STATEMENT OF CHARLIE KIREKER, CHAIR & MARK GREEN, PRESIDENT, FOR AIR AMERICA MEDIA

[LSK]

Last week Air America suspended Randi Rhodes for abusive, obscene language at a recent public appearance in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station.

Air America Media was informed last night by Ms. Rhodes that she has chosen to terminate her employment with the company.

We wish her well and thank her for past services to Air America. We will soon announce exciting new talent and programming that will accelerate Air America’s growth in the future.


http://airamerica.com/live

[TriggerGal]

1. She'll be back on the air ... on Monday ...

http://www.green960.com

Randi ... takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!!!

[lapfog_1]

2. Hey Mark... your "network" sucks

I hope the remaining talent figures out that you really aren't liberal talk radio... and finds other employment as well.

And, oh, btw, your gal Hillary isn't going to win the nomination either.

[LSK]

4. whos left? Sam and Rachel???

Sam has been kicked around a lot by them. Rachel looks like shes heading towards a career on MSNBC.

[ziggysane]

6. And Hartmann!

[LSK]

7. thought he was independent n/t

[ziggysane]

3. They'll get her back in Seattle too

I just heard from Paul Fredricks the PD of AM 1090 and he told me "We will see where she resurfaces and do what we can to get her back on KPTK."

She'll bounce back from this more easily than will AAR... see my long post in the thread in Breaking News.

Rachel

[SoFlaJet]

5. My Statement To Mark Green

Fuck You

[Subdivisions]

11. LOL! Didn't really need to click through on this one! n/t

[orleans]

13. hey--that was MY statement to mark green

now i guess my statement to mark green will be:

MARK GREEN SUCKS!

[BurtWorm]

8. Message from Burt Worm to Air America

You mean she said what she said on her own time? And you're acting like typical corporate fascists, more interested in your own image than the First Amendment?

[N4457S]

9. Anyone...

...who has something the left wants is a fascist. They'd call my 93-year-old grandmother a fascist if she had something they were after.

San Francisco is full of this shit, but even up here people are getting sick of all the noise. People in Danville laugh at these idiots.

[BurtWorm]

12. What is Danville?

:shrug:

Do the people there think a radio station that sells itself as outspoken should punish an employee who says something on her own time that makes them uncomfortable? I don't really care what people there or anywhere think. I'm not even a fan of Randi Rhodes. I am a fan of the First Amendment, and it makes me uncomfortable to see progressive media ignoring it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Who's next? That's all I have to ask

[alfredo]

14. Change happens all the time in radio. You get fired or quit, you move on.

It's no big thing. It's not personal, it's business.


Don't get upset, Randi will be OK and so will AAR.


I'm listening to Ed Schultz on KTPK on iTunes.

[yurbud]

15. Are the suits intentionally saboutaging Air America?

[NightWatcher]

16. the Hillary supporters in management are trying to quell dissent

god save the queen