AIR AMERICA RADIO...TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP A BRICK ON BUSH

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dockers and regimental tie...remember those words when you wait my arrival in San Francico

Sorry to disappoint, I will be me usual self.

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Ed It Ed

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Unsurprised and undisappointed (I am re-selfing)

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April 06, 2004, 8:41 a.m.
Liberal Radio Talks, Nobody Listens

National Review Online

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Fair enough.

I've never seen a single link cross-posted in so many threads here - mostly thanks to Blatham - but its basically still very much an incipient grassroots thing, in safely Democratic markets, isn't it?

I don't suppose I would be much into talk radio of any kind, so I'm sure i wouldn't suddenly become a fan just because the anger-fuelled comic rants happen to be politically agreeable this time, either. But I can see how politically, it might be a benefitial long-term trend. Counterpower and all that.

But unless AA manages to buy some major time on stations around the country (and especially in battleground states) pretty soon, its really not all that relevant on any short term, is it?

Unless it can keep on attracting such major national news coverage despite its rather small actual audience, of course ...

Which probably explains all the links. <sighs>

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I sincerely hope it is successful. As with any radio station, if I do not like what I hear, I am free to turn the dial. But, if others enjoy it, they should have the freedom to listen to what they want.

Now, in saying that, I am still going to make fun of it and degrade it and drag it through the mud because that's real fun!

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McGentrix
Hey, MeGentrix, where've you been the last few days? We've missed you.
Were you so grossed out by Al Franken that you had to take a respite?

BBB :wink:

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Franken is quoted as saying:

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"This show is about taking back our country," Franken said on the first day of his program, The O'Franken Factor. "It's about relentlessly hammering away at the Bush administration until they crack and crumble this November, because, don't get me wrong, friends, they are going down."

I'm hoping the program makes it too if for no other reason than to provide some entertainment. But Franken in his own words says what I feared in previous posts: if it is purely a program to bash the sitting president, it will get praises from the left wing but not enough listeners to be profitable.

O'Reilly, Limbaugh, et al have done nicely no matter who was in the White House because they talk about a whole lot of stuff pro and con whomever is there. I never heard either say the purpose of their show was 'to take back our country' during the Clinton administration or that they had the power to make his administration crumble.

Nevertheless Franken can be pretty good and I wish him well.

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Of course, we don't know what the online audience might be, which is the way most folks have to listen to it at this point.

It is pretty clear that the folks with the microphones there are very interested in seeing the Bush administration fail. But not because it is conservative, and not even because it is Republican. Rather, they would say, because it is extremist and more quite possibly more deceitful than even the Nixon administration.

and fox...your claim that Limbaugh wasn't investing every second heartbeat on getting Clinton out of office isn't historically accurate.

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Well I think it is correct because his program covers such a wide scope of social issues and Clinton was only one issue of many. I only have time to listen in on any of them once in awhile, but I do listen.

The reason Limbaugh has been so highly successful is 1) he reflects the opinion of 20+ million listeners who just hadn't been hearing their point of view spoken anywhere else and 2) he is so widely diverse and does have real information about things so he is interesting.

If Limbaugh had the power the left has assigned to him, Clinton never would have been elected president, but Clinton was only one issue of many many you hear on Rush's show every day.

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foxie

When we do our exercise on media, let's also compare a transcript from Rush and one from Franken, say ten minutes just chosen arbitrarily.

Then let's set them against the criteria of 'are claims factual?' and 'instances of logical fallacy'. Wanna?

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ps...whether or not Rush's show actually reflects the views/beliefs/values of 20+ million would be hard to establish as factual.

But let's acknowledge a marketing principle in this too. Very often a product arrives in the marketplace without any significant pre-existing demand for it. The demand comes later, encouraged or created by a marketing campaign. Perhaps a good example of this is FDS (feminine deoderant spray).

Thus because 20+ million people now listen to Rush doesn't necessarily mean they were previously sitting out there thinking those same thoughts. Consensus, like demand, can be created.

And of course, consensus doesn't tell us anything about truth, merely about agreement.

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New York - "Radio Pinko," the New York flagship station of the Humorless Liberal Radio Network (HLRN) signed on the air today for the first time. The leftist network, the brainchild of Al Franken who is hot off his stunning success as a movie actor in the Stuart Smalley direct-to-video franchise, is an attempt to counter the influence of conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others.

The network will feature leftist agitprop and disinformation, Hootie and the Blowfish songs, Ben & Jerry's commercials and lame attempts at humor in the style of the sketches Franken used to write for Saturday Night Live that always seemed to go on for ten minutes too long.

"It's going to be an exciting time for humorless liberals," said Franken to an early morning press conference. "We're gonna rock you off your Birkenstocks."

Although subject to change, the following programs are slated for the HLRN's weekday lineup:

6-10am - Grumpy with Garofalo Gen-X unfunny girl Janeane Garofalo whines and complains about George Bush and former boyfriend Ben Stiller during morning drive time

10-11am- Local Leftist Programming

11-12noon - Secular Humanism Hour with the Right Reverend Rowan Williams The Archbishop of Canterbury awakens your inner spiritual child by apologizing for Muslim terrorists and denying the major tenets of Christianity. Sponsored by the Bin Laden Construction Company

Noon-3pm - Al Franken Is a Big Fat No-Talent Going against the Rush Limbaugh juggernaut, every day for three hours Al Franken will show you why Bill Murray was the last funny person to appear on Saturday Night Live

3-4pm - Simulcast of Radio Havana's News Hour

4-7pm - Hanoi Jane's Funhouse Evening drive time gets a little pinker with America's best looking traitor

7-10pm - Rantin' and Ravin' with Howard Dean Socialism's answer to Morton Downey, Jr. lights up the evening airwaves

10-Midnight - Minority Remix with Jesse Jackson Features an eclectic mix of Marcus Garvey, Marvin Gaye and Malcolm X

Midnight-6am - Clinton After Dark Go bar (and bed) hopping with the former President of the United States as he trolls for chicks with former members of his administration.

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Like I said -- Conservative Humor is an oxymoron.

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There's a Pulitzer nomination.

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I dredged up the old thread from page three instead of making a new one. I'll take my thanks in small bills, please. Very Happy

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After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is developing a story, insiders tell DRUDGE, on how the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, because, the owner of both stations said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! A charge the network strongly denies...

A Chicago source familiar with the situation said a Multicultural representative showed up at WNTD's offices Wednesday morning, kicked out Air America's lone staffer overseeing the network's feed to the station from New York, switched over to a Spanish-language feed, and changed the locks on the doors...

Air America filed a complaint Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court charging Multicultural with breaching their contract and seeking an injunction to force Multicultural to restore the Air America broadcast on both stations, the TRIBUNE has learned... Developing...

Drudge Report top of the page

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It is a good experiment in futility...

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Foxfyre wrote:

O'Reilly, Limbaugh, et al have done nicely no matter who was in the White House because they talk about a whole lot of stuff pro and con whomever is there. I never heard either say the purpose of their show was 'to take back our country' during the Clinton administration or that they had the power to make his administration crumble.

Just for the record, I used to listen to Limbaugh all the time, and when Clinton was in office he used to start his show with the line "Day #__: America Held Hostage" And I have heard him say that he was leading the charge to take back the country, in those exact words.

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I will confirm that he indeed did do that. But never did he ever say that was the purpose of his show. And it never became the purpose of his show. That's the difference.

Limbaugh bashed Clinton every chance he got. I got tired of it. But Limbaugh had enough other stuff that was well researched and did give a new way to look at something that he was interesting or at least entertaining a lot of the time.

Even a clock that is stopped is right......
Well, you know how it goes.

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I don't listen to limbaugh because he is an idiot who gives the right a bad name.

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