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FRIDAY QUICK LINKS

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 24, 2006 05:31 PM

Brian Maloney has an exclusive report on a reported $8 million George Soros bailout of Air America.
Mark April 22 on your calendar. It’s the date of the first annual Milblogger conference in Washington DC. The best and brightest of the blogosphere will be there. Austin Bay will emcee.
Speaking of milbloggers, they are disgusted with Cindy [...]

MOONBAT ON ICE

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 20, 2006 11:33 AM

Johnny Weir, the American ice skater with a crush on the old Soviet empire, failed to medal at the Olympics.
On the bright side, it looks like he’s got a promising future as an Air America radio host…or Cindy Sheehan’s warm-up act.
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Matt at Blackfive points out that American ice skater Sasha Cohen supports the troops.

AIR AMERICA: THE SAGA CONTINUES (UPDATED W/VIDEO)

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 25, 2006 02:50 PM

***update…watch video of Maloney/O’Reilly here***
Last year, I was privileged to work with Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer on an ongoing blog investigative series about beleaguered Air America radio’s finances. Brian has continued to dig and dig deep on the story.
He has a new report here and will discuss it tonight on The O’Reilly Factor.
Brian [...]

Where in the world

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 2, 2006 02:55 PM

Am scheduled to appear on FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor tonight for a segment about Bush-haters in the MSM. Tune in around 8pm EST.
Update: Video at The Political Teen.
There wasn’t time to get through all the items on our lists. FYI, mine were:
1) The NYTimes
2) Newsweek
3) CBS News
4) The LA Times
5) The Guardian
6) Al Jazeera
7) Air [...]

HOLLERING BACK AT JANEANE GAROFALO

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 30, 2005 12:09 PM

She. Is. Mad.
I think you will get a kick out of my latest, Unhinged-themed column: “Who are you calling angry?”
Intro:
Janeane Garofalo, left-wing actress-turned-Air America radio host, is a miserable woman. Last week before the holidays, she turned up on cable TV. No, not to count her blessings but to rant against conservative journalist Bob [...]

RFK JR JOINS THE BEGGING BRIGADE

By Brian Maloney  •  November 16, 2005 04:05 PM

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.

DID THE NYT FALL FOR AAR’S SPIN CAMPAIGN?

By Brian Maloney  •  November 15, 2005 11:33 AM

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 [...]

FRANKEN: ‘FESS UP, GEORGE

By Brian Maloney  •  November 15, 2005 08:34 AM

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, [...]

AL FRANKEN IS CRACKING UP

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 25, 2005 01:25 AM

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 [...]

THE OU BOMBER & BIAS AGAINST BLOGS

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 17, 2005 02:36 PM

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 [...]

JERRY SPRINGER RUNS AWAY

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 3, 2005 06:48 AM

From Air America.

INSIDE AIR AMERICA: AL’S PAL BAILS…AND PHILLY STATION DITCHES, TOO

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 29, 2005 02:13 PM

***updated***
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 [...]

WHERE IN THE WORLD

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 27, 2005 04:10 PM

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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Previous:

Air America: Groveling [...]

THE NYTIMES OMBUDSMAN IS TOTALLY WORTHLESS

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 23, 2005 04:20 PM

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 [...]

AL FRANKEN GOES TO SCHOOL

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 23, 2005 10:34 AM

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 [...]

AIR AMERICA: GROVELING FOR CASH

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 22, 2005 08:26 AM

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 [...]

GUNGA DAN WEEPS, AND OTHER SPECTACLES

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 20, 2005 08:54 AM

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 [...]

INSIDE AIR AMERICA: THE LOAN SCANDAL DEEPENS

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 15, 2005 03:20 AM

***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 [...]

AIR AMERICA SCRAMBLES

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 8, 2005 12:00 PM

***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

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 7, 2005 02:22 AM

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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Take a close look at this signature.

The blame game

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 2, 2005 08:00 AM

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 [...]

KATRINA: GETTING THINGS DONE

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 31, 2005 11:39 AM

***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. [...]

AIR ENRON: FRIDAY MORNING UPDATES

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 26, 2005 06:45 AM

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: the Sheldon Drobny files

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 25, 2005 04:20 PM

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 [...]

BACK IN THE SADDLE

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 24, 2005 09:04 AM

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 [...]

WEDNESDAY SCANDAL UPDATES

By Brian Maloney  •  August 24, 2005 03:53 AM

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.

TIR NA NOG

By Brian Maloney  •  August 23, 2005 02:54 PM

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 [...]

DID YOU KNOW THAT ARMY REENLISTMENT WAS UP?

By Betsy Newmark  •  August 23, 2005 07:26 AM

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. [...]

(W)MAL-ODOROUS TWISTS AND TURNS

By Brian Maloney  •  August 22, 2005 04:56 PM

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 [...]

NEW YORK POST: THE MONEY PIT

By Brian Maloney  •  August 22, 2005 09:47 AM

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 [...]



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