"-=jd=-" wrote in message
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If this is supposed to be some kind of sincere business venture, it's not
looking like one so far. One gets the impression that they are "winging
it" and hoping no-one takes notice. Still, I'd give them some time to get
their act together before writing them off as a failure.

Judging from what they have been through so far, I'm thinking they will
either get their act together and make it, or they will go down abruptly.
I don't see them withering away slowly.

-=jd=-

I've got no idea how long Air America will last. But I don't see many
reasons for the investors to stay calm. If they really paid Multicultural
$1,000,000 to broadcast nothing for two months in LA, as they claim, they
must be ****ing the cash away. Maybe they need to clear the 7th graders out
of the orginization. Here's the text of the "press release" from Air
America's website on the day the checks were stopped:




The Sludge Report

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling
liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and
that really loud woman from Florida, appears to have encountered
serious cash-flow problems.

Stop the presses!!! There's nothing more exciting than half a story
from a third hand source!!!!

Insiders tell SLUDGE, that the reason the network was pulled off the
air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and
third-largest markets, was because, the owner of both stations, Arthur
Liu of Multicultural Broadcasting, said, the network bounced a check
and owes him more than $1 million! The run-on sentence, tortured
grammar and the exclamation point clearly means it's true!!

Only it isn`t.

Normally we`d let this go because ``habitual liars`` like Drudge are
laughable, and ridicule is our business.

But Arthur Liu --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now
we`re chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It`s a metaphor.

Here`s what really happened:

This Liu-ser was ripping off our boss Evan Cohen big time (he can`t do
that, that`s our job). Evan found out about it and he stopped payment
on a check to keep Liu-cifer from ripping him off even more. You can
touch Evan for the occasional meal or drinks but a million bucks is
crossing the line. And if we ever get low on cash, we can always call
Barbra Streisand. Or any of the Baldwins. Except Stephen.

So we got screwed, Liu`d, and tattooed. How Liu can you get? In Liu of
payment. Liu`d and lascivious behavior. These write themselves. What
we`re getting at is that we hate him.

So now everyone`s saying we`re going down the dumper in Chicago and
Los Angeles, but what they don`t tell you is that we're still on in
Portland. And we OWN Portland. And let's not forget Riverside and
Plattsburgh. And New York. And streaming on the internet. And XM. And
Sirius. Actually we`re fine.

So cool your jets. Air America Radio isn`t dead, we`re in court and
we`re going to slam Liu`s head in a car door. Another metaphor. We
hope to be back on the air tomorrow or the next day in those markets.

In the meantime, why don`t you give Arthur a call at (212) 966-1059.

Arthur Liu, I wouldn`t show your face around here.

Or Riverside. Or Plattsburgh.

DEVELOPING . . .




I guess I'm not the only one who saved this bit of telling nonsense.
There's plenty of saved pages of this on Google.

Frank Dresser