Air America Radio

Written by RJ Elliott
Published May 07, 2004

From Mr. Drudge:

In yet another sign of trouble for Air America Radio, the liberal talk network entering its fifth chaotic week on the air, co-founder and chairman Evan Cohen resigned Thursday, as did vice-chairman and investor Rex Sorensen.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is planning to report in fresh editions: The company also failed to make its scheduled payroll, leaving its staff roughly 100 radio personalities, writers, and producers unpaid until Thursday.

The departures of Cohen, a former political operative from Guam who was among the network's initial investors, and Sorenson, an investor who owns radio stations in Guam, mark the second executive shake-up at the fledgling network in as many weeks.

I'm almost embarrassed for them. Almost.

RJ Elliott is a graduate student studying Criminal Justice at the University Of Central Florida. His likes include nature, sports, and pierced blondes. He dislikes daytime television, left-wing dictators, and lead-tainted Chinese imports. He is ambivalent about Angelina Jolie.
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#1 — May 7, 2004 @ 02:10AM — Sean

This could only get better if it drives the Frankens and Garafalos, the Winsteads and Rhodeses finally to say what you know they think about the people on whose behalf they labor (you know, us common shlubs): What is wrong with you idiots!!!!

#2 — May 7, 2004 @ 09:01AM — Eric Olsen

Maybe Snapple can help them.

#3 — May 7, 2004 @ 09:33AM — Craig Lyndall [URL]

I think we will have to wait for this to be reported ANYWHERE but Drudge.

#4 — May 7, 2004 @ 10:44AM — Eric Olsen

Amen

#5 — May 7, 2004 @ 10:56AM — Joe [URL]

Jeff Jarvis links a Chicago Trib article about Err America.

#6 — May 7, 2004 @ 11:06AM — Mark Saleski [URL]

the conservative glee & smugness party about air america has been thoroughly entertaining.

#7 — May 7, 2004 @ 11:16AM — Phillip Winn [URL]

I wish the network would take hold. Maybe Gore's TV network will do better.

Hey, maybe they could hire Roger Ailes!

Being gleeful over the lack of alternative views is strange. At this point, the marketplace isn't even getting a chance to decide, because inexperience may kill the network before it has a chance to win listeners. Very sad.

#8 — May 7, 2004 @ 11:57AM — Doug Valenta [URL]

Isn't this news ANCIENT? Also, at least none of Air America's personalities are heroine junkies. But maybe that's just me.

#9 — May 7, 2004 @ 12:00PM — mike

Pardon me while I giggle smirkingly at the hugely increased ratings of the most popular liberal talk show host in the nation--Howard Stern, whose show sounds like a cross between Ralph Nader and the Wu Tang Clan.

#10 — May 7, 2004 @ 12:19PM — Phillip Winn [URL]

Careful, mike, I don't think anybody is supposed to suggest that there might already be a counter-Limbaugh on the air. If you start with Stern, it won't be long before people start listing others, like Thom Hartmann or Jesse Jackson, and then people might start wondering what the point of Air America is anyway.

I'd love to see someone like Jon Stewart start up a radio show. He and his writers could handle both radio and tv, couldn't they? Sure they could. And he'd be great. Just what Air America needs. Or America itself. ;-)

#11 — May 7, 2004 @ 12:21PM — Phillip Winn [URL]

Oh yeah, Mark Levine is pretty good, too. Too bad I work all day instead of listening to the radio.

#12 — May 7, 2004 @ 13:05PM — mike

Like Franken, I don't think Stewart is suited for radio. Like Franken, half his comic effect is from his hilarious facial expressions. Even in his books, Franken's smirking face is always on the back flap, and people always look at the pictures.

#13 — May 7, 2004 @ 13:10PM — Mark Saleski [URL]

i dunno, so far i've liked what franken has done.

he just seems like a wiseass, plus....he takes great pleasure is yanking misstatements from rush & o'reilly and holding them up to the light of day.

you can just feel o'reilly's blood pressure rising.

#14 — May 7, 2004 @ 13:12PM — Natalie Davis [URL]

"the conservative glee & smugness party about air america has been thoroughly entertaining."

and enlightening.

#15 — May 7, 2004 @ 13:18PM — Ms. Tek [URL]

Screw the tv, radios, and discussion. I've decided that the only way to deal with backward, stupid, rednecks is to get a bigger stick and just beat the fuck out of them. I usually accompany doing this with lots of obscenities and telling them how stupid I think they are. There is nothing like foot stomping these "Limbaugh" fat fuck types. The sound that the head makes as it pops open on cement is almost sexually arousing.

I also flush their babies down toilets if I can find them. They're like roaches... you need to get them all or they breed super fast and you can get overrun.

I've been thinking tho- what a waste. Instead I will chop the babies up and sell their parts for stem cell research and cloning. I want to clone massive armies of fat fuck redneck killers. I will make sure they wear uniforms of purple and pink.

Make sure that when you get your sticks to join in the mayhem, you only acquire them from new growth forests. Cutting down protected trees for the purpose of beating fat fucks is not worth pissing on the cause. Still, join in on the fun. Seriously, that *pop* sound and seeing the teeth smashed on the concrete is hump worthy material.

You can of course for added entertainment and a change, steal some petroleum and dump it over fat fucks and then set it on fire- warning, the smell of oil and burning lard will make you want to hurl.

HAHAHA, You are all so stupid, stupid, stupid.

If I call you stupid and moronic long enought, will you finally see that you are wrong?

#16 — May 7, 2004 @ 13:27PM — Mark Saleski [URL]

yow!...and i thought I was cranky!!

#17 — May 7, 2004 @ 13:32PM — Ms. Tek [URL]

Huh? Who says I'm cranky? I'm being fair and balanced. Matter of fact, since I started to pop prescription meds like tic tacs, I've never felt more balanced in my life!

Dude, I am channeling the collective conscious of the people now. If you don't agree with me, you are a against me and are not doing your part. You will be exterminated!!

EXTERMINATE!
EXTERMINATE!

#18 — May 7, 2004 @ 14:20PM — Debbie

"Isn't this news ANCIENT? Also, at least none of Air America's personalities are heroine junkies. But maybe that's just me."

How would you know?

#19 — May 7, 2004 @ 14:26PM — Debbie

"Like Franken, I don't think Stewart is suited for radio. Like Franken, half his comic effect is from his hilarious facial expressions. Even in his books, Franken's smirking face is always on the back flap, and people always look at the pictures."

he wrote a picture book?

""the conservative glee & smugness party about air america has been thoroughly entertaining."

and enlightening. "

Yea, and you guys would never be 'smug' over anything bad happening to conservative...tee hee hee, ha ha ha! RIGHT!

The glee doesn't come from not having another point of view it comes from seeing these caustic assholes take a nose dive.

Ms. Tek,

"If I call you stupid and moronic long enought, will you finally see that you are wrong?"

Nw, we will just call for the men in the white coats to take you away...their coming to take you away, ha ha, hee hee...

#20 — May 7, 2004 @ 14:28PM — Ms. Tek [URL]

PbbbbbtTTTT =p

Nope, I have a BIG STICK, you STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!

No one can get me. I have THE STICK!

#21 — May 7, 2004 @ 14:32PM — Mark Saleski [URL]

...these caustic assholes take a nose dive

interesting.

have you actually listened to any of franken's show?

most on talk radio have made their living misrepresenting liberal views, it's a load of fun seeing them being taken to task for it.



#22 — May 14, 2004 @ 20:44PM — TiminTow

Well John Kerry could have a radio show and drone on and on.

Good for insomnia.

zzz zzz

#23 — June 1, 2004 @ 19:27PM — TootnRoot

Maybe Air America can ask Michael Moore for some of his millions.

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