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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Uh, Mr. Kireker? These guys are all you've got left. What're you gonna do with 'em?
Posted by Jill | 8:36 PM


Rachel Maddow simply can't continue to burn the candle at both ends, and sll she can give you is an hour of material mostly recycled from her TV show, and frankly, I think it's only out of respect for the network that launched her career that she's even doing that.

You ran Randi Rhodes out of town on a rail over money.

Your predecessors fired Mike Malloy while he was driving to work.


Now Thom Hartmann has moved his program to Dial Global
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So what have you got left? Jon Elliot? Richard Greene? Ron Reagan? Ron Kuby? Just how big a following do any of these guys have?

Meanwhile, sitting in your break room, are your last two vestiges of the Air America that was. You weren't around then, but it was something new and fresh and experimental. Are there two people who have been kicked around by how many generations now? -- of Air America management more than Sam Seder and Marc Maron? And does anyone have a bigger following? How many people on radio, right OR left, have the kind of loyalty that these two guys have from their listeners? Your company has fired Marc Maron THREE TIMES already -- and he's still there....or there again. Now we could say that Maron is like a wife (an unfortunate analogy, given the one-man show he's working on) who keeps coming back to her estranged spouse because she hopes in her heart that this time, baby, it really WILL be different. Or we could give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you really ARE trying to atone for Danny Goldberg's sins.

But the bottom line, Charlie, is that you really don't have a whole lot of marketable talent in your stables right now, other than the two guys in the break room with the built-in and growing following that crashed the server the other day.

So....what's it to be then, eh? Are you going to utilize what little real talent you have left? Or are you going to continue Air America's grand tradition of blowing the best opportunities you have?

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Good to see you're doing well Jill and still in rare form. marie from yonkers The tortellini look magnificent.

Blogger Melina said...
Ditto...what she said!
The best thing on Air America!

Blogger D. said...
I bet *shudder* Lionel */shudder* is still there, though.

Blogger UnJob'd said...
Or maybe liberals, unlike conservatives, just don't require the talk radio echo chamber. It's just not necessary for us to tune in to hear things that we want to hear. We read, listen and watch things that we need to learn from. Commentator talent is not important to us - journalistic talent is.

Blogger Jill said...
I had no idea you were a fan of Marc and Sam, Marie. But I know how fond you are of nice young men on radio. ;)

Blogger Melina said...
I hate to say it but Lionel has a "Lionel cam"...copying Sammy...as if anyone wants to watch him (or listen to him!)...ugh!! Its almost as scary as the concept of being stuck on a ship with Mark Green and Lionel...eeek...I think that Rachel got on at one port, did her thing, and got off at the next!
Its such a tragedy!
lets hope for some movement over there...give these guys their due!

Anonymous Anonymous said...
what is the http for Jill's blog...I am stuck on the page of my post. The story of my life.

email to Maries723@aol.com

Thanks a lot. ms marie

Blogger btchakir said...
Lionel was the turning point, happening right around Franken's leaving and Maron's firing from the morning show. That's when I stopped listening to Air America altogether.

Hell, I had Marc and Sam on the internet and Rachel started turning up on television... and Al was making bigtime news. What did Air America do for us anyway?

Under The LobsterScope

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hello... Hello... I am requesting that everyone who likes IMUS in the morning, now on WABC, and his great dedicated team; including those who are not sure IF they do--puff, wish him luck with his
stage 2 Prostate Cancer treatment... With all of us behind him, and his loving sharp wife, the good doctors, our prayers; his unique, bright quirky ways and determination, his talented amazing self, he will PREVAIL. marie from yonkers...Bless him!!!

Blogger Jill said...
Sorry, Marie, but I don't like Don Imus, I think he's a foul bigot, only marginally better than Limbaugh. I don't wish him ill, and hope he recovers the same way I would wish well for anyone stricken with cancer. But a) I don't pray; and b) I can think of far worthier people to pray for if I did.