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Bill O'Reilly caught lyin' again.

 
 
BernardR
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:11 pm
Air America and Al Franken are abject failures. Here are the statistics


http://radioequalizer.blogspot.dom/2006/05/air-am



04 May 2006
Air America Ratings

FUTILITY

After Two Years, Few Bright Spots For Air America




On the heels of last week's devastating New York City ratings release, which saw Air America Radio sink like a rock from already-low audience levels, subsequent news from elsewhere hasn't looked better. And in some cases, the results are even worse.

With data for two full years of programming now available, future liberal talk radio growth seems less likely than ever. Looking at markets across the country, only two cities continue to appear promising: Portland, Oregon and increasingly, Seattle.

To survive, Air America needs dozens of Portland and Seattle clones. After all this time, where are they? Stuck in line at Starbucks?

A round-up:


Despite the launch of a new live-and-local morning show featuring former mayor Willie Brown, San Francisco's KQKE-AM held steady at just a 1.2 listener share in the nation's fourth-biggest radio metro area. Over the past four ratings periods, KQKE has shown no overall audience growth.


In Washington, DC, the eighth-largest radio market, Air America affiliate WWRC-AM failed to generate any measurable audience figures.


Tenth-ranked Atlanta saw its AAR station, WWAA-AM, take second-to-last place, for a 0.5 overall audience share. The station is soon expected to drop its liberal format.


In Boston, now 11th-biggest, AAR's two combined AM stations also took a 0.5, to tie for second-to-last among all listeners 12 and older.


In Seattle (#14), KPTK-AM continued to grow, rising to a 2.8 share from a 1.4 in last year's spring book. Some have speculated that KPTK's gains have come at the expense of KIRO-AM, which features a mixed lineup with some liberal shows.


KXXT-AM/ Phoenix's (#15) last book before converting to religious programming saw Air America's programming fall from 1.2, to a 0.7 overall figure.


KTNF-AM/ Minneapolis (#16) continues to struggle, now down to a 1.0 share for listeners 12 and older. Only four stations in the market were ranked lower.


In San Diego (#17), ratings for AAR station KLSD-AM collapsed, from a healthy 3.1 in the Fall 2005 Arbitron Ratings Survey to a 1.6 now. KLSD's previously strong numbers now appear to have been a one-time fluke.


KKZN/ Denver (#22), despite featuring a live and local morning show, continued its long slide. Over the past four quarterly periods, KKZN has dropped from a 2.0 to a 1.4.


Portland's KPOJ-AM continues as AAR's strongest performer, in sixth place with a stable 4.1 overall share of the audience in the country's 24th-largest market.


Other than as a vehicle for political campaigning in this year's elections, why should Air America continue to function? If it can't make money and isn't seeing audience growth, what's the point?

What's quite obvious: admitting defeat now means damage to the "cause", meaning this sick puppy must continue to suffer. With this kind of weak performance, other radio format experiments would have shut down at least six months, if not a year, earlier.
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:13 pm
mysteryman wrote:
Quote:
Oh bullshit, that like saying Rush owes his success to Joe Pine. Rush owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.


Oh bullshit, that like saying Franken owes his success to Joe Pine. Franken owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.



Mysteryman has come completely unhinged as his moronic diatribes hit new lows of rubber and glue. What an embarassment he is to the once respected conservative movement. (Like Willaim Buckley, Barry Goldwater)

This what it has come down to, thanks to Bush/Cheney/Rove: incoherent, babbling, drooling illiterates.
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:21 pm
Quote:
O'Reilly claimed NY Times, other "lefty zealots" believe "the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide"

Summary: Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will."

During the May 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will." O'Reilly's comments came during a discussion of opposition by the Times and others to deploying the National Guard to help secure the border.

As Media Matters for America has noted, O'Reilly has previously claimed to have exposed the "hidden agenda" behind the immigration movement, which he said was "the browning of America." O'Reilly also asserted, during the same April 12 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, that "there is a movement in this country to wipe out 'white privilege.' " Additionally, on the May 1 edition of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly alleged that the "organizers" of the May 1 nationwide pro-immigrant protests have a "hardcore militant agenda of 'You stole our land, you bad gringos,' " and that the organizers seek to "take it back by massive, massive migration into the Southwest.' "

From the May 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: Now in 1986, President Reagan thought he could solve the [immigration] problem by granting about 3 million illegal aliens amnesty. The New York Times was in heaven, editorializing back then, quote, "The new law won't work miracles but it will induce most employers to pay attention, to turn off the magnets, to slow the tide." Of course, just the opposite happened. But the Times hasn't learned a thing. That's because the newspaper and many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed.

According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will. This can only happen if demographics change in America.

An open-border policy and the legalization of millions of Hispanic illegal aliens would deeply affect the political landscape in America. That's what The New York Times and many others on the left want. They might get it. And that's the "Memo."


---mediamatters.org
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mysteryman
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:23 pm
Roxxxanne wrote:
mysteryman wrote:
Quote:
Oh bullshit, that like saying Rush owes his success to Joe Pine. Rush owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.


Oh bullshit, that like saying Franken owes his success to Joe Pine. Franken owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.



Mysteryman has come completely unhinged as his moronic diatribes hit new lows of rubber and glue. What an embarassment he is to the once respected conservative movement. (Like Willaim Buckley, Barry Goldwater)

This what it has come down to, thanks to Bush/Cheney/Rove: incoherent, babbling, drooling illiterates.


Why did you ignore the rest of my post?
Is it because you know I'm right,and dont want to admit it?

Since you chose to ignore it,here it is again...

Quote:
Both sides aim their message at the people that want to hear them.
Its called "targeting your audience".
So,If Rush is aiming his message at those who agree with him,you have to say that Al Franken is doing the same thing.
People want to listen to those who agree with them,not those who dont.


Now,can you actually say that isnt true?
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:30 pm
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/

Brian Maloney, probably almost a bigger liar than BOR... these lying liars who ie have been lying about Air America and predicting its demise for two years.


http://photos1.blogger.com/img/82/2049/640/2.jpg
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:32 pm
mysteryman wrote:
Roxxxanne wrote:
mysteryman wrote:
Quote:
Oh bullshit, that like saying Rush owes his success to Joe Pine. Rush owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.


Oh bullshit, that like saying Franken owes his success to Joe Pine. Franken owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.



Mysteryman has come completely unhinged as his moronic diatribes hit new lows of rubber and glue. What an embarassment he is to the once respected conservative movement. (Like Willaim Buckley, Barry Goldwater)

This what it has come down to, thanks to Bush/Cheney/Rove: incoherent, babbling, drooling illiterates.


Why did you ignore the rest of my post?
Is it because you know I'm right,and dont want to admit it?

Since you chose to ignore it,here it is again...

Quote:
Both sides aim their message at the people that want to hear them.
Its called "targeting your audience".
So,If Rush is aiming his message at those who agree with him,you have to say that Al Franken is doing the same thing.
People want to listen to those who agree with them,not those who dont.


Now,can you actually say that isnt true?



Al Franken is inn now way similar to that Hillbilly Heroine Hooked Hypocrite. Franken is funny and has talent.
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mysteryman
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:35 pm
Roxxxanne wrote:
mysteryman wrote:
Roxxxanne wrote:
mysteryman wrote:
Quote:
Oh bullshit, that like saying Rush owes his success to Joe Pine. Rush owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.


Oh bullshit, that like saying Franken owes his success to Joe Pine. Franken owes his success to the legion of ignoramuses who want to hear someone who echoes their backward view of the world.



Mysteryman has come completely unhinged as his moronic diatribes hit new lows of rubber and glue. What an embarassment he is to the once respected conservative movement. (Like Willaim Buckley, Barry Goldwater)

This what it has come down to, thanks to Bush/Cheney/Rove: incoherent, babbling, drooling illiterates.


Why did you ignore the rest of my post?
Is it because you know I'm right,and dont want to admit it?

Since you chose to ignore it,here it is again...

Quote:
Both sides aim their message at the people that want to hear them.
Its called "targeting your audience".
So,If Rush is aiming his message at those who agree with him,you have to say that Al Franken is doing the same thing.
People want to listen to those who agree with them,not those who dont.


Now,can you actually say that isnt true?



Al Franken is inn now way similar to that Hillbilly Heroine Hooked Hypocrite. Franken is funny and has talent.


But they are both doing radio shows,aimed at their target audience.
Do you deny that?
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BernardR
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:38 pm
Mysteryman- Isn't Roxxxane violating the rules by calling you names?

She must know that if one argues with reason, instead of emotion, a person uses evidence and persuasion---not name calling!!!
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:40 pm
I do not want to listen to people who agree with me. I want to listen to people who entertain me. Liberal talk will never get the numbers that diittohead radio gets because we think for ourselves and don't want to listen to people to affirm our beliefs like the right-wing emotional cripples do.

William Hung is a singer. Tony Bennett is a singer. Therfore, they are equal. Can we get any more idiotic here?
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BernardR
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:48 pm
Mysteryman- Isn't Roxxxanne violating the TOS by calling you names?
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Wed 17 May, 2006 06:54 pm
Quote:
Olbermann named O'Reilly "Worst Person in the World" for comparing Franken and "some of the people on the Internet and cable TV" to "assassins"
Summary: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Bill O'Reilly "Worst Person in the World" for comparing liberal radio host and author Al Franken -- as well as people on the "Internet" and "cable television" -- to "assassins," as Media Matters previously noted.
During the May 15 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host Bill O'Reilly "Worst Person in the World" for comparing liberal radio host and author Al Franken -- as well as "assassins" on the "Internet" and "cable television" -- to a New York City radio disc jockey who threatened "to do an R. Kelly" on the 4-year-old daughter of a rival station's announcer, as Media Matters for America noted. O'Reilly's comments occurred on the May 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, R. Kelly is an R&B singer who was "indicted on 21 counts of child pornography stemming from a videotape that allegedly shows him having sex with an underage girl," according to CNN.com.

On his radio show, O'Reilly also claimed that "News Corporation made a mistake in actually trying to sue" Franken over the title of his book, Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Dutton, 2003), because the effort actually "helped his [Franken's] book sales." In 2003, Fox News, owned by News Corp., sued Franken and Penguin Group over the use of the words "fair and balanced" in the book's title; Fox News owns a trademark on the term. In its filing, Fox News reportedly "described Franken as a 'C-level political commentator' who 'appears to be shrill and unstable.'" Fox News eventually dropped the lawsuit after a judge ruled against blocking Franken's use of the term "fair and balanced." The judge stated: "There are hard cases and there are easy cases. This is an easy case, for in my view the case is wholly without merit, both factually and legally. Accordingly, the motion for a preliminary injunction is denied."

From the May 15 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: Back to immigration. Are there solutions here? Maybe, maybe not. But there is a unique perspective from commentator and comedian Carlos Mencia; he's next. But first, even amid the press and urgency of the speech, there is still time for Countdown's latest list of nominees for Worst Person in the World.

The bronze to the police in Orlando, who appear to have overreacted just a tad to a senior prank at Edgewater High School there. After the officers sent to monitor the traditional event called for backup, the department sent a heavily armed patrol with helicopters and arrested and handcuffed five of the 30 or so seniors who were armed with shaving cream, toilet paper, and Hershey's syrup. But the kids were brandishing the toilet paper.

The silver: From the "I know where you were coming from, but ..." file, Michael Maxwell, a teacher in St. Joseph, Missouri, he gave his seniors a creative writing essay: "Who would you kill and how would you do it?" He's apologized.

But the winner: Oh, Bill O. Not only did he compare Al Franken and some of the people on the Internet and cable TV -- guess who he meant -- to, quote, "assassins." But worse, he's rewritten history, quoting, "When he attacked me a couple of years ago," Bill O said, "News Corporation made a mistake in actually trying to sue the guy." Uh, Bill, who made the mistake in suing, the one mistake big enough that the judge literally laughed out loud in the courtroom? Bill O'Reilly, today's Worst Person in the World.
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BernardR
 
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Reply Thu 18 May, 2006 08:40 pm
You know, Roxxxane, you have a point, or rather Mr. Olbermann(? sp?) has a point.

I have just finished Bernard Goldberg's great book--"100 Persons who are screwing up America" and I do not find Mr. O'Reilly's name in it"

I will write to Mr. Goldberg immediately informing him of his obvious lacuna.
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Thu 18 May, 2006 09:22 pm
Roxxxanne O'Hara's Book, "100 Men Who Own Lufas and Best Know How to Use Them" has BOR listed Number one.
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BernardR
 
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Reply Thu 18 May, 2006 10:20 pm
I am sorry but there is no such book listed in the list of published books. Is it a book that is out of print or are you just spoofing? You wouldn't spoof and waste someone's time looking for a non-existent book, would you, Roxxxanne?
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snood
 
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Reply Sun 21 May, 2006 08:25 pm
Are you from the moon, Bernard?
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JustanObserver
 
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Reply Sun 21 May, 2006 08:34 pm
snood wrote:
Are you from the moon, Bernard?


From the quality of his posts, my first guess would have been Uranus.
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snood
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 05:45 am
Not my anus! Laughing
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 22 May, 2006 07:01 am
Think along the lines of a primate with wings...
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BernardR
 
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Reply Tue 23 May, 2006 11:23 pm
But Drew Dad, Snood, Just An Observer--I will repeat--There is no such book as the one referenced by Roxxxane in her post. Your comments are irrelevant.
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Roxxxanne
 
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Reply Tue 23 May, 2006 11:50 pm
Well we have BR and BOR, two gifts that keep on giving.
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