Air America Radio

I'm a stern listener. CF of course.

one mans truth is anothers hysterical bullshit.

Stern is getting good again, was listening this morning.

John kerry sleeps with his wife, while Bush, sleeps with your wife.

John kerry was saving people in Vietnam, while Bush was raping children.

Not quite, there is still a single truth out there, everything else is a view point.

You don't see too many people arguing over whether 2+2=4.

You and the 11 other people listening.....?

I think Rush has them by a couple hundred thousand to 1.

I give them to the election, which is all they're there for anyway - and they'll be gone.

Man, you got that right.... hysterical indeed !!

The truth?

Your partisan eyes couldn't see what happened yesterday.

Basically a train wreck ...

you must an Ascrofftterer ass sniffer.

If you post on this board and support people like Aschooffttt you have serious mulitiple personality disorder.

You can not be a porn webmaster and support people like Ascrodftt.

For me supporting an administration like Bush fucks up my livelyhood.

You democrates are sure good at calling people names.

Personally, I think there are more important issues in the world today than what you think about on-line porn.

And I hate to break it to you - there are a lot of Republican webmasters on here - most just don't lower themselves to the same old tired shit from the Bush haters.

We're the ones still making money.



Better luck in '08 - maybe Hillary will run !!

gotta love it when they do the rush voice..one hour of making fun of him is quality entertainment

Let me get this straight....
You just like posting on this board for yor health.

you must be a DITTO HEAD.....no thoughts of your own.

or you might have been HANITIZED..."Let Freedom Ring"

You should wake up, listen and see what is going on around you.

If I had to take a guess....you are not a millionaire or someone on the upper echelon. You are just someone who is confused.

yeah...I thought so...

ACTUALLY... I'm a webmaster who just had his best month in over a year - with BUSH in office !!

I think he was in office for way over a year now. Where have you been?

Well I know that.....

I'm just saying all these people predict the end fo porn on line with Bush in Office.

After him being in office for 3 years, I just had the best month I've had in a year...

Get it now?

Porn is not suffering becauce of Bush.

Neither am I.

Air America is nice. I'm always impressed that Americans still fight for there rights and just don't give up.

Of course not, it creates a bigger demand for porn. The more it's taboo, the more people are gonna come looking for it.

What people are complaining about is all those crazy freedom from pornography week, obscenity lawsuits, etc.

please post the article, i dont feel like registering and im sure no one else does...

by the way... who says that democrats dont know how to create jobs... if they can get work for chronicly unemployed no talents like frankin and garafalo they can creat jobs for anyone

Sorry.




Air America debut sends a weak signal


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By Howard Reich
Tribune arts critic
Published April 2, 2004

If talk radio in America has become scorched-earth political warfare, Al Franken has joined the battle armed with a squirt gun.

The formidable comedian-satirist may have been brilliant in the pages of his best-selling books, but his debut Wednesday as standard-bearer for a self-proclaimed liberal radio network signals that the man has no clue why Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity rule the air waves.


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Moreover, the first day of Air America Radio-- the emerging conglomerate of AM stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland--offered vast stretches of earnest but bumbling, semi-pro broadcasting interrupted by occasional periods of bona fide radio.

As the official face of the new liberal network, which aims to counterbalance radio's right-wing flame-throwers, Franken stands as its great bright hope (Air America is heard in Chicago on WNTD-AM 950). He launched the network at 11 a.m. CST on a deliciously wicked note, announcing that he was "broadcasting from an underground bunker 3,500 feet below Dick Cheney's bunker."

But it was all downhill from there.

For starters, the lackadaisical pace of Franken's chit-chat with co-host Katherine Lanpher suggested they were sipping espressos and munching on scones at a Starbucks, rather than taking on Limbaugh, Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Giddily chuckling over missed cues, headphone glitches and other first-day mishaps, Franken and Lanpher sounded as if they were having a grand old time, relentlessly giggling at each other's chatter.

Have they listened--really listened--to Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly and the like? Whether you love or loathe the politics of those angry white men, there's no mistaking their ardor for the most minuscule details of public policy. They can rattle off the details of California's Proposition 57 or the recent federal budget proposals the way most of us recite our favorite haute cuisine meal. The sheer zeal they bring to the battlefield makes the listener believe--if only momentarily--that the fate of the world hangs on these issues.

No such urgency could be detected in "The O'Franken Factor," which was titled to spoof "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel but didn't approach the fireworks of its namesake.

And then there were the guests. Reasonable people might disagree over whether Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore was an ideal, debut-show visitor, his tendency toward extreme hyperbole perhaps doing as much to damage the left-wing cause as promote it. But Franken's overwrought genuflections to the man recalled "The Sammy Maudlin Show" on the old SCTV program.

Even convicted Watergate felon G. Gordon Liddy, an arch-conservative who happens to be a longtime Franken friend, received a wet kiss from the host. The appearance represented the last hope that Franken had any idea about how to hook a radio audience in today's tumultuous political climate.

Not that absolutely everything about "The O'Franken Factor" fizzled. When former Vice President Al Gore phoned in, Moore slyly quipped, "Hi Al--or should I say, Mr. President," referring, clearly, to that messy national election and Supreme Court decision of 2000.

The tempo picked up dramatically when veteran talk-radio host Randi Rhodes took to the airwaves for the afternoon shift, though her initial griping about the lack of promotion she had received from Air America seemed to set the stage for another wipeout. But that very biliousness turned to her advantage once she set her sights on her real enemies, which included independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who phoned in.

"I'm angry at you," she told the Florida election spoiler. "We can't afford you this year, Ralph."

Whenever Nader protested, Rhodes ran over him like a truck.

"Is this the way you want to start Air America?" Nader protested. "You want it to be Hot Air America? ... You've got a very bad interviewing technique."

Rhodes instantly shot back.

"I am not interviewing you," she said. "I am angry at you. Can't you tell the difference? ... You screwed up the last election."

Nader slammed down the phone, and it was clear that Air America Radio had at least one host who understood that the medium is hot, not cool, fiery not dispassionate.

As the broadcast day unfolded, however, it became sadly clear that Rhodes was the only personality on the upstart network who knew what she was doing.

Whoever decided to air a media-ethics show hosted by a communications professor during afternoon drive time had to be working for the opposition.

Finally, Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder proved on the evening shift that effective agitprop is harder to deliver than it might seem.

In the end, Wednesday turned out to be a great day for right-wing talk radio.


Copyright ? 2004, Chicago Tribune

<< If talk radio in America has become scorched-earth political warfare, Al Franken has joined the battle armed with a squirt gun.

The formidable comedian-satirist may have been brilliant in the pages of his best-selling books, but his debut Wednesday as standard-bearer for a self-proclaimed liberal radio network signals that the man has no clue why Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity rule the air waves. >>

and if you read my explanation on this earlier this week, you should not be surprised.

radio professionals work at it and understand what they're doing.
999 times out of 1000, you can't just take "somebody" from another medium or profession and put them on the radio, especially somebody who's still fixated (more than anything) on trying to bait Bill O'Reilly, and end up with anything other than a failure.

I sure missed on that one.... They didn't last to the end of the month.