I’m not sure I care. Progressives, moderates and liberals listen to the radio for music, not for overly-inflated egos bloviating.

There is no audience for far left radio. The left has pretty much every newspaper and all national broadcasts, plus MSNBC and mostly CNN. People can only take so much lefty reporting/pontificating.

Additionally, TfT, judging from the pictures from the (White) Tea Party rallies, we progressives, moderates and liberals are not as prone to a sedentary lifestyle.

Aside from the general economic conditions I’m afraid liberal radio will never take off.

Their audience has better things to do, and they’re unwilling by ideology to play the smear and fear game that apparently is so entertaining to those on the right.

We cede the politics of cruelty and callousness to our right wing brothers.

Jim…

HAHAHA Really? cough** OlbermannSchultzMaddow **cough

They need to impose the Fairness Doctrine and require everyone to listen to Air America for at least two hours each day. But the Obamacare plan will pay for everybody’s barf bag.

MSNBC – Fail
Air America – Fail
Democratic Agenda – Fail

Well folks, there you have it.

“We cede the politics of cruelty and callousness to our right wing brothers.”

Oh, do you. Obviously you haven’t read much of this thread.

It wasn’t the best idea anyway to basically run their own stations throughout the country. Besides, since Air America was created Democrats got all three branches and Al Franken’s a Senator. Pretty good developments.

MSNBC though’s only been liberal for slightly over a year now. It took Fox News at least five years before they built a loyal conservative audience.

“Let’s carry the torch for a president who wants to kill the private sector economy. Wait a minute! Where did all our ‘private-sector’ advertising go???” Einsteins.

“MSNBC though’s only been liberal for slightly over a year now. It took Fox News at least five years before they built a loyal conservative audience.”

And since then Shuster, Maddow, Olbermann, and to a lesser degree Matthews, have availed themselves of a million put-downs dirty double entendre genitalia jokes in order to denigrate regular citizens. They’ve implied and outright accused a myriad of people of being racists. And they’ve vented more spleen to their cable news competition, than Ikea has allen wrenches…

I’m beginning to see why AIr America failed.

They were too civil for you guys.

So, I guess this means that MSNBC has a “talent” pool to pull from for a new live show at 10PM.

Bwahahahaha

I always find it très amusant when the über rightists come in from the straße, remove their jackboots and wax eloquently about the hatred, cruelty and callousness of the progressives, moderates and liberals, all the while glossing over the vile hatred and festering contempt of a Rush Limbaugh or Michael Wiener or John Gibson or Glen(n) Beck, the unapologetic racism and threats on Greta Van Susteren’s blog (which even she admits exists). Go to virtually any FOX site or FOX Fan Club site, and there it is. Hitting you in the face. Sorry guys, we progressives, moderates and liberals can’t begin to compete with you. And, we don’t want to do so.

FOX apologist Koldys and ALL his friends are gathering in their metaphorical telephone booth known as the Dump, cheering the failure of a business and the loss of jobs for a number of good people. A really nice lot they are.

“Sorry guys, we progressives, moderates and liberals can’t begin to compete with you. And, we don’t want to do so.”

You make my point.

If there’s any reflexive glossing over an audience appetite for incivility, it’s done by you folks.

And it commenced here from comment #1.

“FOX apologist Koldys and ALL his friends are gathering in their metaphorical telephone booth known as the Dump, cheering the failure of a business and the loss of jobs for a number of good people. A really nice lot they are.”

I thought we were for business to the determent of people, but maybe that was last week’s meeting…

“Air America, the left-leaning national radio station” understates it. Left leaning my ass. They are totally unhinged leftists.

Real Royal King a/k/a Barrack Obama.

Up (down) next — MSNBC.

The Real Royal King wrote:

Sorry guys, we progressives, moderates and liberals can’t begin to compete with you. And, we don’t want to do so.

Yeah. Right.

From last wee…ooops! I mean yesterday, here’s a hot-and-bothered Glynnis waxing eloquent about the wonders of Mr. Civility himself, Matt Taibbi:

Here’s what I’m always curious about when I read Matt Taibbi’s blog posts: why did Rolling Stone let him go blog elsewhere? Taibbi penned various blogs at the mag’s website, which never accrued much attention, mostly because they were not updated with any regularity. But Taibbi is on fire over at True Slant and one wonders who at Rolling Stone is responsible for not providing him a similar platform/incentive — had they thought to the magazine might actually have a relevant online presence. Anyway! Yesterday, Taibbi took the sort of scorching rhetoric he usually levels at Tom Friedman and directed it elsewhere on the NYT op-ed page. Namely, David Brooks.

(snip)

[Taibbi] does not mince words in his “Cliff’s Notes translation” of what Brooks actually meant. At all:

Although it is true that Haiti was just like five minutes ago a victim of a random earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people, I’m going to skip right past the fake mourning period and point out that Haitians are a bunch of lazy niggers who can’t keep their dongs in their pants and probably wouldn’t be pancaked under fifty tons of rubble if they had spent a little more time over the years listening to the clarion call of white progress, and learning to use a freaking T-square, instead of singing and dancing and dabbling in not-entirely-Christian religions and making babies all the fucking time. I know I’m supposed to respect other cultures and keep my mouth shut about this stuff, but my penis is only four and a third inches long when fully engorged and so I’m kind of at the end of my patience just generally, especially when it comes to “progress-resistant” cultures.

Yep, TRRK, you don’t want to compete. You want to win. And you do.

Congratulations, lefties, you’ve won a box full of pink slips (and not the kind Code Pink wears, either).

Cecilia: You’ve gotta check out Greg Gutfeld’s video collection of Maddow saying “teabagger” over the past year, followed by the clip of her fighting to keep her composure as she announced Brown defeated Coakley.

I’ll check it out, LNSmithee! Thanks!

The Real Royal King says:
January 21, 2010 at 5:14 pm

Additionally, TfT, judging from the pictures from the (White) Tea Party rallies, we progressives, moderates and liberals are not as prone to a sedentary lifestyle.

You do realize they make radio portable these days, right?

(PS- I added link to your first statement. I think says a lot about how you look at race… and what you really mean.)

Jim R says:
January 21, 2010 at 5:15 pm

…and they’re unwilling by ideology to play the smear and fear game that apparently is so entertaining to those on the right.

Except for folks like Ed Shultz who encourages people towards voter fraud.

m says:
January 21, 2010 at 5:44 pm

Not terrible points. However, I think you’re overstating their impact… especially since most people have never heard of Air America.

The Real Royal King says:
January 21, 2010 at 6:17 pm

Sorry guys, we progressives, moderates and liberals can’t begin to compete with you. And, we don’t want to do so.

So your point is, “We do it, but you do it more”? Weak… really weak.

The real difference is (and Air America failing highlights it), is that people actually listen to or watch those folks on the right. It’s easy to get away with saying all kinds of stuff when nobody pays attention… much harder when you have an audience.

That’s why someone like <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=287153"Mike Malloy was allowed to be openly racist… nobody was paying attention.

The Real Royal King says:
January 21, 2010 at 6:31 pm

Kinda like how the left cheers when someone on the right DIES (see Tony Snow)… or how they’ve been consistently routing for FNC’s failure from the start?

I have a question with all the defenses that liberal radio fails because liberals have better things to do than listen to talk-radio: If that is in fact the case why the need to forward the “Fairness Doctrine”? If liberals do not want to even listen then why would Congress impose legislation forcing stations to carry content people do not want?

I also think that when they were ramping up Air America they would have done some market analysis and discovered that in fact the left of center listeners were not actually widespread enough to sustain the network. When they first went on the air in New York city AA took over a station that had previously played Calypso music. After a year the station’s rating had gone from 12th place in the market, to 13th in the market.

I heard one apologist say Clear Channel had squelched AA through market domination, but the truth is CC carried numerous AA broadcasts in markets across the country. In my own area CC removed an entire sports station to change it soley to AA content. This is because CC is profit-driven and decided they wanted to benefit from covering both sides of the political arena. AA never took off enough to generate profits, simple as that.

The Real Royal King says:
January 21, 2010 at 6:31 pm
FOX apologist Koldys and ALL his friends are gathering in their metaphorical telephone booth known as the Dump, cheering the failure of a business and the loss of jobs for a number of good people. A really nice lot they are.

Not me King, I really hope the next time I go to McDonalds, Sam Sedar is taking my order. LOL!

Never listened to it. Don’t listen to talk radio and I don’t watch cable news which is basically a freak show. Get everything I need from the internets and newspapers. Your typical tea-bagger doesn’t do the internets and reading is out of the question so all they are left with is Fox. My 85 year old dad loves Fox. Doesn’t understand a word but can’t get enough of BillO.

Like them or not Air America has been around for a bit. It is rather sad to see them go, even if I disagreed with
their views.

Ted says:
January 21, 2010 at 9:32 pm

Just to see if I understand you correctly, Ted, ol’ buddy.

You spend your time posting, and posting, and posting on a site primarily dedicated to discussing television and cable news… but you don’t watch ANY OF IT?!

Wow… that puts you pretty far ahead in the “Uninformed” category… and at least vying for an award in the category of “Most Pathetic.” Really?! Wow! All this time, and you’re don’t even watch… just looking for attention, huh? Really really sad. Sadder than you were 5 minutes ago, and I didn’t think that was possible.

The Real Royal King says:
January 21, 2010 at 5:06 pm
I’m not sure I care. Progressives, moderates and liberals listen to the radio for music, not for overly-inflated egos bloviating.

The Real Royal King says:
January 21, 2010 at 6:31 pm
FOX apologist Koldys and ALL his friends are gathering in their metaphorical telephone booth known as the Dump, cheering the failure of a business and the loss of jobs for a number of good people. A really nice lot they are.

Does he or doesn’t he care? Ah, to be a liberal, at 5:06pm you don’t care if people you agree with lose their jobs.
But at 6:31pm You do care if people you agree with lose their jobs.

puck30: I’m not sure you understand nuance or subtlety. Not too surprising, I guess. The first comments has as its subject listeners. In other words, from the standpoint of a listener, I have lost nothing. The second comment has as its object people who have lost their jobs, a a matter for which I have great empathy and concern and for which you obviously have none. Read in context, and everything becomes much sharper. All my very best to you and to all your friends.

Blue – I think you are stalking me, but I do appreciate the compliment. You might be surprised how many video clips are out there on the internets.

By the way, if you look closely you will see a link to “online” content and “print” content. It’s kind of trite to say but you really are a dumb ass. Now go watch BillO on your tivo.

Thanks, Puck! You got him dead on!

Cecelia’s daily tip of the hat to mediocrity ….

Well, alright then, TRRK…here’s hat tip to the superlatively silly…

It’s quite creative that jibberish you concocted above, so as to cover up the fact that your changed your outlook after having gone to Johnny Dollar’s Place to see the reaction the Air America news.

Ted says:
January 22, 2010 at 10:57 am

I’m stalking you because I’ve read your comments… wow, lose definition. Not that surprising.

So basically, you take the clips that OTHER PEOPLE post (many of which I’m sure have been “altered” to fit the spin of the hosting website), and then just regurgitate the opinion of those whom you allow to do your thinking for you. Nice.

Perhaps I should try your “logic” sometime. I’ll watch a bunch of YouTube music videos… and then see if I can play guitar. I wonder…

………and to think that the Progressive movement voted for another failure to the Senate….Al Franken who also worked at Air America. What a joke the Progressive/Democratic movement is!

ImNotBlue but IAmAnIdiot – I get the clips from Fox News, the 912 Project and Glenn Becks web site. Are you ever going to say something coherent? Do you read? Try the library. Lot’s of things to read there called “books.” Ask if you can’t find the large print books.

Ted says:
January 22, 2010 at 2:06 pm

So you watch “clips” online, instead of actually watching them on television? Why is that? Forgive me if I find that incredibly hard to believe that you sit watching internet clips YOU find on FOX’s website. Rather, you probably get linked by Media Matters, or one of the other blue outfits, that re-edits the video on their site… and you just swallow it up.

You see, if you spent more time actually doing that kind of research (checking FNC’s website, reading Beck’s page, etc.) you’d be able to speak more intelligently, and be more informed when you post. Instead, you resort to really stupid insults (Are you in 3rd grade? Can’t you do any better than that? Put a little effort into it. Show some pride!) because you don’t know enough about the actual subjects.

That’s the point, buddy! Not that you’re wrong on almost everything that you say… but the fact that you don’t pay attention enough to even know what you’re talking about! You’re just a middle-man between the blue-blog smear peddlers, and the real world. I guess that works for you… by why you’re proud of it, I can’t quite understand.

ImNutBlue – Look up “intelligence” in the dictionary (another “book”) and get back to me. Isn’t it about time for your big bag of stupid starring Glenn Beck followed by the BillO on tape (third time today). My you’ve had a busy day!

You never answered my question, seriously, do you read?

I’m WAY Behind – I thought “Air America” was the ‘air service’ that used to fly out from the BACK ramps in Yakota AB..?? AND “Adios Airlines” was the ‘Anytime, Anywhere’ Airline..??..

Ted says:
January 22, 2010 at 3:11 pm

ImNutBlue – Look up “intelligence” in the dictionary (another “book”) and get back to me.

I already know your “intelligence” deficiency… I don’t need to look it up, I’ve already exposed you.

My you’ve had a busy day!

Yes, I have… but what is it that you’re talking about again?

You never answered my question, seriously, do you read?

Well, that’s because your question is stupid… but yes, I do read. Magazines, books, newspapers, websites, billboards, postage stamps, the little printing they put inside the collar or t-shirts… but again, what is your point… or is this just more rambling because you’re simply uninformed?