O'Leilly Air America Piece

[thefloyd]

Billy had Malkin and another Con on claiming ratings are down, AAR is in Financial Shambles, Business model does not work.
What info would these kooks be referencing?

[NYCGirl]

1. Since when do they need any information? They pull it out of their butts.

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Why is Randi never invited on

anywhere?

[ewagner]

3. Randi has turned down

a lot of offers to appear as I understand it. She said she doesn't like the format where she is "paired" with a Repub/Conservative to counter her but it ends up being 2 to 1 with the host involved on the side of the conservatives or sometimes even 3 to 1.

on edit:

OLielly is trying one of the oldest media tricks in the book. He's starting a story...remember his "liberals are trying to take God out of Christmas" ploy? Same thing....he's trying to start a story/rumor that will be picked up by the rest of the RW echo chamber and hopefully it will destroy AA. It's a ploy

It's bullshit....it's O'lielly.

[TrueAmerican]

4. The Con has his own radio blog

his number 1 goal has been to discredit Air America at every turn.


You can read his spew here http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/

[mirandapriestly]

7. Oh, THAT guy, what a creep, he was fired from KIRO

He is trying to say that Al Franken stole money from the boys and girls club.

[stevedeshazer]

10. Brian Baloney

'Nuff said.

[dave123williams]

5. What info? Probably just the fear in their hearts of a coming reckoning.

And, a well-deserved one, I might add.

[Golden Raisin]

6. O'Reilly & Malkin - UGH!

I accidentally surfed onto Fox tonight and saw Malkin and O'Reilly for about a nano-second before I clicked to the next station in horror, anger & disgust. The very sight of them makes me cringe, let alone the filth they spout. Just like Bush, they are so damn arrogant, sneering and 1,000% positive t-h-e-i-r opinions are right, God-given, and everyone else is scum. I find O'Reilly also has more than a passing reminiscence of the late and unlamented Senator McCarthy --- i.e. the bullying and shouting down of opponents. It's tragic and very scary/disturbing that people like these (Malkin cheerfully advocates internment camps!) are considered journalists of repute. More like repuke as far as I'm concerned. And don't get me started on Sean Hannity.

[Mr_Spock]

8. O'Liely is skum of the earth garbage

I'd spit directly into his eyeball if I ever met him - he deserves nothing less.

Welcome to DU BTW :hi:

I'm glad I've deprogrammed Faux "News" from my TV's - I don't need the aggravation. My credit union had Faux on 3 TV's when I went into it last time - told them to put three different networks on or I'd cancel my account. Life really sucks these days

[Cosmocat]

12. He floats the same line ...

about AAR being on the ropes every few weeks ... Franken completely dusted him, and he won't let it lay ...

AAR did in fact go back on some kind of a loan of about 40,000 or so from a NYC Boys Club of some kind that did hurt the club ... However, I saw a piece with one of the new power guys for AAR on C-Span a little over a month ago, and he basically said that AAR had made it right and then some ... He also said AAR was CLEARLY trending up ...

I have made a VERY concerted effort to not even click on Faux, and conversely to let my TVs on CNN and MSNBC whenever possible ... The old timers are my YMCA love Faux and it drives me nuts ...

[stevedeshazer]

9. This, maybe?

http://radio.about.com/b/a/100243.htm

Air America's Al Franken Beats Bill O'Reilly in NYC Radio Ratings

Air America's Al Franken Beats Bill O'Reilly in NYC Radio Ratings
Reuters reports: "The Al Franken Show," airing weekdays on WLIB-AM, more than doubled O'Reilly's "The Radio Factor" on WOR-AM among listeners aged 25 to 54 -- the group advertisers prize most -- during the only hour when the two go head to head in New York, Arbitron Inc. reported on Tuesday.

:evilgrin:

That is all.

[Mr_Spock]

11. How are the ratings battles now?

That's from last year - I wonder how it's going now?