Does Chuck D still do Air America? - Democratic Underground

bluestateguy

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Tue May-10-05 04:56 PM
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Does Chuck D still do Air America?

As co-host of the now cancelled "Unfiltered", he was gone a lot on recording career business, but I used to enjoy his imput on the show. Does he currenly have any role at all on Air America? They gave Rachel Maddow her own show (at a crappy time) and Liz Winstead left. Was Chuck D offered anything? Let us also remember that Mark Riley is now the only regular black host on Air America.

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AndreaCG

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Tue May-10-05 07:42 PM
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1. Chuck D was not even there when the show was on the air

I heard him maybe twice a week for an hour if that.

BTW I did a film with a woman whose boyfriend works for AA and she said Lizz Winsteadt was extremely difficult to work for and had terrible mood swings.

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rogue emissary

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Tue May-10-05 08:21 PM
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2. From Chuck D's website

Edited on Tue May-10-05 09:14 PM by rogue emissary

http://www.publicenemy.com/index.php?page=page3

April 22, 2005

No, I didnt leave Air America nor did I get fired. I'll be doing a weekly show starting in May - sometimes recorded, at other times rolling live. Stop the blogs now saying I got canned in favor of Jerry Springer, his show is on the former Unfiltered time slot 9-12 noon daily. Rachel Maddow has her own show under her name at 5-6am opening the day up with the news and almost setting it off BBC-ish. Lizz Winstead will be doing other things in TV and comedy, and I really enjoyed my experience with them, learning so much. There was noone who worked harder than those two women to balance out the one sided news propaganda in America.

As mentioned before, On The Real is a weekly two hour show I'll be looking to do Sunday nights 10 - midnight with my CO-host, Gia Garel. But a daily presence of a person of color besides Mark Riley in the morning could be needed to balance some of the things that appear to be redundant after about 5pm. Air America is still a necessary signal.

I haven't seen an official announcement. Anyone have any recent info?

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