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-- Wednesday, April 07, 2004 --

"If you've ever seen six year-olds play soccer, that's the mainstream media."
-Jon Stewart

Get ready for a shocker: I, Keith Ricky Ricardo Richard "Tricky Dick" Costanzo, am a liberal. Thus it goes without saying that I consider radio talk show hosts lower than low (I would have found something low to compare them to like sewage or manure, but it's much too late at night/early in the morning to come up with something clever so I've decided to abandon all attempts at anything remotely resembling real humor in this entry). Because let's face it: the news media has a right-wing bias so blatant that every time I hear Fox News call itself "Fair and Balanced" I feel the urge to attack my television set with my admittedly decorational, but surprisingly sharp sword. And radio talk show hosts are by far the worst. They enjoy doing as little research as possible and supliment their flimsy arguments with "facts" gathered from conservative rumor mills and press releases from consevative think tanks. Rush Limbaugh, the public's favorite hypocritical, drug-addled tub of lard, uses his show to preach the gospel according to Matt Drudge, a man devoted to reporting unsubsantiated rumors and packaging them as legitimate news on the world's ugliest website.

So it also goes without saying that I was very happy when Air America Radio launched about a week ago. For those of you that don't know, Air America Radio is the liberal response to the right-wing mainstream media. Al Franken, the guy from Saturday Night Live and author of several hilarious books, hosts one of the shows and lends legitimacy to the whole campaign. While I haven't listened to it much yet as it doesn't air in the DC area, I can already say with confidence that Air America's programming beats the competition's to a pulp.

I don't really have a conclusion to this post or anything particularly funny to say. I just wrote this to get the word out. So go. Go now. Fill your mind with liberal propaganda.

SUPER BONUS COVERAGE!: I may have to agree with some of the analysis of AAR provided by none other than Something Awful (article here). In his commentary, Zack Parsons calls Randi Rhodes, one of the hosts of a show on AAR, some not too nice things. Well I've been listening to her for about an hour now and I have to say she is very very very annoying. She seems unable to let go of minor issues and that stupid accent of hers is starting to piss me off. So from what I've heard so far, I'm not all that impressed, but I will hold off judgement until I have heard The O'Franken Factor which I expect to kick ass. In the mean time, I'm still listening and I must make the following plea to God: Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, remove all noise making orifices from Rhodes' body. Some of the stuff she says I agree with, but she's saying it in ways that make me want Limbaugh to envelope her in one of his folds of fat, never to be seen again.

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