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INSIDE AIR AMERICA: AL FRANKEN'S LYING LIES By Michelle Malkin   ·   September 07, 2005 02:22 AM Inside Air America: Al Franken's Lying Lies Part of an ongoing investigative blog series by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin Sept. 7, 2005 (Part II of this installment is at The Radio Equalizer) *** Take a close look at this signature. It belongs to Air America host and crusader for truth Al Franken. It is contained in a legal document we have obtained that exposes the Grand Canyon-sized chasm between what Al Franken says and what Al Franken does. On July 27, our blogs...

It's not often I disagree with the first lady of the blogospere but Michelle Malkins rantings concerning the firing of FEMA director Michael Brown couldn't be further of the mark. Her arguments: -He admitted that he didn't act more aggressively because as late as last Sunday he expected Katrina to be a "standard hurricane" even though the National Weather Service in New Orleans was already predicting "human suffering incredible by modern standards." - He proved himself utterly clueless about the disaster unfolding in New Orleans. He claimed that the federal relief effort was "going relatively well" and that the security...

Rebuilding the Gulf Coast, One Group at a Time The only way to rebuild the societies battered by Katrina is for specialized groups to find one another. The internet is ready to help. by Hugh Hewitt 09/02/2005 12:00:00 AM YESTERDAY America's emergency relief effort went into high gear and is likely to stay there for weeks, as all across the country citizens open their wallets to help out their fellow countrymen. Before long, however, the extreme needs will be met and the long-term rebuilding will get underway. At that point it will become much less obvious how ordinary Americans can...

August 22, 2005 Iraq News Roundup-Part 3 Here is the news from Iraq for the third week of August 2005: While the MSM salivates over the heroism of Cindy Sheehan it is all but ignoring the real heroes, like Spc. Casey Carroll who is fighting to go back to his unit in Iraq despite losing a finger in an car bomb attack: Doctors sent the 22-year-old, a father of two, home in March, after he lost a finger from a vehicle-borne improvised-explosive device. However, his intentions were not to stay there. He said coming back to Iraq and fighting this...

KSFO/San Francisco talk host Melanie Morgan's group Move America Forward is organizing a counterevent, to take on Cindy Sheehan's Crawford circus, that has Rhodes so excited: Next week Move America Forward will be leading a caravan to Crawford, Texas - to present an alternative voice to that of Cindy Sheehan, who has become the heroine of the "Blame America First" crowd. The Move America Forward's caravan (the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" tour) will consist of family members who have loved ones fighting in the war against terrorism - stationed in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The truth is that...

Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog ReportPart. 1: A Trail of Debts By Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney michellemalkin.com/radioequalizer.blogspot.com August 17, 2005 *** It's not just the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls that's knocking on Air America Radio's door looking for lost money. According to court records obtained by Radio Equalizer/MichelleMalkin.com, another major creditor has been demanding that Air America pay up. The liberal radio network has refused to do so, despite a court order and scathing words from a New York judge overseeing the case. Now, the creditor--Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc.--has filed a new complaint, accusing Air America and...

Freepers mentioned in second to last paragraph: === I’ve been of two minds as to whether to leave some of the comments written by Michelle Malkin’s fans up on this site.  Some are writers are genuinely confused, posting comments asking why I’m picking on her.  These are the people who ignore her blatant racism and find her "interesting".  Fine; we agree to disagree.  But most of what her fans have had to say has been pig-ignorant, misinformed pap.  Not surprising, considering the sources. One guy, in his zeal to expose my identity, did some sort of search and came up...

Bad language ....'ed out. This from a former and disgruntled FoxNews employee named Carla Frenk (she tries to hide behind the DC Media Girl moniker on her blog site). Easy to see why she was fired. ==== "Why Michelle Malkin must be destroyed" I was going to do this in letter form, but I’m just not in the f...... mood. Michelle Malkin has demonstrated, clearly and concisely, what I was trying to point out below: That these wingnuts will say anything and stop at nothing to win, while putting on a great show of taking offense when the shoe is...

By Any Means Necessary? I'd like to believe that people who are impassioned by what they believe is a right and true cause, would use every legal, honest, legitimate means to advocate their cause. Not because they are such righteous people but because they wouldn't want their cause unduly smeared by their own actions. Right? Wrong.I never cease to be amazed by the audacity of extremist abortion rights advocates in this manner. This time NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) has paid to run an add on the air on some cable news channels. (There are unconfirmed...

Hoffman has excuses, not answers By David Harsanyi Denver Post Columnist Evidently, Elizabeth Hoffman, former president of the University of Colorado, is unfamiliar with a well-known adage on leadership that goes something like this: "Anyone can steer the Enterprise when the Klingons aren't around." Last week, in a speech that was originally supposed to be titled "Why I Left the University of Colorado," Hoffman, attempted to shed any responsibility for her tenure at CU, rolling out a litany of inane excuses. Let's start with the most comical: Hoffman blamed her controversial "C-word" deposition - my personal favorite CU fiasco -...

Weekend-connected left-wing rant, second of two. Sunday night on HBO's Six Feet Under, a drama revolving around a family which runs a funeral home, a major character launched into a rant about the "stupid, evil war" in Iraq and how "we didn't go to war to protect Iraqi civil liberties. That's just a lame justification." The young woman was soon yelling about the Abu Graib abuse and how "those orders came down from the top, the top! And there's memos to prove it!" The show's writers allowed her boyfriend, a minor character in the program, to disagree with, prompting her...

THE MUCKRAKING N.Y. TIMES By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 04, 2005 03:10 PM Well, now we know why the NYTimes hasn't bothered to cover Air Enron/Air Scamerica. They're too preoccupied with prying into the adoption records of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' young children, according to the Drudge Report. For God's sake. Jeff Goldstein has a list of what's next on the NYTimes' dirt-digging agenda. 4: Can Judge Roberts account for his whereabouts on the night Natalee disappeared? NYTimes ombudsman Byron Calame is going to be a very busy man. *** On the same wavelength...Ed Morrissey, Jason Smith Bainbridge: Slimy...

WHAT DID AL FRANKEN KNOW, and when did he know it? When Air America launched last year, it was the beneficiary of more free publicity than any radio show or network launch had ever received. So desperate was the mainstream media to find some left-leaning response to the Limbaugh-led revolution in talk radio that the many and obvious flaws in the network's offerings went largely unreported. Those of us who have been around radio studios for a few years know, though, that launch hype and selective reading of Arbitron results can never mask the key question: Is a show profitable?...

SNEAK PEEK: UNHINGED By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 03, 2005 04:27 PM Sorry for the light blogging today. Just been swamped. To make up, here's a sneak peek at the cover of my latest book, which will be coming out in October from Regnery. I wasn't going to say much, but lots of folks have been asking about it. You'll love it or you'll hate it. Roman Genn, conservative caricaturist extraordinaire, did the Edward Munch-inspired cover illustration: YEAAARGHH!

Tuesday, August 2 Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt pulling Air Ameriscam threadsOnce again doing the job of mainstream media, these two biggies of the blogosphere, Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt, spent a couple of segments earlier this afternoon comparing notes on the Gloria Wise/Air America scandal, which appears to have the liberal radio network getting their startup financing literally out of the hands of a boys and girls club in the Bronx. Here's the interview:HH: Michelle, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt show.MM: Thanks for having me back, Hugh, and thanks for helping force this story into the mainstream....

Where are they? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the supermen of the civil rights establishment — able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to get in front of a picket line. When victim politics calls, the demagogic duo leap into patented action: March. Boycott. Shakedown. Repeat. But the raging reverends are nowhere to be found as a scandal involving the liberal radio network Air America and a Bronx, N.Y.-based inner city charity for poor children brews. Why the silence?

AIR ENRON By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 02, 2005 05:57 AM David Lombino of The New York Sun continues to move the Air America story forward. According to Lombino's latest article, Al Franken revealed that Air America's current owners have known about the loan from Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club for some time: Mr. Franken said he has learned details of the story only in the last week. He said Piquant LLC, current owner and operator of the radio network, found a record of the transfers while conducting a "forensic" investigation into the finances of the previous owner, Progress...

My thoughts today have nothing to do with the President’s nominee to the Supreme Court or with how he might affect the Roe v. Wade decision. I’m not writing about what I believe to be the very sad, fragile and even political state of human life in our nation. Neither will I discuss the act of abortion as murder. Instead, I want to take a moment to consider on how abortion is a reflection of the deception and the destruction that have invaded woman’s soul. Every woman, whether or not she ever becomes a mother, is born with the emotional...

I can’t help but recall not long ago the president having to answer questions about whether he had a “litmus test” for appointees to the Supreme Court. He was asked specifically whether a candidate’s view on abortion would determine his or her qualification. The message was clear: Mr. President, you better not make this about abortion. The president followed through on his word. He appointed an accomplished judge who is a man of integrity. He chose a man hailed on both sides of the aisle. Even former Al Gore Campaign attorney, David Boies, had only complimentary things to say about...

A former employee has sued Northbrook-based Allstate Insurance Company for discrimination, maintaining he was fired for writing an Internet-published essay that slams same-sex marriage and homosexual lifestyles. J. Matt Barber, 35, of Villa Park, said last week his Christian faith led him to write the essay in December 2004, on his own time and at home. His federal lawsuit alleges Allstate officials told him the following month that he was being suspended for writing the piece. He was fired three days later. Barber's lawsuit claims his dismissal violates his constitutional right to free exercise of religion and seeks an unspecified...