Angry in the Great White North

A couple of days ago I noted a message on a Democratic Underground forum in which the poster had heard Bill O'Reilly mention that Air America was about to fold. I found it interesting because just about all the responses to the contrary seemed to be based on ad hominem attacks on Bill O'Reilly. A couple of people denied Bill O'Reilly's assertion based on Air America's "strong ratings", without providing any evidence. Indeed, a reader of this blog posted a link to his report showing miserable ratings.

Now this from Michelle Malkin:

Al Franken's liberal radio network, Air America, is now scraping the bottom of the barrel for investors. Having taxed the patience of deep-pocketed liberal sugar daddies, Air America execs have cooked up a new campaign to hit up their own listeners for cash donations.

Resembling an online PBS or NPR pledge drive, the site offered paltry "benefits" for cash "gifts" to the liberal talk network. Is Air America unintentionally a not-for-profit enterprise?

For $50, they'll send three "official" bumper stickers, while $100 gets a "stylish" tote bag thrown in. The sucker who has everything might choose the $250 version, including the above and an on-air thanks from one of Air America's talk hosts.

I'm reminded of The Simpsons, when Bart sends Krusty the Klown $50 for the privilege of becoming a "Krusty Birthday Buddy" and having his name race at breakneck speed in a scrolling list on the TV screen.

So for $250 you too can become a "Franken Buddy" (that's my name for it) and have your name mentioned on the air. Better hurry though, there might not be much air time left.

[Captain Ed compares this plan to A Streetcar Named Desire, not The Simpsons. I guess he's a touch more sophisticated than me.

Michelle Malkin reports on another departure from AAR, and concludes that not enough Franken Buddies are signing up.]