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Home Front: Politix
Air America, Back As Reanimated Corpse?
2006-12-04
(via The Radio Equalizer)
Would you buy a bankrupt, three- year- old radio network that has already burned through enough cash to make a circa- 1999 Seattle dot-com run by teenagers look downright frugal? How about one that has generated mountains of bad press, is rapidly dropping affiliates and may soon lose its primary star?

Fine, we'll go ahead and scratch your name off the list, but any assumption that others aren't interested in one of broadcasting's biggest- ever boondoggles would be quite mistaken. What are the odds the network can survive?

Given the less- than- rosy outlook for Air America Radio's liberal talk operations, just why would serious buyers emerge, anyway? We can think of only one reason: a stubborn and partisan inability to admit defeat in the ongoing media wars. Beyond a handful of shows, so- called "progressive" talk just hasn't caught on with the public.

For weeks, Air America's remaining executives have been able to convince the network's bankruptcy judge to grant extensions to its court- imposed sale deadline.

Posted by:Anonymoose

#22  lol, Jan. I always loved the time I met a girl at summer camp in N.M. (just outside of Santa Fe). She was from Arkansas (I was born and raised outside Atlanta), and she got all her friends to gather round me and asked me to talk. Jeebus, as if I was the one with the funny accent?
Posted by: BA   2006-12-04 22:23  

#21  Jan, off topic here but you haven't lived until you've had braised squirrel.

With Al Frankenless moving back to Minnesota, I'm hoping to ask him for donations to the local Boys and Girls club. Let's see if the prick finds that funny.

I see they took Franken's video down off google. He was admitting to calling up a reporter and challenging him to a fight. Franken said, "he was smaller so I knew I could beat him". Talk about a real fake man.
Posted by: Icerigger   2006-12-04 21:33  

#20  Deacon, lol, not in Alabama, but while driving through Kentucky on my way back from Virginia I laughed my head off at the serious radio station broadcasting various squirrel recipe's and how it was a bumper crop year for them. It was a sad moment for me when I drove out of range.
Posted by: Jan   2006-12-04 21:00  

#19  Remember all that it is a proud American tradition to lie your fool head off when talking to gullible Europeans. Even H.L. Mencken bragged to some German friends that he had been given an alligator on a leash to take on a "pickaninny hunt" in Florida.

In the minds of many Europeans, American men are James Dean-types, and American women are Marilyn Monroe-types. With tommygun-toting gangsters, cowboys and indians abounding.

The truth would just disappoint.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-12-04 20:39  

#18  Hell, when I went to Boston, as it's pretty obvious I'm from the South the second I say a word, people would not believe I was not a member of the KKK, DID wear shoes, and DID have heat in my house in the Winter. EVERYBODY from Alabama is a member of the KKK. And also I have never eaten possum.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-12-04 20:31  

#17  a5089 - down here in Tucson, AZ I always have to be on the lookout for Apache ambushes on my way to work...
Posted by: PBMcL   2006-12-04 19:44  

#16  When people learned that I lived in Denver, they kept asking me if I had a horse, and drove a stagecoach.

What, you don't?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-12-04 16:22  

#15  You DO know, of course, that "Ponderosa" is still BIG in Germany. When people learned that I lived in Denver, they kept asking me if I had a horse, and drove a stagecoach. Yeah, the world's perception of the United States is VERY warped.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-12-04 15:36  

#14  just what Greeks needed to know about Americans --- we were all rich, violent and immoral

IIRC, the "french" communist party used good ol' "Dallas" in their propaganda, hé hé... back in the post-WWII olden days, they spear-headed a campaign against coca-cola, IE the fear of "cultural imperialism" as a political lever.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-12-04 13:05  

#13  Re: the "the export of our crapulence ", ExJAG, I used to absolutely cringe when I could hear the theme music from "Dynasty" coming from my Greek landlords' apartment, when I lived in Athens; just what Greeks needed to know about Americans --- we were all rich, violent and immoral. IIRC, someone pointed this out decades ago, in an editorial in TV guide. All people knew about Americans the world over was what they saw in our exported TV shows and movies, and what that showed wasn't a terribly realistic OR attractive picture.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2006-12-04 13:01  

#12  along with hmm, lessee, David Hasselhoff, Fran Drescher, and David James Eliot.

As kids/teens, my sisters were big fans of Fan Frescher, can't fathom why; I, for one, was a devout follower of "Married with children", even with the poorly done dubbing; that, and the Simpsons, explains much about the wreck I am.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-12-04 12:41  

#11  A5089, I don't think most Americans are aware of how much damage the export of our crapulence has done to perceptions abroad -- least of all the people who produce it.

Nor do most know how freaking hilarious Dutch commercials are. For example:

Learn English
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More cell phone uses
Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-04 11:45  

#10  Just let me know if there's a chance to short their stock...
Posted by: Raj   2006-12-04 11:33  

#9  exJAG, you're aware of that, but I wonder how many americans know how prevalent and widely available is the US pop culture, especially when it comes to "music" and movies/tv shows? Us pop culture is in fact the mainstream of most of the western world, name a show, and odds are any given european will have seen it (now in original undubbed version thanks to cable, the New Jersey's linguo of the Sopranos cracks me up every time), and diffused pretty much elsewhere... much to the chagrin of the Elites, who nonetheless tell us that the "USA are a Nation without culture". And, yes, the vision of the USA is molded by hollyweird (tv), a mix between their liberal worldview, their mercnatilism (cheesecake, cheap gunfights,...), and PCness (if one judges from cop shows, most of the US criminals are white-collars white males).
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-12-04 10:43  

#8  ..Typical leftieliberal mindset - "It didn't work the last time because the right people weren't in charge..."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-12-04 10:28  

#7  Dubbed/subtitled Jerry Springer re-runs feature on at least one channel in just about every foreign country. I know many, many Europeans who seriously think that most Americans are just like that. The few of us who are not illiterate hayseeds live like Baywatch, or some other stupid TV show, like JAG (I got that a lot).

"Ihre Beruf?"
"Ich bin militarische staatsanwaltin."
"Oooooooh! Wie JAG?!?! Toll! Geil!"
"O ja, ja, genau wie JAG." Sigh.

So yeah, it seems Jerry Springer is among the world's most famous individuals, along with hmm, lessee, David Hasselhoff, Fran Drescher, and David James Eliot. Depressing, isn't it?
Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-04 10:18  

#6  They have XMPR, actually. Or at least they did. I remember hearing Bob Edwards commercials, but durned if I never tuned in. Oh well.
Posted by: eLarson   2006-12-04 10:14  

#5  Air America should consider hiring Fidel as a commentator.

And talk to Hugo. I bet Chavez would buy the whole thing, lock, stock and loonacy, as a platform to rant against the US.
Posted by: SteveS   2006-12-04 10:14  

#4  XM radio is still pushing RA on its site. Guess since they don't have NPR, they gotta have an alternative (even if it's a nearly dead one)
Posted by: Pappy   2006-12-04 09:44  

#3  Jerry Springer: one of the world's most famous individuals...

Really? I wasn't aware of that.
Don't do it, Jerry. Chairs flying across the room and bull dykes duking it out over preteen hookers don't really come across to well on the radio...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-12-04 09:26  

#2  Awwwww... where's the zombie graphic?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-12-04 09:19  

#1  A reanimated Corpse?

INCONCEIVABLE!
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2006-12-04 09:06  

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