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Does Janeane Garofalo support the Iraqi resistance?
This is pretty shocking, but as there's no transcript available, I don't at this point know whether G-Lo has gone over to the enemy side or not. In any case, Anthony Lappe, Executive Editor of the Guerrilla News Network reports:I just got off the air on my friend Terrance McNally's excellent show on KPFK in Los Angeles. Also on was Code Pink's Jodie Evans [CP is Susan Medea Benjamin's group, and G-Lo has protested with CP in the past -- BA]. She just got back from Istanbul where she was attending the World Tribunal on Iraq, where Iraqis and others testified about American war crimes.Is America's cute-but-troubled sweetheart now supporting - directly or indirectly - those in Iraq who are killing other Iraqis as well as American troops? Perhaps someone who heard the interview can weigh in. I don't know when this guy appeared on G-Lo's show, but last week was June 20 to June 24.
Evans... said that we need to know it's OK to say we are with the Iraqi resistance, by which she meant a broad range of social forces in Iraq, including anti-occupation politicians, writers and activists. It wasn't clear how much she was saying she supported the insurgency itself, or merely supported their "right" to resist, but her overall message was clear: We need to be able to say we support the Iraqi resistance.
I agree. In principle. As Terrance pointed out, the UN Charter and all basic tenets of international law support a people's right to resist an invading and occupying army. As Janeane Garofalo and I talked about on Air America last week, it's a fairly simple thought experiment: It's 2030. The Chinese and Russians team up and invade the U.S. after manufacturing a non-existant threat. Would you be a collaborator or would you fight back, Red Dawn style?
Posted in Janeane at 10:40 AM | Comments (0)
Did Janeane Garofalo have a facelift?
If River Selkie swears to it, it must be true. Over to this 29-year-old desert dweller who I've never heard of before:
by the way, i swear that janeane has had a face-lift. did anyone else see 'nadine in dateland' on the oxygen channel? she looks so different. she WAS so different. the movie wasn't so good, but as a fan i always watch her movies anyway and mostly they are good...
Anyone else want to comment on the possibility that Janeane has had a facelift? Recall that she previously admitted having had a diminishment of her cleavage area.
Posted in Janeane at 10:33 AM | Comments (0)
Al Franken gives a big thumbs up to the world
The above picture is Al Franken after receiving the World Achievement Award For Breakthrough Radio from the New York Festival.
Details here, which says, "Franken reportedly received a huge response from the international audience."
As you can see above, Al returned the favor by giving the world a gesture that most non-Americans will interpret as "up yours."
Posted in StuartSmalley at 02:57 PM | Comments (1)
Gift baskets for the poor
Today's Al Franken Show was a repeat, but it was interesting nonetheless. One of their guests was Cork's Maggie O'Leary, who's started a site called gift-baskets-for-the-poor-of-the-world.com. She appeared on the show together with socialite and socialist publisher Bettina von der Hoovel to promote her plan.
Maggie discussed how much of the poverty in the world is due to low self-esteem and depression, and how her organization is working to combat that. Apparently many of the world's poor think no one in the first world cares about them. After complimenting her on her British accent, Franken disclosed how O'Leary intends to help poverty-stricken nations lift their spirits: distributing small gift baskets in poor neighborhoods throughout Africa.
Each tiny gift basket will contain items such as a walnut, a dried apricot, and a small bottle of grape juice. And, each basket will also contain a world map, so the recipient will feel part of a greater whole.
The only fly in the ointment is that reciprocal agreements mandate that gift baskets contain 70% American walnuts and apricots, and those could not be purchased from, for instance, a Chinese cooperative farm and work center. O'Leary - together with Franken and von der Hoovel - are working to get these restrictions lifted.
While I "dis" Air America Radio frequently on this site, it was good to hear liberals returning to their original mandate of caring for the world's most vulnerable people, and I only wish they would do more of it.
Posted in Satire at 12:45 PM | Comments (0)
Al Franken gets a big wet one from Al Guardian
Al-Guardian offers us "The truth about lies", all about Al Franken and Air America.It's a pretty standard fawning piece, quite similar to all the other fawning pieces that have appeared in U.S. papers. It mentions Franken wins "World Achievement Award for Breakthrough Radio", AAR's opposition to the Fairness Doctrine being revoked, his outsourcing of his recent book to Harvard grad students, and on and on. If anything, I'm bummed out about this article because this guy basically wrote what I would have written about it.
The al-Guardian piece includes this Franken quote:
"These people [the VRWC] need to be subjected to scorn and ridicule. Someone has got to be willing to get down in the weeds and fight them."Then, it ends with:
He reveals his next book is called The Truth (with jokes). "It's not about the media this time. It's about whatsisname? George Bush."Bring it on, talkboy.
From bloggers to pundits, his enemies are no doubt poised to respond. And when they do, Franken will be down in the weeds, waiting for them.
Posted in StuartSmalley at 11:36 AM | Comments (0)
WJMP Akron dumps Air America Radio?
Just two months ago, WJMP 1520 AM in Akron/Kent Ohio became an Air America affiliate.
On July 5th, they'll be dumping AAR and going to the Jim Rome/Fox Sports format.
Hey, just because it's 1000 Watt and daytime only doesn't mean they're dumb.
There's no official confirmation, and I can't find a site for WJMP (one directory I found said that the FCC lists AAR's homepage as WJMP's homepage...)
Recall that WARF (the Clear Channel "Pirate Radio" stunt) recently started a liberal format that doesn't have any AAR programming. ("Clear Channel's secret plan for Air America") So, will WARF now be free to pick up some of the AAR shows? Er, why?
Developing...
Posted in Meta at 06:46 PM | Comments (4)
Franken not liberal enough for Tom Hayden
The very fact that Tom Hayden has a political career is an embarassement to this nation, but I digress. The kind, Eurotrashy folks over at The Huffington Post have given him a soapbox, and he uses it to offer us "Al Franken, liberal hawk?"Is anyone else disappointed with Al Franken's daily defense of the continued war in Iraq? [What does he think this is, a Brentwood cocktail party? -- BA] Not Bush's version of the war, because that would undermine Air America's laudable purpose of rallying an anti-Bush audience. But, well, Kerry's version of the war, one that can be better managed and won, somehow with better body armor and fewer torture cells...UPDATE: I'm a bit surprised Huff is letting some of the comments through:
...Meanwhile, the majority of Iraqis, the people these humanitarian hawks seek to save, want the US to set a timetable for withdrawal...
Our government is the chief provocateur of the insurgency... Our government is ignoring Iraqi opinion...
Why can't Air America "liberals" support the Iraqi peace movement?
Wow! As a leader of the "New Left" anti-war miscreants, one of those most culpable and never held accountable for the deaths of well over 3M people in SE Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam, South China Sea) after the American withdrawal in 1975 has the audacity to proffer a judgement. What stones!
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Why is an otherwise worthwhile site giving this amnesic idealist a platform?
And how many times can Tom Hayden be on the wrong side of history?
Let's all clasp hands and join Tom in a chorus of... "Come on people now... Everybody get together... come and love one another right now!" Sing loudly everyone, lest you hear the screams of those cut down when we decide to retreat.
Tom pushed for "peace" at all costs in the '60s and '70s. The only problem is that this "peace" resulted in millions of innocents being slaughtered.
Have the killing fields of Cambodia really receded from everyone's memory? What's Tom's response to that atrocity? Did Pol Pot just need a big hug from Tom? Maybe a flower in his hair?
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Her's the deal, Tom. Franken and other Democrats don't share your passion for American defeat. Unlike you, they don't get off on it.
Posted in StuartSmalley at 07:47 AM | Comments (1)
Nadine in Date Land with Janeane Garofalo showing on Oxygen
America's cute-but-troubled sweetheart is in a new movie. No, it's not one of those things you see in theaters, in this case it's on the Oxygen Network. It certainly sounds like a wacky work of art:
LOS ANGELES, January 11, 2005 - What you can't do, teach! Enter Nadine - a 30-something, down-on-her-luck matchmaker who can't even seem to fix her own loveless love life. In Oxygen's newest romantic comedy, Nadine in Date Land, actress-comedienne Janeane Garofalo stars as Nadine, owner of a dating service that needs a professional revamping soon to prevent her business endeavor from closing its dating doors. The two-hour Oxygen original movie premieres Saturday, June 25 at 8pm/7C.
To get the inside scoop, we turned to Debby Beece, who's Oxygen President of Programming. According to her, "Janeane's brilliant talent and comedic timing makes Nadine irresistibly loveable... Our audience will find themselves cheering for the underdog every step of the way." Yes, I'm sure they will.
Two medium market newspapers are the only ones I've found so far that have given any recent attention to this oeuvre. And, strangely enough, they're both in the South. See "With 'saccharine' factor out, Garofalo happy in role" or the oddly similar "Janeane Garofalo jumps in front of the camera for TV movie, but radio is her main focus".
Posted in Janeane at 06:26 AM | Comments (0)
Air America Philly ratings: WHAT happened?
WHAT 1340 AM is Air America Radio's outlet in Philadelphia. This says they only broadcast Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, but I don't know if that's up to date. Philly is not as "liberal" a city as NYC, but it's certainly quite liberal, so one might expect local lefties to tune in in droves.
However, the latest preliminary Spring 2005 ratings were released yesterday, and the brotherly love appears to have run dry: the ratings for that station have been progressively getting worse, starting at a .8 in Summer '04, then a couple .7s, then a .6, and now a .5 in the latest period. The bright spot: there's one other Philly station with a .4.
I think I found WHAT AM 1340's homepage, but all it has is a link to their stream and the slogan: The "Voice" of the African American Community. That sounds like Al and Randi to me.
Posted in Meta at 09:50 AM | Comments (1)
O'Reilly: incarcerate the clowns at Air America Radio
Media Matters alerts us (Soros-funded) to this alleged transcript of Bill O'Reilly's June 20th radio show:Oh. No. Please, please don't do that. No.O'REILLY: And when he [Durbin] went out there, his intent was to whip up the American public against the Bush detainee policy. That's what his intent was. His intent wasn't to undermine the war effort, because he never even thought about it. He never even thought about it. But by not thinking about it, he made an egregious mistake because you must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9-11, is a traitor.
Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't care less.
Posted in Meta at 09:00 PM | Comments (3)
Janeane Garofalo poker sitcom not picked up
In sad but essentially meaningless news, Janeane Garofalo's sitcom about professional poker player Annie Duke was not picked up, the North Jersey Media Group eventually reports. This previous post says that it had been picked up, but that statement might have been inserted by a Rovian disruptor.
In other completely non-essential news, the AP's "Six News Junkies Offer Ideas to CBS" reports on the vapid thoughts of 5 liberals and one liberaltarian, including Janeane who says:
"The most interesting and compelling thing [CBS News] could do is tell the truth. If they really spoke truth to power, and were actually watchdogs of government and industry, it would be fascinating. You say it wouldn't get ratings? How would we know?"
Let's repeat that last bit just to prolong the laughter:
"You say it wouldn't get ratings? How would we know?"
Posted in Janeane at 12:24 PM | Comments (0)
Bisexual crab named after Jerry Springer
Watermen in the Chesapeake Bay recently caught a very rare crab that's part male, part female. They decided to name it after Jerry Springer.
The cover story is provided by the WaPo:
The watermen thought it was strange enough to be on "The Jerry Springer Show."
Uh huh.
Say, did you know that Springer (a multimillionaire who calls himself "The Voice of the Middle Class") has a site just for his radio show? Feel free to go pay him a visit, he needs the traffic.
Posted in PureClass at 05:57 AM | Comments (0)
AAR Phoenix 1010 KXXT: Randi, religion, and more
Randi Rhodes recently visited the Air America Radio outlet in Phoenix, 1010 AM KXXT. Oddly enough, I have not yet been able to find pictures, reports, gossip, or scandalous assertations concerning her visit. An email she sent to her fans describes her arrival in America's Kiln.
We do, however, have a report from the Arizona Republic entitled "Liberal radio voices being heard". If you find anything in that report that offers anything you didn't already know, please alert the citizen media. Of course, it's the Arizona Republic, so you wouldn't expect them to ask Randi any tough questions concerning, for just two examples, the Christmas tree incident or whether she's heard from the Secret Service lately.
In non-Randi, Phoenix news, we're alerted that local host Mike Newcomb enjoys playing a fun game entitled, "Name That Holy Book". Oh boy, that must be funny, right up there with "Republicans: Evil or really Evil?"
Previously: "Al Franken meets Bryan Buchan in Phoenix" and "KXXT's recipe for Air America success". Newcomb is part of their plan for "success."
UPDATE: The Radio Equalizer takes apart the claims made in the AZ Republic article. He takes AAR much too seriously. Plus, Mike Malloy is endlessly entertaining, Randi is entertaining, and Janeane used to be cute. They're a joke, and I'm enjoying every minute. On the other hand, the MSM bias towards AAR is not a joke.
Posted in RandiRhodes at 12:37 PM | Comments (1)
Stephanie Miller (KTLK AM 1150) goes to Asheville
Stephanie Miller - heard on some of the same stations as Air America Radio - visited Asheville, NC last week. A blurb announcing the visit is here.
I visited Asheville nigh on two years ago: "A Lonewacko in the Land of the Goddesses". It's not such a bad little town, but after about 36 hours there I was feeling extremely boxed-in and I decided to keep driving west.
Posted in AlsoRans at 07:51 AM | Comments (0)
Stuart Saves the Senate
David Carr of the New York Times boards a plane to Minnesota and gives Al Franken and Air America some long-overdue MSM attention ("Comedian for Senator? Don't Laugh"). Don't worry, Dave, I'm not.
This is indeed a welcome change from their usual corporate coverage. It's been, what, 12 hours since the last report on the network's valiant attempts to tell the truth, right? Carr discusses Minnesota Nice, their peculiar habits and customs, and the rather curious contrast Franken presents thereto. Also covered is the possibility that Al might run for Senate. He also reveals that Al seems to have an "act"; the speech he gave there seems similar to the one he reportedly gave at the Talkers convention, including breaking down sobbing.
See also this for a cheap shot Franken directed at Coleman in his speech.
The NYT
...Unless defamation counts, Franken has absolutely no qualifications to serve in any public office. He is simply a man who makes money hurting people. He is also a person who may be having emotional problems.
At a radio conference last Friday, Franken apparently melted down during a bizarre performance where he cried and embarrassed the organizers of the event, but you didn't see that reported in the New York Times or any other left-wing newspaper. [In their report, the NYT gave it one somewhat misleading sentence, but that might have been added later -- LW]...
[NYT editor Bill] Keller is also allowing the Times to promote Air America, the left-wing radio network. So far that paper has done an astounding 24 stories on Air America which loses millions of dollars and actually has to pay some of its own stations to put it on the air. The only reason the network even exists is because a few loony millionaires finance it. The national ratings are terrible. [Note that 24 stories works out to over 1.5 per month -- LW]
In Washington D.C., for example, Air America's audience is too small to be counted. In L.A. pretty much the same thing. But the New York Times continues to promote that disaster while ignoring the success of Limbaugh, Hannity and others...
Posted in StuartSmalley at 05:57 AM | Comments (0)
Stuart Smalley, Talkers Magazine, Part 2
The reviews of Al Franken's appearance at the Talkers Magazine awards show continue to roll in.
Les Kinsolving offers "The Frankenstinian filibuster". He describes Stuart's speech as "one of the most inexcusable displays of tasteless ingratitude in U.S. talk-radio history."
And, the loony libs at News Hound offer "Bill O'Reilly Attacks Al Franken and Howard Kurtz", which reports O'Reilly having said this:
Time now for the most ridiculous item of the day. Our pal Stuart Smalley apparently had a meltdown at a radio function in New York City over the weekend. Smalley had to be scolded by the event's host and at one point actually broke down in tears. Now, this is not our concern except to tell you that the Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz was at the event, witnessed the meltdown and did not mention it in his article today. Failing to report things of this nature is, of course, and example of BIAS! Well, we called Mr. Kurtz who denied any bias. You make the call...I noticed that too when I posted about the Howie Kurtz article, but I forgot to mention it. Thanks to #6 for reminding me.
UPDATE: Las Vegas talker Alan Stock had a confrontation with Senator Smalley at the event:
Stock said he approached Franken on the dais after the gala event speech and congratulated him but added some choice comments. "I put my face up close to his and said, `You were rude and you should be ashamed of yourself.'"I don't exactly how to interpret the rest since Franken's demeanor at the end is not described, so feel free to make up your own story.
Franken, who had been asked to wrap up his lengthy speech, dismissed Stock's lecture by saying, "What about Iraq? Did you serve?"
Posted in StuartSmalley at 07:05 AM | Comments (0)
Stephanie Miller: as salty as a sailor
Howie Kurtz gave Stephanie Miller (heard locally on KTLK 1150 AM) over a page in his WaPo column:...As recently as 2000, Miller hosted a popular show on L.A.'s KABC but had trouble getting syndicated, and then, she says, "I was fired for being too liberal." (She also says the station didn't like the "racy content" of her show, where she sometimes referred to male callers as "love puppet" and "stud monkey.") There was, she concluded, no place for liberals in a talk radio world dominated by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity...Because Miller is a "liberal", she can get away with such sexist, anti-male language. Read the rest to see what she thinks Bush could get away with.
Hannity, who once gave her a well-publicized hug, says he's never heard her show. "I've never seen any medium get more attention than liberal talk radio with absolutely no benefit," he says. "There's been more written about liberal talk radio than I've had in my entire career, and I began in 1987."
Posted in AlsoRans at 07:54 AM | Comments (0)
Franken wins "World Achievement Award for Breakthrough Radio"
It doesn't appear to be a scam like those Who's Who books that you need to spend money to get printed in, but I get the feeling the New York Festival awards aren't exactly something Franken is going to put at the top of his bio.
From their press release:
The special award will be selectively and only periodically given to one radio on-air talent who has significantly made a great political or cultural impact in his country and/or throughout the world. Franken will be given the World Achievement Award at a special tribute at the 23rd annual International Radio Programming and Promotions Awards show at New York City's China Club on Monday, June 27 at 8:00 p.m...
Here's the complete schedule:
8:00 pm: awards start
8:59 pm: Franken's complete worldwide cultural and political impact enumerated in detail
9:00 pm: Al receives award
10:00 pm: first intermission in Al's acceptance speech
11:00 pm: second intermission in Al's acceptance speech
12:00 am: janitorial staff arrives, begins cleaning room
1:00 am: Al finishes speech
Posted in StuartSmalley at 05:46 PM | Comments (0)
Big Ed is not a VRWC plant
Four days ago we posted "Former Clear Channel CEO buys Schultz show", and the news is finally filtering down to other sites, including DUmmieville. In fact, they've really gone off the deep end with their latest anti-Schultz screed "Is Ed Shultz a plant/spy/sabateur?" That thread appears to have been initiated by the Raw Story article "Radio vets purchase Ed Schultz; Liberal talk gains business cred", which includes the following from Ed:
"I understand this is going to raise red flags for progressives, especially those out there on the blogosphere that have been comfortable taking shots at me from the very beginning... First they said I was owned and paid for by the Democratic Party, now they're going to say I'm owned and paid for by people who are obviously Republicans... The conspiracy nuts can have their way with this, but what they really need to know is this is still going to be just me, my two Fargo-based producers, my wife and I developing the content for the show every day... Hell, I don't use talking points. You just get my take on what’s happening in the news..."
Sounds reasonable to me, but not so to those on the DU thread. While some of the DUmmies are reasonable, Comrade Zinfandel (1000+ posts) chimes in with: "Schultz is the perfect moderate pig for what the republicans want to accomplish...crippling and getting rid of liberal, progressive radio!" And, Festivito (1000+ posts) even thinks he might be a Project Mockingbird operative!
For the last time, Big Ed might not be as far left as Chairman Mao, but he's definitely on the left side of things and he is not a plant or a member of the VRWC.
Posted in Ed Schultz at 03:11 PM | Comments (1)
Maddow to hold own on Tucker Carlson MSNBC show
As previously reported, Rachel Maddow of Air America Radio will be a regular guest on Tucker Carlson's new MSNBC show "The Situation".
This just in: Tucker has just stated:
...she's not a fake liberal. She's not a straw man. She's real. She's not there as a punching bag for me. She does more than hold her own...
The rest of the article includes charming news from the Soros-funded front, as David Brock of Media Matters lambastes Carlson for just having one liberal instead of a whole crew of them.
Posted in AlsoRans at 08:34 AM | Comments (0)
Talkers Magazine to Al Franken: get off the stage!
On Friday, Al Franken of Air America Radio appeared at a Talkers Magazine event where he received the Freedom of Speech Award. Now, #17 is informing us that the N.Y. Post (O. of P. #4) will be reporting on Monday that Al went a little over his limit.During his acceptance speech, Franken reportedly spent a half an hour ranting about Rush Limbaugh, the war in Iraq, Hannity and Colmes, and so forth. "Al, enough already" came the warning from Talkers publisher Michael Harrison. "It's freedom of speech," Stuart replied. Apparently the speech was to only be 10 minutes. After receiving the warnings Franken replied, "I'm talking about the war in Iraq and I have two pages left... Everyone who wants to leave can leave". Whereupon people started leaving. This was in front of hundreds of talk show hosts and other radio professionals. "Don't leave!" Smalley's fans shouted. "We honored you, now honor us. Please step down," Harrison said.
Eventually Franken passed out or left or something. I'll link to the NY Post's report when it's available.
Oddly enough, this type of behavior appears to be commonplace for AAR's boringest host: "Al Franken's Anger" reports an event from four months ago that sounds similar in its component parts to this event.
BREAKING - MUST NOT CREDIT BOREAMERICA
UPDATE: Team VRWC Coverage -- Breaking hard -- Drudge reports here.
AIR AMERICA's Al Franken became "The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave" after receiving an award at a talk-radio convention in New York over the weekend.And, WDUN talk show host Martha Zoller reports on the event here:
NY POST's John Mainelli reports Monday: The liberal talk-show host was finally forced off the stage -- amidst shouts from supporters and detractors -- after an acceptance speech became a nearly half-hour rant against Bill O'Reilly and the Iraq war...
...Al Franken had gone a bit long and was getting a bit mean and was losing the crowd. Jokes about Bill O'Reilly started out funny and then there were too many of them. Jokes about Rush Limbaugh's drug problem were just in bad taste. Then he started to bash one of the talk hosts from another city, reading a column he wrote about going to Iraq. He just violated the cardinal rule of radio, if you have to read, keep it "pithy." He was losing the crowd. Then he and Michael Harrison had what could only be described as a fight in front of the crowd. Then Al Franken closed with a very moving story about visiting Walter Reed Hospital and all of us were wondering what had just happened...And, O. of P. #7 reports in "Franken in Talkers Meltdown":
The liberal yakker launched into a 20-minute tirade against his conservative colleagues, taking shots at Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Bill Bennett, according to WWRL host Steve Malzberg, who witnessed the ugly outburst.
"It was the most bizarre thing I've seen in a long time," Malzberg told NewsMax. "Franken was as obnoxious and arrogant as could be."
After blasting the top talent in his industry, Franken took on the war in Iraq - dissecting a report on a visit to the troops by fellow talk host Rusty Humphries...
Posted in StuartSmalley at 08:02 PM | Comments (0)
Scariest Jerry Springer picture ever
If you look at this picture of Jerry Springer, you may in fact be scarred for life. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Posted in PureClass at 03:12 PM | Comments (0)
Has anyone heard of Rachel Maddow?
From Alternet comes "An Air American Girl", a profile of Tucker Carlson's new foil and host of Air America's 5am show, Rachel Maddow.A taste:
...Then, Maddow turns to her analysis... She's set it up. First she laid out the airline pension defaults, then she moved to the Republicans aims on Capital Hill. Now, she turns to the counter strategy. She holds up a finger, as if making a point in an argument with somebody standing in front of her, only there's no one there...It's 5am, of course there's no one there.
Posted in AlsoRans at 02:06 PM | Comments (0)
No one cares about Marc Maron
I predict of all the things I've linked to from here, this report of a live Morning Sedition broadcast will receive the lowest number of hits.The blogger in question got to ask a puffball question of Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, who is also running for Mayor. And, we learn this important news:
Marc Maron (who adopts stray cats from his yard in Astoria) told me he uses the same vet for his cats that I use for mine, The Astoria Veterinary Group. I heartily recommend them to any pet owner in Northern Queens.It's easy to think of celebrities as demigods, but as it turns out many of them have lives that are as boring as the rest of us. Next week: where Janeane Garofalo takes her dry cleaning.
Posted in AlsoRans at 12:56 PM | Comments (0)
More free press for Randi Rhodes, Air America
The Stranger, Seattle's free weekly, offers a rather blah article about Randi Rhodes and Air America in "Sound and Fury". The author's a big fan of Randi, but the article isn't exactly ground-breaking in its insights. The discussion of the article here offers a bit more.
Posted in RandiRhodes at 01:12 PM | Comments (0)
Who advertises on Air America Radio?
A listener compiled a list from WLIB here:
...Mobil 1 extended performance automobile oil; webconferencing with GoToMeeting... Phaser2 police radar disabler... Amdro ant blocker keeps ants out; Doctor's Nightguard helps you stop grinding your teeth; Fancy Feast gourmet cat food; [for the cat ladies --LW]... DemocraticMatch.com dating service...
Posted in Meta at 10:59 AM | Comments (0)
Rachel Maddow: regular on Tucker Carlson MSNBC show
BREAKING: The TV show 'The Situation with Tucker Carlson' launches on MSNBC on Monday. This just in: Rachel Maddow of Air America Radio will be a regular commentator on the show.
This is truly exciting news for the struggling network as one of their crew of unknowns and nobodies has finally made the big time. We at BoreAmerica.com wish Maddow the best, and are once again thankful that we don't get cable.
Posted in AlsoRans at 10:52 AM | Comments (0)
Former Clear Channel CEO buys Schultz show
Yesterday Democracy Radio sold "The Ed Schultz Show" to Randy Michaels, the former CEO of... Clear Channel Radio. DR says they're meant as an "incubator", and apparently Big Ed is now a fledgling. Details in "Michaels buys liberal radio talk show". Apparently it was Michaels that brought Rush Limbaugh to Clear Channel lo those many years ago.
Democracy Radio is a non-profit organization designed to spread peace, freedom, and truth throughout the land. Those on their board of advisors include Bill Press and David Brock of the Soros-funded Media Matters. There's more on them in "Hillary, Daschle Helped Bankroll Dem Radio Hosts".
Posted in Ed Schultz at 12:00 PM | Comments (1)
Mike Malloy gets introspective, mellow
Air America Radio's wackiest host, Mike Malloy, presented an award at some show or other in Atlanta tonight. The first hour of his show was a rebroadcast, but he came back live during the second hour.He described how he was listening to the rebroadcast of his show while driving in from the awards. Paraphrasing his mellow, introspective musings:
...the music started out good, then this screaming liberal came on... he kept saying 'son of a bitches'... I said that a lot... my wife told me I shouldn't say that so much... I sound very strident... I can only imagine what it must be like for people who are hearing the show for the first time...Then, almost in the next breath:
...what's wrong with all you Republican pigs who are old enough to have piglets who can go over and kill towel-heads?...Does Gov. Dr. Howard Dean M.D. need an assistant?
Posted in MikeWho at 11:11 PM | Comments (1)
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Posted in Ed Schultz at 08:26 PM | Comments (0)
Surreality Bites: Janeane Garofalo and 9/11
The site total911.info alerts us to this unconfirmed post from a Yahoo group:
For several weeks now, Janeane hasn't let a show go by without some criticism of the official 9/11 story. And she keeps getting more & more critical of it. She's discussed the CIA insider trading/Airline put options, she's discussed NORAD being ordered to stand down, she's discussed Bin Laden being CIA, she's discussed PsyOps and mind control, etc. She's had guests on from Guerilla News Network, who've been producing 9/11 skeptic material for years now. She's done everything but come out & shout: "9/11 was an inside job!" A couple weeks ago she said; "I think I'm turning into a conspiracy theorist". Then, a couple days ago she said: "Maybe the conspiracy theorists aren't crazy after all." She even promoted William Cooper's book "Behold a Pale Horse"!Sadly, America's cute-but-troubled sweetheart Janeane Garofalo continues her descent. But, on a wackily humorous note, the poster misspells her co-host's name as "Sam Cedar."
Posted in Janeane at 01:27 PM | Comments (0)
David Brock on Al Franken Show open thread
David Brock of the Soros-funded Media Matters will be on the Franken show on Air America today at 2pm Eastern. That's 11am Pacific and rW2 in Alternate Universe #91.
Consider this an open thread for that appearance or any other issue.
Posted in StuartSmalley at 07:28 AM | Comments (1)
Reclusive millionaire behind WCPT AM 850 (Air America Chicago)
A reclusive Chicago millionaire, Fred Eychaner, is the owner of Air America's "Chicago" outlet, WCPT AM 850. (It's actually 50 miles outside Chitown, but what the hey).
The Tribune has a profile here. Unlike other reclusive millionaires, he apparently doesn't save his urine in jars. However, he is described as extremely frugal, including driving a Ford Escort. That's despite his foundation having $141 million and him being in the top 20 of Democratic donors.
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Al Franken returns to cable's Fern Channel
The Sundance Network - apparently a "liberal" cable network for those who derive inspiration from polluting Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado with their presence or wishing that they could - is narrowcasting The Al Franken Show tonight. There will be a new episode each night this month. Apparently the episodes are shot a day ahead during his radio show, then the live tape is edited for highlights, then 59.5 minutes of filler, stuffing, and offal are added back in, thus creating a one hour show:...Outspoken guests, ranging from political insiders and media critics to unconventional authors and entertainers, join Franken and his on-air co-host Katherine Lanpher for a refreshing alternative to homogenized news ("Oy!"), political spin ("Oy!!") and the official line from Washington power centers ("Oy!!!").
Posted in StuartSmalley at 09:10 AM | Comments (2)
Eric Hogue: Christine Kraft better than Al Franken
Hogue is a host on Sacramento's KTKZ. He describes:I was just contacted by a writer by the name of Sasher Abramson; he is writing a 'special feature' on Christine Kraft and Air America for the Sacramento News and Review...
...He obviously had no idea who I was, and was writing a glowing 'puff piece' for Kraft and Air America...how much FREE advertising does it take for these 'Air America' folks to break the barrier?
...As far as the Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken comparison - I gave him an easy quote. Rush is the Boston Red Sox, and Franken is the Kinston Indians of the Instructional Leagues in the Carolina's...
Posted in StuartSmalley at 04:44 PM | Comments (1)
Al Franken for Senate: would he be worse than Norm Coleman?
Earlier I posted "Endorsement: Al Franken for Senator". That post was a joke. However, I recently noticed a year-old press release from Norm Coleman, and based on that I might actually consider supporting Stuart Al if he decides to run and make that an issue.
For the details, see "Would Al Franken be any worse than Norm Coleman?"
Posted in StuartSmalley at 03:02 PM | Comments (0)
Is Randi Rhodes "the Rush Limbaugh of the Lieberman set"?
Shockingly, that's what Chris Clarke said back in January:In the last week, I've heard her:As if that wasn't enough, back in April the same author posted "More on Randi Rhodes" (and I suppose you can read that title phonetically.)
1) shout down and interrupt and talk over people who call in if she thinks they're disagreeing with her (even if they're not);
2) slam illegal immigrants for depressing wages for "real Americans,"
...This person is no progressive. She's not even a liberal. She's the Rush Limbaugh of the Lieberman set. I'll be restricting my listening to Al and Janeane and, well, anyone else but Rhodes from now on. What a putz.
On the downside, Clarke:
...Co-founded Pacifica Radio environmental news show Terra Verde with Pratap Chatterjee... Joined staff of Earth Island Journal... Joined staff of verde.com in 2000. Set up largest environmental journalism news staff in world history... Writing published in periodicals such as Counterpunch, Revolutionary Worker, San Francisco Examiner, East Bay Monthly, East Bay Express, Jidaijin, New Internationalist...Of course, on the upside, someone who has been published in those fine journals gives his stamp of approval to Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo.
Posted in RandiRhodes at 12:15 PM | Comments (1)
Discovering the Air America network
All this time I've been linking to discoverthenetwork.com and I never knew they had a page all about Air America Radio. That page is out of date, but it includes some interesting things I didn't know, such as it being Lizz Winstead's idea to install training wheels on each show in the form of a co-host. Also:
...Air America Radio is a member of the so-called "Shadow Democratic Party," or "Shadow Party," which is a nationwide network of non-profit activist groups whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats.
Posted in Meta at 10:31 AM | Comments (0)
Al Franken ratings beating Caribbean Chat on WLIB
National Review recently published "The Drudgery Report", which falsely claimed that Air America was getting lower ratings during the Al Franken Show on NYC's WLIB than they had gotten back when that station broadcast Caribbean music and news.
Thankfully for truthseekers everywhere, Jaime Horn of Air America Radio was able to get a correction of this inaccuracy. As it turns out, Franken and Air America got 39,300 more listeners in Winter 2005 compared to Winter 2004, when WLIB was the previous format.
In other news, there are still about 8 million people in New York City, approximately 7.8 million of whom were not listening to AAR during Franken's show.
Posted in StuartSmalley at 04:47 PM | Comments (1)
Jerry Springer radio career questioned
If you go to Springer on the Radio you'll see the sitemeter icon, which looks somewhat like the icon at the end of the right navigation bar here. Clicking that, you'll see that Springer is currently getting an average of just 1004 visits per day to that site. Bear in mind that sitemeter appears to be located on each page of his site. Needless to say, that's an incredibly low amount of traffic for someone who is a household name and has his own radio show.
If you look at the referring sites, you'll see that he has backlinks from his other sites, from AAR's site, from station sites, etc. etc. However, what you'll not see is a lot of search engine traffic. This is despite his radio site showing up as #4 behind his other sites when you search for his name.
In fact, overture shows 35,000 searches for his name in April. However, just 200 were for 'jerry springer radio'.
I've previously joked about that site getting such low traffic because his audience only has access to the internet at public libraries and other facilities. However, that doesn't appear to be that far off. Very few people seem to be interested in his new career, and it doesn't look like his earlier audiences are transferring over to the new and thoughtful Jerry.
Posted in PureClass at 01:27 PM | Comments (0)
Political acumen of Janeane Garofalo criticized
Incredibly long-winded and pompous screenwriter Thomas McKelvey Cleaver (credits) apparently knew America's cute-but-troubled sweetheart back in the day, and he offers the following advice which I'm happy to pass along:...Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said about "The Majority Report." Janeane and Sam might be "knowledgeable amateurs", but the emphasis has to be on the second word. They're hip, they're ironic, and too often they're an embarassment to anyone who actually knows something about the subject at hand. This is particularly true with Janeane, who is making it more and more apparent that she never took a political science or history class in college.
...Janeane seems to have gotten interested in conspiracy theories, and she is more and more sounding (to me) like the left wing version of Art Bell (though she has yet to say that Richard Nixon was conspiring with space aliens). Her lack of educated background is starting to show, and I say that sadly, because she has the ability to attract the "non-expert" political junkies and get them involved, which is a good thing. But not when we feed them cheap baloney and tell them it's steak!
Janeane - in case you (or your researcher) read this, listen up: There has never ever been a successful conspiracy, because the more people who are involved, the greater the likelihood some moron is going to brag to someone about what they are doing. When I was writing cop shows, a very good cop I know said "we only catch the dumb ones, the ones who talk." For conspiracies of the level you are interested in to work, you are talking about several thousand people not talking. Sorry, it's not in human nature for that to happen...
Posted in Janeane at 11:51 AM | Comments (1)
Al Franken and "liberal" racism
I didn't hear this myself, but according to this site the following is a "joke" from Stuart ("IGEADISE") and sidekick Katherine Lanpher ("KL"). I've put this in double-paraphrased script form:KL: "Bob Woodward says that some guy might be a dark horse in the race for president in 2008."It's OK, he's a liberal!
IGEADISE: "JC Watts?"
KL: "No, guess again."
IGEADISE: "Hmmm... let's see... Woodward said the dark horse would be a 'guy', so that rules out Condoleezza Rice..."
Posted in StuartSmalley at 07:39 PM | Comments (0)
