The jokes are only in bad taste if you're on the butt end of them. Otherwise there's some pretty funny stuff.

Ninja is in rare form this morning, his ass must still be sore from last night.

Huh?

I was not raped last night, so WHUT do you mean, Sir!

Somebody quote ONE example of ANY conservative radio show advocating the assasination of a US govt official. You can't.

WLIB's days are numbered. Nobody is listening. It will fail miserably. Franken will have to go back to op-eds in the Bangor Maine gazette.

Incorrect, by all accounts, but thank you for playing. You get a copy of the DittoTwitch home game!

Somebody quote ONE example of ANY conservative radio show advocating the assasination of a US govt official. You can't.

And your point is, what, that all radio should be the same? ClearChannel wants you for a sales position. Or is it that all politics should say the same thing? Our miserable two-party system would like you to vote!

I personally would like to hear a rational liberal radio show. Unfortunately, this station was DOA when they decided to have circus freaks as the hosts.

As opposed to drug freaks.

CCBB!!!!!

I am listening to Air America right now and just heard a very funny snip about Ninja's penis and WMD!

The problem that Air America faces, I think, is that they seem to welcome discussion from multiple points of view and also encourage their listeners to think (!). This does not attract the kind of listener that makes the right-wing echo chamber so effective, and also makes them easy targets for dismissal as "snotty smarty-pants latte-sipping elitist liberal (gasp!) big fat JERK FAGS DIE DIE DIE!". Their one shrill screamer limbaugh/oreilly equivalent is Randi Rhodes, but she cites sources for her tirades and actually takes callers that disagree with her, so she's obviously a communist.

Oh yeah, SexNinjaKickDeath, if you're going to submit links to the NY Daily News, you might as well submit shit from the Weekly World News too, so we can discuss whether Rumsfeld = Bat Boy. "Bad Jokes and Worst Taste" indicates that their editorial staff = Mrs. Frampton's 4th grade class.

Huh?

Who cares...It's those kinds of links that get every one going at each other...keep up the good work mr Sex.

YAY

Sorry for yelling "turd". Continue the pool party.

'The problem that Air America faces, I think, is that they seem to welcome discussion from multiple points of view and also encourage their listeners to think (!).'

Sigh.

Oh please.

Yeah, they really have the market cornered on 'thinking'. Just like all liberals. We're all just too dumb to understand their 'nuance and context', right? Whatever.

Did you have pizza for lunch today? Probably not. So I think your dumberer than me.

p.s. I HATE YER FREEDOM!

Fuck your yankee blue jeans

w00t!@#!!111

She said the station was ordered to 'cease and desist' yesterday, and added: 'GM will not advertise on any Air America affiliates.'

Makin' warm fuzzies all over the place. Yay!!

"Yeah, they really have the market cornered on 'thinking'. Just like all liberals. We're all just too dumb to understand their 'nuance and context', right? Whatever."

I call them like I see them, and what I see here is a slightly paraphrased version of the Rovian "we hate the smart kids" meme that's been repeated ad nauseum since before the 2000 election. So do you deny that Limbaugh and the rest encourage nothing more than the blind parroting of their drek (they proudly dub themselves "dittoheads") and that they screen their callers for any that might disagree, or (in O'Reilly's case) shout them down with "shut up! shut up!"? That sure encourages a free exchange of ideas.

Interesting point, vladtweano. Highly valid, too...it's boring to hear all the 'me too' voices, and it happens a lot. (Can't stand Rush...O'Reily seems to be more fair even though he loses his cool on occasion. I don't lump the two together because Rush plays the Democrats & FemiNazis BAD, Bush GOOOD...O'Reily is critical of both more often than not.)

I wish I could pull up a specific example to draw from, but it seems about every other time I turn on NPR news they don't screen the people their interviewers are talking to, and they give some uninformed moron airspace. While not an echo chamber, that's hardly desirable. The rest of the time they're running stuff that isn't mainstream, usually from a specialist or something and that is refreshing. I would comment on the WLIB radio show but I haven't heard it yet. More often than not I think Franken is the bizaro world version of Limbaugh.

Not that you have to give a shit, but if I were to express a bias it would be generally for our country. It's a work in progress with an outmoded, (currently) corrupt government and a bunch of media moguls attempting to polarize public opinion in order to get ratings. (I guess they're doing their job, eh?)

Don't blame the smart kid rant on Rove - he was born on Christmas. He never got enough presents. Generally, smart people are reviled for being so...

Aww fuck. :::stepping off the platform:::

SexNinja, good post.

A rarity.