Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:59:15 PM
Report on the Drudge Report today claims that Air America is up for
sale. Funny since a few weeks ago Drudge claimed Air America had a
buyer. Are we to conclude that the potential buyer backed out at the
last minute?
My theory is that whoever was going to buy up the worthless network
actually made the mistake of listening to it. I myself tuned in for the
first time today. What did I think?
Well in the 1940's during the Second World War in the Pacific theater
there was Tokyo Rose a progandist of the airwaves that tried to
demoralize the troops. In the 2000's we have Tehran Tina on Air
America.
To be fair though outside of beaming out anti Americanism and
depressing political garbage, the two stations are very different.
Tokyo Rose broadcast some of the best quality programming of the time
and entwined it with "news stories" that featured the Japanese winning
the war. Air America broadcasts boring commentary carefully woven
together with bitter, shrill "PSAs" stating that the end is near.
Poor Air America, no one is listening to you because the audience has
other choices. Maybe this is why they favor "the fairness doctrine" and
"internet blog reform." Of course it's not the talent's fault. People
should have been conditioned a long time ago by our nonpartisan public
school systems to listen to boring, know it all lectures from holier
than thou elitists. Why on earth would anyone want to listen to a host
who engages the audience when you can listen to some clown talk down to
them?
This is part of why Air America is failing. When I turn on Rush
Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or even Howard Stern I feel like I'm talking to
a friend over beers and football at my favorite bar. (Or in Stern's
case, a strip club.) When I listened to Randi Rhodes a few minutes ago,
I felt like I was sitting in a lecture hall listening to speech on why
I (just because I'm an American) suck.
But if that's not the only problem against Air America, you have to
take in to account that it's run by socialists and communists - in
other words, people who hate the free market. No wonder they can't find
sponsors. They hate everything about free enterprise. This is why they
had to take up stealing from underprivileged inner city kids. Who wants
to advertise on a network that insults you and your customers on a
daily basis? This is why Air America is over run with Public Service
Announcements - those government commercials that just assume you're
too stupid to do things like wipe your a$$ after using the bathroom.
But it fits right in on Air America - cause they really do think you're
to stupid.
So good bye Tehran Tina. I'm sure radical Islamists world wide will mourn your passing.