Mark Green: conservatives are "uneducable"
The brother of the guy who owns Air America Radio, Mark Green, appeared on the PBS show 'Digital Age' and said, among other no doubt wacky things:"We have to be entertaining and not just grim... [Rush Limbaugh's listeners are like] where a CEO or minister will order their flock to do something and when they're kind of top down authoritarian -- look at Bush.Are there people more closed-minded than "liberals"? Do I really need to provide examples? How many weeks would I have to spend sitting here typing in examples? I'm sorry, but AAR isn't worth that. But, for just one data point, consider Janeane Garofalo. She's not open-minded in the least: anyone who disagrees with her is, according to her, automatically a bad person.
...You saw how a super-majority of Fox listeners and conservative radio listeners believe there (are) still weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So they're uneducable.
Air America listeners... are liberal, meaning someone who's open-minded and don't just listen to our hosts."
An Open Plea to Air America Radio
Dear Air America Radio and Mark Green:
Please do something.
You may not know this, being the brother of the new owner and all, but Air America Radio and this site used to have a symbiotic relationship. Sure, it was a bit lopsided, seeing as AAR had maybe a hundred or so times as many listeners as I had visitors, but it was a bit of a healthy "partnership" nonetheless.
The way it worked was this: AAR or its hosts would do something. Then (in true reactionary fashion) I'd discuss it. Then, hundreds or even thousands of visitors would flood this site to read about your shenanigans. It actually worked out quite well.
The problem is you stopped doing things, leaving me to discuss former hosts like Al Franken or Janeane Garofalo.
Please bring back the magic! For instance, there's a list of Boys & Girls Clubs here if you wanted to arrange a "loan" or something. Perhaps you could put Mike Malloy and Ward Churchill in morning drive or something. Maybe decorate Randi Rhodes' office with Christmas trees. Look, you guys are creative, I know that. So, think up something.
Please.
Yours in Secular Progressivism,
/s/
BoreAmerica.com
Air America airbrushes 7 Days in America
Throughout their history, "liberals" have loved to airbrush things, whether in the Soviet Union or right here in the U.S. However, the image to Air America's "7 Days in America" involves a slightly different form of their stock technique:
Look, I like Arianna, and I not only think she's sexy I've tried to tell her that over at her site (those comments, surprisingly, weren't approved). But, let's not try to make her look like she's 22, OK? Of course, I strongly suspect that this image was altered for the benefit of Marc Green, aka "Pleather Face".
Mark Green: only states, not individuals, can own guns
The brother of the owner of Air America Radio offers "The Emperor Has No Guns":The boilerplate response to the Virginia shootings from pro-gun Republicans is, sorry about the loss but we all still have to recognize the Second Amendment right to own guns.You already know he's wrong, but now I'll explain exactly why he's wrong. I'm certainly no constitutional scholar, but I can read and there's an extremely strong possibility that he's misstating or misunderstanding Miller. See, for instance, the discussion here.
What right?
The only authoritative voice on this is the United States Supreme Court which, in United States v Miller in 1939, ruled that Congress can't constitutionally limit a state's right--not a person's right--to bear arms.
Yes, the Second Amendment says that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed," but that conclusion is explicitly limited to "a well regulated militia, necessary to the security of a free State."
And, from Wikipedia (tinyurl.com/ynkb7e ; disclaimers apply):
"It was upon this force that the States could rely for defense and securing of the laws, on a force that "comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense", who, "when called for service . . . were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time." The military use of shotguns with a barrel length less than 18 inches, in WW I and in prior US conflicts never entered the judicial record for this case."Note the supplied by themselves. While I'm sure some would like all property to belong to the state, that says that the members of the militia - "all males physically capable..." - should own their own guns.
President Mark Green email includes Al Franken begging for dollars
Welcome to the new Mark Green category, a special place to hold the entries related to the thoughts of President Mark, the brother of the guy who actually owns Air America (version 2.0a).
An email I just received from him offers "[c]ongratulations", and says "[i]t's been a great first week", with the news that "[c]overage of the new ownership and management here has been generous and serious." What exactly did he expect after the endless string of articles promoting his network in the past? Widespread condemnation?
Almost half of the email consists of a pitch from Al Franken, including demands that spammees visit his website, donate money to his campaign, and "buy me some lawn signs".
Now, I'm sure Franken paid some money for the ad space in some way or other, and I'm sure it will be on his campaign's finance disclosure filings, and I'm sure I'll get around to looking at them at some point in time, because I'm just as sure that no one from the MSM will.
