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It's Baaack!: Air America to relaunch with A-listers
2007-05-21
(AP) — Air America is scheduling a high-profile lineup of presidential candidates, political players and celebrities for next week as part of the liberal talk network's "relaunch" after suffering financial woes.

Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, along with luminaries like Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Gloria Steinem, are among the more than 30 guests scheduled, the network announced Thursday.
Just having Robert Redford guarantees success, eh?
New shows are also being added to the schedule, featuring famous correspondents and hosts, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Arianna Huffington and Bob Kerrey. The network also redesigned its Web site, where hosts will regularly blog along with a newly-hired blogger, Nancy Scola.

Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the subject of persistent presidential speculation despite his denials of any interest, was to tape his interview Thursday, facing questions from a former political foe, Mark Green. Mr. Green, who lost to Mr. Bloomberg when the former CEO made his first run for City Hall in 2001, is now running Air America with his older brother, Stephen Green. They took it over this year in an attempt to revive the network, which had been losing boatloads of money.

In a statement, the younger Mr. Green said the headliners kicking off the relaunch will deliver "the kind of news and views we'll be offering for years to come and that no other radio or TV network now provides."

When the Green brothers took over Air America earlier this year, they pledged to run it as business.
As opposed to before when it was a piggybank for its owners.
Posted by:Delphi

#16  Fairness doctrine - this'll be interesting.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2007-05-21 20:45  

#15  Just in time for next year's election cycle only to go bankrupt right after. "Investments" in a media company don't count as political contributions.
Posted by: Chorong Munster2298   2007-05-21 20:02  

#14  #8: "This is like putting a new urine cakes in the toilets!"

tu3031 wins the Snark of the Day™ award! :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-05-21 19:06  

#13  Newman's OwnTM Radio Program?
Posted by: Raj   2007-05-21 18:45  

#12  Tu3031, I don't care what else is on this thread you win the prize for hitting nail on the head.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-05-21 18:03  

#11  It's not the guests, it's the hosts that are the problem.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2007-05-21 17:52  

#10  Yes tu3031, but not quite as interesting.
Posted by: CochinoMarrano   2007-05-21 17:33  

#9  "War Stories - With John F. Kerry"
"There I was in December 1968, inside Cambodia dropping off and picking up SOFs teams and hunting Charlie......"
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-05-21 17:32  

#8  Wow.
This is like putting a new urine cakes in the toilets!
Posted by: tu3031   2007-05-21 17:13  

#7  Does this mean they'll repay Boys Town the money they embezzled?

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2007-05-21 17:12  

#6  There is still the age-old question that all leftie endeavors find difficult to answer - will they have customers? Even the left can't stand a steady diet of all bullsh$$, all the time.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-05-21 14:41  

#5  It's the new, improved, lemon-freshened, pina-collada-scented, Air America, with 50% more moonbattery in every box!
Posted by: Mike   2007-05-21 12:26  

#4  But can they fly supply runs in to our resistance fighters in Waziristan?
Oh, not THAT Air America. Darn.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-05-21 11:33  

#3  "...luminaries like Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Gloria Steinem ...famous correspondents and hosts, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Arianna Huffington and Bob Kerrey."

Add a few more, like Michael Moore, Jimmy Carter and John Kerry and you can have a perfect Moronic Convergence.

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-05-21 10:56  

#2  yes - successful at bilking money from widows, orphans and liberal fools.
Posted by: Angaiger Tojo1904   2007-05-21 10:56  

#1  And I'm sure it will be just as successful as it was previously.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-05-21 10:53  

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