Gee, why wouldn’t anyone want to advertise their product or service to an audience of slackers?
Kevin - 07:11pm on 11/04/2006
works for Walmart.
The Whistler - 08:11pm on 11/04/2006
Rob, When you said, [Rush Limbaugh] “He goes a bit over the line on occasion (like with the Michael J. Fox thing, in my estimation),” You either weren’t listening to Rush when he commented on Fox or your memory of that segment of his show is failing you.
Whatever “over the line” means to you, I would hope it is much more tolerant to what Rush said than to what some of the things said on Air America.
Maybe Rush, in your opinion, does go over the line on occasion, but for you to equate Rush with the vial and hate spewing Air America radio is “going ever the line.”
coffee260 - 10:11pm on 11/04/2006
OH,OH,OH, pick me, pick me!!! Could it be they have a crappy product that no one wants to listen to?
What do I win? I hope it is the Vega Stationwagon! That way I can carry all my Best of Al Franken 8 tracks.
2Hotel9 - 05:11am on 11/05/2006
Basically, like talk-left on Sirius satellite radio, their shows suck.
They’re not entertaining at all and they lack substance.
If they at least made a pretense at being serious contenders in the forum of talk-show debate, I’d try to listen to them; but they don’t even do that.
Like Lynn Samuels and Ed Shultz,their radio shows are for the mindless morons that don’t read and also lack substance themselves..
It’s all peanut galery bullshit; smarmy rumors & innuendo, conspiracy theories (Bush brought down the twin towers etc.) and polarizing, “we’ll getcha” hate mongering.
The dead air time (and there’s lots of it) is filled with contrived (nervous) laughter by the two or three side-kicks that all their hosts have to have in order to finish the show.
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
On Saturday, August 17, 2002, Lynn Samuels, a liberal talk show personality, should have been preparing for her New York based show on WABC talk radio.
But instead, she was still trying to figure out why her 4:00 to 9:00 PM show was canceled. According to her web site, Lynn was “fired” from her gig. The reason she was given: “Budget Cuts.”
Have progressive liberal radio hosts become a “victim” of the economy or of bias?
BuzzFlash.com had an opportunity to interview Lynn Samuels about why another liberal radio host got the heave-ho.
When they fail because they have no talent and/or because their shows suck, it’s always characterized as “BIAS.”
If the product sucks and nobody’s buying, it’s a simple matter of supply and demand.
Bezu Fache - 07:11am on 11/05/2006
Coffee:
Maybe Rush, in your opinion, does go over the line on occasion, but for you to equate Rush with the vial and hate spewing Air America radio is “going ever the line.”
I didn’t equate Rush to Air America. This is what I said:
Rush Limbaugh certainly has his moments. He goes a bit over the line on occasion (like with the Michael J. Fox thing, in my estimation), but almost nobody on the right rises to the level of bile and nastiness on display on Air America’s airwaves.
I do think Rush goes over the top at times. Every once in a while he gets off on a rant that makes me cringe. Even so, I’m not putting him in the same ballpark as Air America.
Bezu, I actually just got XM radio recently and have tried listening to Air America off and on for the last month. All partisan politics aside, the shows are just poor quality. The hosts are boring, and the quality of their broadcasts is poor.
Even going beyond mere content, they just suck at radio.
Rob - 07:11am on 11/05/2006
OH,OH,OH, pick me, pick me!!! Could it be they have a crappy product that no one wants to listen to?
Bingo!
Pilgrim - 07:11am on 11/05/2006
I can say for myself that somebody talking about a viewpoint different than my own doesn’t make me want to change channels.
Poor quality thought, poorly sourced material, these are much bigger turnoffs for me. Thus I listen to NPR & BBC radio on a daily basis & read the Washington Post. (I even listen to Pacifica Radio when I can find it.) But I can’t stand Air America...they suck from a production level and from the quality of the ideas present. A badly thought out dismal product destined for the dust bins of history.
To the extent that this is a representation of the current state of US “liberal” thought (so well exemplified by Noam Chomksy, Al Franken, Obermann, Howard Dean, John Kerry, etc), I would go further and say that the failure of Air America is ultimately also an indictment of American liberalism.
It would be difficult to read too much into Air America’s failure, which in my opinion is systemic of the problematic nature of the American brand of liberalism itself.
Carrick - 08:11am on 11/05/2006
So, where is my Vega Stationwagon with factory 8 track stereo?
Seriously though, on road trips we have tried listening to AA, and it is just excruciating. Politicical veiws aside, it is of a lower production quality than Slippery Rock University’s radio station, and that is saying alot. Boy picks apart their so called political analysis, and their affiliates are so far apart that it is next to impossible to listen for more than an hour at a time.
Where as Glenn Beck, G Liddy, Jim Quinn, Hannity, Imus, and Limbaugh are on 100s of stations, all over North America and overseas. Hell, Michael Savage has better Arbitron numbers than all of AA’s onair talent combined. That is fucking SAD!!
2Hotel9 - 10:11am on 11/05/2006
AA - is that like a twelve step program?? (Twelve steps away from their transmitters and you lose the signal???)
Gee, why wouldn’t anyone want to advertise their product or service to an audience of slackers?
works for Walmart.
Rob, When you said, [Rush Limbaugh] “He goes a bit over the line on occasion (like with the Michael J. Fox thing, in my estimation),” You either weren’t listening to Rush when he commented on Fox or your memory of that segment of his show is failing you.
Whatever “over the line” means to you, I would hope it is much more tolerant to what Rush said than to what some of the things said on Air America.
Maybe Rush, in your opinion, does go over the line on occasion, but for you to equate Rush with the vial and hate spewing Air America radio is “going ever the line.”
OH,OH,OH, pick me, pick me!!! Could it be they have a crappy product that no one wants to listen to?
What do I win? I hope it is the Vega Stationwagon! That way I can carry all my Best of Al Franken 8 tracks.
Basically, like talk-left on Sirius satellite radio, their shows suck.
They’re not entertaining at all and they lack substance.
If they at least made a pretense at being serious contenders in the forum of talk-show debate, I’d try to listen to them; but they don’t even do that.
Like Lynn Samuels and Ed Shultz,their radio shows are for the mindless morons that don’t read and also lack substance themselves..
It’s all peanut galery bullshit; smarmy rumors & innuendo, conspiracy theories (Bush brought down the twin towers etc.) and polarizing, “we’ll getcha” hate mongering.
The dead air time (and there’s lots of it) is filled with contrived (nervous) laughter by the two or three side-kicks that all their hosts have to have in order to finish the show.
When they fail because they have no talent and/or because their shows suck, it’s always characterized as “BIAS.”
If the product sucks and nobody’s buying, it’s a simple matter of supply and demand.
Coffee:
I didn’t equate Rush to Air America. This is what I said:
I do think Rush goes over the top at times. Every once in a while he gets off on a rant that makes me cringe. Even so, I’m not putting him in the same ballpark as Air America.
Bezu, I actually just got XM radio recently and have tried listening to Air America off and on for the last month. All partisan politics aside, the shows are just poor quality. The hosts are boring, and the quality of their broadcasts is poor.
Even going beyond mere content, they just suck at radio.
Bingo!
I can say for myself that somebody talking about a viewpoint different than my own doesn’t make me want to change channels.
Poor quality thought, poorly sourced material, these are much bigger turnoffs for me. Thus I listen to NPR & BBC radio on a daily basis & read the Washington Post. (I even listen to Pacifica Radio when I can find it.) But I can’t stand Air America...they suck from a production level and from the quality of the ideas present. A badly thought out dismal product destined for the dust bins of history.
To the extent that this is a representation of the current state of US “liberal” thought (so well exemplified by Noam Chomksy, Al Franken, Obermann, Howard Dean, John Kerry, etc), I would go further and say that the failure of Air America is ultimately also an indictment of American liberalism.
It would be difficult to read too much into Air America’s failure, which in my opinion is systemic of the problematic nature of the American brand of liberalism itself.
So, where is my Vega Stationwagon with factory 8 track stereo?
Seriously though, on road trips we have tried listening to AA, and it is just excruciating. Politicical veiws aside, it is of a lower production quality than Slippery Rock University’s radio station, and that is saying alot. Boy picks apart their so called political analysis, and their affiliates are so far apart that it is next to impossible to listen for more than an hour at a time.
Where as Glenn Beck, G Liddy, Jim Quinn, Hannity, Imus, and Limbaugh are on 100s of stations, all over North America and overseas. Hell, Michael Savage has better Arbitron numbers than all of AA’s onair talent combined. That is fucking SAD!!
AA - is that like a twelve step program?? (Twelve steps away from their transmitters and you lose the signal???)