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Al Franken----- "Air America"
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Anyone check out his radio show? Wonder if it will fly. He is currently only on 4 AM stations.
Franken will be the lead personality on Air America Radio, a startup venture promising a liberal alternative to powerhouse radio talk show pundits like Rush Limbaugh.
The backers of Air America announced their programming lineup Wednesday and said they planned to launch the network March 31 in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco.
Franken and fellow comedian Janeane Garofalo will have co-hosts for their live three-hour shows. Other shows will be hosted by Randi Rhodes, a radio personality from southern Florida, and Lizz Winstead, a co-creator of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central.
"We're not ceding this territory anymore," Franken said during a conference call with reporters. "To their credit, the right wing has captured radio. We're going after them, and we're going after them hard."
Franken, in a swipe at Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, plans to call his midday show "The O'Franken Factor."
"Bill, I want you to sue us," Franken said, referring to a case last year in which a judge threw out Fox's request to ban Franken from using the slogan "Fair and Balanced" on the cover of his book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right." The ruling turned into a bonanza of publicity for Franken. (Full story) (Judge's ruling)
Another lawsuit seems unlikely. Asked to respond to Franken's remarks, Fox News spokesman Robert Zimmerman said, "All forms of free speech are welcomed in this country. We wish them well."
Mark Walsh, the CEO of Progress Media Inc., the company backing the network, said they have yet to sign any firm deals with advertisers but that several nonprofit organizations and progressive groups have promised to advertise.
Walsh said the company hoped to raise "upward of $30 million" by the time the network goes live, which would allow them to operate for about two years before turning a profit. He declined to say how much they had raised so far.
Franken has signed a one-year contract with the network.
Robert Unmacht of In3 Partners, a media consulting firm in Nashville, Tennessee, said Air America is starting out with a weak array of stations.
"They've been far more interested in the thought of creating the network than in the actual business end of it," Unmacht said.
Walsh said although the network is starting small, it is positioned in key markets. "We don't expect to get giant numbers right away. This is one brick at a time."
Franken will be the lead personality on Air America Radio, a startup venture promising a liberal alternative to powerhouse radio talk show pundits like Rush Limbaugh.
The backers of Air America announced their programming lineup Wednesday and said they planned to launch the network March 31 in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco.
Franken and fellow comedian Janeane Garofalo will have co-hosts for their live three-hour shows. Other shows will be hosted by Randi Rhodes, a radio personality from southern Florida, and Lizz Winstead, a co-creator of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central.
"We're not ceding this territory anymore," Franken said during a conference call with reporters. "To their credit, the right wing has captured radio. We're going after them, and we're going after them hard."
Franken, in a swipe at Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, plans to call his midday show "The O'Franken Factor."
"Bill, I want you to sue us," Franken said, referring to a case last year in which a judge threw out Fox's request to ban Franken from using the slogan "Fair and Balanced" on the cover of his book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right." The ruling turned into a bonanza of publicity for Franken. (Full story) (Judge's ruling)
Another lawsuit seems unlikely. Asked to respond to Franken's remarks, Fox News spokesman Robert Zimmerman said, "All forms of free speech are welcomed in this country. We wish them well."
Mark Walsh, the CEO of Progress Media Inc., the company backing the network, said they have yet to sign any firm deals with advertisers but that several nonprofit organizations and progressive groups have promised to advertise.
Walsh said the company hoped to raise "upward of $30 million" by the time the network goes live, which would allow them to operate for about two years before turning a profit. He declined to say how much they had raised so far.
Franken has signed a one-year contract with the network.
Robert Unmacht of In3 Partners, a media consulting firm in Nashville, Tennessee, said Air America is starting out with a weak array of stations.
"They've been far more interested in the thought of creating the network than in the actual business end of it," Unmacht said.
Walsh said although the network is starting small, it is positioned in key markets. "We don't expect to get giant numbers right away. This is one brick at a time."
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"Air America"
Hummm I guess thats not the same "Air America" I'm familier with.
When I seen the topic I thought he was going to Laos.
Well wishful thinking anyway
I married a Moonshiners Daughter and I Love her Still
When they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Any show, on TV or Radio, only survives with ad money. If the advertisors aren't making money from people listening and/or watching, the show is canceled.
I wouldn't bet on them lasting 90 days, except this is an election year and they may last till November.
"If they won't give us good terms, come back and we'll fight it out."
-- Gen. James Longstreet
gun control. (Not sure about Chicago)
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Let them broadcast their left-wing, liberal socialist views. It might just sicken many middle of the road Americans to actually find out in detail just where these social engineers would take us.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
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BTW, here's a quick Rush Limbaugh Primer:
1. Rush gets high.
2. Rush, while high, comes up with somthing like "a homeless man disappeared in DC when Clinton was in office....Clinton must be a cannibal!
3. Rush keeps saying so, without any facts to back him up.
4. Someone else says they heard Rush say so.
5. This rumor spreads all over.
6. Finally, someone addresses the rumor by denying it, meaning that it is picked up by mainstream media.
7. Rush gets high
8. Rush says "gee, Clinton got fat in the White House...."
9. Eventually, the rumor dies out.
10. On a slow news day, Rush says "Clinton lost a lot of weight when he was out of Office....I guess its hard to be a cannibal when you don't have the Secret service to cover for you"
One-year contracts are not exactly a big vote of confidence for "Air America" (a REALLY backward choice of title given that CIA black ops have traditionally been handled through Air America and the AID). I'll bet Janeane only got a year deal as well. Her show title is a lie too: "The Majority Report." Uh-huh. She's the one who predicted 500,000 dead in the Iraq action.
The liberals, in case you didn't recognize the phenomenon all these years, are all those media writers and reporters who generally hate the "establishment" and are usually criticizing whatever the U.S. is doing at home or abroad -- especially the military. They are the ones who are never happy with the state of things and are constantly in need of world-changing "reforms" about this or that in order to find happiness. They don't like a strong, firm foreign policy about anything, nor any retribution for sins against U.S. citizens or allies -- Kerry is perfect for 'em, because he wants to talk rather than act, and cuddle with the U.N. and "our European friends" rather than be respected sufficiently to discourage would-be attackers.
As I've said before, every time the U.S. looks anything but strong globally, somebody in the world tries to pull something -- because they assume we're weak (and decadent). Liberal writers in the media thought Reagan was nutty for his Star Wars plans and his "tear-down-the-wall" speech -- until the Soviet Union fell apart, a lot of little countries got their independence back, and the wall came down in Berlin. Even John Kennedy would have been impressed with THAT.
I don't think the American people want to hear Air America make fun of America all day long. I don't think they want to hear people on a soapbox disrespecting what we do in the world. I think they'll take it personally, and come to regard it as the equivalent of protests and flag burning. I think the liberals will irritate and bore people. I doubt these people will have the sense to do the one smart, entertaining thing they could do -- which is make fun of themselves and their own radicals' excesses. Heck, they'll probably give PETA a show.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
quote:I don't know where you all get this "liberal media" crap from
From the media it self! [:D] Funny how it goes around- I am a Rep. Just taking obersavation that the Liberal Dem.'s got there own radio shows now on prime time in major anti-gun citys. nothing more-[:)]
Nothing implied or suggested ok a little. [:D] this has been in the works for a few months, the radio show that is.
I just did not think they could pull it off.
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NSDQ!
"Tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow, We gave our today." -- The Kohima Epitaph
Rebel_James take a second Look at the target stations (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco) all coinside with the toughest
gun control. (Not sure about Chicago)
Chicago's is pretty tough.
There were actually 2 other markets broadcasting, here (Minneapolis) and Portland, OR. It's also heard on some satellite radio station, and is streamed on the internet.
http://www.airamericaradio.com
"Go to the Lakedaemonians, stranger passing by;
And say that in obedience to their laws, here we lie"
Anyway it's just another piece of junk on the airways I won't be tuned in to. My pal Rush should be grinning from ear to ear. Now he really has target rich enviornment.
Jgreen, are you a liberal?
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
Am I a "liberal"? Well, the problem is that on certain things, I am liberal, and other issues, I'm conservative.
Am I a "liberal"? Well, the problem is that on certain things, I am liberal, and other issues, I'm conservative.
Good. To me, this says that you can think for yourself. You aren't either a "ditto-head" or a Marxist.
"Go to the Lakedaemonians, stranger passing by;
And say that in obedience to their laws, here we lie"
BTW, that means I also don't have to listen as well![:p]
"the difference between the almost right word and the right word is like the difference between a lightning bug and a lightning bolt" - Mark Twain.
Elefteria y Thanatos - Code of Crete
Hmmm, let's start with the networks news media, like Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, and Dan Rather. Then go to Cable, with CNN. Then to the print media, such as the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and others. Then look at polls taken that showed in the 1996 presidential election, 88% of the Washington news media voted for Bill Clinton, who only got 49% of the popular vote by the rest of the country that year. You want more? When was the last time you saw an NRA ad on network TV? Haha, trick question. The major TV networks won't run ads by the NRA.
It's these, and many more examples, that create the term liberal news media.
With some, Clinton is a sacred cow and you must tread lightly. I do argee with you regarding the liberal media. They have a way of lying and hiding facts while making it convincing. Clinton and his bunch got by with murder thanks to the liberal media.
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
pusilanimous.
Nick, keep it to 3 or 4 syllables, please. [;)]
Jgreen, ???????????
California Citizen,
"2nd Class"
California Citizen,
"2nd Class"
mag44pistol
If you like my first shot? wait until you see my next!
Jennings flaunted his ignorance of guns on the show by attempting to demonstrate the scary "click-clatch" sound of a Rem 870 -- that he obviously had already cocked. He struggled with the pump action for a bit -- it wouldn't budge -- and then gave up. It was a live show, I think, and he was stuck looking foolish.
If you write letters to the editors of media like the New York Times or any of the other liberal "organs" mentioned, and have the luck to be published, your little letter will be competing for attention with large editorials by the Times' own editors -- which uniformly reflect a liberal bias on any and every subject.
Even if you live in a community with a Republican majority, you often will find journalists being hired who, regardless of their intentions, are well-versed in liberal thinking and ignorant about Republican points of view -- a situation which inevitably colors their reporting. I stopped taking the morning paper here in conservative Fort Wayne years ago because I got tired of being insulted every day by Democrats. Their headlines, their editorials, the stories they chose to cover and the emphasis placed on them added up to liberal bias, shot through the fabric of the paper, that was as unpleasant as a bad case of mildew. Luckily, here we have an evening paper which is normally Republican in perspective. But recently they considered publishing the names and addresses of every gun permit holder on their web site. Fortunately, they came to their senses after being deluged with letters and e-mails denouncing them for it.
It is a minority of communities that has Republican media to offset the bias of their liberal business-as-usual journalists' output. And that is the main problem -- the majority of journalists, for whatever reason, have a liberal bias that can't help but affect their choice of subject matter and their writing about things. The reason why the rise of conservative talk shows has been such a big story is BECAUSE liberal bias in media has been a well known fact for decades. That's the story, based on the data. Liberal media bias in this country has not been considered a matter of opinion, even in the media. The success of conservative radio talk is a phenomenon, and a news story.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."