61% of Americans don't know words to National Anthem?

Bush is a real tough guy! He should just tell Air America "Bring it on!" He doesn't need no sissy investigation.

Scorpia wrote:

Bush is a real tough guy! He should just tell Air America "Bring it on!" He doesn't need no sissy investigation.

True enough ... but those Secret Service guys are funny that way.

Why do you have to be such a jerk all the time, McG?

Seriously

Cycloptichorn

Why would I want to do that?

I doubt anything broadcast on Air America will do anything to sway the 7 or 8 people listening. They are already devout to the cause of harming America.

I do, on the other hand, believe that these discussions we have on A2K really do help America. Regardless of what you may believe, America really does have a split personality right now. I mostly blame the internet and the "information age" we live in now for the myriad of problems we are facing.

10 years ago, you hardly heard of many of the problems and issues facing Americans and other people in the world. 20 years ago, forget about it. Africa? They have safari's there, right?
Everyone has full access to whatever they want now via the internet. People tend to read more of the things they agree with and that tends to lead to an isolation of sorts.

Imagine reading nothing more than Michael Moore, Moveon.org, Al Franken, etc... What would you thonk about conservatives in America?

Turn that around with Fox News, Rush Limbuagh, Boortz, et. al... you have a one sided view of the opposition.

Now, personally, I use A2K as a tool. I have to do a lot of research to back up many of the points I try to make. I know more about UN Resolutions, Secret Service activities, Iraq, WMD's, various personalities, etc. because of what A2K brings to me.

In real life, I am nothing like McGentrix. I have civil conversations with many liberals every day. I listen to them and offer counter points to which they respond in kind. I have a very good friend who is an extreme liberal with whom I have had many discussions about and I have a friend who is an extreme conservative. So much so that they have joined organizations like the young republicans and such. I usually take the liberal stance with him because I like to see how he responds.

So, yes, I believe that our left and right bashing personal views on this board help America.

I also happen to think Bush has been and continues to be a better president than the alternatives would or could have been.

I can't?

I must admit that I haven't actually listened to Air America either. It's so limited in it's distribution I doubt I ever will.

We don't have to know the words to Star Spangled Banner we just need to know its GOOD, and America is GOOD, and Bush is GOOD, and everything is GOOD right now.

We just need to know right from wrong. In fact soon we won't even have to KNOW, just OBEY, because we won't have to burdened with deciding for ourselves what's GOOD and what's BAD, they will decide for us.

God Bless America.

I must admit that I haven't actually listened to Air America either. It's so limited in it's distribution I doubt I ever will.

blueveinedthrobber wrote:

We don't have to know the words to Star Spangled Banner we just need to know its GOOD, and America is GOOD, and Bush is GOOD, and everything is GOOD right now.

We just need to know right from wrong. In fact soon we won't even have to KNOW, just OBEY, because we won't have to burdened with deciding for ourselves what's GOOD and what's BAD, they will decide for us.

God Bless America.

Well, at least one of you get it. Now if only you can get others to think the same way...

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I must admit that I haven't actually listened to Air America either. It's so limited in it's distribution I doubt I ever will.

Where are you getting your data, McG? Air America is doing fine, now in 8 of the 10 top radio markets in the US. And of course, you can listen to it right now on the very computer you are looking at even while you type.

The latest radio ratings are in, and they show continued bad news for Air America, the liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofolo, and others.

While it is difficult to pinpoint Air America's ratings nationally ?- it is on the air in about 50 stations across the country, and has been on some of them for just the last few months ?- it is possible to measure the network's performance in the nation's number-one market, New York City.

The new Arbitron ratings for Winter 2005, which covers January, February, and March, show that WLIB, the station which carries Air America in New York, won a 1.2-percent share of all listeners 12 years and older. That is down one tenth of one point from the station's 1.3 percent share in Winter 2004, the last period when it aired its old format of Caribbean music and talk.

Air America debuted on March 31, 2004. In the network's first quarter on the air, Spring of 2004, which covered April, May, and June, Air America won a 1.3-percent share of the market audience. That number rose slightly to 1.4 percent in the Summer 2004 July/August/September period, and fell back to 1.2 percent in the Fall 2004 October/November/December period, where it remains today.

Those numbers are, again, for all listeners 12 years and older. Air America executives, however, often point to the network's performance among listeners 25 to 54 years of age, the preferred demographic target for radio advertisers. But in that area, too, Air America is struggling.

Between the hours of 10 A.M. and 3 P.M., the period that includes Al Franken's program, Air America drew a 1.4-percent share of the New York audience aged 25 to 54 in Winter 2005. That number is the latest in a nearly year-long decline. In Spring of 2004, Air America's first quarter on the air, it drew a 2.2-percent share of the audience. That rose to 2.3 percent in the Summer of 2004, then fell to 1.6 percent in the Fall of 2004, and is now 1.4 percent ?- Air America's lowest-ever quarterly rating in that time and demographic slot.

The ratings also show WABC radio, which airs Rush Limbaugh, consistently beating Air America in New York City even though Franken had at one time claimed to be beating the conservative host there. In the 10 a.m. to 3 P.M. period in the Winter of 2005, WABC (and Limbaugh) won 2.7 percent of the audience to Air America's 1.4 percent. In Spring 2004, WABC beat Air America 2.7 percent to 2.2 percent. In Summer 2004, WABC won 2.7 percent to 2.3 percent. In Fall 2004, WABC won 3.6 percent to 1.6 percent.

That last number surprised some observers because it showed Air America faltering in October and November 2004, the period when the presidential election was reaching its finish and political passions were presumably at their highest. But even then, Air America's decline continued. And now, it has fallen even farther.