Republicans on Air America Radio

Today I realized that Tom Coburn will be on Unfiltered. It is possible that this show is a rerun. However, I really do not believe shows on AAR should try to get republicans to come on their shows. I do not see any reason why they should have republicans on their shows. The republicans have their own shows that they can go on and talk about their issues. I think AAR should be a place for democrats to be able to respond to what the republicans say on other shows. What do other DUers think?

This station is an opposition station to the crap spewed forth by the right. Giving them yet another voice, albeit, I guess in non partisan shake of the hand to moderation, is not needed.

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not enough sponsors! BWA HA HA HA HA! not enough people listening to AAR now! BWA HA HA HA HA HA! oh dear god... that was a gas!

:D :hug: go look at them radio numbers and add some fact to that opinion -- heh, AAR is doing quite well, i can assure you.

now CNN... well, poor thing has seen better days. ;)

way to go for you, huh? What is your opinion of the number of listners they have?

where those ratings come from. For instance, how do the stations know for sure how many people are tuned in?

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As for the rest...there must be some way of knowing (just like on other radio stations) who is listening. Not sure how that works though.

That would be like assuming that disaster relief is only the UN's job!

Oops! You posted that sentiment, didn't you?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2869714

You might want to actually look at the numbers before you spout off.

Dream on, AAR is doing great.

Right, they keep adding new markets, re-signing very expensive talent....yeah, there is nobody listening....riiight...you make absolutely no sense...

That's rather our point, isn't it? That Democrats are different from Repugs? I like that AAR's approach differs from the conservative fanatics in hate radio. That they do try to engage in discourse. I assume they do, anyway. I don't listen on a regular basis.

I think that many moderate repubs are decent people who have been blackmailed by the radical right, and need to find avenues to present their views. They are closer in spirit to moderates of all stripes, and are probably scared shitless by the far right contingent of their own party. The mainstream media won't listen to them or put them on, so it shows that AAR is an open and democratic system where you do not so much as condemn anyone with an opposing view, but offer them some legitimacy for their point of view. I know many, many repubs who hate the regime, but have no way of having their voices heard.

If so, I would suggest you research some of the good Dr. Coburn's utterances.

Tom Coburn is hardly moderate. He's somewhere to the right of Atilla The Hun. He's the guy who steralized young women by pressuring them into consent or without their consent.

A real humanitarian, that Tom.

why the hell do they stay in the Party of Hate. I think most those mods have more in common with the hard right then they let on about.

LOL

Coburn is crazy

He suggested that a high percentage of girls in high school in Southeastern Oklahoma were "practicing Lesbianism", and that the schools couldn't allow girls to go to the bathrooms together anymore.

Absolutely false, and crazy.

He sterilized a young woman without her permission (written) and so he claims she did give him permission (verbal) but she says she didn't.

He wanted Schindler's list banned from network broadcast because of the "nudity"

He is wayyyyy out to the right. His father is too. His father doesn't believe in taxes at all, and is into that right wing nonsense.

Tom is a chip off the old block from what I can tell.

What a freak!

It will probably be the only "real" interview and grilling that a repub gets. Maybe they will expose the repubs for what they are.

If they flog him, I have no problems.

I agree. Verbal debate on policy and issues by gifted Air America hosts should cream the righties while educating and persuading the gullible right wing listeners. If it is handled well I don't mind, but if the repug guest is allowed to score points on OUR air waves I would not like it.

rachel maddow is intelligent to smash holes in their ideas. now, some shows i would keep them off of, like al franken. good show but not of the same caliber as the other.

about Coburn, not with Coburn himself. :shrug:

He's a real Democrat.