What's so wrong with listening to Air America? It will be a refreshing change from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dennis Praeger and all the rest of the right-wingers dominating the radio airwaves.

There's nothing wrong with it, and I agree it will be a refreshing change from the conservative media (CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, LAT, NPR...)

BTW, your site is a really cute joke, but I want my porn.

Doesn't being a lonewacko kind of preclude having a... group blog?

There's nothing wrong with it, and I agree it will be a refreshing change from the conservative media (CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, LAT, NPR...)

That's the funniest and most honest statement I've read all day!!

Amen, brother...

There's a huge difference between the blatant lies forwarded by Rush, John & Ken, O'Reilly, et. al. and being a news organization (CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, LAT, NPR) at least tries to be fair and balanced.

What the right is attempting to do is say that because a majority of reporters are Democrats that they have the right then to spread partisan lies through right-wing radio and hosts who are not journalists at all but entertainers and commentators.

It's one thing to press these organizations to be fair and balanced. It's quite another to say they are the left-wing equivalent of Rush et. al. We're talking apples and oranges, but it's another example of how the right twists the debate with falsehoods.

Al Franken and Air America aren't trying to bring you fair and balanced news any more than Rush is. Both are opinion makers on either side of the mainstream media. It's a good start to balancing out the debate.

I understand and put up (for the moment) with the fact that most of the on-air talent lacks radio experience. But I sure wish they'd hire some professional engineers.

They delay the broadcast three hours to the West coast, the the result is a real hodge-podge. Jeanane Garofolo, who's supposed to come on at 8 p.m., came on Wednesday night at 7, apologising for being eleven minutes late*. The preceding half-hour had been alternating blocks of PSAs and the same newscast, twice. Both times including an unattributed actuality.

And apparently the three one-hour segents of Al Franken's show were shuffled yesterday, so they didn't run in sequence. I thought the whole idea that he was supposed to be on opposite Rush. Not out here, he isn't!

Tonight on my way home, an interview and a host were each interrupted, mid-sentence, by about five minutes of commercials; this during a period of about 40 minutes.

And I have no problem with Tim Robbins' "Embedded," but how much do you think he's paying for those commercials for the NYC to run several times per hour?

* plus, her co-host is an idiot.

It's cute how threatened LoneWacko feels by Air America.

--Kynn

"There's a huge difference between the blatant lies forwarded by Rush, John & Ken, O'Reilly, et. al. and being a news organization (CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, LAT, NPR) at least tries to be fair and balanced."

I listen to Rush occasionally, but I am a big fan of John & Ken. I don't hear them lying. Most of their stuff with which I'm familiar is quite unfortunately true.

In any case, the major media (CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, LAT) is left of center. If someone could say they aren't LOC, that just indicates that they couldn't find the center with both hands. There's a whole organization that tracks such bias. Perkily tenacious Katie even has her own extensive archives. Yes, they are of course right of center. That doesn't mean that many of the things they find can be objectively determined to be slanted to one side.

For a small, subjective index consider conspiracy theories. Left conspiracy theories are subtly weaved into news reports; right conspiracy theories are the object of derision. Reporters creep up to the idea that Bush might have known about 9/11. When's the last time you heard a reporter talking about the New World Order?

As for Sam Seder, I agree. He is a complete idiot. He proposed a conspiracy theory to Janeane, but she didn't understand it. Then the broke for commercials. When they got back, they went to an interview and we were spared of hearing his "analysis." I think it had something to do with $hrubCo profiting off Permanent War caused by pulling out our troops and replacing them with mercenaries.

He and Chuck D are on my short list of being called away by other projects.