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Air America Radio has just sent its third fundraising letter, this time full of boasts about election “victories” against the “right-wing”.
This time, it’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joining the party. Just how bad is the liberal radio network’s situation?
See it at the Radio Equalizer.

What’s the difference between your local “shopper” throwaway rag and the New York Times? Perhaps very little.
Using a widely-circulated internal memo obtained by the Radio Equalizer, we’re exploring whether Sunday’s glowing profile of Air America Radio’s Randi Rhodes and Rachel Maddow was the direct result of a corporate spin campaign.
Is this how a major [...]

Al Franken thinks President George W. Bush should “confess”, according to today’s Denver Post. He’s so kind, in fact, he’d “forgive” Bush for an “outright confession”:
“The best way for us to start getting out is for the president to finally admit some mistakes,” Franken said in a phone interview. “Just say,’OK, we kind of cherry-picked, [...]

Watch this video (9MB/Quicktime):
Click here. (There may be a bit of a pause before it starts.)
It’s a clip of the last few minutes of an exclusive promotional sales pitch for Al Franken’s new book, “The Truth (with jokes),” featured at Amazon.com. (Thanks to my web guy, Mark Jaquith, for the technical assist.) The video skit [...]

File this under “How the MSM ignores facts, smears blogs, and publishes snit fits disguised as responsible journalism.”
Last week, I received a media inquiry from Wall Street Journal media reporter Joe Hagan. He wanted to talk about blogs and the University of Oklahoma bomber story. Although I was dismayed to learn the only coverage of [...]

From Air America.

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Brian Maloney and I have been hearing rumblings about various Air America departures. Another one is now official. (VP of finance Sinohe Terrero resigned earlier this month.) Via the Air America blog this morning:
It is with great regret that we write to let you know that Katherine
Lanpher will be leaving “The Al Franken Show.” Katherine [...]

I’m scheduled to appear on Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor tonight with my investigative blog partner Brian Maloney to talk about our reporting on Air America. It’ll be old hat for readers of our blogs, but we’re glad for the opportunity to bring the story into the mainstream.
Update: Video at The Political Teen.
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Air America: Groveling [...]

You’re going to love this. This morning, I posted a follow-up item on DemCreditScam, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s dirty trick against Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. (Send your suggestions for naming the scandal to Hugh Hewitt). I wondered why the NYTimes has failed to print a single article about the scandal, engineered [...]

Via Tax Prof Blog, Al Franken–talk show host on the foundering Air America radio network–will be lecturing today at Yale Law School.
The Business School laughed him off.
If you happen to be in the area, please stop by and ask Franken how the Air America panhandling is going, whether he plans to donate any of the [...]

Stuff it with cash, please!
Al Franken’s liberal radio network, Air America, is now scraping the bottom of the barrel for investors. Having taxed the patience of deep-pocketed liberal sugar daddies, Air America execs have cooked up a new campaign to hit up their own listeners for cash donations.
My investigative blog partner Brian Maloney and I [...]

Tuesday quick links:
-Dan Rather has a crocodile tear-shedding, lip-quivering meltdown. Dry-eyed comments from Penraker, the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Roger L. Simon, and Steve J.
-Robert Spencer on The Hijab That Wasn’t.
-FEC sues the Club for Growth. FEC statement here. Club for Growth response here. RedState, BizzyBlog, and Jack Lewis sound the alarm.
-More ungrateful critics of the [...]

***Please note 9/28 note correction: Terrero was employed at Gloria Wise, but did not work under Cohen***
Inside Air America: The loan scandal deepens
by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin
Part of a continuing investigative blog series
9/14/05
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If you believe Air America, Al Franken, and their clueless defenders, the liberal radio network’s now-notorious financial problems with the Bronx-based Gloria [...]

***235pm EDT: Updated with just-released statement from NYC Department of Investigations***
Yesterday, in our latest joint investigative piece on Air America and the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club loan scandal, Brian Maloney and I reported that “knowledgeable sources tell us the liberal radio network is contemplating how to stem the lingering bad publicity. Anticipating further [...]

Inside Air America: Al Franken’s Lying Lies
Part of an ongoing investigative blog series
by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin
Sept. 7, 2005
(Part II of this installment is at The Radio Equalizer)
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Thanks again to all who participated in the Katrina Blog for Relief event, which N.Z. Bear says will now be extended into a Blog Relief Weekend–ending on Labor Day. Look for more info on how N.Z. and Hugh Hewitt are refining the framework to better match donors and charities with specific needs in Hugh’s latest [...]

***scroll down for updates…IT workers, Houston helps, Homes for Katrina Victims…where is Amazon.com?…Canadians helping…beware of scams…Amazon.com changes its mind…***
1) As I noted last night, N.Z. Bear at TTLB has set up a registration page for bloggers who want to participate in the Hurricane Katrina Blog Relief Day fundraiser–inspired by Hugh Hewitt–set for tomorrow, Sept. 1. [...]

Former Air America chairman Evan Cohen is still missing.
Current Air America host Randi Rhodes will be making the trip to Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas. No word on whether she will be travelling on the private jet she requested.
The Weekly Standard (August 29 issue) says the Air America scandal “continues to metastasize:”
The national board [...]

Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report
The Sheldon Drobny Files
by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin

Part of a continuing series

My investigative blog partner, Brian Maloney, watched the surreal appearance of Air America co-founder Sheldon Drobny on C-SPAN this weekend. Drobny was on the network to plug his 2004 book, “Road to Air America: Breaking the Right [...]

I’m back from a relaxing, but all too short and too rare, vacation. If you have kids 5 years old and under, I can now highly recommend Sesame Place. Yeah, it’s ridiculously expensive and overcrowded. But the mesmerized look in your toddler’s eyes when he comes face to face with Elmo, Dorothy, and Mr. Noodle’s [...]

While Michelle and I work on the next Air America scandal investigative piece, here are the latest Air Enron developments.
What’s the difference between San Antonio and Denver when it comes to Air America coverage? They’re a world apart.
See the rundown here.

Yesterday’s post about a pro-American Italian blog caused irritation when I asked about a lack of similar sites from Ireland.
For that, I say ta bron orm (sorry), because I quickly heard from a number of people about these:
— Neocenturions, a well-written moderate site. Scroll down for timely remarks on the increasingly dangerous rhetoric of Venezuela’s [...]

Ralph Peters reports on a story that hasn’t got much press although if the news were the opposite, you know you’d be reading about it all over.
But my nomination for the “Greatest Story Never Told” is a quieter one: Locked in a difficult war, the U.S. Army is exceeding its re-enlistment and first-time enlistment goals. [...]

Perhaps the only real way to contain my irritation with Washington’s WMAL radio situation, where host Michael Graham has apparently been fired after a fringe Islamist group’s pressure campaign, is by resorting to a bit of silliness.
After all, MAL stands for Maloney, for Malkin and Mal was my grandfather’s nickname. Every Irishman must have one [...]

Michelle and I have spent much of the last month investigating the Air America scandal, where $875,000 in taxpayer-funded community center grants were allegedly diverted to the liberal radio network.
Today our New York Post piece, “Money Pit”, appears on the op-ed page. See it here.
Also, at the Radio Equalizer, Al Franken’s softball interview from The [...]

Powerline points to this feature at Forbes.com with reviews of several of the biggest political blogs on both the left and the right. Forbes seems inclined to be nice to everyone.
Here is what they say about Michelle Malkin’s blog.
The site for columnist and author Michelle Malkin–known most for her book defending the internment of [...]

The latest installment of the Maloney-Malkin investigative series on Air America is up. Today, we take a close look at the lawsuit of former Air America host Lizz Winstead.

Lizz Winstead

UCLA corporate law prof Stephen Bainbridge, a man ahead of his time, analyzes MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting Inc.’s complaint against Air America Radio, which Brian Maloney and I first reported on here.
A reminder that attorney Eric Costello’s analysis is here. Costello sends this addendum:
An oddity, from reading the default judgement…The judgement refers to a $156,000 bond [...]

David Lombino of the New York Sun updates yesterday’s article about MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting’s lawsuit against Air America/Piquant. This morning Lombino reports that the $255,754 lawsuit first reported on by Brian Maloney and me two days ago is part of a larger attempt by MultiCultural to collect more than $1.5 million it says Air America [...]

Part II is up at The Radio Equalizer.
Brian Maloney and I take a close look at the financial plans of Sheldon and Anita Drobny, the deep-pocketed, far left Illinois Democrat couple who dreamed up Air America and have been involved in its many strange and dubious business reorganizations. The key questions that curious radio [...]