I love Air America! Unfortunately, Clear Channel, who owns the radio station here in Columbus, took Air America, the Jones Radio Network, and anyone else progressive who was broadcast on 1230 am here, off the air and replaced them with the likes of Laura Ingraham, who can't even pronounce her own name correctly! We think this happened because the Dems took all the high offices here in Ohio and Clear Channel thought Air America might have been one reason that happened. They also took Air America away in Cincinnati. There wasn't enough of an outcry to save the station here.

I am deeply saddened not to be able to listen to any of my favorite hosts and their guests. It's awful! I might have to purchase satellite radio but even then I can't get all the folks I want.

Boo-HOO!!!

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All thinking people agree: Clear Channel sucks!!!!!

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It's obvious why left-winged outlets will always be targeted, and why wrong-winged demons will always have the upper hand. Anyone, and any organization, who puts people over profits is a problem to be contended with.

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I tried to listen to Air America a bunch of times and found, first of all, that it was flooded with commercials and very little content. When it was on, it was mostly tired liberal ranting, the Lefty equivalent of O'Reilly and Limbaugh. The normally entertaining Franken is dull and mannered on the radio; he hems and haws and is impossible to listen to for more than five minutes.

Real progressive radio offers hope and solutions, not angry diatribes. Real progressive radio appeals to young people and their values, not middle-aged wonks.

Yuck.

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It's amazing to me that some on the left still try to downplay the importance of pushing back against the mammoth right wing radio disinformation juggernaut. Yet they wonder where the nastiness in politics came from, how the country was dumbed down enough to transparently lie us into Iraq, how Dem issues get steamrolled from the get-go. Rightwing talk radio has been studied for a dozen of those years now by the presitigious Annenberg School of Communication at UPenn (funded by the conservative TV Guide fortune) which has identified a mass "false certainty" amongst its listeners which is widespread enough to swing the past 5 of 6 elections. Kathleen Hall Jameson of Annenberg should be the prime witness in Congressional Hearings which begin the pushback on media corporations to return the public airwaves to balance, lest the Dem Congress will quickly be streamrolled by the AM radio/Fox News juggernaut.

The airwaves are owned by the public and if these corporations aren't required to pay a fair rent for the huge profits they reap from them, then at the minimum there should be balance. The chair of ABC, Democratic eminence George Mitchell should be required under oath to explain why he allowed his entire radio station network to be taken over 24/7 by right wing dirty tricks operatives who are allowed to lie without challenge, duping 20-50 million ignorant Americans at a time, took over and wrecked the Federal government. He should pay at a minimum with his reputation, even if he claims he is unaware of how he empowered the right with his corporate might (something ABC bragged about, by the way, in talks with the religious right awhile back to get its boycott of Disney called off).

If Rep. Kucinich and counterparts in the Senate (do we have to wait for Sen. Franken?) don't put this as a high enough priority and have high profile hearings soon, then don't be surprised when the temporarily-demoralized reactionary rightist radio juggernaut reinflates to full power over Dem initiatives and quashes every one. They hold the balance of power in this nation now, and anything less than full sustained muscular pushback by the Dems will seal their fate as a flash-in-the-pan voter reaction to bad Iraq war news.

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Mark Green lost to Bloomberg because of a racist comment about his Puerto Rican challenger in the Dem primary. NYC Puerto Ricans and Blacks either sat out the election or voted for Bloomberg as a protest against Green.

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I guess we now know where MoJo now stands, it has gone over to the darkside, the Darth Cheney rethug side of slime and underground back room hidden agenda slime. MoJo should be endorsing and supporting AAR and viewing/regarding it as a sister organization fighting against the loss of our Constitution and our american values but I guess not. Maybe someone just bought it and we don't know it yet.

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