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Originally posted by Dace Ace
Air America was started by a group called Progress Media, which said it had amassed $30 million in venture capital prior to its debut, a claim which later turned out to be untrue (only $6 million was initially collected). Two individuals from Guam, Rex Sorensen and Evan Montvel Cohen, were involved in raising the capital.

Why would two individuals from Guam want to do this??
Have you ever been to Guam? There's nothing to do except wait for the next supply boat.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Because he's a Democrat and all libs have to do to get their party line talking points is open up any issue of the New York Times or any other urban newspaper or flip on the TV news (Fox excluded) or watch just about any mainstream or independent movie. Libs don't need talk radio because they already have far too many choices available to them.
That's a downside to having a political stance which seems to be just to the right of Adolf: everything seems liberal.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
That's a downside to having a political stance which seems to be just to the right of Adolf: everything seems liberal.

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It has nothing to do with my point of view -- the simple fact is that Al Franken has failed to compete in the marketplace of ideas known as talk radio.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Have you ever been to Guam? There's nothing to do except wait for the next supply boat.
Actually, I have spent quite a bit of time in sunny Guam. "Hafa-Dai" It has become a mini-Hawaii. On hotel row (which is very nice) it is swamped with Japanese couples getting married. The place is growing. The school system sucks. A lot of people work for the goverment or military. There is a large military footprint there.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
It has nothing to do with my point of view -- the simple fact is that Al Franken has failed to compete in the marketplace of ideas known as talk radio.
the marketplace of ideas known as talk radio.

LMFAO! Shirley, you can't be serious!

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Originally posted by no1marauder
the marketplace of ideas known as talk radio.

LMFAO! Shirley, you can't be serious!
So..what would you call it? What did franken fail at??

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Originally posted by Dace Ace
So..what would you call it? What did franken fail at??
Who cares? But "talk radio a marketplace of ideas"?????? Ridiculous.

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Air America ran into financial trouble within days of its appearance on March 31, 2004, when it turned out that its original chairman, Evan Cohen, did not have the backing he said he did.

Some people at Air America assert that, under Mr. Glaser and the team he put in place, the network was top-heavy with management, inept at selling ads, unwilling to make program compromises that veered from the liberal message and overstaffed with more than 100 employees when two dozen would have sufficed.

“What they did for $45 million they could have done for $10 million,” said Sheldon Drobny, an investor with a contentious relationship with the network.

Hmmm. Liberals overspending. What a shock. But, hold on to your seats, for the best was still yet to come: “Mr. Kelly said he was disappointed that rich Democrats did not step up to support the network’s political goals. On fund-raising calls, he said, he was often turned down because the business plan was too risky.”

Marvelous. So, these folks wanted rich Democrats to fund their operation, but didn’t understand that such folks actually were interested in the quality of their investment.

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Originally posted by Dace Ace
Air America ran into financial trouble within days of its appearance on March 31, 2004, when it turned out that its original chairman, Evan Cohen, did not have the backing he said he did.

Some people at Air America assert that, under Mr. Glaser and the team he put in place, the network was top-heavy with management, inept at selling ads, unwilling to ma ...[text shortened]... t didn’t understand that such folks actually were interested in the quality of their investment.
Top heavy management? Sounds like the tried to run it like they want to run government. Think they'll learn? Me neither.

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Al Franken is a very intelligent guy who will make an excellent senator. You can't say thast about the bloviaters Limberger and Insanity.

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Originally posted by 667joe
Al Franken is a very intelligent guy who will make an excellent senator. You can't say thast about the bloviaters Limberger and Insanity.
Al Franken is a twit. When it comes to debate, he quickly resorts to name calling & childish pranks.

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Originally posted by Dace Ace
Al Franken is a twit. When it comes to debate, he quickly resorts to name calling & childish pranks.
That's going to be the hard thing for him. He can be funny, but you're right about his debate skills. He's really going to need to work on it or its going to sink him. Fast. He would be running in Minnesota though, so it might not matter. We tend not to care who would make the best Senator. We vote for the letter next to the name, not the candidate.

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Originally posted by Dace Ace
Al Franken is a twit. When it comes to debate, he quickly resorts to name calling & childish pranks.
His books are extremely fact heavy. Most of his arguments are based off of analysis of the facts. Well, that and making fun of Rush's fatness.

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