Tue 27 Jun 2006
- I’ve always thought of myself as an NPR aficionado. One of those snooty NPR fans who considers it a moral obligation to send them money and whose face takes on a fart-detecting grimace upon meeting someone who doesn’t listen to NPR. However, after getting my morning news for the better part of a year from the punchier, more aggressive Air America (until their affiliate sold out and close a couple weeks ago), trying to start my mornings with the reporting from NPR feels like someone’s replaced my Corn Pops with quaaludes.
- Just because a brand of coffee comes in a 10oz brick vacuum packed in yellow foil with red details and Spanish writing on it does not mean it is “just like Cafe Bustelo.” This may or may not have anything to do with the aforementioned quaaludes.
- Nevermind. I’m pretty sure Lois Reitzes is behind the quaaludes.
June 27th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
I really thought The Rachel Maddow Show was good. Yeah, she pretty much just read the news, but she added some punch to it as well.
I think Air America isn’t doing so well because all the did was copy what the right-wing-wingnuts did, only changing some of the names.
They [Air America] had an opportunity to do something different, original, and new. Instead, they squandered their opportunity by creating a talk radio network that was as full of shrill rhetoric spewing mouth pieces as the right side of the dial.
What I’d like to see come out here in Atlanta is some local liberal-ish talk radio. Someone to call Republicans and Conservatives on all the crap they try to pull, but at the same time hold the Democrats and liberals feet to the fire.
Because we know the MSM isn’t going to do that.
June 27th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
I pretty much agree with everything kick said. I’ve all but given up on political talk radio, and switched to Stern.
Because he has no political agenda……….
June 27th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
I really liked Rachel Maddow’s presentation of the news, but I gotta say I liked her a lot better when she was tucked into the oh-dark-hundred slot and I was listening to her on my iPod 2 hours delayed. I feel like ever since she’s been given the second hour to fill (and the drive-time masses to “entertain”) that there’s actually less news in the two hour show than there was in the one hour. She used to have to cut to the chase and hit us with stories we wouldn’t get from the MSM; now there’s all this gimmicky “The Predictor” and “Ask Dr. Maddow” type crap about why bunny farts don’t smell like carrots. Just gimme the top 3 stories from the Drunk Prospector, poke the underbelly, and shut the hell up already.
July 6th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Why do I suddenly have the urge to give Shelby money?