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Air America scandal brewing

> http://www.nysun.com/article/17846
>
> It's so interesting how the mainstream media (i.e. liberal)
> won't touch this story.
> Can you imagine if Rush Limbaugh were accused of this??
>
Gee....can you spell O X Y C O N T I N.

Air America must be making progress if the right wing nuts are going after it again.
 
Not really!!
This is a case of elite liberals stealing from poor inner city children and being caught. Who can blame conservatives for delighting in this story.


> Air America must be making progress if the right wing nuts
> are going after it again.
>
 
How come we never hear about left wing nuts? How come (thank you Bernie
Goldberg) the media refers to a conservative as a "right-winger" but you
never hear "left-wing Senator Ted Kennedy"?

And if the ratings are any indication, if Air America stations were a
baseball team they'd be 31 and a half games out of first by now. That's
progress? :)

> Air America must be making progress if the right wing nuts
> are going after it again.
>
 
> How come we never hear about left wing nuts? How come (thank
> you Bernie
> Goldberg) the media refers to a conservative as a
> "right-winger" but you
> never hear "left-wing Senator Ted Kennedy"?

They don't always.

And Dennis Kucinich, Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, and George Soros have been described as such in the past.

Bill Frist isn't always described as a "right-winger" or a "conservative." So Ted Kennedy isn't necessarily always going to be called "the left-wing Ted Kennedy."

The only thing that pisses me off more than the left's culture of "I'm a victim, too," is the *right*'s assurance that "we're bigger victims than ANYONE."
 
Where do you get a copy of the conservative playbook?
You spouted it correctly.
Remember, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

> How come we never hear about left wing nuts? How come (thank
> you Bernie
> Goldberg) the media refers to a conservative as a
> "right-winger" but you
> never hear "left-wing Senator Ted Kennedy"?
>
> And if the ratings are any indication, if Air America
> stations were a
> baseball team they'd be 31 and a half games out of first by
> now. That's
> progress? :)
>
> > Air America must be making progress if the right wing nuts
>
> > are going after it again.
> >
>
 
> > http://www.nysun.com/article/17846
> >
> > It's so interesting how the mainstream media (i.e.
> liberal)
> > won't touch this story.
> > Can you imagine if Rush Limbaugh were accused of this??
> >
> Gee....can you spell O X Y C O N T I N.
>
> Air America must be making progress if the right wing nuts
> are going after it again.
>
We could do a Rush druggie update with Jefferson Airplane one pill makes you smaller,another pill makes him scream like the hypocrite he is . God forbid he should take resposibility for his druggie activity He did say those who abuse drugs should be thrown in jail. Also,he never served in the military like many of his chicken hawk republican ilk. I guess they didn't have enough pain killers to treat his anal cyst. That cyst was his excuse to get out of military service.
 
> http://www.nysun.com/article/17846
> http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050802-092823-7702r.htm
> It's so interesting how the mainstream media (i.e. liberal)
> won't touch this story.
> Can you imagine if Rush Limbaugh were accused of this??
>

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

The New York Times did a whole article on the scandal some weeks ago, complete with quotes from Franken and others.

Also, regarding "The Mainstream Media (i.e. Liberal)". The how *** Air America, Pacifica, and other left-wing operations accuse the media of being in the right's pocket? Sounds like the mass media news outlets are probably pretty much down the middle if both Hannity AND Garofolo think the media is biased!

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by HHH on 08/04/05 08:57 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> How come we never hear about left wing nuts? How come (thank
> you Bernie
> Goldberg) the media refers to a conservative as a
> "right-winger" but you
> never hear "left-wing Senator Ted Kennedy"?

You obviously don't watch Hannity's TV show (I would consider this a mass-media show) who labels everyone left of Hitler "a Lib".

Also: Goldberg's book is a joke. His list of "People Who Are Screwing Up America" include Al Franken, Barbara Walters, and Courtney Love! Yup, those folks are sure responsible for a lot of this country's major troubles. Is this guy putting us on?

>
> And if the ratings are any indication, if Air America
> stations were a
> baseball team they'd be 31 and a half games out of first by
> now. That's
> progress? :)

Where? Maybe in Boston where they are on poor-signal, unknown stations, but in New York--where they are on a big city signal-- they are right up there 18-49 with WABC and WOR. They are on about 60 stations nationwide and I think--as a whole--are outperforming the Salem Network in total national listenership, even though Salem has O & O stations in many big cities.
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by HHH on 08/04/05 09:13 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> Not really!!
> This is a case of elite liberals stealing from poor inner
> city children and being caught. Who can blame conservatives
> for delighting in this story.
>
>
> > Air America must be making progress if the right wing nuts
>
> > are going after it again.
> >
>

This is a case of Evan Cohen who as a part of his many moral failures seemed to have taken money from this group. None of you on the right acknowledge that Cohen was the person causing the issue because you want the problem to be caused by the current management. The current management (in the best interest of the Gloria Wise organization) has decided to try to help out the issue but this was not their responsibility. Piquant, which is the current ownership, of Air American was created from the ashes of the Evan Cohen debacle, Progress Media. Cohen is the primary problem here and not the current AAR management. Its clear, you just want it to be a "liberals steal money from kids issue" and it just isn't. How do you use the term "elite liberals"? Is a rich conservative also elite as well? I would think that to be true. The really sad part is when conservatives cause scandal there are usually facts behind the scandal. The facts dont support this scandal so the right has to distort, muddy, and do whatever they can to make this a bigger issue. The AAR staff, in a post Kerry-swiftboat world, know that if they don't respond to this vile controversy the right is trying to create..they will be affected so they have responded as needed. If this was a real scandal, then why hasn't your conservative beacon on mistruth, the Washington Times, joined the effort to make this a story. All they wrote is a weak editorial...even Blankely and the losers at the Moonie owned times know this isn't a story thats going to have the legs Michelle Malkin and the Equalizer want it to be. It would really be nice if people on the right quit being sheeple and use common sense to understand a real issue.

Its not like the right actually cares about the Gloria Wise/Boys and Girls Club. Shouldn't you also want to know why a Boys and Girls club would allegedly give a loan to a person like Evan Cohen?....when do Boys and Girls clubs invest in private business ventures? Wouldn't one (who actually cared to understand this issue as it becomes clear) want to know why this transfer of money would take place?.I found that extremely odd but do not know why the person(s) at Gloria Wise would have the right or the ability to do this. Thats a real question to be answered. But you sheeple on the right don't care one fig about that. Theres an opportunity to further denigrate AAR as an alternative entity. This effort is merely to discourage people from listening to AAR by conflating it as some type of criminal organization which it is not....but the Brent Bozells and the Laura Ingrahams and of course Rush, Hannity, and the usual bunch of conservative parrots will do their best to poison AAR....

I just hope regular American who are not sheep to the vast right wing echo machine will take time to be informed for themselves, not to satisfy some sad former talk show hosts ax to grind.
 
> Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
>
> The New York Times did a whole article on the scandal some
> weeks ago, complete with quotes from Franken and others.
>

Simply not true.
 
> > Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
> >
> > The New York Times did a whole article on the scandal some
>
> > weeks ago, complete with quotes from Franken and others.
> >
>
> Simply not true.
>


I dug in, and found that the May New York Times article which quoted Franken....
("We had some bad management," Franken told the New York Times in late May.)...
was actually an overview piece about their shady original head Evan Cohen and how he was thrown out of the Air America origanization. So you are right.

However, regarding the current, specific Cohen accusation, US News & World Report, CNN and MSNBC covered the story, and naturally, Fox is all over it. Fox--in the report that I saw--didn't exactly make it clear that Cohen was thrown out a year ago, and O'Reilly on his radio show also seemed to give the impressiuon that the current management and talent were tied directly to the Cohen crap.

Franken and others at the network have trashed Cohen as a crook that they were happy to get rid of. Is the uncovering of yet another Cohen crooked move all that big a story, when his previous shady moves were well documented, and he has been out of the company for many months? Dunno. I would always like to see more coverage, tho.

BTW, many of the right-wing blogs have a chilling take on this. Not only are they "outraged" that such a thing would happen, but they are determined to (as one blogger said) "use this as an example to shut down left-wing talkradio for good". Other boggers are circulating concepts on how to get ANY left-wing talk show cancelled through harassment and letter-writing cooperatives. God, I don't think even Pacifica ever advocated trying to shut down all right-wing talk radio wholesale! Sheesh! What are they afraid of?

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by HHH on 08/05/05 02:33 AM.</FONT></P>
 
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