Al Franken has agreed not to draw a salary at AIR AMERICA

Drudge report ^ | 05/30/04 | Drudge

[Monty22]

FLASH: Al Franken has agreed not to draw a salary at AIR AMERCIA, hoping to keep the fledgling talk-radio network afloat... Developing...

[CT]

How communistic of him. I love the irony.

His masters pretend to pay him, and he pretends to work.

[dagoofyfoot]

HA,HA,..HA...
LOL!..
Now that's just to damn funny!

[Ann Archy]

Kerry's bike, his helmet, his shirt all MATCHED! It was a "Granimals for Goofy Grandpa" type of outfit! He looked Ridiculous!!

[arasina]

Air America's payroll is Gone With The Wind and "Franken, dear, I don't give a damn."

[BAMoretti]

DNC ran out of money to fun this adventure?

[Slings and Arrows]

I hear he's taking Garafalos in lieu of money.

Those two Kerrying? That's the textbook definition of a "two-bagger."

[Slings and Arrows]

Can you tell me what the original source was on that one, please? The thread was pulled.

[freedumb2003]

This should help a lot:

http://www.popvssoda.com/

[freedumb2003]

It was a great one on The Onion.

You may have to search their archives.

What was funny was we had more than a few FReepers take it for real!!

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks; I'll find it - and just because it's fiction, that doesn't mean it isn't true. ;-)

[SoCal Pubbie]

Fair market value!

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

In early March, the network's chief executive, Mark Walsh, said that the company had raised more than $20 million, enough to keep it broadcasting for months, if not years, before making a profit. At the time, Mr. Walsh said that the network's primary backers included Evan M. Cohen, a venture capitalist who was the network's chairman, and Rex Sorensen, a business partner of Mr. Cohen's who was the chairman of Progress Media, the parent company of Air America.

But in an interview on Friday, Mr. Walsh said: "I was misled about that number.'' Mr. Walsh refused to say who had misled him, but he said that he had resigned in April because "the company wasn't transparent'' and "I was unable to decipher how it was being operated.''

And THESE are the guys who want to save America from "Enron-style accounting"?

[Petronski]

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

"John Effin' Kerry, ya liberal cheapskates, throw me a bone! I'm Al Franken!!!"

"It isn't my liberal radio network. It's my wife's liberal radio network."

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

what will happen to all the investors?

And now it's ...

Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
Deutschland is happy and gay.
We're marching to a faster pace,
Look out, here comes the master race.

[Monty22]

They can't run a 2-bit radio network, but think they can run the country.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

So Soros will cut him a check now instead of Err America.

I doubt it. Soros actually wants a return on his investment. Dumping money into a rathole so a half dozen people can play "radio station" isn't going to move the currency markets.

Not that Err America doesn't have this sort of thing in mind. Franken previously bragged that anytime the network needed money they could call Barbara Streisand or some other rich benefactor to dump money into the abyss. The idea of generating income by making the business more profitable apparantly hadn't occurred to him.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

How is that different from "Monicas"?

With "Monicas" you hide her under the desk.

With "Garafalos" you shield her beneath a barrier of concrete reinforced by steel.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

"We had some bad management,'' Mr. Franken said. "Then we got some good management.''

They must be good, if the first thing they did was stop paying you.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

They can't run a 2-bit radio network, but think they can run the country.

Well of course. Running the two-bit radio network, you have to produce a product that people want to buy.

Running the country, you just have to raise taxes and blame Republicans.