Rachel Maddow simply can't continue to burn the candle at both ends, and sll she can give you is an hour of material mostly recycled from her TV show, and frankly, I think it's only out of respect for the network that launched her career that she's even doing that.
You ran Randi Rhodes out of town on a rail over money.
Your predecessors fired Mike Malloy while he was driving to work.
Now Thom Hartmann has moved his program to Dial Global.
So what have you got left? Jon Elliot? Richard Greene? Ron Reagan? Ron Kuby? Just how big a following do any of these guys have?
Meanwhile, sitting in your break room, are your last two vestiges of the Air America that was. You weren't around then, but it was something new and fresh and experimental. Are there two people who have been kicked around by how many generations now? -- of Air America management more than Sam Seder and Marc Maron? And does anyone have a bigger following? How many people on radio, right OR left, have the kind of loyalty that these two guys have from their listeners? Your company has fired Marc Maron THREE TIMES already -- and he's still there....or there again. Now we could say that Maron is like a wife (an unfortunate analogy, given the one-man show he's working on) who keeps coming back to her estranged spouse because she hopes in her heart that this time, baby, it really WILL be different. Or we could give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you really ARE trying to atone for Danny Goldberg's sins.
But the bottom line, Charlie, is that you really don't have a whole lot of marketable talent in your stables right now, other than the two guys in the break room with the built-in and growing following that crashed the server the other day.
So....what's it to be then, eh? Are you going to utilize what little real talent you have left? Or are you going to continue Air America's grand tradition of blowing the best opportunities you have?
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