AIR AMERICA LIBERAL RADIO NET TAKEN OFF AIR IN LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO

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[Patriot62]

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is developing a story, insiders tell DRUDGE, on how the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, because, the owner of both stations said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! A charge the network strongly denies...

A Chicago source familiar with the situation said a Multicultural representative showed up at WNTD's offices Wednesday morning, kicked out Air America's lone staffer overseeing the network's feed to the station from New York, switched over to a Spanish-language feed, and changed the locks on the doors...

Air America filed a complaint Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court charging Multicultural with breaching their contract and seeking an injunction to force Multicultural to restore the Air America broadcast on both stations, the TRIBUNE has learned... Developing...

[Spook86]

This is amazing...as a former broadcaster, I had an idea that the Libs were paying for the time slots (they call it brokered time in the business), but the price they're paying must be outrageous. You may recall that Westwood One reportedly paid WOR in New York and KABC in Los Angeles 3-400,000 a YEAR to carry Bill O'Reilly's show. If LibRadio already owes the station owner $1 million for time in Chicago and LA, then they're paying a premium price--for stations that barely register in the local ratings.

Typical liberals--pay an arm and a leg for stations that can't deliver an audience. I originally predicted that LibRadio might last six months. I'm changing my prediction to two months. One more thing--didn't Drudge report that LibRadio had upwards of $20 million in start-up money? How in the hell do you run through that kind of cash in less than a year? Ooops, I forgot, we're talking about liberals. Wasting other people's money is something they're quite good at...

[BigSkyFreeper]

I hope if it does end up in court, that it becomes a lengthy trial, and the Liberals waste valuable cash that could have very well been spent on the Kerry For President campaign.

[onyx]

Any time lawyers get involved it is always COSTLY.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Yep. The downside of the cost of a trial is that we, as taxpayers, end up getting screwed.

[AlexW]

"Al Franken was on the Howard Stern show last night. What a complete moron this man really is."

I saw that too, but that whole show, including Stern, consist of bimbos and morons.
It would be great for society if that show will just blow away. It is so juvenile , perverted, and just plain stupid.
Frankenstien was in his natural element there.

[onyx]

The downside of the cost of a trial is that we, as taxpayers, end up getting screwed.




R/x: let's quit paying taxes.

[Sorcerer3]

"What's needed here and now is an injection of government funds. It's critical to assure that all viewpoints, particularly those on the whacky left, are represented on talk radio."

Bwaaaahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa! They need a National Endowment for Marxist Commie Rhetoric from the government to spew their crap!! MUAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

What a bunch of losers.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Here's a conservative's dream: being a seated juror on the alfranken civil trial. And giving him the death penalty for being the world's greatest schmuck.

[Landru]

>Ping<

This is just too funny to risk any of y'all from missing any part of it.

I'm kinda stuck, myself.

...reading it over, & over, & over again. :o)

[Fun Bob]

Liberals sure know how to spend other peoples money and money they don't have. They just don't know what it takes to run a profitable business and generate money.

This right here is why liberal radio will fail.

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure war criminal

[lewislynn]

Maybe Dan Rostenkowski does their books. ...LOL and Barbara Boxer writes the checks.

[JennysCool]

Speaking of verbatim quotes, I was just checking out some of the posts on their forum, when this one stopped me cold. It is such a perfect amalgam of the smugness mixed with idiocy which constitute the liberal mind. I had to share:

What is wrong with humanism? What is wrong with the Christian philosophy of being thy brother’s keeper? We should try to understand what makes a HUMAN BEING do evil. F-ing conservatives classify the other as subhuman and then destroy them; to say nothing of the children/innocents who get caught in the crossfire. Killing people is not right. The reason the world is the place that it is, is because of people like Wolfowitz, et al. How do we know peace and friendship can’t work? How do we know that all this money that we waste on our military ($600 billion or so per year) couldn’t be better spent fighting world poverty, disease, digging fresh water wells, etc.? How do we know? I mean who ever liked the biggest richest bully? No one did or does. I do not understand how people who claim to be Christians and actually understand what that means, can be so blood thirsty. Would Jesus have invaded Iraq? Now don’t be confused I am a devote agnostic, but I spent time in Catholic prison (school).

[sultan88]

Thanks, this thread does have some guffaws in it!

[RUCKUS INC.]

I have spent several hours scanning the DU website today.

I just don't get it... seemingly responsible people, holding down jobs, paying mortgages etc... and they are so incapable of logic or critical reasoning. (I know I will get a flurry of responses and snappy comebacks about how liberals are, and what not),

Without getting into name calling though... it's really bizarre that the DUers are so prone to feeling the way they do. Am I missing something? Is there some greater injustice being perpetrated on the radical left that I just don't see? How can rational functioning individuals have these points of view?

We've all heard the quick little quips about how "you know you're a liberal if..." or 'Liberals think of every day as April 15th..." etc. But seriously folks, when interacting with folks with such a truth-deficit... where does one start? It boggles the mind... Rambling now... sorry

[WIright]

Please oh please...can anyone tell me the name of any NATIONAL ADVERTISER on ERR AMERICA?

[JennysCool]

Here is the drearily forced-humor "explanation" from their website:

The Sludge Report

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and that really loud woman from Florida, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

Stop the presses!!! There’s nothing more exciting than half a story from a third hand source!!!!

Insiders tell SLUDGE, that the reason the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, was because, the owner of both stations, Arthur Liu of Multicultural Broadcasting, said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! The run-on sentence, tortured grammar and the exclamation point clearly means it’s true!!

Only it isn’t.

Normally we’d let this go because “habitual liars” like Drudge are laughable, and ridicule is our business.

But Arthur Liu --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now we’re chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It’s a metaphor.

Here’s what really happened:

This Liu-ser was ripping off our boss Evan Cohen big time (he can’t do that, that’s our job). Evan found out about it and he stopped payment on a check to keep Liu-cifer from ripping him off even more. You can touch Evan for the occasional meal or drinks but a million bucks is crossing the line. And if we ever get low on cash, we can always call Barbra Streisand. Or any of the
Baldwins. Except Stephen.

So we got screwed, Liu’d, and tattooed. How Liu can you get? In Liu of payment. Liu’d and lascivious behavior. These write themselves. What we’re getting at is that we hate him.

So now everyone’s saying we’re going down the dumper in Chicago and Los Angeles, but what they don’t tell you is that we’re still on in Portland. And we OWN Portland. And let’s not forget Riverside and Plattsburgh. And New
York. And streaming on the internet. And XM. And Sirius. Actually we’re fine.

So cool your jets. Air America Radio isn’t dead, we’re in court and we’re going to slam Liu’s head in a car door. Another metaphor. We hope to be back on the air tomorrow or the next day in those markets.

In the meantime, why don’t you give Arthur a call at (212)966-1059.

Arthur Liu, I wouldn’t show your face around here.

Or Riverside. Or Plattsburgh.

DEVELOPING……

[BigSkyFreeper]

Here's a conservative's dream: being a seated juror on the alfranken civil trial. And giving him the death penalty for being the world's greatest schmuck.

That is a dream of mine.

[RUCKUS INC.]

Wow! A mature, rational, well reasoned and thought out response... oh wait just more vitriolic mocking rants! Oi Vey!

[BigSkyFreeper]

R/x: let's quit paying taxes.

If a Clinton were in the White House, I'd be afraid to. LOL

That putz would sic the IRS on me.