Re: AAR Public Relations Dept
> There are no allegations against Air America "as an entity"
> except in your imagination. That's a strawman served up by
> you to deflect from the serious nature of a situation where
> a radio network CEO is possibly committing fraud and using
> taxpayer money to fund his company.
Helen Keller can see the allegations all over the usual right wing suspects who are using their boxes of crayons to try and draw lines between what Evan Cohen is accused of doing (who hasn't been a part of AAR for more than a year) and the Air America Radio that exists today.
Nobody questions there is funny business here, and if I was Evan Cohen or these city people, I'd be lawyer shopping right now. But only the most laugh-out-loud reply can come from anyone who doesn't think there is an agenda out there to broadbrush AAR into this as well. We have blog remarks like "liberals are stealing from the poor," and "Al Franken's company is ripping off taxpayers." The Hardly Equalizer is accusing the media of coddling AAR as part of some nutty liberal media plot.
> If AAR wasn't involved they wouldn't be issuing press
> statements about it.
That's your own scarecrow straw man. I never said AAR wasn't involved - they are by name and history. My problem was with those who claimed they were being "investigated" by the DOI and have been "implicated." That turns out not to be the case.
> The man at the center of the
> investigation was head of AAR at the time of the alleged
> "loan" from taxpayers, and it was used to fund AAR. If you
> think that AAR is somehow absolved from criticism because
> the guy is no longer head of the company, you are blinded by
> ideology.
No, just common sense. It sounds more like AAR realized Cohen was a clown and jettisoned him as quickly as possible.
Apparently the right wing blogs who tout conservative, laissez-faire economic philosophy now have a new policy to hold current owners responsible for the bad acts of past owners. I won't be holding my breath for a renewed push of support for Elliot Spitzer, the SEC, FTC, and FCC.
In any event, today we find out that AAR management is going to clean up the mess Cohen left and repay any outstanding loan Cohen arranged with the club.
That sounds like the honorable thing to do.
> There are no allegations against Air America "as an entity"
> except in your imagination. That's a strawman served up by
> you to deflect from the serious nature of a situation where
> a radio network CEO is possibly committing fraud and using
> taxpayer money to fund his company.
Helen Keller can see the allegations all over the usual right wing suspects who are using their boxes of crayons to try and draw lines between what Evan Cohen is accused of doing (who hasn't been a part of AAR for more than a year) and the Air America Radio that exists today.
Nobody questions there is funny business here, and if I was Evan Cohen or these city people, I'd be lawyer shopping right now. But only the most laugh-out-loud reply can come from anyone who doesn't think there is an agenda out there to broadbrush AAR into this as well. We have blog remarks like "liberals are stealing from the poor," and "Al Franken's company is ripping off taxpayers." The Hardly Equalizer is accusing the media of coddling AAR as part of some nutty liberal media plot.
> If AAR wasn't involved they wouldn't be issuing press
> statements about it.
That's your own scarecrow straw man. I never said AAR wasn't involved - they are by name and history. My problem was with those who claimed they were being "investigated" by the DOI and have been "implicated." That turns out not to be the case.
> The man at the center of the
> investigation was head of AAR at the time of the alleged
> "loan" from taxpayers, and it was used to fund AAR. If you
> think that AAR is somehow absolved from criticism because
> the guy is no longer head of the company, you are blinded by
> ideology.
No, just common sense. It sounds more like AAR realized Cohen was a clown and jettisoned him as quickly as possible.
Apparently the right wing blogs who tout conservative, laissez-faire economic philosophy now have a new policy to hold current owners responsible for the bad acts of past owners. I won't be holding my breath for a renewed push of support for Elliot Spitzer, the SEC, FTC, and FCC.
In any event, today we find out that AAR management is going to clean up the mess Cohen left and repay any outstanding loan Cohen arranged with the club.
That sounds like the honorable thing to do.