NY Daily News smears air america

gotta love the canned outrage of these rightwingers! I guess we can't compete with the elevated discourse of free republic and Michael 'savage' Weiner.

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Liberal radio is airing bad jokes and worst taste

The United States "is on the slippery slope to theocratic fascism." "The Catholic Church has been secretly encouraging oral sex for years."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "ought to be tortured." President Bush should be taken out and shot.

Those are a few nutso nuggets from the hosts of Air America Radio, which calls itself the new liberal voice. The fledgling network is carried in New York on WLIB, 1190 AM. With the Iraq torture scandal everywhere, I tuned in, expecting to hear sober policy analysis mixed with glee over President Bush's political pickle.

Instead, I got 10 hours of rancid venom directed at the President, Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, the Catholic Church and anyone else the hosts felt like slamming. If you're a card-carrying lib who likes crude sex jokes and a cartoonish echo chamber, Air America is for you.

more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/192671p-166266c.html

The fact that so many conservatives praise Alan Colmes show should tell you something about his effectiveness as a host.

Would they rather the hosts do what past failed liberal talk show hosts have done: drone on in policy wonkish language, as if talk radio should be just like a graduate seminar in public policy.

Air America does not exist to please white male conservatives. We have nothing to say to them, nothing to offer them and we do not seek to represent them.

As a NYer, I can tell you that a news story about a radio station making outrageous statements can only have one result....increasing numbers of listeners

If you're a card-carrying lib who likes crude sex jokes and a cartoonish echo chamber, Air America is for you.

That description covers about 5 million NYers

I love this network, entertaining and elightening!! I am serioulsy considering getting Sirus Sattelite radio so I won't have to be hooked to a computor for streaming. I hope they add more and more stations and get their big cities--LA and Chicago, back!