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04/09/2004 Archived Entry: "Air America and minority hosts"
Air America and minority hosts.
Atrios has a post up dealing with the number of minority hosts on Air America radio (2 - Chuck D and one of the 'Marks' on 'Morning Sedition'). Apparently, the new charge that right-wingers are trying to smear AA with it's that it's too cracker-centric.
An obvious counter to the race-baiting about Air America is this:
Who's right wing radio got? Armstrong Williams, out of maybe 150 crackers? Off the top of my head:
Pigboy
O'Reilly
Hannity
Savage
Mike Gallagher
Laura Ingraham
That dork in Philly whose name I can't spell
Glenn Beck
Neil Boortz
Bob Grant
Chuck Harder
Liddy
Matalin
Imus
That's one out of 15, without even thinking about it. So conservabot radio's got no room to make the charge. And while we're at it, AA has a much higher ratio of women hosting, too.
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Replies: 4 people speak up
You forgot Larry Elder, but otherwise whiter than snow!
Posted by Smafty @ 04/09/2004 12:03 PM NY
ive never understood why people feel like everything should be 50/50 black and white. the truth is that white people do make up a majority of the population at the moment, although hispanics will certainly overtake us soon. i think that a more important factor is that people should at least be represented according to the percentage of the population that they make up (that would give women a huge advantage at a 51% marketshare) i do think that its about damn time we had a black president, or a woman president, or a gay president, or really, anything but another rich white christian man who went to an ivy league school. i think that a black athiest lesbian in the white house (preferably one with a doctorate in history) would go a long way to cure what ails this country.
Posted by justin @ 04/09/2004 12:34 PM NY
You forgot the cretin, Lars Larson the horrible bane of our fare city, Portland, Oregon. What a horror show. He even carries a gun strapped to his belt.
Posted by the mama @ 04/09/2004 01:46 PM NY
What's a "cracker"?
Posted by Steve Johnson @ 04/16/2004 09:33 AM NY
