Jon Elliott announced tonight that General Wesley Clark will be his guest on 'This Is America' on Air America Wednesday night/Thursday morning at 12:30 am EST (August 20 or 21 depending on time zone)
Stream Air America for those who don't have a local station.
I suspect that he will be asking the General directly about where he will be one week hence...
I totally wish I was in Austin this weekend for Netroots Nation, especially after I learned this week that former Alabama Governor Don Sieglman would be there.
Air America Radio has upstream video from Don Siegelman's appearance at this weekend's Netroots Nation conference in Austin.
We are blogging live from Netroots Nation. We are currently at the Don Siegelman interview with Air America. Don Siegelman has announced the launch of Contempt for Karl Rove where you can send a message to Congress urging them to support a contempt resolution.
Read below for a quick synopsis. We will have more on our site The Progressive Electorate later as this develops.
Last night's show was one of your best. You are so on fire on the Tee-Vee. You have your stride. I can't wait for you to run your own show. You look so in control, happy, and at home. Nice job.
Apologies that I mis-remembered the sponsors of the radio spots. The original post said it was the State Dept. It's actually that paragon of upstanding institutions, the Justice Dept. Your tax dollars at work.
My local Seattle Air America affiliate radio station has been running very serious-sounding ads, ostensibly from the National Crime Prevention Council. Their basic message is "Be afraid—at home, at work, wherever."
Now, the NCPC is an interesting organization that seems to be essentially a trade & lobbying association for companies that stand to profit from fear. They last floated into my awareness as the purveyors of those cute commercials featuring McGruff the Crime Dog® offering kids a guide to coping with strangers, school bullies, and similar threats. But their mission has obviously broadened to target adults and make sure we're good and afraid of scary people who might try to blow us up.
The interesting thing to me was the tag line at the end of the spots, which says (approximately): "Brought to you by the NCPC, the Department of Justice, and the Advertising Council." Would it be cynical of me to suspect that government and industry are partnering to crank up the terror threat as we head into the election season?
By Donna Smith, American SiCKO, communications specialist for CNA/NNOC
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For those who subscribe, like me, to XM radio come July 14 XM's Air America channel is going to be changing names and lineups. I've been thinking this might happen sooner or later. Sooner has won out over later.
As many of you might know, Sam Seder's tenure as an on air Air America host is likely coming to an end this weekend. While Shpilk wrote earlier this month regarding Seder's last live appearance, Sam's blog indicates that the very last episode is likely to air today.
Follow me over the fold if this chaps your ass as much as it does mine....
Papantonio of Air America Radio was on FOX News earlier today debating Media Research Center's Brent Bozell about whether Michelle Obama is or isn't off limits for the 2008 election.
Are spouses off limits? Bozell says they are fair game if they make comments like Michelle's "for the first time in my adult life I am proud of America" statements. But Papantonio comes back strong saying that children and wives shouldn't be fair game. If they are fair game, however, he says that the GOP should be careful what they wish for because "they're gonna get it" on Cindy McCain's tax returns amongst other things...
I imagine that FOX News isn't going to have Papantonio back on their show any time soon. A liberal guest that holds his own and wins an argument? FOX simply can't have that.
He raises a pretty good point considering Cindy McCain's baggage. If the GOP wants to go hard after Michelle they might have to think twice.
I stream Air America Radio onto my work PC every day. The past few weeks, the Rachel Maddow show has changed format to what appears to be audio clips of a TV talk show round table.
First time diarist; usually I'm at my own space. Air America, in its infinite non-wisdom, has been "trying out" guest hosts while trying to heal the gaping wound that happens in a radio lineup when you try to strongarm your marquee name and she decides to take a powder.
Driving back from my weekend place in the Poconos listening the the Lionel program I'm remembering how elated I was with the birth of progressive radio's AIR AMERICA in 2003. Finally, a counter voice to radio reichstadt led by uberdreckenfuhrer Limbaugh and his band of brownshirt wannabees. It's taken a while along with, shall we say, a spirited Democratic Party presidential primary season to bring me back to earth. I think it's fair to say that the inevitablity of left politics would soon take center stage. So now the old saw, "with friends like this who needs enemies," seems to be unrelentingly asserting itself.
I remember from my days in the sixties that the factions and doctrines of the left were so unwavering that those who didn't fully subscribe to a position were treated as the Holy Roman Empire treated apostates. They wouldn't let you agree with them on any point unless you agreed with them on every point. We have been stumbling, fumbling and bumbling our way through these internecine wars of "whose side is holiest" most of my adult life. There's something about a lefty that must make it so. "When the left needs a firing squad they form a circle." The first time I heard that more that 40 years ago it was attributed to a legendary Manhattan politico named Doug Ireland. God bless him, it was true then and regretably it still holds true today.
There is a quick blurb on the ny times about Randi Rhodes rejoining Air America on monday - I can't find anything else about it out there.
Todays NY Times arts, briefly section
Tell Air America to give Sam Seder a daily show, sign the petition here. And here's one of Seder's best moments to get you into the petition signing mood, Seder on the War on the War on Christmas:
Please sign the petition for Sam Seder.
The reason Sam is important is that he is the only host on Air America who speaks regularly about progressive races around the country. As you all know that's #1 requirement before we can even start to talk about change in this country: a progressive Congress. So I am baffled why other hosts are not more aggressive in this regard. Nevertheless here is your chance to have a real progressive in that timeslot:
