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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on February 06, 2014, 02:27:52 PM
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Glory days is a VERY loose term, Air America was never successful or interesting.
Anyway, click on the link below to check out their whining about the demise of Air America. :-)
Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
Do you remember Air America? (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024451990)
I sure do. I remember listening to them religiously in 2004. I remember several of the shows. The ones I remember most are Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofalo's show with Sam Seder, and of course the outstanding Rachel Maddow. I was always so impressed with Maddow. I remember listening to Air America all day long when I was poll watching for Kerry in Florida. His loss was such a disappointment.
Anyway, memory lane
sabrina 1 (41,424 posts)
4. Yes, I remember it. It was like an oasis in the desert of the Right Wing Noise Machine.
Randi Rhodes was a fighter. I remember finally seeing her on C-Span where they put her up against against a Right Wing Fundy female talk show host and Randi wiped the floor with her.
Don't know what happened, but at least we had one place to go during that awful period.
Yeah, a real fighter. I wonder how that pavement felt when she fell face first in NYC.
Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/air-america-host-randi-rhodes-wasn-mugged-article-1.230682)
Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but cops and her lawyer say reports she was mugged near her Manhattan apartment were bogus.
Fellow host Jon Elliott said on the liberal network that Rhodes was attacked at 39th St. and Park Ave. on Sunday night while walking her dog, Simon. Elliott, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy. "Is this an attempt by the right-wing hate machine to silence one of our own?" he asked on the air, according to the Talking Radio blog. "Are we threatening them?"
A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Rhodes' lawyer Robert Gaulin told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog, but she wasn't sure exactly what happened. "She did get injured. She's in pain and is recovering and looks forward to being back on the air Thursday," he said.
Ed Suspicious (1,939 posts)
5. Why did it go under?
Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
20. Money
I think it was mostly funded be a benevolent donor and money eventually stopped flowing, but I'm not sure if that's the entire story.
busterbrown (2,936 posts)
37. Not enough listeners..
Ignorant dumb right wingers listen to hate radio all day and night. It’s like morphine to them..
Progressives have lives to live and try not to get hung up on the political stuff 24/7...
:rotf: :lol: :lol: :lol: :rofl:
nikto (1,219 posts)
55. Well said...
And true.
Pretzel_Warrior (6,538 posts)
11. That and DU were life lines for me. The O'Franken Factor as he first called it
was by far my favorite. I loved the guys on my way to work. Mark Maron and "the other guy" whose name escapes me. And then Majority Report in the evening. I don't know why...but I couldn't get into Maddow right away. Later, I thought she was great.
I used to listen to KPOJ in Portland which had those people on at the times I mentioned, Randi Rhodes in the afternoon, and later Ed Schultz.
What a terrific thing that opened up as far as pipeline of progressive talk now still being heard and watched all these years later.
Pipeline of progressive talk... :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
An example from the DUmmy thread:
zentrum (625 posts)
31. Hartmann, Malloy and
.....Stephanie Miller were just bumped off the air in the Bay Area. There's no progressive radio now except Listener's Sponsored Radio and an occasional show on Public radio. And this is the so-called "librul" Bay Area.
It's really a symptom of a deep seated disease in America.
GReedDiamond (1,966 posts)
39. The same thing just happened here in Los Angeles...
...they are all gone from the airwaves.
KTLK 1150 AM (Clear Channel) was the Air America outlet in L.A.
After AA crashed and burned, we still had Stephanie, Randi, Thom Hartman, even Mike Malloy for a while.
As of last January 2, they're all gone, and KTLK is now KEIB "The Patriot," featuring the undisputed King of Excrement In Broadcasting, "Hillbilly Heroin" Rush, and additional spewage from the likes of Glenn Beck and other teabagger head cases.
Sad situation for radio in L.A. (and the Bay Area).
:nelson:
Cleita (68,431 posts)
42. They've been knocking off the smaller markets like mine in San Luis Obispo first.
They saved the Bay area and Los Angeles for last. I think we need some laws in Sacramento to be passed. I propose that for every station that airs a Rush Limbaugh, we need equal time for the other side like Randi Rhodes. I think the air belongs to the people, so the people should be able to demand a choice. Also, all the lies Limbaugh et al need to be rebutted just like they do for political speeches. There has to be a way to demand it as freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is for everyone, not just one side.
mountain grammy (3,461 posts)
41. I cried when Air America left us.. I'm addicted to Stephanie Miller in the AM, but listen
to others whenever possible.
:crybaby:
The column below and the wikipedia page recounts the "glory days" of the lovely failed venture called Air America Prepare to laugh:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/air-america-liberal-radio-answer-rush-limbaugh-failed-matters-article-1.458597
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(radio_network)
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Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
20. Money
I think it was mostly funded be a benevolent donor and money eventually stopped flowing, but I'm not sure if that's the entire story.
****in' idiot...
The state attorney general's office and the city's Department of Investigation are looking into whether a boys and girls club serving poor children and ailing elderly people in the Bronx had improper financial dealings, including loans to the Air America radio network, state and city officials said yesterday.
The separate investigations are trying to determine whether the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club, run from an office in Co-op City in the Bronx, made improper loans of up to $875,000 to the radio network, known for its liberal programming and hosts like the comedian Al Franken, the officials said.
The allegations of financial mismanagement at Gloria Wise came to light in June, when the Department of Investigation announced in a letter to the club that all city agencies were canceling their contracts with Gloria Wise and an affiliate, the Pathways for Youth Boys and Girls Club, because officials at the clubs had "approved significant inappropriate transactions and falsified documents that were submitted to various city agencies."
Jim Grossman, a spokesman for Gloria Wise, said the club had given Air America about $875,000, though he added that he did not know exactly how, or in what form, it had been given.
Jaime Horn, a spokeswoman for Air America, said the loans had come to the network through its former chairman, Evan M. Cohen, a venture capitalist, who resigned from Air America in May 2004 under pressure from other company investors. Ms. Horn added that investigators recently told the network that Mr. Cohen had served simultaneously as the development director for Gloria Wise, although the network was not aware of that at the time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/nyregion/12network.html
Benevolent donor, my ass! They were typical liberals: Stealing from children and the elderly to line their pockets and push their sick agenda.
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Ed Suspicious (1,939 posts)
5. Why did it go under?
it sucked
busterbrown (2,936 posts)
Ignorant dumb right wingers listen to hate radio all day and night. It’s like morphine to them..
Progressives have lives to live and try not to get hung up on the political stuff 24/7...
um have you passed this by renew deal....
Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
I remember listening to Air America all day long when I was poll watching for Kerry in Florida.
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Sane people generally recoil in disdain and revulsion when inflicted with what leftists really believe and want.
That is why "If you like your health care plan..." lies get spewed at the gullible.
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busterbrown (2,936 posts)
37. Not enough listeners..
Ignorant dumb right wingers listen to hate radio all day and night. It’s like morphine to them..
Progressives have lives to live and try not to get hung up on the political stuff 24/7...
Okay...
Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
Do you remember Air America?
I sure do. I remember listening to them religiously in 2004. I remember several of the shows. The ones I remember most are Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofalo's show with Sam Seder, and of course the outstanding Rachel Maddow. I was always so impressed with Maddow. I remember listening to Air America all day long when I was poll watching for Kerry in Florida. His loss was such a disappointment.
Anyway, memory lane
Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
I remember listening to Air America all day long when I was poll watching for Kerry in Florida.
Cindie
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I remember listening to Air America all day long when I was poll watching for Kerry in Florida.
Liberals need to watch the polls only to be sure that they aren't caught while cheating.
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Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
Do you remember Air America?
yeah...so-so movie with Mel Gibson from the early '90's....
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTMzNTkwNjUxNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjQ1MzQ5._V1_SX214_.jpg)
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Did someone misspell gory?
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I think its simple. Most people listen to talk radio on their way to or from work; the 6-8 shift and 5-7 being the most coveted for radio hosts.
Most liberals don't work.
So there was no one listening.
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Randi Rhodes couldn't wipe a floor with a Shamwow, but she sure wiped some curb with her face. :lmao:
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I've seen Thom Hartmann on his FSTV show. He's unwatchably boring.
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I've seen Thom Hartmann on his FSTV show. He's unwatchably boring.
I've tuned into it before as well. Horrid picture even on my HD big-screen. It looks like it was produced by un-trained monkeys.
Not to mention the DU-like content.
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Renew Deal (58,081 posts)
Do you remember Air America?
I sure do. I remember listening to them religiously in 2004. I remember several of the shows. The ones I remember most are Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofalo's show with Sam Seder, and of course the outstanding Rachel Maddow. I was always so impressed with Maddow. I remember listening to Air America all day long when I was poll watching for Kerry in Florida. His loss was such a disappointment.
Anyway, memory lane
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Whatever ever happened to the towering intellect Janeane Garofalo?
(http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i475/Delmar59/janeane-garofalo-4954_zpsecbb3954.jpg) (http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/Delmar59/media/janeane-garofalo-4954_zpsecbb3954.jpg.html)
They become confused, and angry and highly volatile. That guy, causing them feelings they don't know, because their limbic brain, we've discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/04/16/garofalo-tea-partiers-are-all-racists-who-hate-black-president#ixzz2saq3WttO
Idiot leftists pretending to be intelligent. I never get tired of them.
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Randi Rhodes couldn't wipe a floor with a Shamwow, but she sure wiped some curb with her face. :lmao:
Rhodes is on iHeartRadio. I was looking at all their talk hosts and she was the only liberal I recognized (coincidentally, she was at the bottom of their list).
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When I saw the title I wondered why the DUmmies were discussing a covert, Vietnam era CIA airline? :shrug:
I had forgotten completely about some radio network named Air America...
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sabrina 1 (41,424 posts)
Don't know what happened
You're being deliberately obtuse. My puppy knows why Air Mental Retardation went down in flames and he wasn't even born yet.
Renew Deal (58,080 posts)
20. Money. I think it was mostly funded be a benevolent donor and money eventually stopped flowing, but I'm not sure if that's the entire story.
:hammer: The dullest dart in the flight.
busterbrown (2,936 posts)
37. Not enough listeners..
Ignorant dumb right wingers listen to hate radio all day and night. It’s like morphine to them.. Progressives have lives to live and try not to get hung up on the political stuff 24/7...
*spews beer all over monitor*
GReedDiamond (1,966 posts)
39. The same thing just happened here in Los Angeles...
...they are all gone from the airwaves.
KTLK 1150 AM (Clear Channel) was the Air America outlet in L.A.
After AA crashed and burned, we still had Stephanie, Randi, Thom Hartman, even Mike Malloy for a while.
As of last January 2, they're all gone, and KTLK is now KEIB "The Patriot," featuring the undisputed King of Excrement In Broadcasting, "Hillbilly Heroin" Rush, and additional spewage from the likes of Glenn Beck and other teabagger head cases.
Sad situation for radio in L.A. (and the Bay Area)
Tee hee......
Yes, we hillbillies have soooo much influence in SF and LA. Jeeez...