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Minnesota Democrats Exposed.

Doggone it.

What a joke.

Whoops.

Brian Maloney looks at the fool taking over Air America–and Al Franken officially jumps ship.

Brian Maloney reports Al Franken has been cancelled in San Francisco and may be on his way out at failing, flailing Air America.

If you read Brian Maloney’s extensive report yesterday on the failed Air America takeover deal with shady nutball Sheldon Drobny, the brief AP dispatch this morning on the liberal network’s filing for bankruptcy will be no surprise:
Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a [...]

Brian Maloney has the lowdown on flailing lib radio network Air America’s legal and financial troubles at The Radio Equalizer. The New York State Attorney General’s office has now transferred the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club case involving Air America to its criminal prosecutions bureau. You won’t believe who finally covered the story. Yup, [...]

The poor Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club is still waiting for Air America to pay it back.
Details are buried at the bottom of the New York Sun’s story following up on liberal blog Think Progress’s claim that Air America will soon file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy:
Last year, Air America was involved in a scandal [...]

***scroll for updates below…Think Progress retracts story***

Photoshop: Darleen Click
So, Air America leaks word of its bankruptcy to liberal blog Think Progress in an attempt to avoid complete humiliation by all those evil right-wingers who were spreading such vicious rumors about its financial chaos.
May I just say: Bwahahahahahaha.
First question: Will the New York Times fiiiiinally get [...]

The New York Post’s John Mainelli follows up on intrepid Brian Maloney’s investigative blog exclusive from last week on the impending loss of left-wing radio network Air America’s New York flagship station:
Losing its New York outlet would be a serious blow to the fledgling liberal radio network. “Radio Equalizer” blogger Brian Maloney - who blew [...]

***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 [...]

Much has been made of the rabid Left’s online swarm that shut down the Washington Post’s blog comment section. The comments seemed comparatively tame to me. Maybe I’ll copy off Chapter 6 of Unhinged and send it off to the WaPo ombudsman and her editors to help them feel better.
Meantime, the moonbat manipulation of Amazon.com’s [...]

Here are a few of the crackpot sights and ridiculous sounds that made 2005 a year to remember (many thanks to Ian Schwartz at The Political Teen for his indispensable video blogging):
Video clips…
10. Spike Lee: Tinfoil hat-wearing levee expert
9. CNBC mugs Bernie Goldberg
8. Union thugs unhinged
7. Chris Matthews unhinged
6. MoveOn.org’s homage to “American” troops
5. [...]

Been fighting it all week. I’m losing. While I hack up a lung and dig up that hot toddy recipe someone e-mailed last year, here are a few good reads this morning:
- Alexandra at All Things Beautiful on retreating Dems: “The D stands for defeat.” When you’re done reading that post, keep scrolling down. I [...]

And all I get is this lousy t-shirt…
During one of countless book-related radio interviews this week, a liberal radio host insultingly asked me whether I write my own column. His question was prompted by vicious anonymous bloggers who portray me as a greedy Asian whore/dupe/brainwashing victim who simply parrots what my white slavemasters program into [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

***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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The New York Sun is the first print outlet to pick up on yesterday’s Air America post authored by Brian Maloney and me. Reporter David Lombino writes:
A lawsuit filed by an owner of radio stations claims that the transfer of ownership of the Air America radio network from Progress Media to Piquant LLC in May [...]

*see updates below*
Inside Air America: An Investigative Blog Report
Part 1: A Trail of Debts
By Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney
michellemalkin.com/radioequalizer.blogspot.com
August 17, 2005
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It’s not just the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls that’s knocking on Air America Radio’s door looking for lost money. According to court records obtained by Radio Equalizer/MichelleMalkin.com, another major creditor has been demanding that [...]