freep a**hole in my office

[movie_girl99]

comes in today telling me that liberal radio is loosing support. Says Al Franken is being pulled all over the country. I was under the impression that AAR is getting more air lately????

[rooboy]

1. Ummm...Al Franken is about to out-rate Limbaugh in NY...

your friend is probably listening to O'Reilly. Poor old Bill can't even keep up with the number of stations AAR has on.

[Dufaeth]

2. "losing"

From what I've heard it is growing.

[Hobarticus]

3. Talking out of his ass.

Franken's outrating the radio Nazis.

Tell him to check his sources again, and get an update on those WMDs while he's at it.

[crispini]

4. Search the archives... there was a link to a NY Post story

recently on Franken's ratings in NY.

[w13rd0]

5. Pardon me...

...but at what point in time have these RW assholes EVER told the truth? When have they EVER demonstrated a resistance to willfully accepting known lies to further their agenda? Why tell us what we already know? RW dittoheads are morons, prone to deception, lacking moral authority, and willing to justify anything to preserve power for their selected puppets and puppetmasters.

[NightTrain]

6. On March 31, 2004, AAR had six affiliates. Today it has 37.

Does that sound to you like the network is losing support?

You might also mention to your dumbass co-worker that AAR's San Diego affiliate is #1 in that market--and we're talking out of *all* that city's radio stations, both AM and FM.

[LTR]

9. Uhh... not exactly

Not sure of the demographic breakdowns (which supposedly put Randi Rhodes at the top of one demographic), but overall, KLSD is the #3 AM in the market.

I would like to see daypart and demographic breakdowns, but Arbitron makes this information very difficult to obtain.

[NightTrain]

17. I stand corrected.

I must've misheard what Randi said on the air. She did, however, state further that KLSD went from a 0.0 share before it picked up Air America, to its current 6.2. Unless Randi was lying, that's an incredible leap!

[LTR]

22. That was a demographic breakdown

I heard that the rating she cited was her show, adults 25-54. In other words, the 'money' demographic.

Overall, KLSD had a great first ratings book!

[movie_girl99]

10. i knew he was full of crap

he also mentioned how liberals NEVER call into conservative talk radio shows.

[benburch]

11. Well, we gotta lie to get past their screeners...

usually it isn't worth the effort.

[LTR]

12. Remember that one guy that got through Limbaugh's screeners?

He told the screeners that he was going to say 'don't underestimate John Kerry', got through and ripped Rush about his anal cyst excuse to get out of Vietnam. Rush stammered, went to break quickly, and his screeners yelled at the caller and hung up.

Back from break, no mention of the incident. Many RW hosts don't allow many dissenters to get through. Rush has even boasted in the past that he only puts on people that make him look good. Contrast with Ed Schultz, who claims he takes all the calls cold. Or Alex Bennett, who likes callers who disagree with him, since it 'makes for good radio'. Too bad RWers have overinflated egos and no spine.

[NightTrain]

18. Not to mention that AAR's Mike Malloy INVITES right-wingers to call in.

Of course, on the rare occasions that they do, our boy Malloy always rips 'em a new one! :bounce:

[deadmessengers]

21. or he starts singing Christmas carols

Malloy did that last week to one wingnut that called in.

Somewhere around here I've got an MP3 of Mike just letting some homophobe preacher rant and rant and rant, and Mike just made him look like a moron by pretending to agree with him and egging him on. It was absolutely CLASSIC Malloy.

[LTR]

7. Franken's show isn't being pulled

The only two stations lost were in Chicago and L.A. back in April, and we all know the story behind that.

Overall, AAR has 37 affiliates. Franken's on 36 of them.

If he doubts any of this, send him to my site and he can email me and I can set him straight. I have an entire blog devoted to this very subject.

[benburch]

8. My friends at Air America don't seem to be aware of this...

Tell him "In your dreams, Monkey-boy."

[stevedeshazer]

13. He's been listening to the Loofa Perv

Just send him to the website: http://www.airamericaradio.com/stations.asp

[movie_girl99]

14. i will print that page for him..thanks! eom

[Arkana]

15. Yep, he's being pulled all right

Pulled into Boston, Atlanta, Miami, etc. Tell your King Falafel-sucking friend that he's dreaming.

[movie_girl99]

16. oh he's no friend

just one of the many a**holes that I work with

[greekspeak]

19. Don't psychologists call this magical thinking?

Meaning, that if someone just beleives something hard enough it will happen? I think the Pukes across the board suffer from this kind of thinking. My understanding is that people are supposed to grow out of it by Jr. Highschool at the latest.

[robbedvoter]

20. Franken is also pulled ....on Sundance TV every night. Selling CD's

of his O'Franken show and doing live shows around the country to adoring audiences (no loyalty oath required).
Not just Malloy, Randi also invites freepers to call - which they rarely do.
AAR's audience - ONLY streaming - is larger than any of the cable news show (Faux, CNN, MSGOP). tell him to be afraid, very afraid.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

23. yeah, that's why he's talking about it

he must have heard it on ANal Cyst in the Morning.