Boviosity!

Been awhile since I've posted. I was on vacation last week and I've been working pretty hard at my paying job since then. But in light of my recent Air America posts, I think this bears mention. You have to promise me you'll follow the link, though, to appreciate the full lameness of it.

In a page titled "The Sludge Report" (Good grief, is there no originality at all connected to Air America? This is the third Air America entity I've found, after "Morning Sedition" and "The O'Franken Report," that uses a supposedly witty rendering of another media outlet's moniker) we read:

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and that really loud woman from Florida, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

Stop the presses!!! There’s nothing more exciting than half a story from a third hand source!!!!

Note the preening adolescent tone which, as with most adolescents, seems to hide a whine just beneath the surface. It goes downhill from there:

But Arthur Liu --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now we’re chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It’s a metaphor.

Here’s what really happened:

This Liu-ser was ripping off our boss Evan Cohen big time (he can’t do that, that’s our job). Evan found out about it and he stopped payment on a check to keep Liu-cifer from ripping him off even more.

Gads, the rapier wit. I'd say I'm through with Air America and Morning Sedition (I listened for a few minutes this morning - the three hosts were taking turns discussing three different subjects, talking across each other as if they were all talking about the same thing. Not pretty.) but it's beginning to look as if they'll put themselves out of their own misery sooner than anybody predicted.

Hint: No matter what you think is going on, you don't get yourself pushed off the air in your second and third largest markets.

It occurred to me that these are the same people who refer to Right-wing Talk Radio as "Hate Radio." Where's the Love, folks? Bad satire is one thing. Self-satire is even worse. I usually listen to talk radio (of either stripe) until such time as the host embarrasses himself beyond recovery. It usually takes about 30 minutes with Rush, maybe 10 minutes with Hannity. Air America's Morning Sedition must have set a land speed record this morning...and they didn't even get to their daily reference to Bush as a "Dry Drunk" this morning before I had to, sadly, switch stations.

As someone who is interested in issues I should be able to listen to broadcasts from any side of the political spectrum without feeling embarrassed for the participants and myself. The only person on Air America who seems to have any future at all in broadcasting (if there's any justice) is Randi Rhodes, and she's insane.

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