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Radio network Air America is the only network in America where a host would be fired for expressing political views that differ from those of management.
Their condescending hosts—Al Franken etc.—feel that they are so much smarter than those they criticize. Yet the Air America executives are so out of touch with reality that they didn’t even know what was going on with the finances at their own radio network:
On March 30, the night before Air America went on the air, the liberal radio network threw itself a $70,000 party at Manhattan’s hip Maritime Hotel. More than 1,000 guests, including Yoko Ono and Tim Robbins, drank red, white and blue vodka cocktails as they toasted the network’s bid to challenge the dominance of conservative talk radio.
But behind the scenes, Air America was running out of money.
The WALL STREET JOURNAL reports on Monday: Several employees say they still haven’t been reimbursed for the costs of attending the New York launch.
Many of Air America’s investors and executives say they thought the network had raised more than $30 million, based on assurances from its owners, Guam-based entrepreneurs Evan M. Cohen and Rex Sorensen.
In fact, Air America had raised only $6 million, Mr. Cohen concedes.
Tell us more about how to run the country, Al.
Update: 6-21-04. This is too hilarious. Professor Bainbridge observes that that the owners of Air America—far from being the upstanding people who are worthy to tell us how to run the country—are in fact possibly even dishonest:
Indeed, if the facts turn out to be as the article reports, there is a very high probability that investors will be able to sue Cohen and Sorensen for securities fraud.
Who could make this up? Air America puts Mr. condescending smarty-pants, Al Franken, on the air to tell us how dumb George Bush is, and how they know so much better than others how to run the country. And the whole time there appears to be a possibility that they’ve been defrauding everybody. Is this not the left in a nutshell?
(via Instapundit. )
