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The latest Arbitron ratings (you know, the ones Al Franken says aren’t available to the public) show that Air Amerca continues to struggle. Don’t worry about Franken though. He has back-up plans. Related entries here.

Via AP with a hat tip to Daly Thoughts: Radio host Al Franken, who is mulling a run against Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., in 2008, has purchased a town house on the edge of downtown Minneapolis and will establish residency in Minnesota. “It’s one of the things I need to do if I decide to [...]

Pssst, did you hear? Arianna Huffington’s new celebrity/grass-roots/pundit elite/progressive/whatever blog launches today. I’m informing you because, as the Huffers tell us, those evil, corporatist media meanies don’t allow enough little voices to be heard. As Hollywood moonbat-turned-Huffington blogger Laurie David crowed: “The Huffington Post is going to balance the power out there that the media [...]

How does Air America’s marquee host deal with pathetic ratings? Deny, lie, and vilify. Brian Maloney reports that in an interview with South Park Conservatives author Brian Anderson, Al Franken asserted today that Air America’s ratings are not available to the public. So I guess the radio trade industry is just making it all up? [...]

My new column looks at increasingly unhinged Democrat leaders, seemingly inspired by Teresa “They hacked the mother machines” Heinz Kerry. Here’s the story on John Kerry kvetching about “trickery.” James Taranto traced the origins of the “Vote on Wednesday” joke that Kerry complains about to…Al Franken. RedState reports on “Ohio’s not-so-odd numbers.” Trey Jackson has [...]

Brian Maloney has an interesting post up about Air America’s failure to catch fire with listeners: – Air America’s flagship station, WLIB-AM in New York, garnered a 1.2 share in the latest quarter, down 0.1 from the year-ago period. By comparison, WABC-AM, New York’s leading conservative station, garnered a 3.8 share, up 0.1 from the [...]

Guess who said this: Although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today’s world, most of the terrorists are Muslim. It was Shohreh Aghdashloo, the lovely Iranian actress who plays a controversial role in FOX’s hit TV series, 24. The Council on American-Islamic Relations launched protests over a plot line involving a Muslim family of [...]

The bitter, twisted, unfunny skit on Saturday Night Live that’s mentioned on the Drudge Report this morning can be viewed here. In addition to cruelly mocking Rush Limbaugh, the cartoon (titled “Blue Christmas”) shows Santa and Rudolph skipping over the Red States (referred to on a map as Dumbf*ckistan), commiserating at a Chinese restaurant with [...]

Wow. The irrepressible Lucianne.com has a link to an “Unfit for Command” comment board run by the Borders Books Employee Union, whose members kvetch and moan about the “rabid” people coming in to buy the book. Here’s a choice post: You guys don’t actually HAVE to sell the thing! Just “carelessly” hide the boxes, “accidentally” [...]

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