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Air America is shutting down...

Posted: Jan 21, 2010

It's been a good week.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/21/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6126410.shtml

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Look into my eye - do you see a tear? - nope - none here

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Air America shutting down is like the National Enquirer shutting down. Glad to see them go. Guess people were not buying the bu!!sh!t they spewed.

Now if only a bunch more would go. Just keep the agencies that are going to tell us the news.

Good.. The HATE network died.nm - Good riddance.

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nm

Air America voices are all around you - sm

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Two former hosts mentioned in the article have moved on to prime time cable news and the US Senate/C-SPAN. Ron Reagan is a political pundit on MSNBC. Thom Hartmann's talk show is carried on 69 stations across the country and on Sirius and satellite radio. Robert Kennedy Jr. will never lose a forum for his political voice. Arianna Huffington is doing rather well for herself.

Then there is always Pacifica Radio whose 100 affiliates and 5 local broadcast stations are Clear-Channel proof and not likely to go bankrupt anytime soon. They are also immune from new threats to freedom of speech unleased on America out of the SCOTUS today, since they are listener sponsored, commercial free venues who continue to exceed fund-raising goals 4 times a year despite the bad economy and attempts by radical opponents who tried to bomb the station off the air TWICE at the location I receive my broadcasts from.

I enjoy my daily doses of folks like Amy Goodman (whose show airs on more than 800 stations and local access media outlets), Jeremy Scahill, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Kucinich, programs like the Progressive Forum, Alternative Radio, The New Capital, Thresholds, Connect the Dots, Arab Voices, etc.

I've been listening, contributing and fund raising for them for nearly 30 years and my son for 10 years, who will carry that torch for me after I'm gone. So no, there is no need for tears over Air America, because those voices aren't going anywhere except where they have always been...all around you.

I tried listening to Air America a few times, and it - was nothing but spewed hatred,

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so much so that it depressed me. I can see why it failed. If the others you listen to are similar, I will pass. J. Garofalo is a psycho, btw. She accuses about anyone who disagrees with Obama as being a racist. She just needs to quit bashing and get another tattoo or something. She and Al Franken should get married and move to a remote island somewhere.

Well we're not listening....."Change" is coming! - Its only just started! ... nm

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Apparently not but all that programming - sm

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and its 24/7 dissemination of information, articulation of well substantiated and comprehensive fact, reasoning, logic, resource referencing, organizing, coordinating and announcement of gatherings and events that promote topics of the mutual interests of their audience and carpet-bombing spreading of message will be out there drowning out trite slogan high-jacks and cliched battle cries found in drive-by digs on their way to nowhere.

To quote from another poster "na na na na - hey, hey, hey - - GOODBYE!!" - the week is getting better!

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ha ha

False bravdo from borrowed boasts. Impressive. - nm

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Poster here with lack of anything to say ...... - na na na na na!!

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xx

The OP was short, sweet, to the point and true. You call - na na na na na a message? Spare me.

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nm

And they blame it on the 'ECONOMY" LOL - thought it was all good! - NOT...nm

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my my - Fernci

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why the intense emotion? It is merely 1 in 17 quazillion media outlets. You begrudged its existence? Something about it that made you nurvous? Anyway, the talent has moved onto bigger and better things - Franken to public service, Ed Shultz and Rachel Maddow to their own national TV shows. Not a bad trajectory . . . quite the opposite of Rush's . . . DOWN from TV to radio. We all b happy.

Air America was full of hatred and negativity. Its not - the economy that killed it..killed itself.nm

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I suggest that conservatives - Fernci

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try real hard to understand the concept of change. Institutions come and go. Air America started when Bush was in office. Air America awoke many to the shambles of our country. Air America contributed directly to the ascent of President Obama. They did their work quickly and now are moving on to bigger and better. You may rejoice and imagine some sort of victory, but in actuality they accomplished their goal.

Uhh. sorry, but many of us are seeing that the change - brought by Obama, is NOT

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change we can believe in. Hopefully, he will go away like they did.

And that's why they claimed bankruptcy? - Backwards Typist

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They didn't "move on to bigger and better." They claimed bankruptcy. Period.

Make that a comma. - sm

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Fernci is right. Air America's mission was accomplished and the post above entitled AA voices are all around you illustrates the bigger and better quite well. Chalk this up to partisan difference over the concept of value. You would have us believe that dollar and cents and bottom lines are the only measures. Their audience knows that the value is not found within the shell of a broadcasting station closing its doors; rather in the messages they spread and the fact that those who passed through there have not disappeared at all...like the other post said, they are where they have always been.

Ding Ding! We have a winner! Good point, BT - mtt22

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Amazing how some can try to turn them failing into a positive, although I feel pretty darn positive about it. :)

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