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Air America host Mike Malloy last night advocated violence against Blogs For Bush regular blogger Mark Noonan after having read a Daily Kos attack on Noonan and then suggesting the violence to "Peggy Noonan's boy." Matt Margolis has the audio here. The artlce they're using as a reason to visit said violence is here.

The Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club has been duped out of a reported $875,000 meant for poor children and elderly Alzheimer's patients. Evan Montvel-Cohen, the former chairman of the much-hyped liberal radio network Air America, is at the center of the erupting scandal. Air America radio host Al Franken, punctuating his discussion with nervous laughter, called Cohen a "crook" on his show last week and confessed to his left-wing audience that "I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul."

On March 31, 2004, Air America Radio, promoted as the liberal antidote to conservative-dominated talk radio, was launched with great fanfare and prolific media coverage. Since then, it has generated headlines while losing some stations and picking up others. In April, it fired head writer Lizz Winstead, cocreator of Comedy Central's Daily Show, who is suing for back pay (including money she says she is owed for flogging Vermont Teddy Bears). Her show, which costarred ex-rapper Chuck D, has been replaced by TV talkmeister Jerry Springer, who is mulling a run for governor of Ohio. Now that it's possible to...

Lizz Winstead is off the air at Air America Radio. The brilliant comic, who co-created Comedy Central's "Daily Show," left the liberal network as a host last week. Word is her departure had nothing to do with the arrival of new CEO Danny Goldberg, the recently ousted founder of Artemis Records and author of "Dispatches from the Culture Wars." "This was in the works before Danny," a source tells us. "We wanted to take the show in a different direction," says an Air America rep. "We thank Lizz for her service and dedication." Winstead couldn't be reached.

The first time I turned on Air America, the new liberal radio network, I heard a commentator arguing that Republicans did not initiate impeachment proceedings against President Clinton because of Monica Lewinsky, Whitewater, lying or obstruction of justice. No, the man said, Republicans knew Clinton had committed no impeachable offenses, but they pursued impeachment anyway, in a diabolically clever ploy designed specifically to make the general public so disenchanted with the very idea of impeachment that they would not tolerate impeachment against the next (Republican) president — who, of course, deserves to be impeached immediately. OK. That's about what I...

RALEIGH — I have found myself in a strange position of late: disagreeing with some of my conservative and libertarian friends about the market for and value of a truly engaging, funny, left-wing offering on talk radio. I think there could be a viable business in it. I also believe it would be a valuable addition to the public discourse. Most of my colleagues disagree. But on one point, at least, our viewpoints converge. The much-hyped Air America network, which debuted earlier this month on a handful of broadcast outlets and satellite, is unlikely to become a viable enterprise in...

In a rally at Harlem’s large and influential Abyssinian Baptist Church (once under the pastoral care of the late Cong. Adam Clayton Powell), “community leaders” agitated against the new liberal radio network Air America, as a victimizer of the black community. None of the American newspapers which have lavished loving coverage on the tiny four station operation — the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, among them — bothered to cover the rally against it. Toronto’s Globe and Mail which did have the integrity to cover an event which went against the left wing press's obvious agenda commented: Something...

Being Franken and to the point The lunch crowd at Michael's craned their necks yesterday as Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes bantered with Fox News nemesis Al Franken. "Will you go on my radio show?" demanded Franken, who's launching a liberal talk radio venture in a couple of months. "Remember that I helped you out once when you asked me to come on your radio show." "I really don't do those things anymore," replied Ailes, who had dropped by the table on his way out of the restaurant. "I haven't done it in two years." "Here, I do you a...