Liberal talk radio hits the airwaves in Seattle
Al Franken doesn’t know why it took so long for Air America Radio to land in Seattle, but he’s glad it has. After seven months the liberal answer to conservative political talk radio arrived on 1090-AM on Monday.
Air America Radio started March 31 in New York, Los Angeles and Portland and now has affiliates in 37 cities nationwide.
“We now own a niche of our own creation in liberal talk radio,” Franken said. “So much of talk radio is conservative, there’s a real necessity for us to be here.
“If we had been around in 1993 (after Bill Clinton became president), maybe every American would have health insurance.”
“The right has spent a lot of time trying … to create the impression that there’s a left-wing media, and I don’t think that’s true,” Franken said. “The mainstream media has internalized this criticism, and now they’re scared of their own shadow.”
This is a broad irresponsible statement: “If we had been around in 1993 (after Bill Clinton became president), maybe every American would have health insurance.” This goes along the lines of John Kerry constantly saying “I have a plan” – - “I’ll win the peace” – - None of these people say how they would have done or will do anything.
Only a liberal media radio host, and those like him, would state there is no such thing as a “left-wing media”. That statement goes hand in hand with him then trying to state that “the right” has scared the mainstream media to the point their own shadows frighten them. Let’s think about this just for a quick second. Was it not Dan Rather who caused that networks shadow. What about all the troubles at the NYT, did that not create their shadow. Examples are so numerous but the latest one speaks for itself – - that being what ABC tried to pull recently with having only submitted portions of the terrorist threat video they received to the FBI and CIA. The liberal media, and yes it does exist, has cast their own shadows.
They had a president and first lady that had every news outlet eating out of their hands, but yet no universal health insurance…:roll:
OH that’s right, that was a disaster that Hillary likes to sweep under the rug!
Al should do well in Seattle though. It really is the perfect fit for his format.
Maybe he should go to the warf for his dirty lies i mean the wateer is clean and it will probibly reject the idiot anyway:grin:
here’s something i’ve haven’t seen. let’s make fun a Mrs Edwards cause of her weight.
Radio host Cunningham told Hannity election is over “because Elizabeth Edwards has now sung”
The day after the November 2 presidential election, as a guest on ABC Radio Networks’ The Sean Hannity Show, criminal defense attorney and nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio host Bill Cunningham remarked that the election is “over because Elizabeth Edwards has now sung.” Elizabeth Edwards is the wife of former vice presidential candidate Senator John Edwards.
From the November 3 edition of The Sean Hannity Show:
HANNITY: They’re gonna think they weren’t vitriolic enough. They’re gonna think they weren’t mean enough and they’re gonna go out there and do the same thing: Attack, attack, attack, undermine troops and the president during a time of war and that is not gonna get them elected anywhere.
CUNNINGHAM: Well, it’s over because Elizabeth Edwards has now sung.
more right voices
i haven’t kept up as to where ABC News is ranked in the Liberal Media Conspiracy, but do have a fairly good guess about where the Washington Post resides, so this will probably be shrugged off as just another slam on the ‘good guys’ but,
Support for Bush on Social Security Wanes
Barely One-Third of Americans Approve of President’s Plan, Poll Finds..
my question is, when (if ever) should the Administration stop trying to sell its plan & start looking for compromise with the Democrats?
i understand there are a few bi-partisan proposals with a chance of surviving the ‘true believers’ of both parties.
if a compromise plan is passed and it actually works then, in future legislative sessions, incremental changes in the law could be made, getting closer to the ultimate goal.
people are so afraid of the President’s plan, because the sellers haven’t communicated it well enough or it the plan just sucks, i don’t know for sure.
i do know this, when messing with the future of old folks, the even tiniest chance of poverty/hardship becoming a reality is gonna raise the bar of acceptance extremely high. be enough to, even with all things being equal, for folks to come down on the ‘no’ side.
btw – the Fox News poll shows 98% think it’s a great idea.
(kidding – but their last poll about 10 days ago had support at 40% – but, you know what they say about polls – & fer sure ya know what they say about Fox News)
there’s an interesting artice in ‘Editor & Publisher’ fairly evenhanded, saying that President Bush receved more negative coverage than Kerry & that Fox News Channel was twice as likely to be positive than negative, while CNN and MSNBC were evenhanded.
The three network evening newscasts tended to be more negative than positive, while the opposite was true of morning shows, the study said.
i forgot to provide the link to Editor & Publisher
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What do any of these posts have to do with the subject? How does Social security fit in here? Or an interview that Sean Hannity did after the election?
4-Here is the explanation for your post “A total of 1,001 randomly selected adults were interviewed March 10-13. Margin of sampling error for the overall results is plus or minus 3 percentage points. “- Do you really think 1000 out of the voting public are really going to decide things for us:roll:
i think poll number don’t mean as much as the trends that can be discerned over time.
the White House polls continuously & i would bet that there’s some ‘magic numbers’ at which decisions are made on some issues because of them.
8- Do you think that it just may be that the RNC is continuing to send questionaires to their donar base asking them what is important? I do.
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you’re probably right. i’d send some to folks who don’t agree with me, too, to see where, if anywhere, any consensus might be.
at this point though, from what i’ve read & the aforementioned polls, it’s not looking great for the main points.
10- It will be passed. The polls are worthless.
i’m impressed at how sure you sound, all current signals to the contrary. if i were a betting man, i’d bet it doesn’t.
12- I do bet and I will put money on SS reform in the next year.
i think there will be some kind of bill passed, agreed. but i don’t think it’s gonna look a lot like the proposal currently on the table.
14-It will be very similar. And it will stay voluntary.