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April 30, 2008
Former comedian and Air America Radio host and current Senate candidate Al Franken has paid $70,000 in back taxes that he owed to seventeen - count 'em, 17 - states across the U.S. It was all his accountant's doing! Of course, that accountant had been doing his taxes for 18 years and he couldn't be...
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Posted in StuartSmalley
at 02:10 AM
April 28, 2008
Quick: name an English political pundit. If you're like 99.99999999% of Americans, you drew a blank. Unfortunately, our friends across the pond are much keener, and thus the Telegraph UK has no trouble compiling the list of the Top 50 Most Influential U.S. Political Pundits (link). And, who's there at #50 but Air America Radio's...
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Posted in AlsoRans
at 01:33 PM
April 24, 2008
Good news for Al Franken: he's not sinking as fast as he could have or being trounced as much as he will be. A new Rasmussen telephone poll has Franken behind Senator Norm Coleman by only seven points. The margin of error is 4.5 points, but the same poll had Franken behind by just two...
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Posted in StuartSmalley
at 11:41 AM
Two nobodies are joining forces: Air America Radio's Rachel Maddow will now be turning over the first hour of her show to a simulcast with the MSNBC program Race for the White House hosted by David Gregory. I'm going to let a commenter on that post say it for me: Air America and MSNBC have...
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Posted in Meta
at 11:39 AM
April 21, 2008
Who knew that Randi Rhodes has her own Rapid Response Team designed to immediately smack down rumors and false statements about her? And, who knew that Rhoads herself was apparently the sole member of the RRT? No sooner had Dave Kopel, columnist for the Rocky Mountain News, offered "Regrettably, Rhodes returns to radio" (link), then...
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Posted in RandiRhodes
at 11:23 AM
April 12, 2008
Here's a video of Randi Rhodes explaining why she quit Air America Radio on the Larry King Live. She claims that the real reason she was suspended was because they wanted to re-negotiate her contract to add in the right to fire her at will. She claims they wouldn't allow her to come back on...
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Posted in RandiRhodes
at 01:48 PM
April 10, 2008
Randi Rhodes has either quit, walked away, or been fired from Air America Radio! (AAR is a "liberal" radio network, and Rhoads has been one of their key hosts throughout their turbulent four year history. The network continues broadcasting on some radio stations throughout the U.S.) She will supposedly be joining San Francisco's Green 960,...
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Posted in RandiRhodes
at 09:59 AM
April 09, 2008
America's hunkiest supporter of illegal activity, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, will apparently soon be doing a show on Air America Radio, sources say. It will reportedly air on Saturday afternoons, but I strongly suspect that it will only be aired on their Frisco affiliate KKGN Green 960, formerly known as KQKE The Quake. When...
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Posted in AlsoRans
at 09:42 PM
April 07, 2008
Sorry, Stuart! Minnesota's current and future Senator Norm Coleman raised $2 million in the first quarter and has $7 million in cash on hand. Al Franken raised $1.9 million in the last quarter of 2007, and hasn't yet released what he raised in Q1. And, he's only got $3.1 million in cash. In related news,...
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Posted in StuartSmalley
at 09:13 PM
April 05, 2008
[VINDICATORY UPDATE BELOW] Taking a break from getting tattoos and making cameo appearances in D movies, Janeane Garofalo called in to Air America yesterday to speak on the air with her former co-host Sam Seder, who was doing Randi Rhodes' show due to her suspension from the network. A partial transcript is here, and, for...
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Posted in Janeane
at 11:02 AM
April 03, 2008
[UPDATES BELOW] Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes is under attack by pro-Clintonian forces after calling Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro "whores". She even called Hillary a "big f*cking whore" and said that Ferraro turned out to be a "David Duke in drag". This was during some sort of "comedy" stand-up performace somewhere and not...
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Posted in RandiRhodes
at 10:10 AM
April 02, 2008
What is it about Democratic politicians and those linked to them, anyway? Has Howard Dean completely broken the intern system or something? I ask because in February, Tom Athans - the husband of Senator Debbie Stabenow (a Democrat) and also a co-founder of Democracy Radio and a former Air America Radio executive - was caught...
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Posted in Meta
at 11:10 AM
April 01, 2008
As previously discussed, the Police Departement of Bemidji, Minnesota is attempting to speak with former Air America host and Senate candidate Al Franken in regards to a string of liquor store robberies that have occurred in that community over the last two months. They've now upgraded his status to a "person of interest", and have...
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Posted in StuartSmalley
at 03:26 PM
Our sources inside Air America Radio are reporting shocking news: Air America Radio will soon exit the over-the-air radio business and become a web-only presence. They'll concentrate on streaming audio, video, and text posts, as the Young Turks did just a couple of months ago. Additional income will be obtained through merchandising (such as tote...
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at 03:08 PM
