Air Time
Richard Blow is the former executive editor of George Magazine. He is author of American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and is writing a book about Harvard University.
Well, that didn’t take long. Air America, the liberal response to conservative talk radio, has only been broadcasting for a few hours and already conservatives are predicting its demise.
“It’ll never last,” said Michael Savage, the conservative who got booted off MSNBC after wishing AIDS on a hostile caller. Liberalism doesn’t have an audience, say Richard Viguerie and David Franke in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. Headliner Al Franken is too much of an insider to appeal to the outsiders who traditionally flock to talk radio, writes David Skinner in the Weekly Standard.
It’s enough to make you think that maybe conservatives are getting nervous. Sure, there are some hurdles for Air America. The people funding it, and most of its on-air hosts, don’t have much radio experience. It’s tough to break into the radio market these days
ast week an opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin said, “This isn’t America; the government did not invent intelligence material nor exaggerate the description of the threat to justify their attack.”
