Lefty Obit for Air America
On January 21st this blog published a post announcing the demise of liberal talk radio. Air America is no more. Perhaps Al Franken can suggest his departure was the reason. But that won’t get as many laughs as him being in the US Senate.
The post here on the 21st suggested there was no reason to comment but just mention this liberal failure. But an item in the LAT on the 23rd changes all that. It starts out well enough as shown below.
Ya, all right, according to observers. Obviously that does not suggest ALL observers. Here’s an example of the strange clashes between liberals of various philosophies.
Two weeks after Air America went live, it got yanked off the air in Los Angeles and Chicago as part of a dispute with MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting, which owned the affiliate stations in those cities.
Who cares why? Air America gets support from Clear Channel and they still cannot make a go of it. Sort of like, I dunno, Jimmy Carter and his spectacular experience with things business or economic. Double-digit interest rates, inflation and unemployment ravaged the US. Fortunately all Air America ravaged was Air America. And if you want to point to Slick Willie’s budget surplus at the end of a second term consider this. There was a Republican Congress to balance the insanity of a liberal White House.
Besides those involved with Air America what observers did the LAT use for their condolence piece on the death of liberal talk radio? Air America was about as successful as any liberal agenda in this country or any other. That ain’t sayin’ much.
Stanford Matthews
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