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Wed Aug-03-05 10:34 PM
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RW blogs going apeshit over Air America 'scandal' |
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Led by Michelle Malkin, they are in hyperdrive claiming that Air America stole money intended for poor children.
Naturally, it is overblown BS. But you have to dig to find the truth of it because there isn't much in the way of response. Mostly a brief statement from Air America and an article a few days ago in the NY Sun.
There should be more of an effort to beat this slander into the mud.
I can only guess that because this case does involve a questionable transaction by Air America founder/sleazebag Evan Cohen (he bounced checks to Franken and others) no one wants to wade into it.
Any thoughts?
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:35 PM
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1. Let them spin their wheels. Who really cares what they think about it? |
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:36 PM
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hurts efforts to persuade new stations to pick up Air America.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:37 PM
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6. People who want to pick up Air America will look at numbers |
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and not gossip off of right wingnut blogs.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:38 PM
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7. A lot of those people have to be talked into it |
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And this is just another hurdle.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:41 PM
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11. Yeah, and you talk them into it by the NUMBERS |
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and not what their competitors are saying about them.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:44 PM
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14. It's all about arbitron |
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not "bad publicity". Besides, as the advertising guys will tell you, there is no "bad" publicity.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:36 PM
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3. What they think isn't going to alter the facts of the situation. |
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They'll be super-crushed when Air America doesn't go off the air like they are saying.
They are dipshits of the highest order.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:36 PM
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4. This is very old news - let them waste their energy. eom |
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:37 PM
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Al Gore invented the internet Kerry helped the Viet Cong Clinton had people murdered to run drugs and so on
do not spend one second on it. It comes from creative response concepts ... Arlington VA ..... do a google search on them.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:39 PM
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9. Of course it's bullshit |
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So was everything the Swift Boat Liars had to say. But lies unrefuted become the truth to a lot of people.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:43 PM
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13. Swift Boats came from .... |
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.... creative response concepts too. Now that should have been crushed and exposed .... this little story .... no we are helping them.
Air America, Stephanie :loveya: Miller, and even Ed Schultz are picking up stations and getting very good #s.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:39 PM
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8. Everybody needs to dump the partisan shit, actively look at ALL issues, & |
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go after all who engage in high-level crime.
It takes a village.
And right now we're no better than the caveman...
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:41 PM
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10. I've seen trolls posting ....... |
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Edited on Wed Aug-03-05 10:45 PM by kevinmc
on blogs the same stories over and over trying to get some reaction to it. I ignore it, it's a non-issue and isn't worth worrying about. AAR is starting to get to these Dumbass's.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:42 PM
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12. That's what I think too. A dog doesn't chase a parked car. |
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Edited on Wed Aug-03-05 10:49 PM by Lex
. We are gaining momentum and they are losing it. And they know it.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:45 PM
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A dog doesn't chase a parked car
Nice!
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Thu Aug-04-05 12:04 AM
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25. Yea, but it will keep on barking at the car after it stops |
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Anytime one of my dogs gets a little uppity with the teeth, a good whack brings them back to perspective of who feeds who.
Btw mostly I think of neocons and wingers as cockroaches with the exception of being a lot faster. Every time a light gets shined on about what they are really up to they shrivel up and disappear into thin air
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:48 PM
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19. Ignoring was Kerry's strategy |
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about the Swift Boat Liars. And we know how well that turned out.
My point is that lies must be refuted, even absurd lies.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:45 PM
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15. Yeh, well Republicans smell bad |
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and their mothers dress them funny.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:45 PM
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16. just curious how many died because of.... |
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this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many children no longer have a Dad or Mom because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many Foreign Citizens were burned, raped, shocked, blown up, run down, bitten by dogs or shot because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people lost their job, their health care and their will to live because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people have lost their faith because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people are in jail tonight, held without being charged, without due process, without contact with friends or an attorney because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How many people can no longer have a discussion about politics with their Mother, their Father, Sister or Brother because of this outrageous thing that AAR did? How loud can I yell go FUCK OFF to those that whine and snivel about this outrageous thing that AAR did? Just Curious.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:47 PM
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18. Just like Oil for Food. |
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Yet they don't like to talk about the scandalous Bush administration.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:50 PM
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20. Speaking of RW Blogs - mithras posted a great review recently |
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http://mithras.blogs.com/blog/2005/08/conservative_bl.htmlHere's his blurb on Malkin: Michelle Malkin - Far-right affirmative action hire who is so bigoted she'd arrest herself for trying to cross a border. Famously published a book praising internment of Japanese-Americans that was (a) incoherent and (b) probably not written by her. If she didn't have tits, she'd be stuck writing at Townhall.com.
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Wed Aug-03-05 10:50 PM
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21. interesting way to shut things down. |
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Wed Aug-03-05 11:14 PM
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If AA is not a threat as many have said, why do they seem to care so much?
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Wed Aug-03-05 11:46 PM
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23. Rush Limjob, Slant-Head Hannity, and Bowtie-Boys' |
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Edited on Wed Aug-03-05 11:47 PM by dweller
numbers must be in the toilet. Well, they belong in the toilet, but the $$ part of ##'s spiraling down must be hurting them.
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Wed Aug-03-05 11:52 PM
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I haven't heard of it, it must be mostly confined to backwater right wing blogs.
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Thu Aug-04-05 01:09 AM
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26. And I should believe anything that the Right has to say? |
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Edited on Thu Aug-04-05 01:10 AM by Old and In the Way
They hvae no credibility. What's funny about this story is that the guy who was involved in raising the monies to get AAR on the air was a Republican fundraiser. Figures.
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