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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:52 AM
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Air America a miserable failure, just like predicted
Local liberal talk-radio station leads with 25-54-year-old listeners

I love it, the hell with all the doomsayers from the beginning that didn't even want to give them a chance. This is also in ultra-conservative San Diego of all places, so that makes it that much nicer.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:54 AM
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1. I heard Randi Rhodes talking about that the other day
Now, if we can just get them on in Hartford!
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JuniorPlankton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:55 AM
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2. Great!
They just got to Boston and I am loving it!

:kick:
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Glenda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:03 AM
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4. I know! Me too!
It's about time for Boston :)

Glenda
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:06 AM
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6. NO! No more good stuff for Boston.
You guys are already hoggin' the best team in football, and are going to sweep the cards for a world championship. Some of us out here on the left coast need to have something to cheer about too ya' know. :7

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Glenda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:41 AM
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15. Good things follow me where-ever I go.
:D

This is my way of taking credit for it all!!

O8)
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:02 AM
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3. what a sucky movie
Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr,. yuck.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:04 AM
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5. When are they going to be in Washington/Baltimore area?
I can't get the Philly station down here.

:(
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:10 AM
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9. Tell your local broadcast stations that...
...if liberal talk works in San Diego, it will damn well work ANYHWERE. One of them should be willing to take the risk.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:09 AM
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7. That won't help with recruiting the young-uns to the military in San Diego
Media that is not pro-government propaganda in a big Navy/Marine Corps town is going to get people talking.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:14 AM
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10. You would be surprised.
There are not a whole lot of kids that sign up here anyway, compared to the rest of the country. It has a lot to do with growing up in a military family, and that itself, makes a lot of kids not want to enlist.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:16 AM
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12. I am surprised
During the Vietnam war, military towns had a higher enlistment rate.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:20 AM
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13. When I was 17 and went to boot camp here in San Diego...
...that I was the only one from the area. The other hundred or so that made up our company, came from all around the country.
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:09 AM
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8. YeaaaaaH. With that news my local is warming to the idea
Of Air America for broadcast.
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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:15 AM
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11. Logic proved, people want entertainment
not necessarily RW hate radio with snide partisan lying. Our side is simply cleaner and more truthful entertainment. I know may people in our moderate to liberal area tuning in to outrageous talk shows because they are somewhat entertaining but mainly they have no other choices. They start being loyal to the local troll host. Weeds grow in vacant lots.

However, not to go easy on the liberal thing out of guilt or anything, but.... we can reach more people where they are by offering simple comedy along the lines of Jon Stewart and less partisan warfare. The people are not really tuning in for the political dialectic though they can start allying themselves to attached ideologies if it is essentially there.

So far: truth is better, good people and smart people and more professional people can do the job better. Competition is good. Etc.

If only we could get the main network fare back on the road to fairness.
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 10:28 AM
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14. I'm permanently changed.
I've listened to the rest, now I only listen to the best. My radio dial is permanently soldered to am 620 here in Portland. It's a great radio station. I've written several posts about why it's such good radio station.

It just shows you how rotten the Rot-publicans really are. Out of 100 stations, 99 are Rat-publican. Can't they even let us have 1 democratic station?
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