Most Conservative people… in fact most people it seems… have never listened to the ravings of ‘Air America’ or their self proclaimed d.j. , Al Frankin. As an actor, I sort of liked Al Frankin as the continually drunk baggage handler in ‘Trading places.’
‘Trading Places’ was a story centered around the concept that anyone put into the right or wrong ‘environment’ would predictably turn out either ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ As scientists are now demonstrating, environment is not the entire picture… heredity is a significant fact… certainly more than zero, as implied in the movie.
So, Al Frankin must be upset with the fall of the vaunted Air America… I can hear the jokes… ‘too much hot air’… ‘they burst their balloon’…’to AIR (err) is human”… interestingly enough, seems like the checks were a little light to Al as they still owe him $360,749.98. I am a little disappointed… I didn’t realize that this was a ‘money making’ venture for old Al. I thought he actually BELIEVED what he said…. hmmmmm
Here’s what others say:
Sensible Mom
Ace of Spades
Schadenfreude
Al Franken: not much profit in stealing from the poor
Marathon Pundit
Conservative Talk Shows doing Well
Okay, what AIR AMERICA really forgot — and why they failed — is that we already have a heavy group of folks advocating for the extreme left in the media… they are called NBC, CBS, ABC, CNBC and MSNBC… not to mention their local affiliates.
In my opinion, AIR AMERICA offered hate instead of hope, mediocrity instead of excellence and prozac instead of any solutions.
Roger Freberg