Air America Losing NYC Flagship
Sure to leave a void in millardo's listening habits, Air America Radio
is slated to lose it's NYC flagship WLIB-AM in August. The network will
replace Air-America with local liberal programming.
What? You mean New Yorkers don't want to hear Al Franken and Randi Rhodes blather on about how evil Bush is day in and day out?
An Air America spokesman told the press that the network would continue on in NYC, but would not comment on "hypothetical speculation."
Uh-huh. Sound like someone doesn't really have a plan to me.
To say that Air America has some really low rating would be an understatement. Al Franken is the most prominent host on the network, and is rated #12 on AM radio. WWRC-AM in Washington, D.C. recorded only a fraction of a ratings point in the spring. (That's one fraction of one point, not an increase or decrease. That's the actual rating.) Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station in the summer quarter.
I'm sure it isn't their fault though. It isn't as if they have worse than the worst show on the radio. It's probably Rush Limbaugh's fault, or that maybe only right-wing zealots have radios. Perhaps there's some secret cabal that fixes AM radio, run by big oil...
I'm sure they'll come up with some reason.
What? You mean New Yorkers don't want to hear Al Franken and Randi Rhodes blather on about how evil Bush is day in and day out?
An Air America spokesman told the press that the network would continue on in NYC, but would not comment on "hypothetical speculation."
Uh-huh. Sound like someone doesn't really have a plan to me.
To say that Air America has some really low rating would be an understatement. Al Franken is the most prominent host on the network, and is rated #12 on AM radio. WWRC-AM in Washington, D.C. recorded only a fraction of a ratings point in the spring. (That's one fraction of one point, not an increase or decrease. That's the actual rating.) Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station in the summer quarter.
I'm sure it isn't their fault though. It isn't as if they have worse than the worst show on the radio. It's probably Rush Limbaugh's fault, or that maybe only right-wing zealots have radios. Perhaps there's some secret cabal that fixes AM radio, run by big oil...
I'm sure they'll come up with some reason.
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Comment by Elmers Brother— 2006/04/30 @ 12:41 PM — (Reply)
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AL FRANKEN IS CRACKING UP
By Michelle Malkin ยท October 25, 2005 01:25 AM
Watch this video (9MB/Quicktime):
The video skit blurs truth and fiction as a psychotic Al Franken kicks a man potraying a conservative reader in the groin, smashes a stool over his back, and grins as another man playing one of Franken's fans cracks a bottle over the conservative's head.
A few video stills (that's Franken on the right assuming the crane position):
"Ah, that feels great!" Franken gloats.
Al Franken, we know, is an angry, unstable man. He's got temper-control issues. Remember this and this and this? He didn't have to stretch much for his Amazon.com role. The skit, however, comes across not as self-effacing or satirical, but creepily, seriously cathartic.
There is absolutely nothing funny about the clip, though I suppose it is somewhat amusing to imagine Franken's obsequious team of overpaid Harvard libs crowded around the set telling their boss what a comic genius he is.
Franken is, of course, baiting us to be outraged. But what you should feel for this man is pathos. The guy needs professional help.
As Brian Maloney at The Radio Equalizer noted, Franken bombed on the Letterman Show last week as he attempted to deflect questions about Air America's finances (video at The Political Teen) and joked bizarrely about the execution of President Bush and top GOP officials. (Newsbusters has more.)
The real joke is that Franken's staged assault inadvertently exposes and underscores the truth about the Bush-deranged Left. Over the past few years, we've seen frightfully Franken-esque intolerance, violence, and hatred spread from the moonbat fringes to the liberal mainstream to the top echelons of the Democrat party.
I'll have much more on that next week. And Brian and I will have more on the sorry state of Air America (which Franken barely mentions in his new truth-telling book) soon.
In the meantime, kindly and politely send your anger management advice and referrals to Franken c/o Air America Radio.
Comment by A Conservative Realist— 2006/04/30 @ 06:12 PM — (Reply)
let's see he got in a fight with Michael Medved...he is IB's mentor why should anyone listen to this guy?
Comment by elmers brother— 2006/04/30 @ 06:19 PM — (Reply)
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