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Air America: Liberal Media Takeover Complete
Last week, a right-winger visitor to my web site sent me an e-mail where he complained about how conservative voices are not being heard. He said, “You (liberals) control the mainstream media, press and news magazines (aside from The National Review, The Economist, The Weekly Standard, American Spectator and American Conservative, among others). All we have is talk radio and the Internet in which to convey our views.” So, aside from appearances on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC and CNN, as well as dominating talk radio, conservatives do not have a forum to convey their views? What a ridiculous statement. Conservatives are everywhere. Conservatives have been very successful with talk radio. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity reign supreme, along with Dr. Laura Schlessinger and countless others. Where I live, I can tune to the AM dial and as I hit station after station, it is conservative voices I hear. Air America debuted last week. Air America is the liberal radio network, headed by CEO Mark Walsh. Unfortunately, the network only airs in a half-dozen cities: New York, Portland, Oregon (my stomping grounds), Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Inland Empire, California. Air America’s air talent includes author and comedian Al Franken; author and comedian Janeane Garofalo; Lizz Winstead, creator of Comedy Central’s popular The Daily Show; and Randi Rhodes (no, not the ghost of Ozzy Osbourne’s guitar player). Conservatives, with the possible exception of G. Gordon Liddy, seem to want Air America to fail. The web site Voice of America quotes conservative talk show host Michael Reagan as telling NBC that Liberal talk radio will be boring. Liberal opinions are “to nuanced” to be provocative, Reagan says. “They listen to us because we’re not boring. And liberal radio tells you to be boring, if you will.” The liberal web site Tom Paine compiled a list of quotes from conservatives about Air America on March 31: “It’ll never last,” according to Michael Savage. Liberalism “doesn’t have an audience,” wrote Richard Viguerie and David Franke in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece. Bill O’Reilly, who by now should just give up his claims of being “independent” also is not a big fan of liberal talk radio. “We are living in desperate times,” O’Reilly writes in his latest column, posted to his web site. “It isn’t enough that conservative bloviators sling radio propaganda…it’s apparently imperative that we have constant left-wing bleating, even though National Public Radio is heard on more than 700 stations.” O’Reilly goes on to basically bash both liberal and conservative talk radio. Now, O’Reilly has his own radio show, The Radio Factor. Since he considers himself above the frey, I have to wonder, since I don’t listen to his show, what topics does he cover? Surely he doesn’t engage in the standard liberal vs. conservative format. Here’s some topics from his recent broadcasts:
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