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Get Progressively Trained

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Left, Msnbc, Right, Heritage Foundation, Sean Hannity, Progressive Talent Initiative, Cliff Schecter, Glenn Beck, Media Matters for America, Air America Radio, Tucker Carlson, Media News

As someone who has been involved somewhat in the punditry circuit (for lack of a better term), I have been asked by progressive friends what I think i...

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Warning to Washington: Hands Off Our Oil Spill

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

My solution is simple. Keep Uncle Sam's big, ugly hands off our oil spill. As Reagan once said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'." Don't let them.

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What's Left? An Interview With Jennifer Nedeau, Former Director of Digital Strategy, Air America Media

Chrissie Brodigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Right Wing Radio, Talk Radio, Air America, Organizing 2.0, Air America Radio, Jennifer Nedeau, Political Talk Radio, Activism 2.0, Progressive Radio, Media News

Air America's end reveals a great opportunity that the left needs to find a way to fill and fill fast. The right is surpassing the left in both its simple use of existing tools as well as innovation of new tools.

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The Death of Air America: Why Liberals Fail at Talk Radio

Nathan Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Air America, Median Age of an NPR Listener, Rush Limbaugh, Garrison Keillor, Al Franken, Npr, Average-Age-of-Talk-Radio-Audience, Talk Radio, Air America Radio, Rachel Maddow, Liberal Talk Radio, Conservative Talk Radio, Ira Glass, Air America Bankruptcy, Media News

Conservatives like to say that liberals aren't successful on the radio simply because their ideas don't hold up. But I have a formula that better explains it.

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Air America Bankruptcy: Live Programming OVER As Company Files Chapter 7

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air America Bankruptcy, Air America, Air America Radio, Air America Media, Media News

Air America Media is ending its live programming operations and the company will file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the company announced Thursday: It is wit...

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Progressive Radio is Alive and Well

Bill Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Schultz, Air America, Air America Radio, Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Progressive Radio, Media News

After years of keeping it alive on life-support, investors have finally pulled the plug on Air America. What difference will that make on progressive talk radio nationwide? Zero.

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Marc Maron Talks About His WTF Podcast

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marc Maron, Marc-Maron, Air America Radio, Air America, Comedy, Comedy News, Podcasting, Stand Up to Cancer, Stand-Up Comedy, Podcast, Comedy News

Marc Maron is widely respected by his peers and fans for his long career in stand-up comedy and his work as an Air America Radio host on a number of s...

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Mark Green Campaign Ad: "Always There For New Yorkers" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Public Advocate, Mark Green New York, Air America Radio, NYC Public Advocate, New York City Public Advocate, Mark Green Air America, Mark Green Public Advocate, Mark Green, Public Advocate, New York, Video, New York News

Mark Green, Democratic politician and president of Air America Radio, is running for NYC Public Advocate, and has a new campaign video out (shot by hi...

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Big Pharma's Free Ride

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House, Pap Attack, Glaxosmithkline, John Dillinger Movie, Senate, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Ring of Fire, Golefttv, Mike Papantonio, Pfizer, Air America Radio, Max Baucus, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

There will be no serious health care reform until the drug companies, the hospital corporations and the HMO industry are forced to pay their share of the bill.

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Democrats Sell Out on Healthcare

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Industry, Pap Attack, Air America Radio, Pharmaceutical, Profit, Mike Papantonio, Max Baucus, Golefttv, Reform, Chamber of Commerce, Healthcare, Ring of Fire, Politics News

Drug companies showed a profit of 80 billion dollars last year while the health care industry collected 13 billion in profits. Life is good, and they are spreading all those billions around to the Democrats.

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The Real Tax Outrage

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Joe the Plumber, Teabagger, Tea Party, Air America Radio, Tax Policy, Taxes, Mike Papantonio, Tax Day, Rick Santelli, Ring of Fire, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Politics News

If you were a California teabagger dressed up like Paul Revere you probably would have felt ridiculous once you learned that 11 billion in revenues left the state to places like the Cayman Islands.

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Immigration Control Starts with Drug Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, Drugs, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, War, Mexico, Cartel, Immigration, Smuggler, Civil War, Tijuana, Ring of Fire, Ciudad Juárez-Mexico, World News

What is most frustrating about the Mexican drug war chaos is figuring out the truth about whether all that drug violence is moving across the borders.

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Justice Department Turns the Table on Political Prosecutions

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ted Stevens, Air America Radio, Alberto Gonzalez, Paul Minor, Don Siegelman, Mike Papantonio, Michael Mukasey, Golefttv, Justice Department, Ring of Fire, Political Prosecution, Eric Holder, Politics News

Ted Stevens never should have been prosecuted in 2008. Traditional media has done a pitiful job covering the many political prosecution stories that occurred during the Ashcroft/Gonzales years.

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Lessons from Darwin - We're Still Evolving

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School, Gop, Origin of Species, Air America Radio, Creationism, Mike Papantonio, Charles Darwin, Pap Attack, Science, Galapagos, Ring of Fire, Evolution, Kansas, Green News

Birds, sea lions, and iguanas take from their surroundings only what they need to live. On the other hand, the more evolved human is locus-like in the way they interact with their community.

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In Cramer We Trust?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cnbc, Air America Radio, Journalism, Jon Stewart, Stock Market, Mike Papantonio, Larry Kudlow, Financial, The Daily Show, Ring of Fire, Crash, Housing Market, Jim Cramer, Pundit, Media News

Most of the pundit misinformation occurred because investigative reporting in the news industry is dead. This new breed of financial TV pitchmen weren't paid to ask tough questions.

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Rooting for Rush

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Steele, Approval, Air America Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Papantonio, Ratings, Gallup Poll, Ring of Fire, Barack Obama, Media News

The analysis on Rush is easy. Historically, he has had zero impact on the outcome of elections. The truth is, Limbaugh's political influence is not vast at all.

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Slapped by the Invisible Hand

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Markets, Ring of Fire, Chelsey-Sullenberger, Mike Papantonio, Industry, Airline Industry, Deregulation, American Airlines, Invisible Hand, Air America Radio, Delta, Pilot, Business News

As Sullenberger continues to speak out, he should make it clear that all the pilots and crews who are still operating in the deregulated airline industry are truly heroes.

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Unions Aren't To Blame For Automakers' Woes

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Automotive Industry, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Detriot, Uaw, Organized Labor, Bailout, Ring of Fire, Union Busting, Economy, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Walmart Unions, Economic Policy Institute, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Richard Shelby, The Big 3, Epi, Big Three Automakers, Jim Demint, Detroit Three, Ford, Afl-Cio, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News

If the centralized, organized mouthpiece for labor is destroyed, then so is the only advocacy vehicle available to the nonunion worker.

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7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, "Senator Maddow" & More

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Franken Senate, Air America, Al Franken Norm Coleman, Air America Radio, Al Franken Senate Race, Al Franken, Al Franken Recount, Mark Green Air America, Stimulus Bill, Senator Al Franken, Politics News

Senator-elect Al Franken hasn't spoken to the national media since November -- until now.

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GOP Has Been Left Home Alone

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Steele, Gop, Joe the Plumber, Air America Radio, Michael Medved, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Papantonio, Home Alone, Michael Savage, Politics News

The lack of GOP leadership reminds me of the scene in Home Alone when Macaulay Culkin first realizes that he has been deserted. All the grown-ups have left the house.

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Limbaugh Needs a Lesson in Reality

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

If Limbaugh could step out of his 25,000 square foot home and see the pain of parents telling their children that they just lost their home, maybe then he would want Obama to succeed.

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Blackwater Expanding Domestic Reach

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Murder, GoLeft.T, Mike Papantonio, Trial, Golefttv, Mercenary, Dick Cheney, Fallujah, Army, Erik Prince, Air America Radio, Blackwater, Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, George W Bush, Ring of Fire, Contractor, Politics News

The congressmen and advocacy groups that are trying to shut Blackwater down are being branded as un-American, unpatriotic liberals by the Prince family loyalists.

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The Dick and Dubya Show

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

An interesting narrative coming from the Right is that some day in the future historians are going to uncover presidential memoirs that will finally expose the true genius of the Cheney/Bush duo.

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Deficit Spending -- A Necessary Evil

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservative, Infrastructure, Air America Radio, John Maynard Keynes, Mike Papantonio, Recession, Ring of Fire, Deficit, Depression, Barack Obama, Economy, Republican, Politics News

As Obama steps into this quicksand economy, he seems to realize that short-term stimulus plans are only a Band-Aid solution for a gaping, almost mortal wound.

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