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Springer Said To Be Sprung In Air America Shuffle: Right Wing Takeover of Liberal Radio??
Radio Ink ^ | 9.13.06 | Radio Ink

Posted on 09/13/2006 9:00:43 AM PDT by rface

John Mainelli reports in the New York Post that Jerry Springer is out at the liberal-leaning Air America radio network and that other Air America hosts will be shuffled. For Springer, it could be just as well since he’s already got a full plate, hosting his TV Talk show and hoofing it on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.”

Other moves include Air America morning co-host Rachel Maddow moving into Janeane Garofalo’s old night shift. Sam Seder, who used to co-host with Garofalo and currently does nights will take Springer mid-morning shift, while Al Franken and Randi Rhodes stay where they are.


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This seems like the exact wrong time to be doing such an over-haul on the Liberal Flagship..... unless, maybe Air-America has been bought by....Karl Rove or Rush Limbaugh.

Don't Laugh.

I have heard through some important and high ranking sources - that LIMBAUGH DID BUY AIR-America, but sent the money through a 3rd person so it would be hard to follow...... more developing

1 posted on 09/13/2006 9:00:45 AM PDT by rface
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To: rface

Or it could be just rearranging the deck chairs..


2 posted on 09/13/2006 9:02:10 AM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
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also ..... I did watch Dancing With The Stars last night - and I must say that Springer did a simplistic - but rather charming rendition of the Cha-Cha...


3 posted on 09/13/2006 9:02:32 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: rface

Either that or...Springer was so bad, even Air America didn't want him.

Anyway, I'm gonna laugh, cuz this is funny.


4 posted on 09/13/2006 9:02:37 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: rface
...the liberal-leaning Air America radio network....

The last time something leaned this far to the left it was the tower of Pisa.

5 posted on 09/13/2006 9:03:19 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Life is tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: rface
Jerry Springer is out at the liberal-leaning Air America radio network

Wasn't he the one that got the most ratings?
6 posted on 09/13/2006 9:03:34 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: rface
LIMBAUGH DID BUY AIR-America

So that he could get twelve more listeners? Sounds improbable.

7 posted on 09/13/2006 9:03:45 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: rface

I had a car-wreck fascination with the Springer show. It was simply the worst -- hours and hours of the 'serious' Jerry, no guests, lame attempts at humor, etc. What an a**hole he is.

Now that they moved from 1050 AM in NY to 1600 AM, the signal is significantly weaker, and I can't even pick it up anymore. And I'm in southern Westchester, only 15 miles from midtown! What utter losers!!!


8 posted on 09/13/2006 9:06:06 AM PDT by Jhensy
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To: rface

Pardon my skepticism but if you have info from an important and high ranking source that Rush bought ErrAmerica his using a 3rd party to keep it quiet hardly accomplished his goal.


9 posted on 09/13/2006 9:06:10 AM PDT by babaloo
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To: rface

Limbaugh bought Air America? How much did Air America have to give Rush to take it off their hands?


10 posted on 09/13/2006 9:06:41 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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To: rface
"that LIMBAUGH DID BUY AIR-America, but sent the money through a 3rd person so it would be hard to follow"

Well, that's pretty hard to believe. But since you went 18-1 in 1959, I'll believe you.

11 posted on 09/13/2006 9:07:26 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: rface

Well, he didn't last long did he?


12 posted on 09/13/2006 9:07:33 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: babaloo
Not only did he buy it - he is in charge of all this shuffling around......

Just who do you think FIRED MIKE MALLOY!!! IT WAS LIMBAUGH.

Malloy's method and message was too effective and someone had to take him out

13 posted on 09/13/2006 9:08:37 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: rface
I can't imagine that Rush would buy Air America (I mean, what value does it have?), unless he wanted the pleasure of firing Al Franken, and that's unlikely since he would have to pay off Al's contract.

But it would drive the DUmmies and KOmmies berserk, so for laughs let's see if we can plant this on liberal sites as a rumor.
14 posted on 09/13/2006 9:09:34 AM PDT by Cheburashka (World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

yep - that was one of my best years.


15 posted on 09/13/2006 9:09:40 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: Cheburashka

it's a lot more than rumor.....follow the money


16 posted on 09/13/2006 9:11:15 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: rface

Yes, Rush Limbaugh bought Air America. Right after he burned the plans he gave the Whitehouse for planning 9/11.


17 posted on 09/13/2006 9:12:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rface
What happened to the lovely and charming Janeane?

Bartender, another please

Wasn't she on with Franken?

18 posted on 09/13/2006 9:13:58 AM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: rface

Why are you blowing the lid off of this? Next thing you know, the DUmmies will start to question just why their threads are full of wackjobs that make them look more idiotic than they already are.


19 posted on 09/13/2006 9:14:16 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: rface

IF you want to see why we Reagan Democrats vote GOP, your answer is on air america. I have heard Randi Rhodes, Mike malloy, Al franken. My mom doesnt even listen to it anymore
Its not even disagreement with humor. its horribly vile and hateful. I thought the GOP was hard on Clinton in the 90,s, but at least there were ideas they had thrown in on how they wanted to lead.


20 posted on 09/13/2006 9:15:08 AM PDT by sachem longrifle (proud member of the fond Du lac band of the Ojibwa people)
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To: Long Island Pete

I heard Gernine Gawdawfulhole baked him a plate of cookies.
How fun would it be if Rush really was their boss.


21 posted on 09/13/2006 9:17:41 AM PDT by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: rface

I heard Rush financed the buy with all the money he made from selling his stash of Vicodin, Oxycotin, and Viagra.


22 posted on 09/13/2006 9:18:29 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (How to win over terrorist? KILL them with UNKINDNESS.)
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To: nickcarraway
more evidence here - from today -

some quack health show on Air America stream?

This is not a screw-up - this is a planned hack job from el-Rushbo

23 posted on 09/13/2006 9:19:03 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Limbaugh probably had enough to buy Air America between his couch cushions. Could have bought it just for fun just as easily as you or I might have spent twenty bucks on some novelty item.


24 posted on 09/13/2006 9:21:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: RegulatorCountry
Next thing you know, the DUmmies will start to question just why their threads are full of wackjobs that make them look more idiotic than they already are.
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It will be interesting to see the threads where the DUmmies try to distinguish the "wackjobs" from the "normal" posters.
25 posted on 09/13/2006 9:25:19 AM PDT by Cheburashka (World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: rface

Notice the avatars of upside down US flags?

I HATE LIBERALS !


26 posted on 09/13/2006 9:25:31 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Pedal more.)
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To: Holicheese

The only thing Gernine Gawdawfulhole knows how to bake is half-baked-truths and maybe her pea brain with drugs. But it would be funny to have Rush sit in on her show as the BOSS.


27 posted on 09/13/2006 9:26:31 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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To: rface

I can't believe anyone with enough intelligence to read and post coherently to these boards actually would look at "Dancing With The Stars"... especially when there are so many better things to do, such as sit in absolute isolation.


28 posted on 09/13/2006 9:30:45 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
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To: Cheburashka

"It will be interesting to see the threads where the DUmmies try to distinguish the "wackjobs" from the "normal" posters."

Wouldn't it, though? If we really wanted to fire up the tinfoil paranoia express over there, we'd ask the admin moderator to pull this thread, lol.


29 posted on 09/13/2006 9:30:51 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Izzy Dunne
>>> LIMBAUGH DID BUY AIR-America

So that he could get twelve more listeners? Sounds improbable.

Or the age old tactic of buying up the competition (not that Rush has to worry about them) to kill them.

Or better yet, to change the dynamics and infiltrate them and slowly bring conservative points of view to the audience. A fith column so to speak. Hey, the dems have been doing it for years, why can't we?

30 posted on 09/13/2006 9:35:31 AM PDT by AFreeBird (If American "cowboy diplomacy" did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.)
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To: Cheburashka
that's unlikely since he would have to pay off Al's contract.

the "celebrities" on Air America were getting paid?

31 posted on 09/13/2006 9:35:52 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: rface

Lesbo Rachel Maddow.

Looks more like a Ralph than a Rachel.

32 posted on 09/13/2006 9:40:36 AM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: N. Theknow

Sept. 11 idea likely cost Janeane Garofalo Air America Radio airtime

UPI News Service, 09/03/2006

Former Air America Radio co-host Janeane Garofalo may have been downgraded to "guest host" status months ago due to a planned Sept. 11 show.

While no reason was given for the outspoken actress' exit from her daily role on the radio network's "Majority Report" broadcast in July, the New York Daily News reported that a source said the 41-year-old is saying she left due to a disagreement over a Sept. 11 piece.

"She said she quit because she asked to do a segment where she intended to interview some (Sept. 11) heroes, and the radio brass killed the idea," said the source.

While the "Reality Bites" actress' manager would only say that the rumor may be true, a spokeswoman for Air America Radio denied it.

"Janeane left AAR to pursue other professional opportunities, and we completely supported her


33 posted on 09/13/2006 9:48:54 AM PDT by US admirer
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To: rface

Darwinism in action.


34 posted on 09/13/2006 9:49:00 AM PDT by polymuser
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To: rface

Bump for later reference.


35 posted on 09/13/2006 9:49:15 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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while Al Franken and Randi Rhodes stay where they are.

... mired in the ratings below Norwegian hip-hop.

36 posted on 09/13/2006 9:50:11 AM PDT by kevkrom (War is not about proportionality. Knitting is about proportionality. War is about winning.)
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To: rface

You can bet Bill O'Reilly will be all over this one tonight!


37 posted on 09/13/2006 9:51:10 AM PDT by marvlus
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Call me gullible (I'll pause...), but are you addressing the for-real Elroy Face?


38 posted on 09/13/2006 9:52:07 AM PDT by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
"The last time something leaned this far to the left it was the tower of Pisa."

HA!!

But, unlike Error-Amerika.

...the Pisa tower's still standing.

39 posted on 09/13/2006 9:52:19 AM PDT by Landru (That does it, no sleep number for you pal.)
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To: rface

Rachel Maddow is big-time openly lesbian.


40 posted on 09/13/2006 9:57:55 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: Buck W.
Nope, just joshing.

Elroy does have a nice writeup in Wikipedia if you are interested.

41 posted on 09/13/2006 10:00:02 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: AbeKrieger

Speaking of "sitting in absolute isolation", did you see G. Gordon Liddy on Fear Factor? LOL.


42 posted on 09/13/2006 10:00:13 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: kevkrom
... mired in the ratings below Norwegian hip-hop.

"Ya, ya, you betcha, livin' in da 'hood, uff da!"

43 posted on 09/13/2006 10:03:38 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: stinkerpot65
Looks more like a Ralph than a Rachel.

Hmmm. Coincidence? I don't think so.

44 posted on 09/13/2006 10:12:32 AM PDT by LexBaird (Another member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/NWO/Illuminati conspiracy for global domination!)
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To: rface

"also ..... I did watch Dancing With The Stars last night - and I must say that Springer did a simplistic - but rather charming rendition of the Cha-Cha..."

That wasn't Tucker Carlson?


45 posted on 09/13/2006 10:28:01 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("For seven million extra, we could have avoided a billion dollar WOT.")
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To: stinkerpot65

"Looks more like a Ralph than a Rachel."

Looks like Ralph Macchio.


46 posted on 09/13/2006 10:29:09 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("For seven million extra, we could have avoided a billion dollar WOT.")
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To: nascarnation
the "celebrities" on Air America were getting paid?
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I note you used the term "getting paid" as opposed to "deserving of pay".

The answer to one is "yes", the other is "no".
47 posted on 09/13/2006 10:35:44 AM PDT by Cheburashka (World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: US admirer
Janeane left AAR to pursue other professional opportunities

It is true. She bought an old CB radio and is now broadcasting on Citizens' Band from her car.

You can only hear her if you are tuned into whatever CB channel she happens to be using and are within one mile of her car. Even so, her potential audience is now several times what it was when she was on Err America.

48 posted on 09/13/2006 10:55:22 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (What did Rather know and when did he know it?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Tucker Carlson wasn't charming


49 posted on 09/13/2006 11:11:44 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I'm no Springer fan, but I thought he did great last night! You have to be a great sport to put yourself out like that. He's an older, out of shape man...he did the best he could and it was fun!


50 posted on 09/13/2006 11:28:01 AM PDT by Hildy
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