I've listened to some Air America programs (limited, admittedly),
hoping for a demonstrably solid front to to counteract the blatant
follishnes sof the Limbaughs out there. I tend to the left of center,
but I am not truly a "leftie" on average...I want to hear some common
sense and rational approaches to problems that this nation faces that
the conservative cuckoobirds cannot even begin to fathom in their
jingoism. After reading some of Al Franken and simply seeing the
pathetic showing of the Right's arguably elected leader, I was hoping
AA would get to it.

I was disappointed, that's all. They're too far left to be believable,
even when they are correct. Their socialistic tendencies cloud the
issues. They even advertised themselves as being "red" (in the
communist sense) for God's sake - who is going to buy that?

If you want to bring a nation together in a state of rationality, you
don't find ways to tear it farther apart, even when you tell the hard
truth - the Americans obviously don't really want to hear it, or else
cannot fathom it because it is beyond them. You offer simple realistic
solutions that appeal to the middle-class, sometimes compassionate,
sometimes tough, but always smart and sober, that middle America can
get into. *Nobody* is doing that.

I haven't listened to any of those guys on either side for awhile out
of disgust - maybe it has changed, I don't know. I do know that
something needs to close the rift in the USA, and crackpot radio isn't
going to do it.

Bruce Jensen