political - but funny!

[kato2274]

just stumbled on this on al lowes humor site as linked by cobra in his interview article. . . . .
whether you support him for re-election or not you have to admit this is pretty funny.

[paraflyer]

Actually, I wonder if he'd find his version of "Clippy" as annoying as the rest of us do.

Personally, I found the following funny:

"How sad it would be to depend on the courts to have your talk show carried on crucial stations.

Well .. that's the way things seem to be with the much-vaunted liberal talk radio network, Air America. Last night Air America got an injunction forcing the owner of WNTD in Chicago to put them on the air. This gives new meaning to the term "affiliate relations," doesn't it? Well, it gets worse.

They are still booted off the air in Los Angeles....but get this. The guy that owns the Chicago station also owns the L.A. station! Arthur Liu, owner of Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, Inc. took the shows off the air Wednesday and changed the locks at the stations after Air America bounced a check to him. He claims they own him $1 Million dollars! As I've said before, Air America actually has to pay stations to get their programs aired. And somehow they can't even get that right!" Neal Boortz, Today's Nuze

[kato2274]

Personally, I found the following funny:

"How sad it would be to depend on the courts to have your talk show carried on crucial stations.

Well .. that's the way things seem to be with the much-vaunted liberal talk radio network, Air America. Last night Air America got an injunction forcing the owner of WNTD in Chicago to put them on the air. This gives new meaning to the term "affiliate relations," doesn't it? Well, it gets worse.

They are still booted off the air in Los Angeles....but get this. The guy that owns the Chicago station also owns the L.A. station! Arthur Liu, owner of Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, Inc. took the shows off the air Wednesday and changed the locks at the stations after Air America bounced a check to him. He claims they own him $1 Million dollars! As I've said before, Air America actually has to pay stations to get their programs aired. And somehow they can't even get that right!" Neal Boortz, Today's Nuze

hmm you must have a different sense of humor because I found this extremely so in fact reading it was like listening to the most monotone person you know while trying to complete a completely different task at the same time. you know they were talking to you, but you have no idea what they just said.

[Ya_know]

I don't understand how they got an injunction to force themselves back on the air, without paying the money that they owe...

[Escape_Driver]

I don't understand how they got an injunction to force themselves back on the air, without paying the money that they owe...

Sounds like more Political Correctness bull$hit

[paraflyer]

Sounds like more Political Correctness bull$hit

Bingo!

That's why I found it funny.

Imagine if you contracted to pay for Windrivers forums to carry your posts, then decided not to pay the bill.

[Ya_know]

Bingo!

That's why I found it funny.

Imagine if you contracted to pay for Windrivers forums to carry your posts, then decided not to pay the bill.

The same thing that happened to TripleRLTD. He's so in debt to NooNoo right now, I bet he won't be back in for another two decades...

[craigmodius]

The whole Liberal Talk Radio issue makes me wonder whatever happened to the classic Republikkkan scapegoat of "the Liberal Run Media"

I mean if the media is sooooo owned and controled by Liberals, then it would seem to be a cakewalk to get Liberal Talk Radio Shows out there.

interesting...

Anyone with half-a-brain who watches the media coverage on TV and the newspapers would realize just what a free pass the repugs get on everything and anything they say or do and how the Democrats get punched for anything they say or do.

Any media report which is not right out of Rush Limbaugh, Gordon Liddy or RNC headquarters playbooks is "liberal media" for the conservatives.

Any media segment which does not bash democrats 24/7 is "liberal media" for the conservatives.

Any media that does not bash the Clintons regularly is "liberal media" for the conservatives.

Any media piece which does not sing the praises of the GOPers 24/7 is "liberal media" for the conservatives.

Any media segment which is objective is "liberal media" for the conservatives.

Any media piece which points out the errors of the GOP agenda is "liberal media" for the conservatives.

The media run the govt.. The US media, being so BLATANTLY conservative, it's hard for the Democrats and the Liberals to drive home their side - fearing the repercussions. The conservatives appearing frequently on the shows proves the conservative bias in the media, not the opposite.
Any MINOR criticism of the POLICIES of their party brings HUGE whining from the elephants. It is just pathetic! But the media can do 24/7 coverage of the PRIVATE LIVES of democrat politicians.

The repugs can DISH it, but cannot TAKE it.

It is being proven EVERYDAY in the so-called "liberal media".

[Orangeman]

Isn't that Barbara Bush (his Mom) looking on in the background.....

[silencio]

The whole Liberal Talk Radio issue makes me wonder whatever happened to the classic Republikkkan scapegoat of "the Liberal Run Media"

I mean if the media is sooooo owned and controled by Liberals, then it would seem to be a cakewalk to get Liberal Talk Radio Shows out there.

interesting...

Thus the rise in talk radio. It's not owned by liberals.

Your arguments are pretty weak too. I see plenty of anger and vitriol but not a single fact.

That Bush photo is great though.

[craigmodius]

To say that a rise in talk radio is due to it not being owned by liberals is a ploy to hide the real root of the issue. If there's been a rise it is more like the rise of talk radio goes hand in hand with the rise in conservative/corporate ownership.

(I'm saying correlation you seem to be implying cause and effect.)

I'm old enough to remember Rush Limbaugh and G Gordon Liddy for starters. And I'm old enough to remember watching Limbaugh's scapegoating of "the Liberal Media". And old enough to remember the Oklahoma bombing being (unjustly) blamed, in part, on talk radio.

Besides the quotes listed if you follow the link to the page they're taken from there are plenty of facts listed concerning the Liberal Media myth.

here's a good highlite...

Myth: The U.S. has a liberal media.

Fact: The media are being increasingly monopolized by parent corporations with pro-corporate or conservative agendas.


...On the other hand, the political spectrum of pundits -- who do engage in noisy editorializing -- leans heavily to the right. The most extreme example of this is talk radio, where liberals are almost nonexistent. The Fairness Doctrine was designed to prevent one-sided bias in the media by requiring broadcasters to air opposing views. It once enjoyed the broad support of both liberals and conservatives. But now that the media have become increasingly owned and controlled by corporations, conservatives defiantly oppose the Fairness Doctrine. This is probably the best proof that the media's bias is conservative, not liberal

Other facts include Clear Channel, AOL/Time Warner, Disney, Rupert Murdoch, Bertlesman, Vivendi/Universal, Viacom. They are the ones that own the media, not the liberals.

[craigmodius]

And just because Air America stopped payment on check when the company resold the same air-time every conservative jumps on it as AA bouncing a check, and AA is doomed.

"Arthur Liu received a clear message in court," Cohen said. "Temper tantrums are not the way to conduct business."

Cohen said he purchased two months of airtime on KBLA in Santa Monica, California, before Air America's March 31 launch, but the station owner resold the time to a Spanish-language programer.

Cohen said the two sides had been in discussions until Tuesday, when talks broke down and the station owner locked out Air America employees from KBLA and Chicago's WNTD.

So if you conservatives are reeeeeaally into paying for the same things twice, then I got a bridge in Brooklyn you can buy.