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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 14 2004, 02:39 PM (567 Views) | |
| 8247 | Apr 15 2004, 09:51 AM Post #16 |
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Apparently we look like this now
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If you want to hear the liberal view, and cant get Air America, just turn on CNN. |
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| Fesarius | Apr 15 2004, 10:04 AM Post #17 |
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^^^ Ouch!!!
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| gvok | Apr 15 2004, 10:09 AM Post #18 |
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Double ouch! |
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| Dwayne | Apr 15 2004, 10:38 AM Post #19 |
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Yeah, that's why we have conservative talk radio. You got to remember, Larry King and other liberals ruled the AM dial before Rush Limbaugh came along. The rapid growth of Rush showed advertisers and others that there was a huge untapped demand for Rush's point of view and it created hundreds of local and a few more national talk show hosts with Rush's political bent. Whenever the left tries to do the same with their own radio talk show hosts, they fail because very few people want to hear what they are overwhelmed with on the evening news, prime time TV, or at the local cinema. |
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| gvok | Apr 15 2004, 10:45 AM Post #20 |
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Here is Air America's take on the Drudge Report Article (BTW I wonder why Admiral Bill has not chimed in on this thread): -------------- The Sludge Report After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and that really loud woman from Florida, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems. Stop the presses!!! There’s nothing more exciting than half a story from a third hand source!!!! Insiders tell SLUDGE, that the reason the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, was because, the owner of both stations, Arthur Liu of Multicultural Broadcasting, said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! The run-on sentence, tortured grammar and the exclamation point clearly means it’s true!! Only it isn’t. Normally we’d let this go because “habitual liars” like Drudge are laughable, and ridicule is our business. But Arthur Liu --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now we’re chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It’s a metaphor. Here’s what really happened: This Liu-ser was ripping off our boss Evan Cohen big time (he can’t do that, that’s our job). Evan found out about it and he stopped payment on a check to keep Liu-cifer from ripping him off even more. You can touch Evan for the occasional meal or drinks but a million bucks is crossing the line. And if we ever get low on cash, we can always call Barbra Streisand. Or any of the Baldwins. Except Stephen. So we got screwed, Liu’d, and tattooed. How Liu can you get? In Liu of payment. Liu’d and lascivious behavior. These write themselves. What we’re getting at is that we hate him. So now everyone’s saying we’re going down the dumper in Chicago and Los Angeles, but what they don’t tell you is that we’re still on in Portland. And we OWN Portland. And let’s not forget Riverside and Plattsburgh. And New York. And streaming on the internet. And XM. And Sirius. Actually we’re fine. So cool your jets. Air America Radio isn’t dead, we’re in court and we’re going to slam Liu’s head in a car door. Another metaphor. We hope to be back on the air tomorrow or the next day in those markets. In the meantime, why don’t you give Arthur a call at (edit for privacy - Wichita), or check out his website www.mrbi.net Arthur Liu, I wouldn’t show your face around here. Or Riverside. Or Plattsburgh. DEVELOPING…… Note: I don't know if the phone number was real or not, but I think we should avoid printing such things. They can choose to handle it whatever way that they want. Wichita |
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| Dwayne | Apr 15 2004, 10:55 AM Post #21 |
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^^^^^^ Yeah...looks like Al Frankens work. He's such a childish and hateful man-boy. |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Apr 15 2004, 11:16 AM Post #22 |
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Actually, I started a thread on this two weeks ago, just before this farce took to the airwaves. I have to laugh at the fawning coverage by the media over this doomed project. Even the comic strip, "Non Sequitor" has one of its characters leaving his job at "Clean Channel" because he claims he is being forced to be a shill for "right wing extremists." Yesterday's comic had him applying at Air America for a lot less money, but the message is that he still has his principles. Pathetic. People listen to so-called "right wing radio" because they are tired of the bias in the mainstream media. In addition, they are tired of mainstream television programming and Hollywood movies. |
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| Fesarius | Apr 15 2004, 11:27 AM Post #23 |
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Well, I began listening to it around 1988 because I thought the ideas presented were interesting. I frequently tested the tenets of Limbaugh and Liddy, and when I did, I found that what they opined was more often accurate than the inverse. |
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| gvok | Apr 15 2004, 11:27 AM Post #24 |
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It will be interesting to see what happens to Air America. From what I've heard of it, it does come off kind of negative and bitter. |
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| Dwayne | Apr 15 2004, 11:28 AM Post #25 |
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Anyone with the brains God gave a goffer would realize that the free market place had already ran the leftoids off the air. Now I realize, to the leftoids, the free market place is akin to a vast right wing conspiracy, but it does come back to money - always. |
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| 24thcenstfan | Apr 15 2004, 11:20 PM Post #26 |
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Looks like Air America will be back on the air in Chicago and LA (predicted sometime on Friday). LINK |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Apr 16 2004, 12:22 PM Post #27 |
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Is this because of the judge's order? (I don't have time to check the link... I'm on my way out the door.) |
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| 24thcenstfan | Apr 16 2004, 12:26 PM Post #28 |
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^^^Yes. "A New York judge ordered the owner of two radio stations on Thursday to put the 2-week-old, liberal radio network known as Air America back on the air." "Judge Marilyn Diamond issued a temporary restraining order on the condition that Air America post a $156,000 bond. The judge will hold a hearing on the dispute on Monday." LINK |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Apr 16 2004, 01:40 PM Post #29 |
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I read the article and am amazed. A judge is FORCING two stations to air programming that hasn't been paid for.
How about paying your bills, doof? The arrogance of liberals amazes me. Here are a few "gems" about Marilyn Diamond: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/stor...75p-18001c.html http://www.clr.org/Diamond-Marylin-Judge.pdf Does anyone believe this woman is a Republican? BTW, she was appointed by Mario Cuomo. THAT says it all... |
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| Dr. Noah | Apr 17 2004, 01:03 AM Post #30 |
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What? As if every other media source isn't run by communist freaks like Air America. I am sick of these bleeding hearts running the airwaves. "Oh, the poor people don't have health care." "Oh, the gay people are crying because they can't get married." "Oh, the muslims are getting picked on." I am sick of all this liberal whining!!! Go out and get a freaking job you good for nothing hippie morons!!!! Life is hard, that's why you have to conform you idiots!!! Get straight, get a job, get married and buy a house and car and have your 2.5 kids and live the American dream!! Geez, enough whining, the longer you whine the less time you have to get to be a normal person. Wake up!! Nobody is going to listen to you whine about not having health care, and being gay and wanting equal treatment. Go get rich and then you can do whatever you want. Right now you have to work to get there. |
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