Apparently no one would want to hear about this story.
Published on August 14, 2005 By greywar In Politics

     Update : There appear to be some folks reading this who think that this article is critical of Air America Radio... it is NOT! AAR may not be the most smoothly run business in the world but that is not the heart of the issue. The issue here is the complete lack of any reporting on this from the MSM. Had this been EIB and the Boy Scouts as suggeted in the commentary discussion the MSM would have been on it like stink on shit regardless of when the funding was done or if the idiot responsible had already been fired. I will admit that the headline to the article is a bit sensational but oh well... sure me:)

     For those who have not heard about it elsewhere Air America (a very liberal leaning talk radio network headlined by Al Franken and Garofalo) was caught a few weeks ago in a financial scandal in which it received just under $1 million that was intended for needy children (this was money diverted as "loans" from a charity by political supporters with pull in said charity).

     Of course the MSM has little interest in publishing this sort of story (lets prentend this was Rush Limbaugh's EIB network for a sec shall we? Think that might have garnered a headline or two?) and this is being documented over at the Captain's Quarters blog here. Check out his scoreboard and then [please come back and tell me how the right wing has taken over media... no really... I am dying to hear the theory.

 

I only point this out so that you won't think that all I do nowadays is Guardrail poetry.

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on Aug 14, 2005
can I wait with you to hear it?  I am dying to hear from the left how the MSM is not liberal.
on Aug 14, 2005

can I wait with you to hear it?

I think we might be waiting a long time for any explanation of this one.

on Aug 14, 2005
no explaination needed, if it's the liberal left commiting crimes that is ok, if it's the rightwing committing same crimes NOW THAT'S NEWS!
on Aug 14, 2005

no explaination needed, if it's the liberal left commiting crimes that is ok, if it's the rightwing committing same crimes NOW THAT'S NEWS!

While that is a truism, one would hope that members of the left would (at least the honest ones) at least condemn it.  That the MSM is not speaks volumes to their integrity.  I have higher hopes for the left members of JU.

on Aug 14, 2005
Disappointing, but not surprising.

I've never looked at Franken or Garafalo as moral leaders, haha, and with good cause.

I didn't read the links (I'm too ADD), but I'm curious what kind of repercussions Franken & Co. and Air America are going to face for this crime?
on Aug 14, 2005
Not sure it was a "crime" - depends on what the meaning of "is" is, you know. I'm sure it was just an unintentional technical error, like Sandy Berger forgetting he had secret documents stuffed in his BVD's.

And you're quite right, greywar - can you imagine the stink we'd be wading through if it had been, say, the Boy Scouts loaning money to EIB?

Shenanigans are hardly the exclusive province of the left (Abramoff comes to mind) but this one is particularly rich and the MSM's "non-handling" of it particularly telling.

Cheers,
Daiwa
on Aug 14, 2005

I didn't read the links (I'm too ADD), but I'm curious what kind of repercussions Franken & Co. and Air America are going to face for this crime?

Let's put it this way.  I set up a charity to help poor people in Honduras.  I pay 50% overhead to the controlling agency to administer that money.  is it a Crime? No.

is it deceptful?  Hell yes!

Not illegal, but they basically stole money from kids for their radio station.  And they will go free cause the MSM will not dog them on it and get the money back.

on Aug 14, 2005

Not illegal, but they basically stole money from kids for their radio station.

Exactly.

on Aug 14, 2005
Not illegal, but they basically stole money from kids for their radio station. And they will go free cause the MSM will not dog them on it and get the money back.


Exactly. These are the same people who tell us we need to overtax everybody but the poor, and look how they use them for their own financial gain.
on Aug 15, 2005
No wonder they're always calling for tax increases, eh? Gotta lay more cash on those children's charities, how in the world would businesses like Air America get by without their "loans?"
---LW

A conservative friend of mine got into an argument with his much more liberal wife over government funding of the media and the whole left-wing bias thing (mainly NPR and such). She quite seriosly tried to argue that the Rush Limbaugh Show was funded by the government. He laughed and told her to prove it. She couldn't, of course so he spent a couple nights on the couch because he laughed at her.


The left probably doesn't mind skimming money to be funneled into its info outlets because they feel that their message is the only one that needs to be heard.After all, theirs is so obviously the correct way of thought, why would you need anything else?
on Aug 15, 2005
i hate to break up the happy fizzies party here, but the story was covered in the dreaded msm (associated press/cleveland plain dealer Link)...it's being investigated by your favorite new york state attorney eliot spitzer...it appears to originate with the guy who nearly caused air america radio to go bellyup...aar has agreed to repay the money despite its claim that it isnt responsible for the debt (you'll have to read the article to see why)...and al franken's take on it is as follows: Al Franken, addressed the issue briefly on his show Monday. He called Cohen "a crook
on Aug 15, 2005
can I wait with you to hear it?


i'd wait to hear yall admit you were wrong but i know it wont happen so...
on Aug 15, 2005
i hate to break up the happy fizzies party here, but the story was covered in the dreaded msm


That is not being touched by the MSM. Are you going to tell me that if this was Rush Limbaugh that it would get the same exact response from the MSM?
on Aug 15, 2005

i'd wait to hear yall admit you were wrong but i know it wont happen so...

 

Cleveland.com and the Plain dealer are the MSM Kingbee? Are you serious about that? Did you read the the scorecard over at Captain's Quarters or did you skip the difference between the coverage of this non-story and the Martha Stewart non-story? How many time has the Grey Lady touched this one?

I will wait and see if you come back with an apology to your two smug comments.

on Aug 15, 2005
KB here is the scorecard in case you don't want to patronize the Captain : Media Outlet Air America Martha Stewart New York Times 0 16 Washington Post 0 10 Los Angeles Times 0 3 CBS News 0 1 ABC News 0 4 Total: 0 34

Al Franken, addressed the issue briefly on his show Monday. He called Cohen "a crook

Why did it take Al Franken this long to comment? As you can see here he is more miffed about not not getting paid than he is about the rest of it.

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