Sorry, but these people like Randi Rhoades and the guy from Fargo (can’t remember his name) try so hard to be Rush Limbaugh but it will never happen. I don’t want to hear negative, negative, negative. Even now they’re trashing Hillary. It’s fun to listen to (WHERE THE HELL HAVE THEY BEEN FOR TWENTY YEARS? HA?????) but it’s just that they can’t be positive for anything.

All of them, including this local joke in the early morning will soon have to find a real job, no doubt. They hate Bush, hate Bush, and did I say hate Bush? It’s pathetic. Goodbye Air America!!!!

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

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The demise of Air America can be largely attributed to one person: Danny Goldberg. It was Danny Goldberg who decided that Morning Sedition, the smartest and funniest radio program since the heyday of Bob and Ray, should be cancelled and replaced with Mark Riley interviewing musicians no one’s ever heard of and talking sports. It was Danny Goldberg who decided to replace Marty Kaplan’s So What Else Is News with a cavalcade of progressive utopians with no sense of humor. and it was Danny Goldberg who decided that replacing Rachel Maddow and Lizz Winstead with Jerry Springer was a swell idea.

It is a mark of how bad these decisions were that Springer’s show is now one of the better entrants.

Malloy may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but he is a radio veteran with a sizable audience. But with him gone, AAR has exactly three talents worth keeping: Sam Seder, Randi Rhodes, and Rachel Maddow.

I’m hoping that the management of Nova M Radio picks all three of them up once the fucklewits who are currently running AAR finish running it into the ground. I know that Nova M is in talks with Marc Maron. If they can somehow manage to put together the best of what AAR has offered since its inception, only without the awful management and scam artists, progressive, entertaining talk radio may yet thrive.

I note also Marc’s neat trick of trying to disown Mike_Malloy. No dice, he’s a liberal/Democrat through and through.

As for “Pap”, the money he’s owed is almost certainly due to his investment, and it’s listed in that section of the filing.

They also owe Mike_Piazza $300.

Garofolo was a self-indulgent embarassment, though her partner Sam Seder is well-informed, occasionally funny and makes an effective analog to right-wing radio hit-men. Ditto Randi Rhodes, though she’s even shriller, and since she eschews guests, can quickly grow wearisome. Springer was an affable waste of time. I find Rachel Maddow’s over-precise diction annoying but no more so than her knee-jerk political opinions (though she is intelligent).

All in all, despite its flaws, I’m glad the station’s around and listen to it fairly regularly.

I’ll miss it if it goes off the air.

Starting straight at the top instead of at the grassroots is not the way to go for progressives. Just ask Jim Hightower, whose show was pulled by Disney in 1995 despite big ratings and over 900,000 listeners in limited markets.

“[My critics] want me to immolate myself, and I sincerely believe that, for some of them, when they see bad news from Iraq, the reaction is simply ‘This will make Christopher Hitchens look bad!’ I’ve been trying to avoid such solipsism, but I’ve come to believe there are such people.”

Trying to avoid solipsism, but obviously failing.

If I’m right, for whatever reason, AAR didn’t appeal to the liberal or left demographic and was too predictable and partisan to attract listeners from the other camp.

Incidently, Hitchens was the “I.F. Stone Fellow” at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

I never knew the Board of Regents had such a wry sense of humor.

Air America is dead. Long live progressive media.