AIR AMERICA, DEAD: “It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.” What a day for the Progressive Movement! Health care reform’s ~15 minutes from getting its plug pulled forever, the Supreme Court decided that corporations should be able to purchase politicians in the open market, and now… some radio station is dead. Should make for sunny open threads on Daily Kos. [Air America]
-
Authors
Kirsten Boyd Johnson (800)
Jim Newell (5429)
Wonkette Jr. (626)
Liz Colville (96)
Blair Burke (171)
Kaia Mursi (44)
Garrett Quinn (13)
Ken Layne (6695)
Matt Langer (40)
Arielle Fleisher (385)
{ 63 comments }
Oh boy. Now link to redstate to so we can all receive their sincere condolences.
So much for the ‘liberal media.’
Just don’t take away our medical marijuana, and everything will be fine.
Video held as suspect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laZw3Y3JCJ8
Jee-ZUS. Guess I shoulda bought that Montel t-shirt, after all. My bad, guys.
Since I live in “real America” where Air America never hit the airwaves, I signed up for XM early on. They and Air America parted ways soon after, but continued broadcasting some OK librul shows. Since they got eated by Sirius, not so much.
Meh.
America just got the Air knocked out of it. It’ll be OK in a few minutes.
great news for mccain!
Err America, however, is stronger than ever.
[re=499059]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Air go: We’re fucked.
Next you’ll tell me that Arugula is going to cause cancer and impotence.
It’s not all doom and gloom libruls.
D-Day: War’s over, man. The Supremes dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough…
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Libruls I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Robert’s, he’s a dead man! Corporate US America, dead! Red State…
Otter: Dead! Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
Bluto: We’re just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let’s do it.
Bluto: *Let’s do it*!
this may be OT, but who’s leg do you have to hump to make all those fucking pics of the naked senator erect, er, elect, go away? I’m ok with nail’er ayler, but otherwise, jesus, enough is enough.
[re=499054]Jim89048[/re]: Double meh. As if libruls have time sit around and listen to talk radio. Libruls are the ones who have jobs, families to take care of, etc.
Talk radio is for olds, tea baggers and and other people who need an anger fix on their way to voting for more conservative big business control of their lives.
Al Gore Invented their Bankruptcy.
[re=499063]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I would so love for a Democrat– any Democrat, especially if they happen to be in the White House– to give a speech like that but then I realize it’ll never happen because it comes off as “too partisan” and might scare off some independents in Indiana and bring on at least three days or so of blather on the news about how they have to stop listening to their base and how the speech is a win for McCain
Did Air America die because no one wants to listen to liberal crap, or because there was too much competition from all the other liberal media? Tonight…on a very special Fox News. We report, you decide.
Wait. Didn’t they go off the air like a couple years ago? I logged on to their site a while back and most of their links were dead. I think I found Randi Rhodes reruns.
Oh well….
Worst Mel Gibson movie ever.
The good news is that, if the Dems do allow HCR to die, I won’t care as much when the Repubs kick Dem-ass using their new-found Roberts-enabled corporate bribe money this fall.
I reiterate, the Dems are a bunch of pussies. Can you imagine what the Repubs would do if they had this kind of numerical advantage in Congress? They’d ram through whatever legislation they desired and then let the chips fall where they may. If they were voted out of office, they’d just end up finding some cushy corporate job and reminisce about being voted out of office for taking a “principled” stand.
Come on Dems, grow a pair and do something significant to help this country out before I have to sit out the next election. Or not, as I’m pretty sure something good will be on TV that night anyway and my surplus gubmint cheese and crackers aren’t eating themselves.
If Bo got run over by a Secret Service SUV today, the Congressional Repubs would be declaring it a national holiday.
I could never pick up their crappy AM signal anyway.
So, now that the electromagnetic real estate previously occupied by AA is free, can we expect “Wonkette on the Airwaves”?
[re=499075]WadISay[/re]: “or because there was too much competition from all the other [??]liberal media?”
Wait. Okay. I get it. A joke.
[re=499073]Hooray For Anything[/re]:
Truth is, everyone is going to have awful shitty disappointing weeks like this. Doesn’t matter who you are. The problem isn’t having them, it’s dealing with them.
If the ‘tards are anything, they’re persistent. They’ll suck it up and take it hard up the ass and they LOVE IT (We know they do because of Cocktober.) We libruls get discouraged and flee because we’re not getting everything we want. Let’s not forget that HC is an almost trillion dollar industry and those filthy cocksuckers won’t give up that coin without a fucking bloody fight (and many Libruls were kind of deluded to think otherwise.)
It would be nice if the Demrats acted like they had a pair and hit back at these fuckers hard.
It was the first lesson I ever learned on the playground being the short little Asian kid in a see tall white people. If you want to fight a bully, you have to hurt him and bad. It’s time to start fucking swinging.
And yet the olds, still listening to AM radio in my red state PA county, will somehow, try to overcome the liberal dominated media. Sure they wont find a liberal on the radio but they can easily get Beck, Hannity, O’rielly, Savage, Rush, Gallagher, Dr Laura, etc. Sure the local paper slants conservate. Sure Fox is the top rated cable news. But no it wont stop them from saying LIBERAL MEDIA!!!!
Good. I was worried that conservatives wouldn’t have anything to crow about this week.
[re=499080]WadISay[/re]:
If Bo got run over by a Secret Service SUV today, the John McCain would declare it as another of Obama administration’s inability to protect the White House from the Secret Service.
And there wd. be the fucking hearings. The first to be subpoenaed would be Barry’s daughter Ayla.
I will miss this radio station that I never once listened to. Fortunately, I get all my news from liberal blogs linking to Politico and Free Republic, so I won’t be left uninformed.
Tonight’s Spotlight on American Cinema brings us a touching American drama about a family dealing with troubling issues of the past, and forging a bright, Godly path for the future.
[Scene opens on a small kitchen with a family quietly eating breakfast. Slowly, one child stops eating and looks up from his food.]
{child} Daddy, what’s democracy?
{father} Shut your face and eat your Freedom Flakes, you pinko commie larvae.
[Curtain]
[Credits]
This has been another exciting episode of Spotlight on American Cinema, brought to you by our sponsors at BeerCo, TobacCo, FoodCo, DrugCo, and The Organization to Fuck America Sideways with a Humvee.
My 25.00 political contribution will be so valuable now next to the Koch brothers spending 25 million. Well at least corporate America wont have to waste time lobbying, now they can just buy the politicians from the start.
Tried listening to Air America (where I could get it) but it sucked, not really a news outlet like NPR but not really entertainment like the righty shows (that Michael Savage is a hoot)…
Liberals think for themselves. Being spoon-fed talking points is really more of the conservatives forte.
Fuck it. I’m reading no more Wonkette posts for the night. You are bad news bears. I’m going back to the NY Mag Edwards-expose that Chascates so kindly linked in the prior post. I’m getting my schadenfreude on and you motherfuckers will not stop me.
I cant wait for all the creative names for these companies to hide beind in their commercials. You know there will be more eagles and flags in those commercials than the opening of Colbert. The kind of imaging the mouthbreathers love when they vote against themselves. Theres nothing like getting ass fucked by Exxon Mobil while Lee Greenwood belts out God Bless the USA, its mood music for conservatards.
not really a news outlet like NPR but not really entertainment like the righty shows
Mostly what they did was play clips from O’Reilly, Beck and Limpballs and yell about them. I had no interest in hearing what those handcranks had to say, but I was constantly inundated with clips of their shows. People who watched Fox News didn’t hear as much of O’Reilly as I heard listening to Air America. I just turned it off in disgust one day and never went back.
[re=499079]rambone[/re]: “Come on Dems, grow a pair”
I said this last night, everyone’s said it on other occasions, it’s such a major theme of deep political thinkers like we of the wonkeratti, why don’t figure out a way to organize rallies where we hold up signs like the teabaggers, except we’re not fat (not very anyway) and stupid and don’t have b.o. and all our signs say is “Democrats: Grow a Pair!”
Just thousands of signs, an ocean of humanity, holding that say the same thing. Let’s just not illustrate them.
BTW–Can we refrain from illustrating our slogans? Also, buying politicians on the open market is the best explanation of what happened today. Is it wrong for me to hope that Justice Kennedy decides he needs more time with his family? Or that Clarence Thomas chokes on his bile and goes into a permanent coma?
[re=499101]Holy Cow!![/re]: Yes. And, I mean, Air America was still on the air? Who knew? Last time I listened to them, around 2006 maybe it was, the programming was so laden with the usual obnoxious commercials I couldn’t stand it. And the progressilib choir has better things to do with its time than being preached to by progs who have radio voices. Like, for example, surfing the Tubes all day, blissfully commercial-free. So, eh.
@DustBowlBlues: Are Trucknutz “illustration”?
[re=499087]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Maybe they should reduce health care to requiring Medicare to negotiate for price with the drug companies. And let Americans buy drugs from Canada. Can’t those be done by that majority vote thing called reconciliation? The shittiest thing about the Obama bill was that they gave away everything that could limit prescription drug costs. Regulate insurance companies and let Republics stand up and defend their pals rights to deny health insurance.
Couldn’t they just do some good shit that everyone agrees on?
And regulate the fucking banks, even if Wall Street groans and sell shit like their hair was on fire. Geitner is a cocksucker with too much forehead and Summers is a woman-hating dickwad. Why are they making any decisions? Imagine how strong Obama would look if he said, I’m firing all the dickwads on my staff. Maybe not say it that way.
[re=499094]Sussemilch[/re]: Is that a rule against me just posting a comment to say I found yours HI-larious? In a sick, snarky, end-of-the-world is here way.
[re=499108]Joshua Norton[/re]: +666 loofah points to you, sir. I already know Rush and the Foxxy Bunch are assholes. I don’t need it diagrammed for me. AA was supposed to beat the wingnut talkers at their own game. Instead, they brought a whiffle-ball bat to a boxing match.
[re=499120]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: “Are Trucknutz “illustration”?”
Only when they’re worn as jewelry on anything but a truck.
[re=499133]edgydrifter[/re]: “Instead, they brought a whiffle-ball bat to a boxing match.”
Doesn’t this pretty much sum up liberals? At least Rachel got a teevee gig ahead of time.
I had an interesting discussion with a deputy at a courthouse during the 2008 election cycle. He was bitching about Dems and I pointed out that the Dems ended the Great Depression and beat the hell out of fascism. His response was, “Yeah, but those Democrats are nowhere in sight now.”
Shit, I thought. He’s right.
So, here’s your protest signs:
–Dems nuked the Japs but can’t pass health care reform?!
–FDR was interested in more than being the first handicapped President!
–59 is still greater than 41!
Feel free to add to the list…
I actually listened to hundreds of hours of Air America programming starting with the first words Al Franken spoke on the air in April, ’04. It was on Air America that I first heard Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes and Rachael Maddow. AAR turned to shit when they went to hosts like Montel Williams and that insipid “Hollywood Clout” show but I think what they attempted to do in the face of the right wing bullshit on the air everywhere all the time in this nation should be honored and applauded.
Too bad, because it was good to know that there was a counter to the insanity. But Leftwingers aren’t talk radio people, at the end of the day. We are more NPR-people, when not drunk. Talk radio works for rightwingers because it’s ranty, and the right has way more loony emotional hot buttons for people of that ilk love to get themselves all riled up over. Us, not so much.
In further news, it’s hard to find parts for old typewriters.
Add Air America to the list of Things That Officially Sucked. I used to listen to Franken’s old show, and Randi Rhodes’ show ca. 2002 was sort of fun for a while, but once those shows started to demonstrate that, given resources and promotion, they could compete with the right wing shock jocks, it became the mission of top Air America executives to see to it that under no circumstances were any of their shows to receive such things as resources or promotion. Seriously, it was run by a bunch of jerks, and Cenk Ungyer’s show is 40 times better than anything Air America ever put on. I, for one, welcome the new cyber paradigm.
Did they finally figure out that Montell was really a Republican? The suits could never figure out what they wanted the organization to be and it showed.
That’s too bad, with mass unemployment their target audience finally has time to listen. Is Randi Rhodes still alive? Al Franken I know is busy making sure not one more soldier than needs to goes to Afghanistan.
Thom Hartmann was the only host I liked on Air America. He had the sense to leave Air America a while back, and the number of
stations carrying his show continues to grow.
that insipid “Hollywood Clout” show
The host of which, Richard Greene, was an unreconstructed 9/11 Truther. I discovered this when he was at a liberal get-together in D.C. a couple years ago, explaining to someone why Dick Cheney needed secret dynamite plus the superfluous jet airliners. There was literally a YouTube video of him offering P.R. advice to teenage Truthers. Air America had gone way downhill.
I thought Air America died when Al Franken left.
I’m too busy living my life and harrassing tea baggers to spend three hours listening to a mirror image of right wing hate radio.
I suspect that thats why this (worthy) experiment failed.
Less left wing bla bla might be a good thing.
We get it!
Leave the crazy talk to the crazy talkers.
Shit…not happy.
I was wondering why they were running a rebroadcast tonight from a couple days ago.
The teabaggers think we’re terrorists because Bill Ayer’s girlfriend blew herself up 40 years ago, Let’s start acting like terrorists. We can claim jesus told us to do all sorts of crap, what are they going to do, say jesus is wrong?
[re=499063]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Can’t complain about someone who loves ‘Animal House,’ but boy, you sure took a long time setting it up.
Might have been better to use, “you fucked up, you trusted us” or “fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.” Easier for short attention spans.
[re=499131]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from cryin
@ManchuCandidate: nicely said. Anyone have a Lincoln Continental we can turn into the float-slash-battering ram from hell?
Air who?
They deserve it for canceling Break Room Live.
AA was good once in awhile but lacked real anger. That’s why conservaloon media is sucessful, faux anger.
Limpballs and Hannity want to nuke a hangnail. AA wanted to send aid to it.
What’s Jeaneane Garafolo going to do now? She’s not going back to charging $35 for stand-up comedy, is she? She should go back to acting in movies–she’s actually pretty good, and when she wants to be, she’s very cute. Was she even on Air America? Maybe the network needed more people like Jeaneane Garafolo–cute and smart and liberal–on the air. On the other side, that’s what Fox News does: it rants and raves in a biased way for right-wing conservatism, but it loads up its airwaves with cute, hot women, too.
“Air America”
“Air what?”
“Air America”
“What America?”
“Air America”
“What what?”
Comments on this entry are closed.