The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election - Air America runs bit calling for Bush assassination; GM pulls ads

May 12, 2004

Command Post 2004 Polls | Air America runs bit calling for Bush assassination; GM pulls ads

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The United States “is on the slippery slope to theocratic fascism.” “The Catholic Church has been secretly encouraging oral sex for years.”

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “ought to be tortured.” President Bush should be taken out and shot.

Those are a few nutso nuggets from the hosts of Air America Radio, which calls itself the new liberal voice. The fledgling network is carried in New York on WLIB, 1190 AM. With the Iraq torture scandal everywhere, I tuned in, expecting to hear sober policy analysis mixed with glee over President Bush’s political pickle.

Instead, I got 10 hours of rancid venom directed at the President, Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, the Catholic Church and anyone else the hosts felt like slamming. If you’re a card-carrying lib who likes crude sex jokes and a cartoonish echo chamber, Air America is for you.

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Rock bottom came when she compared Bush and his family to the Corleones in the “Godfather” saga. “Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw,” she said, imitating the sound of gunfire.

During a day of torture by radio, I heard ads for Hewlett-Packard, Greyhound and, especially, General Motors. I asked GM why it appeared in such shows.

Ryndee Carney, GM’s manager of marketing communications, said the ads were wrongly picked up from an earlier deal with WLIB. She said the station was ordered to “cease and desist” yesterday, and added: “GM will not advertise on any Air America affiliates.”

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Comments

Many of us are happy to see the void created by Howard Stern’s departure filled by the pithy musings of like-minded fellow travelers.

When does Air America plan to have lesbians tossing dwarfs for Kerry?

Posted by: torpedo_eight at May 12, 2004 05:59 PM

I am a crack dealer in Beaumont, Texas who has recently been diagnosed
as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents live in Fort Worth and one of my
sisters, who lives in Pflugerville, is married to a transvestite.

My father and mother have recently been arrested for growing and selling
*********. They are financially dependent on my other two sisters, who
are prostitutes in Dallas. I have two brothers, one is currently
serving a non-parole life sentence at Huntsville for the murder of a
teenage boy in 1994. My other brother is currently in jail awaiting
charges of sexual misconduct with his three children.

I have recently become engaged to marry a former prostitute who lives in
Longview, She is a part time “working girl”. All things considered, my
problem is this. I love my fiancé and look forward to bringing her into
the family. I certainly want to be totally open and honest with her.

Should I tell her about my cousin who supports John Kerry for President?

Signed, Worried About My Reputation

Posted by: Redneck Texan at May 12, 2004 06:02 PM

And if Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Laura Ingraham or Sean Hannity ran ads calling for the assassination of John Kerry (or even Bill Clinton), the mainstream press would be all over it like a cheap suit. No wonder their revenues are plummeting.

Posted by: gus3 at May 12, 2004 08:25 PM

Shouldn’t this qualify for Secret Service Blacklisting?

Shouldn’t it go further than that though? Prison and hefty fines for Death Threats and Harassments? e.t.c. e.t.c. along with a wrist slap?

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at May 12, 2004 09:01 PM

gus3, do you mean like Chuck Baker threatening Congressmen, or G. Gordon Liddy advising to use “head shots, head shots” to kill ATF agents?

Posted by: x at May 12, 2004 09:24 PM

And of course, x, you merely prove gus3’s point—because the mainstream press was, as he says, “all over it like a cheap suit”—which is why you could post the links—which come from 1995.

Once again x, you triumphantly refute yourself.

Posted by: Gabriel Hanna at May 12, 2004 09:28 PM

Note how x has to go back to 1989, in response to another commentator, to find something benefiting the left to say about this.

X, your fellow idiot losers leftists who are subject to market forces are about to be driven back to retirement.

You will keep blathering idiocy for decades!

And I love it! God bless America and the internet.

Posted by: trash at May 12, 2004 09:39 PM

LOL!

Nice catch, x.

Posted by: Jeff at May 12, 2004 10:00 PM

No, you are wrong and I am right. Since this is being covered by the Command-Post that is proof that the vast right wing conspiracy is blowing this way out of proportion. G. Gordon Liddy’s comment didn’t get half the coverege that air america is getting here.

You guys suck. I’m going home to my ferret and playstation.

Posted by: x at May 12, 2004 10:02 PM

“X” -

Put a tampon in it, Mary.

Posted by: eric at May 12, 2004 10:46 PM

‘X’ said, “You guys suck. I’m going home to my ferret and playstation.”

It’s makes me really sick when I think about what you do with that ferret. Gawd, that little critter must stink. You’re not fooling us when you call your ‘joystick’ a ‘Playstation’, either.

Posted by: Jeff B at May 12, 2004 11:40 PM

Back to the topic……

I repeat a question I have asked since the beginning of this war, “At what point do we treat these people the same as the enemy?”

They do nothing but the enemy’s work. They are the enemy within.

Posted by: Jeff B at May 12, 2004 11:49 PM

A ‘heads up’ to Hewlett-Packard and Greyhound are probably in line. Care to join me?

Posted by: Jeff B at May 12, 2004 11:53 PM

x, is the Command Post a time machine, that it can “cover” events that happened 8 years before it was created?

That’s why nobody is talking about what G Gordon Liddy said, because it happened in 1995, you ferret-molesting dipshit.

You better be glad I don’t have time-machines—I’d give the john your mother serviced a condom without a hole in it and make you never have been born.

Posted by: Gabriel Hanna at May 13, 2004 12:22 AM

Okay, after having read the article, I have to apologize. Liddy was clearly the enemy back then. Does anyone know what happened to him? Was he thrown off the radio like he deserved to be?

I give up. Gabriel, as much as I hate to admit it, those left-wing f*ks have every right to spout off on their radio show.

Posted by: Jeff B at May 13, 2004 09:43 AM

I was gratified to hear that GM was pulling their ads. According to the article they should not have run anyway since they were originally intened to run on WLIB.

Aside from “tit for tat” about who said what on the air, it seems clear that the liberal effort lacks any real polish.

Rush, for example, worked for years in radio. And his bragadaccio aside he really is very good at radio. TV not so good, radio, great. There’s a skill to it that the air america folks haven’t aquired yet.

It’s timing, voice, message, a lot of things that don’t necessarily translate easily when all you have to communicate with is your voice: no body language and few props.

So part of the problem with these guys is that they don’t know what they’re doing. They thought that all they had to do was show up and spout the liberal agenda and voila instant success.

Posted by: skip at May 13, 2004 10:40 AM

Good insight, Skip. I think the creators of Air America did expect more of a cake walk. They’re finding out that they will have to work at it. It will do them good.

Posted by: Bostonian at May 13, 2004 10:59 AM

Thanks for the compliment.

Just to add my tit for tat to this thread: has anybody asked Mr. Franken if he’d like to rescind his comment about Rush? Given the fact that Franken is struggling and Rush is cruising perhaps the next edition of Franken’s book will have a title other than “Rush Limbaugh is a big blah blah blah.

Posted by: skip at May 13, 2004 11:59 AM

The fool, if they had only opened the show in Europe they would do better, but then again we already have Al jezzeria over there.

Posted by: Brian at May 13, 2004 12:38 PM

A commenter on another blog indicated he got a similar response from Greyhound - their agency left their ads on the station after the station changed formats, and they have ordered that agency to pull those ads.

Posted by: Ross at May 13, 2004 02:03 PM

ha! nice. for the record, i don’t have a playstation, i have an xbox, and we have no pets — keep that in mind for your next try. but good attempt!

Posted by: x at May 13, 2004 02:31 PM

Speaking of Rush…
Didn’t he recently dismiss the torture at Abu G. as blowing off steam?

You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?

ok, ep2k

Posted by: elvispresley2k at May 13, 2004 02:36 PM

You know, ep2k, you could post the context of the quote.

But that would be work

Posted by: Gabriel Hanna at May 13, 2004 02:52 PM

…RIP aa your time with us was so short {thank GOD}
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=5125267

Posted by: Rob..NC at May 13, 2004 03:26 PM

Show your support/disgust.

HP CEO
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/fiorina/index.html

Greyhound
http://www.greyhound.com/contact/customercontact.asp

Posted by: Linker at May 13, 2004 08:26 PM

Chuck Baker threatening Congressmen, or G. Gordon Liddy advising to use “head shots, head shots” to kill ATF agents?

Nice to know the wacky left is taking lessons from the wacky right.
Thankfully we’re not hearing it from Rather, Rush or Aaron Brown.
But go ahead and defend the idiots. It shows everyone’s true colors.

BTW - what’s a Chuck Baker?

Posted by: VLWC at May 13, 2004 08:47 PM

x: that was realy pathetic.

Posted by: Evert V. in Nl at May 14, 2004 11:59 AM

How anyone (x) could not be upset with such crap is beyond me…..those lefties are sure full of love….where is the secret service?

Posted by: Jim at May 14, 2004 07:30 PM

“You guys suck. I’m going home to my ferret and playstation. Posted by x at May 12, 2004 10:02 PM

“ha! nice. for the record, i don’t have a playstation, i have an xbox, and we have no pets — keep that in mind for your next try. but good attempt! Posted by x at May 13, 2004 02:31 PM

I guess that for the record here, x, YOU ARE A LIAR.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at May 15, 2004 09:00 AM

Were those comments in good taste. No.

Was the torture of those prisoners in good taste. Absolutely not.

My respect for D Joe Biden skyrocketed with his expression of displeasure over the incident.

And Ashcroft could sit there and lie. We didn’t authorize torture. nope, you just told them to do whatever they wanted, and we will look the other way.

Sorry but this administration has to go.

Posted by: jp at June 20, 2004 07:12 AM