It's not on in Houston, but you can listen to it on XM radio or streaming from this website. http://www.airamericaradio.com/
This reminds me of that part in Singles where Matt Dillon insisted his band was very big in Belgium. And: While I agree with the sentiment that it's too soon to judge the commercial viability of the network, the phrase about Limbaugh is poorly worded (it didn't take 17 years for the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show to reach 14.5 million listeners. If anything, his audience is smaller now than it was at his heights in the early-to-mid-1990s). It is also different to compare a nobody building an audience with a high-profile start-up with many big name hosts.... (for that matter, it's different comparing a radio network's success with that of a single show. Not to mention the radio business is different now than it was a decade and a half ago).
Media bias? Who tends to be in the media? People who are well traveled and well educated...that's who. In other words, people who have been exposed to many things...hence they are liberals...because liberals are open minded people who seek the advancement of mankind. Conservatives tend to be people who stick close to home and not as well educated. Therefore these folks don't know or care about anybody but themselves. Another brand is the financial conservative who often is well educated but still all about self advancement. Yet another kind is the religeous conservative. More people have died in the name of religion than for any reason in history, bar none. Pardon my skepticism of these folks. This country was founded on the principal that religion is dangerous in politics. Other than the sky is blue, you'd be hard pressed to find a more universal truth than that. Derivation of words: Liberal (aka generous) Conservative (to conserve i.e. to hoard) Do you teach your kids to grow up and be generous to to hoarder?
I'll ignore the ironic grammar error from you and the educational implications of that for the time being... Actually, the liberal left has a dominant hold on the lowest rungs of society. Those who collect welfare and depend on government handouts to live their life. The liberals try their best to facilitate this government dependency. Something tells me these people, who vote exclusively DemonCrat, aren't very well educated. I'm sure you were well-intentioned, but your statement just doesn't hold water.
How about speaking coherently? Is Bush a liberal? He sure spends our money like an absurdist parody of a liberal.
There I fixed it for you! PS - So Liberals are better educated than conservatives? Wow I guess I eitehr learned something new today, or more likely just heard something that has no merit to it. I wonder which one?
Nice spin. Did you learn that from Hannity? While I'm not perfect (and who is online?), I'm sure you could see the intentional misuse of one word to add emphasis to my point. Or you could spin it to deflect my point in traditional talk radio style. That is true. While I characterized several different types of Republicans, I only referenced one type of liberal... the "biased" media. The democrates that are poor often are blacks. Blacks should represent an entirely different voting block...but they don't in our two party system. Blacks are forced to vote Dem because Repubs make no effort to reach out to this segment of the population except to showcase R&B singers at their national convention. Another option is just to ignore these people. Maybe they will go away. One side makes an attempt to reach out, rightly or wrongly, and the other side says 'screw you.' Find your own way even though America systematically repressed you for hundreds of years. Yea, these people aren't educated...because most of the parents to todays urban youth never had a chance to go to school. As a parent, how do you teach your kid to do something you never did yourself. Its hard and will continue to be a big problem until we find an answer to address it. It it will be hard to address it if we ignore race is a factor in the way we make public policy. I'm not saying Welfare and Quotas are the right answer. What I'm saying is Democrates make an effort to solve these problems...Republicans simply strike down previous policies without providing a viable alternative. Kind of like Iraq. We don't like Iraq. So lets strike it down. But what are we going to do to fix it? Ah, screw that. We will figure that out later. Well later is almost here and the disaster is looming.
Yeah I know...I wonder where he got that misconception from... The only reason I think someone would think this is due to the high number of liberal professors in colleges today. Of course, being a professor doesn't make someone truly educated. (except you rimbaud )
Just for those of you who are short on comprehension... I referred to those in the liberal media as well educated. I did not refer to liberals as well educated. But another nice attempt at spinning what I said.
Air America was/is as big a piece of crap as conservative talk radio. Talk radio is the most utterly inane garbage out there. Over-simplify, be a smart ass, tell everyone you know better and pretend you are un-biased = talk radio winning formula. I didn't like listening to "liberal" radio when it was nothing more than Democracy Now on Pacifica and I think Rush et al are as bad if not worse. It is all bad.
There is a difference. At least the liberal radio is intentionally funny. Conservative talk radio is only occasionally so. Al's radio program is called 'The O'Franken Factor' That alone gives it an edge even if their approach on issues might be equally as biased.
It doesn't matter. It was still radio with an agenda and that is just annoying. Talk radio does nothing but piss people off about things that often don't matter or aren't even real. It is a waste of bandwidth.
This is all just too funny. I heard Karen Hughes on The Laura Ingraham Show yesterday. She drew a distinction between local media and national media. Her point was that the national media brigade was indeed more liberal because of their elite status, while local media tend to be more conservative because they live among the people as one of the people. But take that with a grain of salt; she only has 25 years of experience first as one of them then working with them! Were Ben Bradllee and Katherine Graham of the Washington Post early supporters of Rush Limbaugh? For my money and time, I'll take Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt or Laura Ingraham over Rush Limbaugh any day.
