When it seems like every time I tune in you have some moron talking about 911 troof and “building seven”. Nutbags like Mike Malloy are a perfect example. :rolleyes: I was just tuning in as I went out for a late night snack and the overnight guy was raving about it as well.
Are Air America listeners that stupid? Is the management of Air America that cynical that they let this idiocy pass over their airwaves? I guess so…
I haven’t heard Air America in quite a while; they’re not carried in Atlanta and I’d have to go online. They lost their two best shows, Al Franken and Morning Sedition, both of which had a lot of sharp, funny, fact-based stuff.
If they’ve really sunk as low as you describe, it makes me sad.
Big fan of Stephanie Miller here (“Like a Mensa meeting with fart jokes”) and on occassion check out Ed Shultz. Haven’t heard much of this, or any, for that matter. At any rate, I rather doubt that AA has an editorial policy, that being a bit tough to enforce on a call-in talk format.
At any rate, screw “credibitlity”. You hear something you think may be bogus, you got an internet tube, right? When it comes to nutbar theories, only the ill-informed can be further ill-informed.
And when someone on Air America “mainstreams” the nutbag theories, they are legitimized and gain a wider audience.
I haven’t heard the dumbo broadcasters cited in the OP, but if they’re giving serious attention to 9-11 conspiracy tripe (Malloy supposedly is promising to explore these crucial issues every week :rolleyes: ), it does damage credibility big time.
Mark down this date, folks. That’s the first time “Air America” and “wider audience” have appeared in a sentence together.
Two points.
A) Speaking of uninformed: Mike Malloy isn’t even ON AIR AMERICA and hasn’t been for more than two years. AAR is too chickenshit centrist these days, as evidenced by the embarrassing firing of Randi Rhodes and Malloy, and relegating the excellent, funny Sam Seder to Sundays (and not even renewing his contract). If you want to carp at someone, carp at Malloy’s network, NovaM. If you’re hearing him on a station that also syndicates Air America, that’s not AAR’s problem.
B) Mike Malloy isn’t a ‘nutbag’. He’s smart, hilarious, and angry, and skeptical. If you’re not angry and skeptical after 8 years of this administration, there’s something seriously wrong with your makeup.
He’s allowing discussion of topics that other broadcasters have banned completely, and he’s allowing it precisely because we’re all so quick to cry “conspiracy nutbag!” against anyone who wants to discuss the issues raised (or questions unanswered) by the 9/11 Commission Report. Yes, God forbid people discuss something and decide things for themselves!
I don’t believe many of the bizarro theories, but there are questions that no one’s talking about because 9/11 has turned into some kind of national sacred cow. “To question means to blaspheme! I guess you must think aliens teamed up with Condoleeza Rice to personally tear down Building Seven brick by brick!”
People are banned from even discussing the topic over at The Daily Kos because certain Democrats are so afraid of having their loyalty/sanity questioned. Fuck that noise. Good for Malloy for having a forum to analyze the event that’s had the single hugest impact on our nation this century.
Heh heh. Throw “legitimized” in there and we have the oxymoronic winner!
I have read that progressive radio hosts - both on Air America and off (Ed Schultz is not on Air America but is on many progressive stations) - beat right wing radio in markets where the go head to head. It’s just the overwhelming number of right wing stations screws the numbers.
I have no idea if that’s true. However, in the short time I’ve been streaming a Chicago progressive radio station (WCPT 820) they’ve upped their signal and gone from almost 100% public service spots to main stream advetisers such as Menards.
As for those public service announcements - the country and western guy promoting breast feeding should be send to Siberia. “Ya’ll breast feed, ya hear.”
And how can Happy Wanderer claim any credibility now, since he doesn’t even know that Mike Malloy is no longer on Air America? Obviously, not a person to be taken seriously.
I listen to Stephanie Miller in the mornings, and sometimes to Schultz but I haven’t heard any conspiracy stuff. The occasional caller who starts in with “Building 7” type stuff generally gets hung up on and laughed at. I’ve never heard this Malloy dude, but I guess he’s not on AA anyway, so who cares?
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Ridiculous strawman. Reasonable questions get discussed reasonably. The myriad absurd conspiracy theories aren’t being reasonably discussed anymore because they’ve all been gone over already, they’re all bullshit, and reasonable people are sick and tired of them and don’t want to waste any more time on them.
Well, I don’t know who was on the overnight shift where they were talking nonsense, and I admit that I did not know that Mike Malloy is not on Air America proper, but he certainly is on the local affiliate, and I would not be surprised if other Air America stations carried him. Anyway, we will see if his other dire predictions come to pass:
That Bush is going to start another war just to “bitchslap” the American public for disliking him, that he will declare martial law and suspend the elections, then become our dictator for life…
Let’s see how all that turns out, Mike.
In comparison to bugeyedsalivadrippingwackoblogspot.com, I would have thought a syndicated radio audience, even Nova M in this case would have a wider audience.
Based on the appetite for online lunacy though, maybe I’m wrong.
'Scuse me, I must go now - I can hear fluoridationists in the walls. :eek:
I dunno.
George Noory (who also airs a lot of “kooky” stuff) is on the same radio station that broadcasts Limbaugh and Dr. laura, here in San Diego. (KOGO 600AM, part of the Clear Channel Empire.)
I don’t think having a varied mix in programming necessarilly means much.
Sorry, I think this is a pretty weak argument. Remember, one of the big arguments people make against online news/blogs is that it’s so easy to only read stuff that supports what you believe in. The same thing applies here.
Besides, I thought we were supposed to fight ignorance, not pat it on the head and tell it how cute it is.
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Big fan of Stephanie Miller here (“Like a Mensa meeting with fart jokes”). . . ./QUOTE]Huh. I couldn’t imagine a mensa meeting *without *fart jokes, so I don’t quite get the analogy.