HA ha...
and the RATS take another one in the...
We had hundreds of meetings with the kind of people and organizations that collectively were worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Not a single one made an investment with us although many promises were made
Babs: I really like this guy's ideas! I think we should invest!
Babs' Husband: Honey, I think you should talk to Franky your Financial Advisor at Goldman Sachs.
Babs: OK, honey.
Franky the Financial Advisor at Goldman: Ms. Striesand I can really appreciate your interest in this, but it is a BAD INVESTMENT and I cannot advise you to do so.
Babs: Well, Franky, you are the reason I have all those millions so I'll listen to what you say. Tell me again what you think I should invest in?
Franky the Fiancial Advisor at Goldman: Bank of America, GM, Haliburton, RJ Reynolds, Microsoft......
The Democratic elite and Hollywood types only care about themselves. I am Shocked!
They tried to build a liberal radio dynasty from the top down instead of from the bottom up, like Rush, et al.
It helps to have listeners and to be marginally entertaining.
Most entertaining thing I've read today. What a maroon.
There is his problem right there. Rush Limbaugh makes money the old fashioned way ..he hawks products. The makers of Snapple or whatever make money ...the listeners drink the snapple that makes the money ...No one goes broke and it is not a zero sum game
For all you youngsters out there, there existed a flying Air America, the good guys, before the radio Air America, the asshole one.
Air America, the flying one, involved itself in the southeast Asia area supplying various anti-communist allies like the Montegnards, our "secret war" allies in Laos and Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk.
Most of the action went on in the mid to late 1960s and we flew a hell of a lot of C-117s. That plane, in my opinion, was the best, most reliable transport in our flying "secret war" arsenal.
I'd guess there's still C-117s flying out of jungle airstrips all over the world.
And, yes, the planes had painted "Air America" on the fuselage.
It wasn't really that secret.
The first part of this sentence assumes a fact not in evidence.
The most subversive thing any good FReeper could do in this instance would be to hold your nose, go out, and buy several copies of this ignorant, but oh-so-useful, screed. For one, it would help keep Err America afloat, and all it's doing is preaching to and further radicalizing an already radical, very small but very vocal choir, to the detriment of Dim aspirations, as the primary victory of that red diaper baby Lamont demonstrates.. And, secondly, the whiney attack on Dim leadership is priceless. It rings true, from the smarmy, victim-entitlement attitude of the author, straight through to the glib bloviation of liberal "elites."
LOL - this rant is soooooooo funny....
"....many criticisms have been directed at me for the “problems” that Air America has had during its “birth pangs.”
Yeah that's the problem after 5 years, "birth pangs".
No. It isn't and it doesn't. No wonder you're a leftist. Learn some economics. Learn why capitalism allows people to create wealth. Learn about comparative advantage and the power of the division of labor. You need to read some books before you write any, and before you sink any more money into such a counterproductive project as Air America.
The hell you say.
Did he ever give back the money to the orphan kids from the ghetto??
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Is that kind of like "death throes?"
"We had hundreds of meetings with the kind of people and organizations that collectively were worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Not a single one made an investment with us although many promises were made. The reason that happened is something I wrote about in my book, Road To Air America. I also had introductions to public and union pension funds with promises made to me that never came to pass. The reason was simple. Even while it was on paper, the very idea of Air America sucked."
There. Fixed it.
"We handle our own programming in Phoenix and Little Rock and some of it is the best that Air America offers. Which is to say, utter bears***."
Likewise.
Remind me not to buy the book.
Not a single one made an investment with us although many promises were made... I also had introductions to public and union pension funds with promises made to me that never came to pass.
In other words, the testimony of someone who's dealt with them is that none of the liberal elites can be trusted to keep a promise. You can't believe a word they say, they'll say anything they like, and if it's a lie, well, that's no big deal.
The cronyism is so horrible in the Democratic elite that they have no time for new faces or new ideas.
Summary: The Democratic elites run on power and mutual back-scratching rather than actually adopting good ideas and sincerely trying to make a positive difference. This comes from a former "true believer" who's dealt with them.
My last book was tame in comparison to my new book. The details will be much more informative to the people who look up to these power elites. You will all be shocked at the cronyism and incompetence in that world.
Translation: not only are they a bunch of lying, power-grabbing, back-scratchers, they're also a bunch of incompetent boobs.
I was misguided in the belief that these people really cared enough to support a noble project.
More of the same.
If anyone has any complaints about AAR, please direct them to the phonies in Hollywood and in broadcast journalism who grease each other’s palm instead of doing the right thing. Yes, I am angry with these people for their selfishness and disregard of the struggling constituency that they pretend to support. I actually was a true believer before this all happened. And for those of you who criticize me for my lack of tolerance of these crazy hateful people and their enablers, keep on watching these shows and make them all rich while your life goes down the drain.
And while we're at it, you can add hateful to the list as well...
So, to summarize, an insider (or, at least, an almost-insider) finds the Democratic elite to be pretty much universally a bunch of self-seeking, power-hungry, hateful, insincere, idealess, incompetent, untrustworthy liars.
America's richest, almost every one of whom is a froth and foam flecked screaming sufferer of the Liberal Psychosis, didn't make their dough flogging dead horses.
Let alone dead vice-of-America horses arses.
Liberals fail to see the connection of the democratic (socialist) party and their persistent work to restrict freedom.
This clown must honestly think he's investing for "freedom," when in fact, he's promoting ever more restrictions... on speech, economics, religion.
You will all be shocked at the cronyism and incompetence in that world."
Don't ever change, baby, You're beautiful
"Economics is a zero sum game. That is a fact and whatever share of the economic pot the wealthy elites have comes right out of your pocket."
This is the belief that shows the lack of reality in the minds of the Left. To believe that economics is a zero sum game is to believe that people are powerless to create something economically, that the human mind has no value in economics.
It is to believe we can do nothing but steal or be stolen from.