what few there were, tuned in to their favorite lib-talk host yesterday only to find some Spanish-language program on the air. The owner of the two stations reportedly kicked Air America staffers out and changed the locks on the doors. He waved a check to some members of the press .. purportedly from Air America and for over one million dollars .. which failed to clear the bank.
Air America, of course, is denying everything. They've even filed a complaint against the station owner who booted their shows.
Here's the key. What in the hell is Air America doing paying radio stations to air their programming? We don't. Rush doesn't, neither does Hannity. Is the liberal message so vapid and unappealing that these people actually have to pay stations to put it on the air?
Here's a little more information for you.
Jim Watkins is the program director for my affiliates in Naples and Ft. Meyers, Florida (WINK-AM and WNOG-AM). Several weeks ago he contacted the people at Air America to inquire about putting Al Franken somewhere on his radio station. Watkins remembered Al Franken from his Saturday Night Live days and felt that he might be entertaining and could draw an audience.
So ... Watkins gets an official from Air America on the phone. The Air America official asks Jim what other programs they carry. Jim starts rattling off the names. Boortz, Limbaugh, Savage .... At that point the Air America official says "Stop." He then informs Watkins that they won't allow their programming to air on WINK and WNOG. And why not? Because "We don't want our programming stained by being on a station that carries Rush Limbaugh."
Is that not amazing? Liberals are complaining that their voices aren't being heard on talk radio. They get a big donation from some liberal in Chicago .. and they set out to create a liberal talk radio network. At last, the liberal voice will be heard! Then they get a call from a radio station that wants to give these great liberal voices an audience in Southwest Florida .. and they say no! Why not? Because they don't want the same people to hear Rush Limbaugh listening to Al Franken. I wonder why that would be? Could it be because they know that their liberal message will not survive exposure to Limbaugh? Could it be that they know the liberal message only gets a foothold when there is nobody around exposing the lies, the half-truths and the complete lack of common sense and logic?
Air America ... destined to fail. Bad idea, bad management. Al Franken won't last till the election.
Idiots.
It's like the ugly little girl who's parents had to tie a pork chop around her neck so the dog would play with her.
In my humble opinion, I wouldn't be surprised that Air America Radio is gone by June 1, 2004.
Can they write a check for that?
L
"There are ALWAYS plausible explanations when the Right Wing pulls another coup over the Left. Always a coincidence when votes get lost and an entire state swings the Presidency to oil executives. Always a coincidence when oil executives launch an invasion to "bring freedom and democracy" to a country which just happens to have huge oil reserves. There have been far too many hard right coups to silence dissenting opinions, to bully and buy the press corps, to remove government information which contradicts Bush Administration doctrine from web sites (GODORT has reported instances of this) and now the one and only vigorous voice on the public radio waves disappears."
"I'm not inclined to just "explain it away" as another coincidence and being "perfectly legal". It is another bully boy knifing by the hard right to silence disagreement -- just like the paid operatives "demonstrated" to intimidate those trying to undertake the Florida recount."
"If "liberal principles" are being violated it is in allowing the hard right to stick another knife in our backs with wads of cash and legal maneuvering. If we are too stupid or too soft to stop them -- or, heaven forbid, to strike back -- maybe we deserve to lose our freedom to a neo-Fascist junta."
"James B. Casey drjbc92@lib.oak-lawn.il.us -- My own views. ALA Council Candidate."
Oak Lawn? Isn't that a cemetary?
Apparently rubber poke chops don't work as well as real poke chops??? Who would have guessed PC jokes are not as entertaining as non-PC jokes. Poor Garawfulo, seems to have Goreitis, can't seem to catch a break!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.