Air America: The Bankruptcy Of Liberalism

Update: Okay, I was ahead of the curve. Air America bankrupt.

As if one needed more proof that Liberalism in America today isn't only bankrupt as an ideology, Air America appears to be fast approaching the point of bankruptcy, too. Today they fired Mike Malloy.

Oh, and there's another wonderful bit besides the Democratic Underground turning on their own - via NewsBusters link above. Click through and you'll find that the kind-hearted corporation, so obviously different than those mean, mean Republican business non-persons, led Malloy on right up until the end. Can't have dead air on top of dead air, I suppose.

Bye bye Truthseeker Mike Malloy. The check is, unfortunately, not in the mail.

There will be no Mike Malloy program today - or any day - on Air America Radio as we have been terminated. We are told its a financial decision.

We are as shocked as you are, especially since as recently as last Tuesday we were told we had the go-ahead to announce our return to NY airwaves and that our contract was "on the way."

We are told its a financial decision.

More details to follow as we hear them ourselves.

Comments

[rwilymz]

I thought the masses of the American Electorate were shouting AMEN and HOSANNA over the left-wing perspective. Don't they have -- wuwuzzit? -- 68% approval for their position now? Something close to that?

With 68% of the population in their group, that's roughly [...do the math...] 68% of the consumer base. That's a huge target for advertisers to aim at. Funny advertisers don't want to throw advertising money at the media outlet that talks to 68% of America.

Funny as hell.

It either means that the left-wing is really bad at business modelling -- not that anyone should be surprised by that suggestion since a major plank in the left-wing platform demands that they throw themselves to the ground and have a hissy fit if a publically-held company comes within 500 yards of them -- or else they don't really have 68% of us Americans in their bag.

Or both.

A funny thing happened on the way to the voting booth ...

[Phoenix]

This 'unfortunate' announcement put you in a good mood, Rwil? :}

Me, too. :)

[rwilymz]

Doesn't make me happy or sad. It's ironic. I keep hearing how "the American public" doesn't buy the administration line, how the polls are all supportive of the out-cumbent party, how, how, how. So there's all this non-support for Bush, and, by the principle of negation, all this positive support *for* the Democrats. Yet they can't figure out how to turn public support into advertising dollars.

There should be no reason why Air America would fail.

Points to monumental business incompetence, or pollsters pumping sunshine up the Democrats' collective ass.

If it's the former, if the Democrats can't figure out how to run a measly syndicated radio network, we want to give them a whole country to run? the keys to the pre-eminent world power? Why does the phrase "Run! Run fast! Run far!" leap to mind?

If it's the latter, if the Democrats are being convinced of their insurmountable faux-popularity, they won't be in charge anyway, and their morose, mopey mugs can only get moroser and mopier. And who needs that?

There's only one thing more insufferable than a smug and self-righteous politician enjoying broad popular support. And it's a peevish and petulant politician enjoying only marginal support from the fringes, the whackos and the crybabies.

[Phoenix]

"....peevish and petulant politician..." Why didn't you just say "Kerry".

Leave it to you to analyze it. That's the way your mind works. That's good, though. Me? I think even the dems are sick and damn tired of the rotten, meanness of those speaking for them. That's my typical human-nature angle, and it hardly covers all democrats; but sheesh... even they *have* to tire of the hatespeak after a while.

If the failure of the station is a microcosm of the party in general, hidden by blowhard griping, .. yeah, they will be very morose. Maudlin and melancholy, too.

[rwilymz]

"Why didn't you just say "Kerry"."

Wasn't alliterative.

[Phoenix]

I figured. I like 'whacko, crybaby Kerry'. That has some nice assonance in it, too. :}

[Zeb]

You repubs see the world thru only one eye-you're BUTTHOLES!