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This week Missoula area listeners of KMPT-AM radio, 930 AM, tuned in to hear something surprising. Instead of the usual progressive talk on the station, they're broadcasting conservative talk. KMPT's format change began Tuesday, but market manager Scott Lindahl said they made the decision to switch months ago.

Why is the left obsessed with the idea that the public might overreact to the terror incident at Fort Hood? Here, Air America libtalker Montel Williams suggests the reaction could rival the internment camps during World War II!

OF ALL the Big Lies told by the pooh-bahs of talk radio - that our biracial president hates white people, that global warming is a hoax, that a public health care plan to compete with private insurers equals socialism - the most desperate and deluded is this: that the so-called Fairness Doctrine would squash free speech. Nonsense. The Fairness Doctrine would not stop talk radio hosts from spewing the invective that has made them so fabulously wealthy. All it would do is subject their invective to a real-time reality check. If you don’t believe me, consult the historical evidence. The...

Toured the USS New York in Manhattan on the first day of public viewing(04Nov09). On the flight deck noticed "Air America" had a table broadcasting from inside the ship. ""

I remember the first time I saw Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson show. As is my annoying (to the rest of my house full of normal people) habit, I was working on other things with the TV turned up, keeping up with political arguments, but not just vegging on the couch and devoting my full attention. “Can you turn that off?” I asked my wife who was walking past the blaring tube, “I can’t deal with Ron Reagan Junior’s smug act right now.” She looked at me quizzically and said, “Umm, I’m pretty sure that’s a woman…” As we...

Here is video of Air America's Ana Marie Cox on CNN talking about Fox News and their coverage of ACORN and Jennings. Ana Marie said "the ACORN story they covered during the campaign was not really a story...there were not people being signed up to vote for Obama." She went on to say "I have to say something about this Jennings story, because I think it's really offensive, they're persecuting someone because he's gay." (Video)

The Man Behind the Curtain and his Drones. ...."In a November 2008 in and interview with Spiegel, Soros made some comments that accurately outlined precisely the course that President Obama's administration would eventually pursue in 2009: "I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets -- because they are not allowed by the constitution to run a deficit. For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost...

FReeper Joy Tiz & author of Obamnanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House was on Air America. Typical lib host: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush. Joy did get a few words in.

Over the last several weeks, no one has been the target of the left-wing media and blogosphere than Fox News host Glenn Beck, even more so than his radio host counterpart Rush Limbaugh. Although conservatives have decried the daily ad hominem attacks, some voices on the left are starting to realize that's not an effective strategy for championing their cause, especially when it comes to the hot-button issue of the day, health care. And that is really starting to bother Air America host Lionel - that is the daily repetitive nature of attacking Glenn Beck and/or Rush Limbaugh by giving...

Air America Radio host Montel Williams tells GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann to slit her wrist. He instructed her to go even further and "start right at the collarbone."

1st Amendment: Mark Lloyd, a disciple of Saul Alinsky and fan of Hugo Chavez, wants to destroy talk radio and says free speech is a distraction. The new FCC diversity "czar" says Venezuela is an example we should follow.When Mark Lloyd was appointed July 29 as the chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission, a nation focused on ObamaCare and a deteriorating economy took little notice. But as angry constituents flood town hall meetings and call in to talk radio, a man dedicated to silencing them sits at the right hand of the president. They share a common hero...

Garofalo: Tea Party Protesters 'Functionally Retarded Adults'; Says 'I Want My Country Back' Code for 'I Want My White Guy Back' By Jeff Poor Created 2009-08-22 16:53 You probably already knew Jeanane Garofalo was no fan of conservatives, Republicans or just about anything that could be described as right of center. But the former Air America host and MSNBC regular really has a low regard for conservative activists. In an appearance at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 21 [1], Garofalo ripped into tea party protesters, or what some of the wizards of smart on the left have...

You really have to give the Air America hostess credit for the phrase “charming liar”. This recording is just unbelievable, considering the source..

Obama is a "charming liar" - and that's the good part! This audio is priceless. "It makes me puke that we've just been 'Cheneyed' by a guy named Barack Obama." "What if the people out there screaming and breaking up the discussions at the town hall meetings are correct?"

...It makes me puke that we have just been "Cheneyed" by a man named Barak Obama- Greg Palas on Air America 8/11/09 The world must nearing an end, snowballs are being thrown in Hell, and pigs are growing wings. Air America is bashing their messiah Barack Obama. It all stems from the secret meetings President Obama had with the people from the Pharmaceutical Industry to craft deals and win support for Obamacare. Even the ultra-liberal Air America has figured out that something sneaky happened in those meetings, especially since Pharma is now the President's most favored industry. During the January...

Here is a new Naked Emperor News video that plays audio from the Left-Wing "Air America" Radio Network actually exposing President Barack Obama's "back room" deal with Big Pharmaceutical companies to support his ObamaCare plan. The Left is furious with Obama. In this audio, they say Obama is a "charming liar." A caller also says what Obama is doing is "fascist" because of the merging of political power with corporate power to impose their will on the nation. The audio is intermingled with flashbacks of Obama condeming the Pharmaceutical companies and saying he would be transparent in his administration. Interestingly,...

On her MSNBC show last night, the left-wing Air America host Rachel Maddow took a swipe at the conservative Shirley & Banister Public Affairs firm, specifically President & CEO Craig Shirley. Maddow accused Shirley of being behind a grassroots Web site funded by the group Grassfire.org, based on research provided by the "independent watchdog group Public Citizen," and she showed still images from an incendary "Obama=Hitler" video that's still posted on the Grassfire's ResistNet.com Web site. BUT MADDOW WAS WRONG. THE PUBLIC CITIZEN WEB PAGE SHE CITED IS SEVERAL YEARS OLD. Shirley & Bannister hasn't represented Grassfire.org since 2004, and...

The family of CPT C. Joseph Rosbert has asked the Patriot Guard Riders (PGR) to stand in honor for this WWII Flying Tiger Ace as he is laid to his final rest on the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) on 06 August, 2009 at approximately 1500 hours from the ANC Administration building, with services at the Columbarium. PGR will be there, standing tall silent and proud in honor of this Hero and his family, friends and comrades at arms. The mission plan follows this brief biographical sketch of our Hero. From the family: "American Volunteer Group "Flying Tigers"...

Evan Montvel-Cohen, a Guam media executive who co-founded the liberal national radio network Air America, pleaded no contest in Circuit Court yesterday to a charge of first-degree theft....His no-contest plea was part of a bargain with prosecutors who agreed to dismiss other charges of credit card fraud, forgery, money laundering and second-degree theft..... Montvel-Cohen had been accused of stealing more than $62,000 from a Waimanalo landscaping firm.....

The evidence: A single sign she saw at a single rally which, as Ace notes, almost certainly didn’t have any racial intent. But if St. Janeane, virtuous progressive, saith there be racism, then racism there be. My favorite part is when she wonders why tea partiers weren’t out in the streets last year protesting Bush’s then-record budget deficit; a better question, one Griff Jenkins lamentably didn’t think of, is why leftists who grumbled about Bush’s spending aren’t out in the streets now that Obama’s quadrupled it. Below the clip of Garofalo you’ll find the MoveOn ad from last March that...

Friday, April 17, 2009 Kook Actress Garofalo: Tea Parties Were About Hating the Black Man You may have missed this. It was on Keith Olbermann's show. Actress Janeane Garofalo said the Tax Day Tea Party protests were really about hating the black man in the White House. How original. The 8 minute long hate-filled rant is Here. The Washington Times reported: Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance. "Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not...

Ron Reagan is the direct namesake of the man whom many on the right consider to be “The Greatest American Hero.” Much to their dismay he has spent his broadcasting career taking aim at the very politicians who have sought to attach themselves to his father’s (the late President Ronald Reagan) conservative legacy in order to justify everything from extreme corporate deregulation to the war in Iraq. For decades Ron Reagan has forged a path that embraces left wing ideals and touts science and progression over alleged antiquated religious rhetoric, a position that infuriates the Republican Party and warms liberals...

It was a long-rumored switch, and now we learn it will happen Friday morning as Clear Channel-owned WINZ-AM (940) will drop progressive talk. The new all-syndicated lineup includes ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike in the morning, followed by Dan Patrick from 9am-12pm, Jim Rome from 12-3pm, Chris Myers from 3-7pm, Petros & Money 7-10pm, J.T. the Brick from 10pm-2am, and Fox Sports during the overnight. WINZ is currently the flagship station for the NBA’s Miami Heat. In the latest Miami ratings, WINZ (1.6 share) as a talk station beat all-sports stations WQAM-AM (1.3 share) & WAXY-AM (1.1 share). Overall the...

excerpt: Air America is going into the syndication business. And its first outside client is a Newsweek Magazine radio production called “Newsweek On the Air.” In keeping with Air America’s corporate mission statement, the program has been on the air for 27-years, but no one is known to have ever actually listened to it.

Couldn't they have at least waited a week to make this announcement? Liberal radio uber-failure Air America is branching out, expanding their tremendously successful business model to include syndication of outside programming. And with whom are they beginning this new venture? Why, Newsweek magazine, and their program Newsweek On Air. Newsweek has been thusly broadcasting for twenty-seven years, has won "various awards and a place on so many station schedules" -- and I would venture that most of you have never heard of it. A state of anonymity that will likely continue with their Air America partnership.

Another progressive talker falls victim to the rightwing corporate stranglehold of our public airwaves... The Peter B. Collins Show will come to an end, as of next Friday, according to an announcement by Collins on today's broadcast. After nearly five years on the air, the economic climate, and the stranglehold of rightwing corporate control over the public's airwaves has made it impossible for him to continue.(snip) ...heartbreaking, but hardly surprising in today's climate for nearly everyone but the vast majority of rightwing whackjob radio hosts propped up by rightwing corporate interests. After a quick segment, during our appearance on today's...

EXCERPT: Former trash TV host and current presidential coin conman Montel Williams is joining Air America. He has the perfect resume for floundering libtalk network – no radio experience. “Montel Across America” debuts in April. Here’s how Air America describes this momentous occasion in a press release: “Meet Air America’s newest addition, Emmy award-winning host Montel Williams! His new Air America program is called ‘Montel Across America,’ and it debuts April 6 airing weekdays from 9am-12pm EST on radio stations across the country.” “On radio stations?” Most press releases include the number of radio stations. Like “Dennis Miller will debut...

Freerepublic.com is going to get shut down by the Secret Service for threatening President Obama's life. If it doesn't happen because of a flimsy proviso in the post discussed here, then we live in a still more dangerous world.

Add a dollop of dementia. A pinch of paranoia. A smidgeon of socialism. Mix it all together into an ideological olio and half-bake at 450 degrees. Voila! You have the next MSNBC primetime host. Ever since news got out that MSNBC wants to create a new show for its 7:00 p.m. time slot, fans of libtalk radio have been flooding the lefty cable network with unsolicited endorsements of various libtalk hosts Two fan-based Facebook groups have been founded to promote..

The “On the Air” sign has been turned off for the last time at floundering libtalk network Nova M Radio. Nova M’s employees remain unpaid for the past two weeks and the company will reportedly seek bankruptcy protection next week. Lunatic talkers Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy had been the network’s two “big” stars. We use the term “big” advisedly, because Malloy’s program was carried by only eleven radio stations.

Libtalk network Nova M Radio has been shut down, according to the attorney for Randi Rhodes, Robert V Gaulin of New York. … Moments ago, Gaulin sent this letter to your Radio Equalizer: Randi Rhodes’ on-air home for less than a year will shut its doors. In an email message of February 17th from counsel for Nova M Radio, Inc. to Randi’s entertainment attorney, Robert V. Gaulin, the company is said to have been advised to file for bankruptcy protection next week. All payroll deposits were reversed on Tuesday, leaving Nova’s employees unpaid for the past two weeks. On Sunday,...

Are you a conservative? Then you're a d***, and there's something wrong with your brain. At least that's what "24" actress and comedienne Janeane Garofalo believes. According to the former Air America radio host, a conservative starts out an “a**hole,” and the politics come later. She asserted, “The reason a person is a conservative republican (sic) is because something is wrong with them...It really is neuroscience.”

We just ran across a 2005 Boston Globe article (link) praising the success of Air America. Viewed through the lens of retrospect, it’s funnier than anything we’ve ever written. Much funnier. “A year after the launch of the Air America radio network,” the headline screams, “progressive talk is making progress.” The best part is the last line of the article. It’s a quote from Jon Sinton, Air America’s president of programming. ”In five years we’ll be on 600 radio stations,” Sinton boasted. ”The brand will be pervasive, and I think it will be a quaint memory when people said, ‘Boy,...

Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who has been in the aggressive forefront of the campaign to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, is married to Tom Athans, who works extensively with left-wing radio organizations and was once the executive vice-president of Air America, the liberal radio syndicate that, despite massive publicity from major media, has failed miserably to win a national audience. Stabenow's outrageous conflict of interest has of course been largely ignored by the prestige press, which should have been demanding that she recuse herself from all political involvement with this issue.

The air seems a little cleaner in the nation’s capitol today. Lib talk radio is dead in the District of Columbia. WWRC-AM had marketed itself as “Obama 1260,” proving that the FCC doesn’t consider stupidity to be sufficient grounds for revocation of a broadcast license. The station has now flipped to a business talk/news format. Losing affiliates is nothing new for Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Bill Press, Ron Reagan, Rachel Maddow and Lionel. But the loss of the Washington, DC market is a particularly harsh blow for liberal talk radio, because the format is rapidly running out off major markets...

Apparently, Obama’s presidency will outlive WWRC-AM’s “Obama 1260.” Red Zebra Broadcasting is pulling the plug on the liberal talk format, featuring Stephanie Miller, Lionel, and Rachel Maddow, and go alll-business news starting next week. WWRC PD Greg Tantum tells the Washington Post the reason is the “ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election.” The lone survivor of “Obama 1260” will be liberal talker Ed Schultz, who will move to Red Zebra conservative talk sister-station WTNT-AM (570). FYI – prior to March, 2003 when WWRC was owned by Clear Channel, they had a business news...

Ann Coulter Responds to Media Matters Attacks Wednesday, January 7, 2009 7:50 AM By: Phil Brennan The far left attack dog Media Matters for America is obviously unhappy with Ann Coulter’s new book “Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America.” published a 6,000 word compilation of a dozen alleged lies contained in her book which unmasks some of the left’s sleaziest tactics. Media Matters, according to widely respected pollster Frank Luntz is “one of the most destructive organizations associated with American politics today … They are vicious. They only understand one thing: attack...” Newsmax asked Ms. Coulter to respond...

Now that the government has assumed the role of economic planner with various bailout packages and stimulus plans, experts are predicting a federal budget deficit of $1 trillion. That much money may be difficult to comprehend, but former President Ronald Reagan put it in perspective with a 1981 analogy describing the federal debt: "And the best I could come up with is that if you had a stack of thousand-dollar bills in your hand only 4 inches high, you'd be a millionaire. A trillion dollars would be a stack of thousand-dollar bills 67 miles high." But the huge number doesn't...

Considering the level of hate and support offered up by the MSM during the Bush era is it really possible or likely that the Dems will be able to pass a version of the "Fairness Doctrine" that will kill talk radio? what would they have to do to get past a concerted fight at the Supreme Court? What examples of 'hate' could they bring that are not countered by the comment to kill Henry Hyde and his family? Comments please-

Top Left Radio Host Suggests Palin Might Sleep With Teen Boys TOP LEFT RADIO HOST SUGGESTS PALIN MIGHT SLEEP WITH TEEN BOYS

Of course he (McCain) became very friendly with the Vietnamese. They called him the Prince. He was well treated actually.

The former "First Son" has done radio (most recently on KIRO in Seattle, where he lives) and lots of TV - for CNN, MSNBC, ABC News "20/20" and even Animal Planet. Now Air America Senior VP/Programming Bill Hess brings Reagan on board to host the 8-9pm weeknight hour, following Rachel Maddow (6-8pm). Reagan says "there are too few progressive voices in the media, and Air America plays an important and vital role." He starts Monday night, September 8.

In her black-rimmed glasses, black T-shirt, jeans and orange sneakers, green iPod wires dangling from her ears, Rachel Maddow cuts an unassuming figure at odds with her growing celebrity. "I know I don't look like everybody else on television," MSNBC's newest host says at a Mexican restaurant here. "I'm not that pretty. Women on television are over-the-top, beauty-pageant gorgeous. That's not the grounds on which I am competing. There's a basic threshold you have to cross: not looking like you're insulting. You ought to wear makeup, comb your hair." And if she tried for a makeover, she says, "I would...

Excerpt- ~ snip ~ The liberal commentator and Air America host, who has become a breakout star for the cable channel during this campaign, is taking over the 9 p.m. slot following Keith Olbermann, who she often subs for on "Countdown." Olbermann broke the news in what he called a "fully authorized leak" this afternoon on the left-wing Web site Daily Kos. Dan Abrams, the former MSNBC general manager who had been hosting "Verdict" at that hour, will continue as NBC's chief legal correspondent and will be a daytime anchor for MSNBC. ~ snip ~

This is a live blog event that happened 8/16/08 LIVE from Seattle Center: "We the People" all star panel kicks off AM 1090's annual town hall forum has just kicked off here at Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall, where a packed house of progressive activists have gathered to listen to a panel of nationally syndicated talk show hosts talk about the 2008 presidential campaign and American politics. Five of us from NPI are here, liveblogging and taking pictures. The panel includes Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, Sam Seder, Rachel Maddow, Thom Hartmann, and Stephanie Miller, with Ron Reagan moderating. Each host was...

Air America Radio has been a financial and ratings disaster since its inception in 2004. It enjoyed what arguably was the most free (fawning) publicity any business venture ever got, but almost went bankrupt after racking up $37 million in losses in 31 months. Since its purchase by Green Family Media in 2007, it hasn't done much better. Of course, the idea that a loopy-left network would thrive in a medium dominated, by popular demand, by conservatives was, well, loopy. AAR airs in only 47 markets (since its inception, it has lost 40 affiliates), and even in cities where it...

{SNIP}...The mystery man behind the looting of a Bronx charity to finance the startup of liberal radio network Air America was arrested yesterday in Guam. See link

Circuit City (NYSE: CC) is currently trading at $3.90/common share.Goldman Sachs (GS) is acting as a financial adviser to Circuit City (CC).Investor Mark Wattles, a holder of over 6.5% of Circuit City stock, is hounding Circuit City Executive Management to fire their CEO and Board of Directors.The stock price has bottomed out.The company has net book value which is 200% higher than it's market capitalization.Circuit City is a prime target for a buy-out.The company has very little debt and over $11 Billion in annual sales.The company has hoards of cash and an incredible amount of untapped credit.Circuit City has trimmed...

The DUmmies are going to have to guzzle down at least 14 Bloody Marys to kill the pain caused by the loss of Randi Rhodes. Yes, Randi has split from Air America. Ostensibly it was because of her suspension due to her "whore" comments about Hillary and Nancy Pelosi. However, it was pretty inevitable that Air America was going to DUmp Randi in the near future in large part because of her lousy ratings. So will this mean that we won't hear Randi on the air anymore? For the most part---yes. She has ended up at NOVA M RADIO...

Radio talker Randi Rhodes, who last week was suspended from Air America for obscene language at a public appearance, has switched to Nova M Radio, a competing syndicator. Clear Channel Denver announced Thursday that Rhodes will be reinstated in her afternoon timeslot (1-4 p.m.) on KKZN 760 AM, under a new contract with syndicator Nova M Radio, effective Monday. Nova M Radio, another progressive radio outfit, was founded by some of the originators of Air America. Celebrity voices will fill in for Rhodes until a replacement is named. According to Kris Olinger, who manages Denver's Air America affiliate, Rosie O'Donnell,...