Rules.
Posted on 09/08/2005 10:09:40 PM PDT by John Lenin
They wouldn't be by any chance using NBC's David Gregory's wife, Beth Wilkinson of (Latham & Watkins)and former OKC prosecutor, under the Janet Reno & Jamie Gorelick Justice Dept., and top counter-terrorism official in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration, would they?!
If you were to confront some of the Air-America-heads, they probably would say something along the lines of, "These are lies fabricated by the right to destroy us." Of course, they don't even need the right to "destroy" them; they're doing a marvelous job themselves.
Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney continue their groundbreaking series on the Air America financial scandal, this time taking direct aim at the netlet's number-one asset: Al Franken. It turns out that Franken has lied to his listeners about his ignorance of the heavy debts that Evan Montvel Cohen rang up in an attempt to float Air America and during the asset sale that now appears to have been a fraudulent conveyance. How do we know this? Michelle and Brian have turned up an agreement with Franken's signature -- an agreement that made Franken a key player in the series of transactions that resulted in the fraudulent conveyance:
Along with the network's current management and shell-game-playing owners, Al Franken has gotten a pass, even from some conservative commentators who have claimed that it's unfair to blame the liberal radio network's financial and legal entanglements on its on-air talent.Those claims are wrong.
According to a November 2004 settlement agreement between former Air American head honchos Evan Cohen and Rex Sorensen and Air America's current owners and investors at Piquant LLC, Al Franken was smack dab in the middle of negotiations over the debts owed by the liberal radio network--including the Gloria Wise loan. The agreement was signed to clear the decks in advance of the questionable asset transfer from Air America's old owners, Progress Media and Radio Free America, to Piquant.
Not only have the intrepid blog reporters found these key documents, but they also found a blockbuster witness to the agreement that supports their claims. They found Evan Montvel Cohen.
Brian's half of the story also nails Sheldon Drobny as a lying liar:
[W]e now know $167,000 of the Gloria Wise taxpayer money was transferred to Air America on October 2, 2003. This is revealed in the settlement agreement. The Drobnys turned over the reins in November, 2003, retaking it in 2004 from Evan Cohen and Rex Sorenson.Therefore we can prove, via hard evidence, the transfers began on Sheldon's watch. He didn't tell the truth on C-SPAN, did he?
Smoking guns sure do come in handy.
In this case, smoking guns seem to abound. One wonders why the Exempt Media has still failed to cover this story, especially the New York Times. Now we have a presumed candidate for Senator in 2008 who participated in an arguably fraudulent shell game with Lyndon LaRouche supporters in order to stiff creditors, among them a non-profit whose earmarked grant money went into their pockets. Will anyone here at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune or the Saint Paul Pioneer Press find that interesting enough to publish? Michelle and Brian would love to speak with either or both.
Read it all -- a breathtaking piece of journalism.
Franken doesn't know squat. And never did.
4. joohn xxxxxxx ( name redacted ) September 3rd, 2005 at 3:15 pm
Has air america been droped from AM 730 in Charleston? If so, how can we get it back or how can we find another station ?
There was no explanation of why it is no longer being delivered. The right of free speech means that i should have the right to listen to information that interests me. Please reply.
It was dropped because the ratings didn't follow, like the lefties said they would. Who knows, maybe they can find another idiot who wants to adopt a poor business model, with next to no ratings. They say they're looking. I'm sure they have advertisers lined up for blocks. ( Ha ) It was dropped from a Clear Channel station, meaning a major house cleaning may follow in other AA cities. If that poster is good indicator of their few listeners, I've figured out their problem. They don't even have a casual acquaintance with reality.
We're not laughing at them, we're... I guess we are laughing at them.
Al Franken has long reminded me of the guy who always got his ass kicked after school. You know the guy...he'd run his mouth all the time, get beat up but he'd never learn.
Air America is really the epitome of elitism. Nobody listens to them but they still think they're important.
I know the guy. We all do. And the thing about it was, you really enjoyed beating the crap outta Al...
Al Franken is a big fat lying Liar.. and hes UGLY TOO...
I accidentally caught a couple of hours of "Morning Sedition", yesterday morning. It, apparently, is supposed to be a news/commentary/humor program, and features two male hosts with common first names.
They had the executive director of the ACLU as a guest -- can't recall his name --, but he was bashing The Patriot Act and Judge Roberts. Their biggest fears seemed to be that Roberts' appointment would mean the end of Roe, and that "Gay Rights" would be further diminished.
I wish every voter could have an opportunity to hear how ridiculous these idiots sound, and what their agenda is; the libs would be quashed in the next election.
The three of them sounded as if they had their hands in each other's trousers, and were warming up for the next session of the politbureau; totally sickening, and I never did hear anything I would call "humor" out of any of them.
The station is a disgrace to common decency. I call it hate radio.
Doesn't this mean that the Gloria Wise folks are the only investors in Air America that haven't earned a negative return? Give them some credit. They're smarter than EVERY OTHER investor in this outfit.
And a plug for Bernard Goldberg's book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37). It really is a light and easy read as well as eye-opening in some cases.
The $825,000 is in escrow under the control of the AA lawyers. Boy, we're all relieved about that, eh?
At any time now, once some PC is put together, those funds are seizeable via court order. (If they're really there. ; )
Where did it come from? Why, it could have come from the same wholesome and legitimate fund-raising efforts that comprised the "Bill Clinton Defense Fund" and Hitlery's political fund-raiser in California recently.
For the first time I tried to listen the other day. I couldn't take it. It was Franken, his chick sidekick, and Jonathan Alter, and it was just meaningless banter. I shut it off.
LMAO! LOL!...just delicious...another serving, please. :D
I want to see the escrow agreement.
I think you missed the meaning of "On air talent", I think what they mean is he is "On Air", like you know "On Drugs".
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