[coulterfan1]

Good point. I've been wondering how they keep getting funding when clearly nobody's listening.

[Parley Baer]

Typical dimocRAT funding. Tax payer dollars and union confiscation through their dues. Looks like the union part may partially be drying up as the members are wising up. Bwhahahahahahaha.

[Walkingfeather]

I have worked with many non-profits and have found that they are generally desperate for dollars. I could see someone dangling a proposal like this in front of them. If there are indeed many non profits buying commercial airtime on air america there is something strange about this. Most non-profits do not have the money for advertizing like this, especially small charities.

Not saying that is what happened but it is a rabbit trail that I would check.

[mad puppy]

'... clearly no one is listening.'

A year or so ago, during a discussion with a liberal co-worker, he said that unless I'd listened to some of the other sides radio shows, I would have no way of putting the 'right wing' radio shows into context.

I admit it. I fell for it. For a couple weeks I tried, I really tried to listen to the likes of Randi Rhodes and Al Franken. They made me angry, but I listened. They didn't make sense, but I listened. I completely disagreed, but I listened. They spewed this rage backed up by the most twisted, paranoid thinking possible and after a couple weeks I had to turn it off.

Finally, I went to this co-worker and told him that I now understood why he was so frustrated and angry; why he hated Bush and thought the UN should be allowed to over rule the US Constitution; why cutting taxes was a give away to the rich; etc. etc. etc.

He was being feed a constant stream of B.S. and deep down he knew it was just wrong, which meant he was wrong on a great many issues of the day. That was simply more than he could take. A few weeks later his anger about other issues bubbled to the surface during an off-site meeting with a HUGE customer. That customer was offended and let it be known. He was fired.

Allowing Air America to live or die based on standard profit and loss business practices is only fair, but they won't play be the simple rules.

Allowing Air America to die, while to late for my co-worker, might help prevent others from developing that type of anger. So... for the good of the country, shut it down.