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Air America Radio Denies Problems, Blames Conservatives for Reports
Watershed Publishing ^ | Mar 8, 2006

Posted on 03/08/2006 12:51:29 PM PST by presidio9

Liberal Talk network Air America Radio's CEO Danny Goldberg issued a memo to his staff denying published reports that the company had lost its N.Y.C. flagship, WLIB/New York, and was facing financial challenges, reports Radio & Records.

In the memo, Goldberg stated, "In almost all cases, the people who say bad things about our company's business are conservative ideologues who have a particular interest in damaging Air America for one reason and one reason only: the political opinions expressed by our on-air talent."

Of AAR's financial status, Goldberg said, "Our board continues to be very supportive of our company, and we continue to operate on a firm footing in all respects." Referring to the loss of WLIB, he said the network will not discuss negotiations with third-party companies and added, "We have no plans of leaving the New York City airwaves and plan to be on in New York for many years to come."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: airamericaradio; denial; liberaltalkradio; wlib
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1 posted on 03/08/2006 12:51:32 PM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Ooooh! Blame Me! Blame Me!

I NEVER listen.


2 posted on 03/08/2006 12:53:21 PM PST by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: presidio9

Liberals wouldn't lie would they?


3 posted on 03/08/2006 12:53:31 PM PST by Patrick1
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To: presidio9

Wonder if being a moonbat is painful.. One could hope..


4 posted on 03/08/2006 12:53:35 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: presidio9

Even if true (and it probably isn't), turnabout is fair play. Remember "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot," by none other than Al Franken?


5 posted on 03/08/2006 12:53:57 PM PST by Cecily
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To: presidio9
Of AAR's financial status, Goldberg said, "Our board continues to be very supportive of our company, and we continue to operate on a firm footing in all respects."

They must have found a new charity to loot.

6 posted on 03/08/2006 12:54:15 PM PST by dirtboy (I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
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To: presidio9

If I didn't know better, I would say someone's p***y is hurting today.


7 posted on 03/08/2006 12:55:11 PM PST by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: presidio9

"A non-denial denial," to borrow a term from "All The President's Men."


8 posted on 03/08/2006 12:55:27 PM PST by pogo101
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To: presidio9

"We have no plans of leaving the New York City airwaves and plan to be on in New York for many years to come."

And if your run into money problems, there's plenty of Boys and Girls' Clubs around...


9 posted on 03/08/2006 12:55:37 PM PST by The Worthless Miracle ("Better put some ice on that")
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To: presidio9

it is so much to watch this people crash & burn.
I hope they go down flailing for dear life , it will be so much more entertaining !


10 posted on 03/08/2006 12:55:39 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: presidio9

Oh, how very liberal of them -- as we know, liberals are never RESPONSIBLE for anything -- it is always someone else's fault....

What a pathetic attempt...


11 posted on 03/08/2006 12:56:35 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: presidio9

Oh, how very liberal of them -- as we know, liberals are never RESPONSIBLE for anything -- it is always someone else's fault....

What a pathetic attempt...


12 posted on 03/08/2006 12:56:40 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: presidio9

Danny Goldberg (black) discusses financial restructuring with the WLIB executive board.

13 posted on 03/08/2006 12:56:40 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: presidio9

a boo boo... someone send a pack of butt wipes


14 posted on 03/08/2006 12:57:22 PM PST by Cinnamon
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To: presidio9
"In almost all cases, the people who say bad things about our company's business are conservative ideologues who have a particular interest in damaging Air America for one reason and one reason only: the political opinions expressed by our on-air talent."

Talent!??

ROTFLMAO!!
15 posted on 03/08/2006 12:57:40 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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16 posted on 03/08/2006 12:58:02 PM PST by pabianice (contact ebay??)
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To: presidio9

Sounds to me like a vote of confidence a baseball teams owner gives the manager a week before the manager gets fired.


17 posted on 03/08/2006 12:58:08 PM PST by skimask (Ezekiel: 25/17)
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To: presidio9

They will be pleading for PBS bucks soon.


18 posted on 03/08/2006 12:58:13 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: presidio9

I seem to remember that Err America has some sugar daddies such as George " I own the Dems" Soros, who is keepin the network afloat.


19 posted on 03/08/2006 12:58:40 PM PST by JeeperFreeper
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To: presidio9
the people who say bad things about our company's business are conservative ideologues who have a particular interest in damaging Air America

Sorry, Goldie. You don't need us conservatives for that. You do just fine all by yourselves.

20 posted on 03/08/2006 12:59:27 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: presidio9

Uh...people actually LISTEN to Air America??? LOL...


21 posted on 03/08/2006 1:00:06 PM PST by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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To: TASMANIANRED

That's what made this whole idea dumb in the first place. Liberals already had a publicly financed outlet in NPR.


22 posted on 03/08/2006 1:00:31 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: presidio9

"On-air talent?" I've read on a few lib boards that many of the moonbats don't even like Err America, calling the so-called talent boring and repetitive.


23 posted on 03/08/2006 1:00:47 PM PST by Theresawithanh (Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.)
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To: presidio9
In almost all cases, the people who say bad things about our company's business are conservative ideologues who have a particular interest in damaging Air America

Agenda doesn't change the truth, and the truth is that almost nobody listens to AA because it sucks.

24 posted on 03/08/2006 1:00:50 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: TASMANIANRED

Yeah. They WILL be pleading for federal dollars. But why give tax dollars to AA when the government already supports NPR?

NPR is at least as liberal.


25 posted on 03/08/2006 1:01:12 PM PST by kjo
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To: hosepipe
Wonder if being a moonbat is painful.

Maybe when the infections, parasites, and communicable diseases take advantage of the lack of hygiene found in most all of moonbatism

26 posted on 03/08/2006 1:01:48 PM PST by digger48
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To: TASMANIANRED

"our on-air talent."

Since when has Stuart Smalley been considered "talent."


27 posted on 03/08/2006 1:02:02 PM PST by VA_Gentleman (Bush's fault pings are tiresome.)
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To: presidio9

It must be really tough being a Liberal. Seeing that it is common knowledge that they pathological liars, how do they ever know who to trust and when. Their lives must be one endless series of betrayals and disappointments.


28 posted on 03/08/2006 1:02:07 PM PST by Search4Truth (Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: dirtboy

They must have found a new charity to loot.




LOL!


29 posted on 03/08/2006 1:02:25 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: presidio9

"We have no plans of leaving the New York City airwaves and plan to be on in New York for many years to come."

I remember when I was about 12, I had a little one tube transmitter that would broadcast on the AM radio band.
I was on the airwaves, all the way to my next door neighbor. :)


30 posted on 03/08/2006 1:04:33 PM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia)
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To: TampaDude

They have a skimpy 1.4 Arbitron rating in the New York Metro area (Democrat Heaven) on a medium-power station (WLIB) formerly known for Caribbean music and Black Power radicalism. If Liberals can't make it in NYC.....


31 posted on 03/08/2006 1:08:50 PM PST by andy58-in-nh
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To: presidio9

Wonder if the founders of this station has ever paid back the monies they took from the little kiddies? Remember that?????


32 posted on 03/08/2006 1:09:18 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: SmithL
Did you get out your VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY toy again???

You put that away and let the poor liberals die in peace!

33 posted on 03/08/2006 1:11:06 PM PST by America's Resolve (I've become a 'single issue voter' for 06 and 08. My issue is illegal immigration!)
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To: presidio9
"We have no plans of leaving the New York City airwaves and plan to be on in New York for many years to come."

They're toast.

34 posted on 03/08/2006 1:11:24 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: The Worthless Miracle

Al Franken would sell our country out the the U.N socialists and relegate us to international socialist law in a heartbeat. Then, when they took over and marched him up to the gallows in the first tier of executions of those who cannot be trusted because they would betray even their own country, he would look sad and say, "I never knew. I had no idea!"

35 posted on 03/08/2006 1:12:44 PM PST by Baynative (Can we really fight a war if we are afraid to 'offend' our enemy?)
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To: presidio9

"Liberal Talk network Air America Radio's CEO Danny Goldberg. . . ."

Baghdad Bob, is that you? Know what? There really WEREN'T any tanks entering Baghdad that day.


36 posted on 03/08/2006 1:12:51 PM PST by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Time will tell who is telling the truth.....and I can't wait


37 posted on 03/08/2006 1:14:24 PM PST by Youngman442002
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To: presidio9

Tax-deductible political contributions are a great racket.


38 posted on 03/08/2006 1:14:44 PM PST by mdefranc
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To: presidio9
Notice that he did not specifically deny that they were losing WLIB. All he said was that Hair(bag) America would "be on the airwaves" in some capacity for years to come.

There are a few fringe wavelengths available cheap at the outer limits of the dial in that market. You watch. In the coming months, Abscess America will find a home in that desert.

39 posted on 03/08/2006 1:16:05 PM PST by IronJack
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To: VA_Gentleman

"Since when has Stuart Smalley been considered "talent."

Talent is a term of convenience. It's the same thing they call people who can't sing OR rap.


40 posted on 03/08/2006 1:16:40 PM PST by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: presidio9
... say bad things...

What is this, Kindergarten? Say bad things, does he mean criticize, denigrate, denounce, invalidate, question, carp about...? Geez...infantile.

41 posted on 03/08/2006 1:16:47 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: presidio9

I think Global Warming interferes with Err America's Show. To much heat causes the broadcast signal to bounce off the mother ship and scramble instead of redirection back to Earth over the Blue States leaving many Blue State Liberals unable to pick up their daily talking points using their tin foil hat communicators.


42 posted on 03/08/2006 1:16:54 PM PST by TheForceOfOne (Memogate - Dan Rathers Little Big Horn.)
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To: commish

Franken has sand in his vagina. Again.


43 posted on 03/08/2006 1:17:51 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: presidio9

They think NPR is mainstream.


44 posted on 03/08/2006 1:18:58 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: LeoWindhorse; potlatch

45 posted on 03/08/2006 1:22:02 PM PST by devolve ( (refresh-updated-graphix - Photobucket Imagecave)
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To: Baynative

I love this picture. It would also be funny if Franken was holding a sign that substituted the word "whine" for the word "work." Of course, Whining is a profession to a liberal.


46 posted on 03/08/2006 1:24:29 PM PST by austinaero
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47 posted on 03/08/2006 1:24:34 PM PST by Beth528
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To: The Worthless Miracle

Kinda like the cockroaches, heh?


48 posted on 03/08/2006 1:24:56 PM PST by austinaero
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To: Theresawithanh

They really don't have much choice.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be politcally correct all the time.


49 posted on 03/08/2006 1:27:24 PM PST by Philistone (Turning lead into gold...)
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To: presidio9

I stopped reading after the phrase "on-air talent".

Yikes.


50 posted on 03/08/2006 1:27:54 PM PST by KStorm (Currently residing in the NO TIN ZONE)
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