Posted on 07/29/2005 5:32:42 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
This is just my theory
The point I made on Hugh's show today was that I suspect someone has made a deal to funnel money through these charities, then the charities buy commercial time on air america, then the charities take a cut and get a way of promoting their non-profit. This way the backers of Air america can write off their donations through the non-profit and still fund a commercial and political venture.
My guess would be that if we looked into their books we would see large donations to these charities and then look into the stations books on how much air time was booked by these non-profits. The difference between the donations and the cost of air time would be the non-profits cut to run it through the books.
Comments?
I think they used the money to pay all 27 of their listeners to keep tuning in.
Some of this is amazing, particularly how the Commie network is getting these unsecured loans from non-profits.
Maybe they were in training for what they have become - unprofitable.
Sorta kinda like Canada ???
Good point. I've been wondering how they keep getting funding when clearly nobody's listening.
Air America--Because PBS just isn't spending enough of your tax money!
nonprofits and grant money is the life blood of liberals.
Won't help. All that taxpayer-appropriated money, and still nobody pays attention to them.
I have worked with many non-profits and have found that they are generally desperate for dollars. I could see someone dangling a proposal like this in front of them. If there are indeed many non profits buying commercial airtime on air america there is something strange about this. Most non-profits do not have the money for advertizing like this, especially small charities.
Not saying that is what happened but it is a rabbit trail that I would check.
Fox ran the Air America scam story tonight on the Hume show.
Whatever.,,
"What we do is take the money and then repay it with AIRTIME. Yes, that's the ticket. That is how we will remain morally superior to the common man. And we will always come out ahead. Don't ever forget that we are better than those people out there who have to work for a living. We have compassion."
What's Larry King got to do with this story?
Hugh Hewitt just mentioned this thread at the end of his show.
I believe the Washington Times is covering this also. O'Reilly should be all over this given his love for Al FRANKENstein.
Thanks. I'll catch the repeat.
Dont you wonder why all the left wing media dorks are staying away from this? Pretend this was Rush or Hannity.
"Dont you wonder why all the left wing media dorks are staying away from this?"
Not really (actually I know you're being sarcastic). This is the kind of "elephant-in-the-center-of-the-room" story the lamestream media has to increasingly ignore today because it's at odds with their leftist political agenda. And that is why the NY Slimes and all the rest are going out of business, slowly at first, but then rapidly like an imploding start. I love it!
Larry King has a new line of fashion suspenders that are adaptable to primates who pose as newscasters. Also, the eyeglasses can be color co-ordinated with the suspenders to complete the Chimp/Newscaster ensemble.
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