Has Al Gore ever been interviewed on an "Air America" show?

[Eric J in MN]

This letter is full of contradictions, but I was wondering if this guy actually heard an interview with Al Gore on "Air America Radio" or just made it up.

Liberals would be best advised to stick to the quarterlies, Web logs and National Public Radio, where they can preach to the choir in a setting more attuned (no pun intended) to their base. Talk radio's rise came from the right, where the listener base was searching for some place — anyplace — in the media to have its views validated and reinforced. When Anderson cites the point "that liberals don't need talk radio because they've got the big three networks, most national and local daily newspapers and NPR," he is hitting the core of the issue.

Air America is still message-based, not entertainment-based. And love him or hate him, Rush Limbaugh (and those who have followed him) understand that the message must be based in a lively, entertaining format. By liberalism's very nature, this is the antithesis of how to put forward ideas. When the most entertaining segment of a show is an interview with Al Gore, you know they are in for a fall. Even hip comedians like Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo give Air America an air of superiority.

And the bottom line is that most of us "crude and simplistic" listeners don't want to be patronized.

Robert McArthur

Los Angeles

That letter was published in today's LA TIMES:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-radio23apr23,0,2666547.story?coll=la-news-comment-letters

[AlCzervik]

1. He was on Al Franken's first show

[Eric J in MN]

2. Ok, thank you (nt)

nt

[dogman]

3. He phoned in to the Franken show.

It was a while back, not sure when. If this guy finds the lies of Rush entertaining he is in a different world anyway.

[Eric J in MN]

4. March 31, 2004 is when Al Gore was on Al Franken's show.

Regarding that letter in the LA Times, first the letter-writer demands more entertainment from political radio.

Then he says that he doesn't want to be patronized.

That is just one of the contradictions.

He also describes National Public Radio as a big liberal success.

If so, doesn't that prove that liberals like listening to radio shows which aren't centered on entertainment?