Posted on 04/15/2005 10:09:05 AM PDT by natelivingston
I listen to Air America all the time in the car... it's so wrong-headed, angry, bitter and embarrassing that it's pure entertainment for conservatives.
It's fun rooting for it to stumble and/or fail, and it hasn't let me down yet.
The BEST was how they treated Chuck D and his loser morning show, with his two dimbulb female partners. Unceremoniously canned, dishonestly as well, all so they could hire Jerry Springer!!!!
Jerry Springer!!! There simply can't be a person more cringe-inducing to add to your radio team than him. Now imagine if Springer happened to be a Republican... would we here at FR be proud of him, or mortally embarrassed? Of course we'd be embarrassed to be affiliated with such a sleazebag! Now imagine they hire him to replace, say, Laura Ingraham on your favorite radio network. Absolute disgust would be the unanimous opinion.
How STUPID is AirAmerica to hire this guy? What BONEHEAD thinks he will add ANYTHING to the left's cause??!!! And actually listening to the guy is a disappointment for anyone, including GOPers... he's trying to be the serious, reasonable Jerry, and it's humanly impossible to last more than 10 minutes without reaching for the dial out of sheer boredom. I know, I've tried.
He makes Chuck D look like Brit Hume, and that's saying something.
Oooh, Thomas Sowell. He is without one of the most brilliant minds in this country.
If I delete the comments section, posters will have a harder time replying.
I had to add that one phrase for you. Hope you don't mind.
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Walter E. Williams reaches more people on one day as a sub for Rush Limbaugh than all of the Air America DJ's combined.
I am for more talks show hosts like Walter E. Williams! In fact I would like to see him get his own show! But he has a day job he won't give up.
-- lates
-- jrawk
Thanks. You're right. but only when the judges see things their way. That's why FDR decided to pack the courts when he was president.
We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves---we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men---descended by blood from our ancestors---among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe---German, Irish, French and Scandinavian---men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,'' and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
Well, both parties are controlled by elites, but the Democrats are totally hypocritical about it, accusing Republicans of being elitist and posing as the party of the working man. The "plantation mentality" of the left towards all minorities is well documented, even though the left always feigns outrage whenever the subject comes up. I suspect Air Anti-America's decisions are driven totally by ratings (which they don't have anyway), and they think a bufoon like Springer will attract listeners. As I said, I think what you're seeing is a perfect example of the plantation mentality of the left. Blacks and other minorities are supposed to sit down, shut up, and be grateful to the Democrats for the handouts they are thrown. As more and more minorities realize this attitude exists, more and more of them are voting Republican, which just angers the left further.
Umm...I think (hope) you left out the words "a doubt." Hehe. ;-)
For the wedding of the daughter of a Democrat party bigwig in Michigan, they rented out the entirity of Mackinaw Island, and had a line of horse-drawn carriages as far as the eye could see waiting to take the guests from the ceremony to the reception.
"Party of the working man?" Uhhh... right.
You're not much of a lurker here.
Nate: Air America began by displacing minority programming, check this out: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3506
There is a real difference between the left and the right. Unlike the left, we don't think that, as a group, that blacks and Hispanics are stupid and need our help. We are not condescending. We judge people as individuals. If I see a black man walking down my street, I can obviously see that he is black. But that tells me nothing about him. When we start talking and I understand his values and how he lives his life, I will be able to tell if we are going to be friends.
The left cares about one thing --- their own power. If they can keep people on plantations, they hope to regain power. Unfortunately for them, more minorites are waking up. White people don't sit around the breakfast table discussing ways they can keep down a black man today. We are too busy earning a living.
Those of us on the right tend not to let economic jealously make us angry. I don't care that someone earns $10 million a year. I want to learn some his lessons so that I can earn more.
The growth of the middle class and growth of black-owned business has been tremendous. When flamethrowers like Maxine Waters attack the police as if the police are the enemy, she damages her community. Without respecting and helping the police, the crime problem will never get better. What business person wants to invest his money in an area that is dangerous? Very few.
DemocRATS and other leftists are the ones who are the enemies of the minorities. They use minorities only for power.
Well, I'll get off my soap box. Once again, welcome.
And Walt Williams and Larry Elders :-)
I would guess the the hip-hop show was not bringing in enough bucks.
Democrats may be socialists when they when eyeing everyone else's money.
But when it comes to their own finances, they are capitalists.
It simply was not making enough money for the limosine liberal fat cats who were calling the shots.
Erp! Yeah. :X
I am surprised you didn't mention WLIB.
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