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August 31, 2005
Barbara Yost of the Arizona Republic gives a gigantic wet one to Air America Phoenix host and city council candidate Jarrett B. Maupin II in "Up & running". As previously discussed, The Reverend Al Sharpton, Jarrett B. Maupin II, and his father were allegedly speeding south of Dallas. JBM Senior was arrested. The article says...
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From 8/30 comes this Randi quote: "The president went golfing at the El Mirage Golf Course yesterday while the people were literally suffering... The president decided that the best use of his time would be to go golfing." Do I need to tell you that that was apparently false?...
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From this 8/30 entry here: In marked contrast to her testy interview yesterday with NPR's Neal Conan, Cindy Sheehan was warm and friendly during an appearance this afternoon on Randi Rhodes' program on Air America Radio. The two reminisced about Rhodes' visit to Camp Casey and their budding friendship. "Did you tell your listeners we're...
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August 30, 2005
"Accuracy in Media" wonders why the MSM has been largely mum on the doings at AAR: A scandal involving the liberal Air America radio network has been brewing right under the noses of the mainstream media, and they've barely taken notice. Perhaps they're afraid that their "Great Liberal Hope" on the air may be crashing...
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As previously speculated, the person arrested for evading police while driving Rev. Al Sharpton to DFW is the father of Air America Phoenix host Jarrett Maupin II. Maupin II is also a candidate for Phoenix City Council. While a white Ford Bronco was not involved in this alleged chase, the graphics accompanying this post...
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August 29, 2005
Reverend Jarrett B. Maupin II (aka "The Rev") hosts "Issues & Answers" on Phoenix's KXXT from 3-5pm on Sundays. Earlier today, someone identified as "Jarrett Barton Maupin, 43, of Phoenix" was arrested for evading police on a high speed chase. He was rushing another Reverend, Al Sharpton, to DFW after Sharpton's meeting with Cindy Sheehan....
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The Fortune Magazine article "Air America's Long, Odd Summer" discusses the scandal, and it contains many of the points that you're probably already familiar with: ...It was a bizarre story, but the new management's public response is proving to be even stranger. Following word of the investigations (Eliot Spitzer's state gumshoes have since joined in),...
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August 28, 2005
As previously discussed, Randi Rhodes made a very special surprise guest appearance on the Brad Show/Laura Flanders Show simulcast live from Camp Casey in Crawford TX. There's a picture of Randi and a couple of Laura here, which includes this heartwarming news: Rumor has it we'll hear from Rev. Al Sharpton, Randi Rhodes and perhaps...
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The post "Air America ratings still in the toilet" has a roundup of AAR's latest ratings fiascos, including these: In Washington, D.C., WWRC fell to a 0.3 rating and is in last place in the market. In Boston, the two AAR stations take up the last two spots in the ratings chart with ratings of...
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August 27, 2005
Bill O'Reilly on AAR: ...look, those are clowns! Those are jugglers! Those are bear-baiters. There are people in the Middle Ages who would be going town to town wearing two-toned hats with bells on them, with all due respect. They don't know anything. I mean, it's just insane. I mean, if you're listening to that...
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Who, you might ask, listens to Air America's Boulder CO outlet KKZN? Why, none other than "Nina Storey", pictured right. Nina is apparently a "Lilith"-style singer-songwriter and a typical resident of that fine, albeit "liberal" city. Another listener is this guy, who had his own brush with fame: Randi Rhodes had gone outside to...
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RawStory can now reveal: Laura Flanders of Air America Radio and Brad Friedman of Raw Story Radio's The BRAD SHOW have announced plans to simulcast their programs together this Saturday Night, Live from Crawford, TX. The BRAD SHOW has broadcast 26 hours of live, daily coverage of events at Camp Casey, including performances by Joan...
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August 26, 2005
The NY Sun reports that "[Air America Radio's] Former Chairman Is Missing": The former chairman of Air America Radio, Evan Montvel Cohen - who former colleagues said engineered transfers of more than $800,000 to the liberal radio network from a boys and girls club in the Bronx - is missing, according to a lawyer who...
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August 24, 2005
This worthless blurb on Janeane's appearances on the West Wing only tells you one thing you didn't know: her name on the show will be "Louise Thornton". It does, however, include a picture of America's used-to-be-cute but now-is-troubled sweetheart from an appearance at a MoveOn concert way back in 2004. Larger version here....
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August 22, 2005
According to Air America Radio founder Sheldon Drobny, both Al Gore and Bill "Bubba" Clinton got personally involved in helping raise funds to start AAR: "They helped us... How they helped us was to make introductions to a lot of good people... Especially Al Gore, who introduced me to Al Franken... [Franken] was my dream...
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August 19, 2005
What a strange, strange journey it's been. However, I figure it's about time to remove the scandal counter from the right sidebar....
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Remember back last year when "Radio Free America" sold its assets to the current owners of Air America, Piquant LLC? Multicultural Broadcasting - owners of AAR's original Chicago and L.A. stations - was involved and sued Piquant LLC. Our VRWC legal team* has reviewed the complaint, and comments: The complaint alleges that the directors and...
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August 18, 2005
The Progressive magazine has a ground-breaking, hard-hitting interview with Stuart Smalley. It includes this newsworthy question and answer: Q: How is Air America doing? In the beginning, the press was all about how it had gotten off to a rough start, but now it seems to be doing better. Franken: Yeah, we shot ourselves in...
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The New York Times ombudsman has ordered that the following completely voluntary confession be promulgated to the bourgeois reactionary forces: Readers of The Times were poorly served by the paper's slowness to cover official investigations into questionable financial transactions involving Air America, the liberal radio network. The Times's first article on the investigations finally appeared...
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August 17, 2005
Air America Radio is no doubt proud to announce their 70th affiliate, KTXX out of Karnes City, Texas. Where? Well, for a clue to that we turn to the station's title: "103.1, San Antone". Only problem: the station is 50 miles from that city, and is predicted to be in the "fringe" listening area for...
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America's formerly-cute-but-still-troubled sweetheart will be appearing in the episodes of the West Wing this coming season. She will be playing a media strategist. She will demand more steak, less sizzle: Her advice to move away from political gamesmanship and start speaking directly to voters ruffles feathers within the [Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits)] campaign, including those...
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The Executive editor of that newspaper released the following statementon August 9: Here's a brief response I've sent a couple of email correspondents who accuse The N&O of liberal bias for not publishing a story on financial questions they have heard about involving Air America, the national radio network heard in the Triangle on WCHL-AM...
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August 16, 2005
KTNF is Air America Minnesota, and Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman participated in their morning drive show from January until early July. Then, he apparently took a vacation, which soon turned into a "vacation". Now the truth can be told, via this email received from the pundit himself: I essentially quit AM950 * refusing...
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The struggling propagandists in New York City just can't buy a break. First it takes them two weeks to finally cover the Air America scandal, which generates this correction: A New York Times story on Page A9 Saturday misquoted comments made on the air by Al Franken, the host of an Air America radio program....
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August 14, 2005
On Saturday the AP released a stock blurb on the scandal. If you've been following this scandal and you've read, for instance, the NYT report there's nothing new. The official title, under which it appears in a few dozen papers, appears to be "N.Y. community center loan investigated". The story has 15 paragraphs and seven...
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August 11, 2005
That tired grey old liberal lady down the block finally gets around to the Air America scandal over two weeks after it first broke: The state attorney general's office and the city's Department of Investigation are looking into whether a boys and girls club serving poor children and ailing elderly people in the Bronx had...
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August 08, 2005
Is he a VRWC plant like some say over at DU? Or, is he now a committed liberal? Say something nice about the left's answer to Rush....
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August 07, 2005
Now, it's Mike Malloy's turn. Leave a comment pointing out something good about Air America's most energetic host....
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August 06, 2005
Surely it shouldn't be difficult to say something nice about Ms. Randi, right? One or more commentators have said some non-nice things about her, now it's time for the other side....
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August 05, 2005
Sure, negative comments about Stuart Smalley are as plentiful as stars in the sky. But, for a change of pace, I invite even his political foes to say something nice about him....
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August 04, 2005
Is the pro-illegal immigration rag known as the Arizona Republic part of the MSM? Well, no, even if they are a fairly well-known newspaper. But, the column from Doug MacEachern appears to be the first time something close to the MSM has touched this issue: "A scandal below the radar". After giving a rundown of...
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August 03, 2005
Previously we discussed the letters that Chattanooga TN's WDOD had received from angry listeners after it leaked out that they were considering switching from big band music to... Air America. WDOD's mainstay host is one Earl Fruedenberg, who joined the station when he left high school in 1965... From the last link came this quote:...
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August 02, 2005
As pointed out in comments, one of Air America's outlets seems to have gone missing. A few days ago their banner said they had 67 stations; today it says 66. A quick comparison of the current page with the cache shows the station that's been deleted: South Lake Tahoe, NV - KTHO-AM 590 AM. Probably...
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According to the NY Sun ("Franken Unaware Of Ex-Colleague's Alleged Loans"), here's what Al is claiming: - he doesn't know whether AAR got any money from Gloria Wise... - he only learned the details of this in the last week... - Piquant conducted a forensic accounting (a common term even if the NY Sun has...
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August 01, 2005
Display the AAR Scandal News Ticker on your site and get the latest news on the breaking scandal. See the ticker in action on the right side of this site's front page. You can participate and get your posts about this issue linked in that news box. Just ping this URL: http://boreamerica.com/wp/wp-trackback.php?p=5 Displaying this news...
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