Posted on 08/22/2005 7:58:59 AM PDT by AliVeritas
August 22, 2005 -- AIR America, the much-hyped liberal media ven ture that was supposed to revolutionize talk radio, is "solvent and apparently stable": So claim the gullible cheerleaders at The New York Times, who made that unsubstantiated assertion in a recent glowing profile of Air America host Janeane Garofalo. But behind the fawning headlines and celebrity kiss-ups is a tale of astounding financial and legal chaos. The city Department of Investigation and state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer continue to conduct separate probes into a dubious loan scheme involving Air America and the Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club.
An estimated $875,000 of the charity's funds have disappeared. Evan Montvel-Cohen, who served as both chief of Air America and director of development at Gloria Wise, reportedly steered the funds to himself (for claimed medical expenses) and Air America (for operations). Network officials are pinning all the blame on him, and are reportedly pressuring the inner-city charity to back up their story.
But the charity scam is just the tip of the iceberg.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Wonder what that bracketed part means in Journo-speak.
As goes Air America so would the nation. Thank God the Dems are out of power.
There's an English expression that runs "couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery". Should be their epitaph.
So what has the prosecutor Spitzer said about the scandal?
(... crickets.....)
So, Air America is "financially stable"? Then why is Franken claiming he hasn't been paid since the 3rd week of broadcast?
You're assuming that the problem is presentation. It's not. The problem is substance.
America is by and large a conservative nation. Presenting liberalism in different packages isn't going to change that.
As far as I'm concerned the American left can keep thinking that. The real problem with AAR is that no-one wants to listen to crypto-socialist polemic.
Besides the obvious reality about Err Amerika, there is a bigger and more important reality for American investors.
Don't risk your money on any liberal controlled company. Lunatic liberals in control of a company are not good managers.
The difference being that Limbaugh was being paid to be in those markets (a money maker), whereas ErrAmerica has to pay its markets to be on the air (a money loser). Yes, winners and losers are on national display.
So do you think they will overtake Rush's total daily listeners, or just in liberal meccas.
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I love the way you think, man!!!
"To err is human, but to forgive is devine," but there's no excuse for these morons!!!
Very sage advice.
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