Sheldon Drobny calls out all rich liberals

If I were a Hollywood billionaire, and I had had one of my PAs read Air America Radio founder Sheldon Drobny's latest column to me, I would immediately put him on the "watch list". As in, "make sure he never comes within 100 feet of me".

...[mentions his book "Road to Air America"]...

...[he met Clinton and Gore but they didn't cough up any dough]...

...So we had only our own money and some of our traditional investors to start up Air America Radio. We ultimately had to sell the company reluctantly in November, 2003 because we could not raise the 40-50 million dollars necessary to complete the funding. The buyers actually did get the network on the air but they also ran out of money. Perhaps the buyers thought that they could do better with some of the Hollywood mega-millionaires. Although they got a lot of promises, they also were unable to raise money from the progressive elites. We unfortunately realized that ego and power are not limited to the right wing.

In May of 2004, after the buyers defaulted on their commitments to us and other investors, Anita and I were called upon to help reorganize and save Air America Radio. We were the first ones to loan $500,000 to the company to pay for back salaries and health insurance...

...[claims that AAR reaches "almost 70% of the radio audience". Even Al Franken only claims 63%, and both figures are misleading and includes things like uninhabited areas. Hey, someone might be backpacking with a radio or something, so...]

[...includes long, unformatted excerpt from a friend's website...]

...Anita and I have been traveling throughout the country visiting the local affiliates of Air America Radio and have been received by literally thousands of appreciative people in our presentations. Almost everyone thanks us for having the courage to take a chance with almost all our resources to change the media direction of this country. And yet almost no one in Hollywood knows about who we are and what we have done that could have easily been done by the billionaires and millionaires in Hollywood who could have funded the project without making a dent in their life styles or fortunes. Instead they invested their tens of millions of dollars in lost campaigns to get on stage with the prominent Democratic candidates. A small fraction of those campaign contributions could have helped Air America Radio and other projects like Democracy Radio.

...[says he can only get on CSPAN, and calls out friend-of-Arianna Bill Maher for not having him on...]

My message to all the rich and powerful on the progressive side is to put your money where your mouth is even if it is not your idea or does not put you on stage with a prominent candidate. Anita and I will be glad to let you know how you can help with this David and Goliath battle to take back broadcast media... [provides his email address]

Posted in Sheldon Drobny at November 17, 2005 10:52 AM

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