To: All
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!!! Theres 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 its true!!
Only it isnt.
Normally wed 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 were chasing him down with a pipe wrench. Its a metaphor.
Heres what really happened:
This Liu-ser was ripping off our boss Evan Cohen big time (he cant do that, thats 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, Liud, and tattooed. How Liu can you get? In Liu of payment. Liud and lascivious behavior. These write themselves. What were getting at is that we hate him.
So now everyones saying were going down the dumper in Chicago and Los Angeles, but what they dont tell you is that were still on in Portland. And we OWN Portland. And lets not forget Riverside and Plattsburgh. And New
York. And streaming on the internet. And XM. And Sirius. Actually were fine.
So cool your jets. Air America Radio isnt dead, were in court and were going to slam Lius 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 dont you give Arthur a call at (212)966-1059.
Arthur Liu, I wouldnt show your face around here.
Or Riverside. Or Plattsburgh.
DEVELOPING
To: JennysCool
Wow! A mature, rational, well reasoned and thought out response... oh wait just more vitriolic mocking rants! Oi Vey!
119 posted on
04/14/2004 3:39:57 PM PDT by
RUCKUS INC.
("Bartender can I get another round of Daisy Cutters and MOABS for my boys in the turbans...")
To: JennysCool
After reading that article, the third paragraph was the only part of their story that spoke of truth. The rest of the article was a bunch of typical leftist garbage.
123 posted on
04/14/2004 3:44:12 PM PDT by
BigSkyFreeper
(Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: JennysCool
About that SLUDGE REPORT story...this sounds like so many high school giddy kids. Posts on DU...same thing. Ignorance run amuck.
Whoa.
To: JennysCool
This is a rebuttal? "We hate him and we're making fun of his name?" Whose eight-year-old wrote it?
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