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AIR AMERICA FROM MOUTHS OF BABES: In all of the craziness that our lives have been life for the last three weeks, its been impossible for me to give any attention to blogging. However, it did not mean that for the radio show and for my attention span that I wasn't tuned in to the biggest stories coming down.

Having said that I am quite disappointed that the major story of Air America standing benefit to nearly a half million of tax-payer dollars and receiving nearly no coverage of the questionable nature of it has made my brain stand on end.

Last Wednesday was the first time I addressed it on the air. Michelle Malkin had led me  to the really stellar star of the breaking story Radio Equalizer owned from the beginning . Read just his blog if you have no time for anyone else to get completely up to speed.

Last Wednesday I began to call for all MuscleHeads who listen to the show to begin aiming their phone calls directly to the Air America headquarters here in New York City. Several of them reported back being hung up on. The rest for the most part got transferred to a voice mail of the woman who supposedly is handling the PR fallout on the matter. By the way if you would like to place a call... 212.871.8100. My only request is that you remain civil while speaking with them if you in anyway represent yourself as a reader of this blog or listener to MuscleHead Radio.

The other thing that steams me is that these are the same group of people who ran ads during the last two presidential campaigns with the most outrageous claims possible. According to the liberals that Air America claims to speak for - Republicans canibalize children. According to the collective group of out of work "comedians" that make up the Air America line-up, liberals are the only ones who truly care about the poor, hungry, disadvantaged, and homeless.

Never mind that the MuscleHeads that make up the listenership to my show - just this last weekend raised $30,240 to get wheelchairs to 720 of the most forgotten people on the globe. In 2005 they have sponsored 343 children through World Vision to the tune of $123,480, 187 children through Compassion International to the tune of $71,808. They have built homes for 19 families in the Ghettos of Jamaica - $38,000. They have sponsored more than 100 families of orphans in sub-saharan Africa where the AIDS epidemic has wiped out entire towns of parents - $24,000. Sent nearly $250,000 in aid to the Tsunami. Built three churches in India for congregations who don't have them - $35,000. Sent the medicines to cure more than 100 orphans who have leprosy - $24,000. And gotten Bibles to those in Africa, China, and for children who could not afford them - $48,000.

In short - this far into 2005 - MuscleHeads have given of their own pockets more than $644,500 to help more than 26,726 people. Compare that - from a mean, nasty listenership of evangelical, Christian, conservatives to the $500,000 that Air America fleeced from the mouths of hungry kids in the Bronx, and seniors who needed the services that those dollars would have provided.

Increasingly liberals are giving audiences like mine which is 60% African American, more and more demonstrable reasons why they can not be trusted with any form of power - but especially any access to the tax dollars.

The other part of this shame is that the media capital of the world has all but ignored this story. Bloggers haven't - WizBang, Red State, and the ever adorable LaShawn Barber have reported facts and updates faithfully. Even teen blogger Ian Shwartz has had better coverage than any of the print rags in New York City.

I will go out on a limb here and assert that if it were ever shown that MuscleHead listeners donations had gone anywhere other than what they were designated for - Air America would lead the crusade for my ouster as a voice in New York Radio. But here the city has a full scale investigation underway in which so much has already been turned up... and the yet the broadcast and print outlets have pitched a near shutout on the wrong doing.

The bottom line is - sometimes evil people don't get held accountable for their actions as they should. And even if I continue to be the only voice in New York airwaves that bring attention to the matter, I will not relent.

Air America should give the full near half million back to the tax-payers of this nation. You and I did not decide to make a donation to the failure of a business model known as Air America - nor should we be told that the money we did pay in taxes that we thought was helping kids after school should be paying the salaries of Garafallo, Franken, or Rhodes.

Oh and for what it's worth. Al Franken - as yet to recognize or apologize to his listeners for the wrong doing his parent company is involved in here. Isn't that worth at least a review by the FCC?


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