Posted on 01/23/2010 7:26:00 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The conservative wing of the Supreme Court has brazenly revealed its corporatist agenda; President Obama may have found a populist voice with which to hector Wall Street; having given away Ted Kennedys old Senate seat to a former Cosmo centerfold, Democrats are preparing to roll over on health insurance reform; and without doubt, Rush Limbaugh is making a complete ass of himself. Yet, for the first time in over a year, I wont be able to talk about any of this on the radio. Air America, the long-suffering progressive talk radio network that carried my show, is no more.
They pulled the plug Thursday afternoon, but the patient was a perennial intensive-care case. From its inception, the network faced an uphill fight. While right-wing talk radio enjoys enormous corporate support, lefty chat has always been a harder sell. Charlie Kirecker, the chairman of Air America Media, did his best to move mountains over the last few weeks, but its tough shoveling with a teaspoon. At times it looked as if investors might be found who could accept losses over the midterm in hopes that the company would eventually turn around and show a profit. In the end, though, what Charlie somewhat euphemistically called a very difficult economic climate combined with the tenuous prospects of talk radio in general and AAs admittedly checkered history gave even the most promising suitors pause.
So, just when the left could use it most, a platform for progressive thought and opinion disappears.
These are strange days for the nation, the Democratic Party and progressives in particular. Having elected a fresh, dynamic, forward-thinking young president with a mandate for real systemic change, were seeing way too much of the same old same old.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
So it’s all the fault of those evil corporations.
Maybe if AA had a handful of listeners, they’d have gotten some ad money.
But to listen to AA was to voluntarily and quite deliberately reach for an icepick and ram it through both temples. The talent, including that asshat Franken, was that bad. Hectoring, whining, assholating... lather, rinse, repeat. Just insufferable.
‘’Progressive=Communist
Ron Reagan, what a naive stupid idiot you are. Do your favorite Hollyweird liberals work for free? Do you work for free Ron? Nobody likes losing money -- ever. And even most liberals aren't stupid enough to volunteer to lose their own money. (Well, maybe there are some.) You're just whining because Air America didn't get turned into some federal government/DemonRAT Party, "taxpayer supported" liberal propaganda machine like "National Public Radio" is now. Now go play in the traffic.
To quote my uncle (about Air America), “If I wanted to listen to constant bitching and complaning, I’d wouldn’t of divorced my wife!”
(One offer would be the maximum for someone as talented as Ronikins.)
Another liar for the lake of fire.
Air America, road kill on the way to the scrap heap of history.
Usually your brain doesn’t calcify until you’re dead a few years, but Ron managed the task while still alive.
Because lefties are to busy listening to rap while smoking crack.
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pants on da flo
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obambi doing crack wif his pants onda flo
wif Larry Sinclair in that big lim oh
obambi had his crack pipe in his mouf
and his pant onda flo
I didn’t write that. Nope not me.
Let's continue filling out that on a cabinet that would drive LibTards to committing a "Jonesville" act on themselves. Sheriff Joe Arapio: Director Homeland Security Fred Thompson: Director FBI Gen. Stormin Norman Schartzkopf: Sec Def Mark Leavin: Sec Justice Laura Bush: Sec Ed .....????
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