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Air America Deflates - The “progressive” radio network isn’t long for this world.
City Journal ^ | 29 April 2006 | Brian C. Anderson

Posted on 04/28/2006 10:31:52 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: neverdem

Comrade, you forgot the real progressive radio - Radio Pacifica


41 posted on 04/29/2006 5:36:29 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush Code Pink, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the womyn)
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To: neverdem
falling from a mediocre 1.4 to a pathetic 0.8 share. That’s smaller than the all-Caribbean format the network replaced when it first launched in New York

Al Franken or steel drums. Who in the world would have made the switch in the first place?

42 posted on 04/29/2006 5:55:59 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Congress, since you only understand Spanish here is my proposal: ¡Amnistía, no! ¡Deportación, sí!)
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To: neverdem

Air America is so pathetic that it's funny. And they lie all the time. The other night, Jean Garafalo had the guy on who made "United 93", Paul Greengrass. She complained to him about how it is the "conservatives" who are attacking his movie.


43 posted on 04/29/2006 6:06:30 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: neverdem

No way man. How will alfranken then become a great senator?


44 posted on 04/29/2006 6:36:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: AndyTheBear
...present day liberalism is a combination of mental laziness and moral cowardice recast as intellectualism and moral superiority. It is an ugly thing for its disciples to share openly.

And How!

I am not exaggerating in the least when I tell you a major component of why I believe in the metaphysical is the surreal way such people seem compelled to advertise their soiled psyches like characters in a Rod Serling morality play.

Liberalism, without four hours in make-up, and a crack team of writers to craft the tableau serving as the backdrop for its propositions, is truly magnificent in its repugnance.

45 posted on 04/29/2006 7:03:18 AM PDT by papertyger (Our Constitution isn't perfect, but it's better than what we have right now.)
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To: neverdem
>The “progressive” radio network isn’t long for this world.



It is politics.
Someone will subsidize them
and they'll stay around.

The only way Frank
got rid of Howard was by
taking out a hit . . .

46 posted on 04/29/2006 7:12:43 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: neverdem

No wonder Liberals the world over practice censorship of differing ideas when they sieze power by violent, propagandistic means. No one wants to hear them.


47 posted on 04/29/2006 7:19:29 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (The enemy within: Demoncrats and DSA.ORG Sedition is a Liberal "family value".)
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To: neverdem

>>>That’s smaller than the all-Caribbean format the network replaced when it first launched in New York<<<

LMAO


48 posted on 04/29/2006 8:51:56 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
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To: neverdem

This article failed to touch on one subject.

Radio programs are fact-filled and fast-moving. There is investigatory depth. You must actually use your brain to listen to them, decipher them, and form your own opinion.

Liberal news is by definition light on facts, and definitely assembled for the easily-entertained. The MSM is slow-moving, and trumpets a party line over and over. There is little or no depth in the reporting, and complicated issues are not examined in detail, lest the show lose the viewer. No brain required.

Is it any wonder that the legions of liberals who get their ammunition from CBS, NBC, NPR, CNN and the like are utterly unable to defend their positions in the arena of rational conclusion?


49 posted on 04/29/2006 9:01:24 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
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To: netmilsmom

Happy 5th Anniversary Laura Ingraham! On yesterday's show, exactly 5 yrs to the day from her debut, they played cuts from the first show--where Laura accidentally kicked out a connection, and Lee (in a studio in a different location) had to start reading stuff from the N.Y. Post to kill time until the snafu was cleared up..."Soundbite of the week", the
"Three Stooges" in the wee hours of C-SPAN, etc.

And since we're talking Caribbean music, maybe WLIB can start playing some old records by big lefty calypso star
Harry Belafonte (Laura's played clips from the now-
raspy-voiced legend who's currently a star to the libs)

And let's not forget Larry-King-"Guess-the-Guest"--for the
howah!


50 posted on 04/29/2006 10:13:31 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: netmilsmom
Just to let you know, if your driving and want to listen to Glenn Beck. (I sometimes can get these stations in the house, but very well). Try 1370 out of Toledo or 610 out of the evil city of Columbus OH!!
51 posted on 04/29/2006 12:29:48 PM PDT by Springman
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To: advance_copy
You deserve some kind or recognition for listening to them. I've tried and it's so boring it hurts.

Rush Limbaugh has liberal listeners because he is good to listen to. Even people who don't/can't/won't agree with him because of whatever affliction they may suffer from are informed and entertained by him.

Air America will fail. Not just because it is intellectually bankrupt and politically obsolete but because it is just bad radio.
52 posted on 04/29/2006 3:55:48 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Enforce the 13th Amendment - Free the H1Bs)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Err America's problem is that it's 24/7 of Bush-Bashing and NOTHING ELSE.

It has no core. It offers no alternatives. It's obsessed with destroying Bush with a spiteful, vindictive rage that has produced nothing in return except endless frustration. It's tedious, boring and uninspiring. The very first show was as unrecongnizable as the last. 2 full years of contentious, empty rhetoric on the air and they're not a day closer to solving that mess.

Its hosts are woefully eccentric and unqualified to speak on real, substantive issues. Half the hosts are washed-up comedians with a real disdain for practical, conventional thinking. Their condescension and dismissive attitudes toward traditional values in this culture are plainly obvious. Their contempt for Christianity and its influence in America is especially disturbing.

There's a mindset within that network's top brass that refuses to moderate its 'philosophy'(if any exists) even for the sake of its own survival. On pure instinct, they must conclude that their utter failure is due to lack of a real identity which best represents their collective id.

To help stop ther bleeding, they've added on a self-proclaimed communist named Jackie Guerra to host a weekend show on Saturdays called 'Workin' it".

53 posted on 04/29/2006 6:09:18 PM PDT by eric_da_grate
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No,no.... I think they are re-tooling for an all out SPANISH VERSION..."...Hola mis amigos, les habla AL FRANKENO... WE HAVO A NUOVE FLAGO... YOU LIKE?"


55 posted on 05/03/2006 7:30:24 AM PDT by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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56 posted on 05/06/2006 9:38:51 PM PDT by NapkinUser (http://www.vasquezforidaho.org/)
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