RW blogs going apeshit over Air America 'scandal'

[quaoar]

Led by Michelle Malkin, they are in hyperdrive claiming that Air America stole money intended for poor children.

Naturally, it is overblown BS. But you have to dig to find the truth of it because there isn't much in the way of response. Mostly a brief statement from Air America and an article a few days ago in the NY Sun.

There should be more of an effort to beat this slander into the mud.

I can only guess that because this case does involve a questionable transaction by Air America founder/sleazebag Evan Cohen (he bounced checks to Franken and others) no one wants to wade into it.

Any thoughts?

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Let them spin their wheels. Who really cares what they think about it?

[quaoar]

2. Because bad publicity

hurts efforts to persuade new stations to pick up Air America.

[Lex]

6. People who want to pick up Air America will look at numbers

and not gossip off of right wingnut blogs.

[quaoar]

7. A lot of those people have to be talked into it

And this is just another hurdle.

[Lex]

11. Yeah, and you talk them into it by the NUMBERS

and not what their competitors are saying about them.

[DefenseLawyer]

14. It's all about arbitron

not "bad publicity". Besides, as the advertising guys will tell you, there is no "bad" publicity.

[Lex]

3. What they think isn't going to alter the facts of the situation.

They'll be super-crushed when Air America doesn't go off the air like they are saying.

They are dipshits of the highest order.

[DURHAM D]

4. This is very old news - let them waste their energy. eom

[Botany]

5. Pure B.S.

Al Gore invented the internet
Kerry helped the Viet Cong
Clinton had people murdered to run drugs
and so on


do not spend one second on it. It comes from creative response concepts ...
Arlington VA ..... do a google search on them.

[quaoar]

9. Of course it's bullshit

So was everything the Swift Boat Liars had to say. But lies unrefuted become the truth to a lot of people.

[Botany]

13. Swift Boats came from ....

.... creative response concepts too. Now that should have been
crushed and exposed .... this little story .... no we are helping them.

Air America, Stephanie :loveya: Miller, and even Ed Schultz are picking
up stations and getting very good #s.

[Deja Q]

8. Everybody needs to dump the partisan shit, actively look at ALL issues, &

go after all who engage in high-level crime.

It takes a village.

And right now we're no better than the caveman...

[kevinmc]

10. I've seen trolls posting .......

on blogs the same stories over and over trying to get some reaction to it. I ignore it, it's a non-issue and isn't worth worrying about. AAR is starting to get to these Dumbass's.

[Lex]

12. That's what I think too. A dog doesn't chase a parked car.

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We are gaining momentum and they are losing it. And they know it.

[Botany]

17. Wow!

A dog doesn't chase a parked car

Nice!

[nolabels]

25. Yea, but it will keep on barking at the car after it stops

Anytime one of my dogs gets a little uppity with the teeth, a good whack brings them back to perspective of who feeds who.

Btw mostly I think of neocons and wingers as cockroaches with the exception of being a lot faster. Every time a light gets shined on about what they are really up to they shrivel up and disappear into thin air

[quaoar]

19. Ignoring was Kerry's strategy

about the Swift Boat Liars. And we know how well that turned out.

My point is that lies must be refuted, even absurd lies.

[AtomicKitten]

15. Yeh, well Republicans smell bad

and their mothers dress them funny.

[blue sky at night]

16. just curious how many died because of....

this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many children no longer have a Dad or Mom because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many Foreign Citizens were burned, raped, shocked, blown up, run down, bitten by dogs or shot because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people lost their job, their health care and their will to live because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people have lost their faith because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people are in jail tonight, held without being charged, without due process, without contact with friends or an attorney because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people can no longer have a discussion about politics with their Mother, their Father, Sister or Brother because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How loud can I yell go FUCK OFF to those that whine and snivel about this outrageous thing that AAR did? Just Curious.

[Catherine Vincent]

18. Just like Oil for Food.

Yet they don't like to talk about the scandalous Bush administration.

[RobertSeattle]

20. Speaking of RW Blogs - mithras posted a great review recently

http://mithras.blogs.com/blog/2005/08/conservative_bl.html

Here's his blurb on Malkin:

Michelle Malkin - Far-right affirmative action hire who is so bigoted she'd arrest herself for trying to cross a border. Famously published a book praising internment of Japanese-Americans that was (a) incoherent and (b) probably not written by her. If she didn't have tits, she'd be stuck writing at Townhall.com.

[goforit]

21. interesting way to shut things down.

[kerryin2004]

22. Why do they care?

If AA is not a threat as many have said, why do they seem to care so much?

[dweller]

23. Rush Limjob, Slant-Head Hannity, and Bowtie-Boys'

numbers must be in the toilet. Well, they belong in the toilet, but the $$ part of ##'s spiraling down must be hurting them.

dp

[Kalish]

24. so what's the story?

I haven't heard of it, it must be mostly confined to backwater right wing blogs.

[Old and In the Way]

26. And I should believe anything that the Right has to say?

They hvae no credibility. What's funny about this story is that the guy who was involved in raising the monies to get AAR on the air was a Republican fundraiser. Figures.