Self-proclaimed liberal columnist David Shaw has weighed in on Air America and also finds it a failure:
at 6 a.m. on Good Friday — the first anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, the day after Condoleezza Rice testified before the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks — I tuned in to 1580, turned on my computer to take notes and sat with both until 11 p.m.
It may have been the most boring day of my life.
Henry Kissinger was "a war criminal." Rice was "reptilian," "a liar" and "a perjurer." President Bush was "an idiot," "a liar," a "lazy sack of crap," "a fake Christian," "a murdering scumbag" and — amid a discussion of Janet Jackson and the Super Bowl — "the biggest boob of all."
didn't get a single laugh from Franken, Garofalo or Rhodes — or from any of the other Air America hosts I listened to.
Most of the programming was as earnest as C-SPAN, though — and as dreary as a lecture on agriculture price supports, albeit filtered through a liberal sensibility.
