Liberal Radio Is Planned by Rich Group of Democrats

The New York Times ^ | 02/17/03 | JIM RUTENBERG

[dighton]

A sure thing, just like Salon.

;-)

[11th Earl of Mar]

From the Detroit Free Press:

Sen. Stabenow marries ex-aide in Lansing

February 17, 2003, 12:07 AM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- U.S. Sen Debbie Stabenow has married former campaign aide Tom Athans at a private ceremony here, a spokesman says.

The small family ceremony was held Sunday in Lansing, said Stabenow spokesman Dave Lemmon.

The Michigan Democrat is retaining her home in Lansing, Lemmon told The State News, the Michigan State University student newspaper.

Athans served on Stabenow's 2000 Senate campaign, in which she beat then-Republican U.S. Sen. Spencer Abraham, now secretary of energy. Athans has lived in Oakland County.

Stabenow, 52, has been married once before. She and Dennis Stabenow divorced in 1990 and have two adult children, Todd and Michelle.

Athans has been dating Stabenow since the fall. He is a native of Michigan who served in the U.S. Air Force for 13 years. He is a former staffer for Democratic U.S. Rep. Dale Kildee, D-Flint.

Athans is now executive director of Democracy Radio, a Washington, D.C.-based group that develops talk radio programs.

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[LurkedLongEnough]

You can't ~buy~ political conviction - unless it is liberal political conviction, I guess.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I think liberals don't want to hear that kind of demagoguery.

Coming from the guy who called Rush "a big fat idiot."

No demagoguery there. Nope. Nosireee...

[MinuteGal]

Ah, so this is where all those aging, fading, movie stars plan to end up as their careers sputter, gasp and tank.

Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Babs Streisand, talent on loan from Lucifer.

Leni

[mhking]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[c0rbin]

Sorry to stray a bit, but...

On which issues does one need to "maintain a status-quo" in order to be considered Conservative (as a label for "Republican")?

Are people using liberal as a synonym for Democrat?

Couldn't one be libral about an issue and still be a Republican?

Any serious light shed on these questions will be helpful.

[Gopher Broke]

When I saw this on Drudge, I sent the following letter to the editor of NY Times. Normally, I would not think they would run it but they almost ran a similar, conservative letter before...they require letters to be EXCLUSIVE to them.

Regarding your story about liberal donors working to find a liberal Rush Limbaugh....I believe it will fail for several reasons.

Firstl, nobody is as articulate and entertaining as Rush Limbaugh. Second, the mainstream media is overwhelmingly liberal right now. If I want liberal opinion, I can get it instantly at 98% of the Broadcast media, newspapers and magazines right now. It is there already...so your liberal radio network is the classic solution without a problem.

As you pointed out, conservatives are alienated by the liberal agenda of the media. When clear-thinking conservatives on talk radio came along, we all felt FINALLY...someone can articulate the conservative views held by most of the people. There was a tremendous vacuum that was filled.

Liberal radio has tried before and failed every time. The bottom line: America does not support the liberal beliefs of large, bureaucratic government, higher taxes, massive social spending, etc....we want freedom, we prize individual achievement and want govt. only to clear the hurdles to our success...rather than blocking our success as they increasingly do.

[Real Cynic No More]

I wonder how they are gonna "buy" listeners?

[basil]

I hope they go for it--and spend huge amounts of money on it! The economy needs boosting, I hear. If they can get and keep listeners, more power to them--but I have my doubts.

[mewzilla]

Who/what would advertise on this?!

[AppyPappy]

It will be dead before it hits the ground.

[Rocko]

These rich liberals should be encouraged to spend as many millions as possible in this sure-to-succeed venture . That will leave less to spend on the next election. Trying to topple Rush, Sean, and Michael will be as effective as toppling Jeb.

Liberals are well-known for p**s**g away money on hopeless causes.

[The Great RJ]

These liberals just don't get it. It has nothing to do with there not being liberal radio talk shows, it's just that the vast majority of Americans are sick and tired of liberal rants on the liberal biased TV networks and newspapers and are tuning in to radio talk shows for a viewpoint closer to their own. The same goes for Fox News which is growing in viewership while the major networks and CNN are dropping in the ratings.

I'm betting an Al Franken radio show will bomb in weeks.

[PMCarey]

Why spend all that money when you have NPR?

[shiva]

Here we go again!!!!

[CPT Clay]

Ah, a fool and his money...

[babyface00]

Mr. Sinton said he thought past attempts failed because they were not properly executed

Yeah, right. Just like socialism.

[ez]

I've listened to one liberal talk show in the last few months. I made it five minutes til the guy said "static scoring is where you use the real numbers, and dynamic scoring is where you can make the numbers whatever you want." I turned him off screaming profanities.

There many things wrong with this statement. 1. The lib host assumes his audience is not smart enough to entertain the actual definitions. 2. Only clintonistas would have the stones to "make the numbers whatever they want." 3. It does not enlighten, but rather, imparts prejudice.

That's just what we need...more liberal talk shows that, since they lose on real facts, redefine everything to be "what they want it to be."