Air America - Crash & Burn

Air America has been a little known liberal attempt at fielding a talk radio network to counter the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy's stranglehold in that media arena.

First, irregardless of content, I hated these people. They stole the name 'Air America' - the term originally, and still does, refer to CIA air operations in Southeast Asia before and during the Vietnam War. A lot of good people served that operation, and a good many of them gave their lives in doing so. Liberal's theft of the term was dispicable.

You might have seen the movie 'Air America' with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. depicting the CIA flying operations. The movie sucked, but the flying scenes were pretty darned good.

Air America's on air personality lineup has been a who's who of venomous far left hate mongers. What else can you say about a 'network' whose most illustrious talk host was the lunatic Al Franken? The vile hatred spewed out on the air by these people was incredible. One of their 'hosts' even went so far as to playing recorded gun shot sounds whenever he was mentioning President Bush.

Air America went under due to the financial troubles it had been having since its inception. Poor to non-existant ratings, poor funding, no advertising income, and very poor management equaled an enterprise that simply was not financially viable. They claimed to have a 100 station network, but in all of my business travels, I was never able to find their programming on the radio dial.

The shame of them going under is that the far left in the government is already trying to capitalize on the failure. Renewed efforts to bring up the 'fairness doctrine' under that name or another are floating around Democrat leadership.