Mark i hate to say this but the feedback you're going to get by having these celebrities doing the 3-6pm timeslot is going to be negative, your solution for host of the 3-6pm timeslot is already in front of you Sam Seder to me that timeslot is already his if he wants it.

And i also wanna suggest to the board aka TPTB that i think you should consider giving Brad Friedman a sunday timeslot he's very good and knowledgeable on voting issues.

Hopefully AA will consider this so i'll wait and see.

and hates people who are different.

You a-holes don't want feedback from the listeners. Otherwise Sam Seder would be on this afternoon and every afternoon. I am now joining Bill O'Reilly in looking forward to the final death of air america. The only 2 shows left worth listening to are Thom Hartmann and Rachel Maddow and I am sure they would be fine, in fact better off, without you bunch of losers.

All anyone who used to love this network needs to know about Mark Green can be learned from the latest episode of his show "Seven Days in America." On the 4-12 show he lavished praise on General Betrayus, Bush's top War Pig in charge of sending more flag draped coffins home. He also whined about poor Hilary being treated unfairly by the media while that scoundrel Obama gets a free ride from the press. Bush and mcain are the only ones who will get a free ride from the corporate media and Green knows it. This is the man who chose Lionel over Sam and now instead keeping the afiliates bying giving Sam a show he sends them all to Nova M to stream Randi's show.

Save your time begging Air America to give Sam a slot. Instead deluge Nova M with requests to lure Sam away from AAR. Then Nova M can steal away all the stations from AAR and Rachel and Thom can Join Nova M as well. F*ck you AAR and Mr. Green. You shit on lour listeners one time to many.

Like I said when you replaced Sam Seder with Lionel, I will not allow myself to fall in love with another Air America show. I will need to build back confidence in Air America before giving anything new a chance. Bring back Sam, Marc, Kent...... Then maybe you could work on being honest and open with your listeners. We've been through too many mysterious disappearances. They lead to speculation and anger. I appreciate the opportunity to have liberal talk radio but do not enjoy distrusting our own.

SAM SEDER?

Has a nice ring to it, I think!

Even relegated to Sundays, Seder consistently runs some of the best progressive/liberal radio to be had on AAR. I sure wish these new folks would give Sam a break with a daily show of his own

Sam Seder's American Afternoon

thanks

...with Mark Green at the controls. Nice job, ya putz.

Listening to Randi as I type this. AAR has just become irrelevant thanks to Mr. Empty Suit.

Buh bye.

BWAAAAHAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!!!!

Green et al you've done it. You've stuck the fork in yourselves.

It must really be a blow to a businessman's ego when he buy's a business and then tries to take the one WOMAN employee who intimidates him with her power and tries to put her in a subservient place in the relationship only to have her spit in his eye and walk leaving him to have his new venture disintegrate beneath him.

BUYWAH HA HA HAAAAAA!

As for Green. Well any New Yorker who's been around can tell you what an oily snake he is, one of those people who you dislike and mistrust within seconds of looking at his face even when you're not quite sure why.

A failure in all ways.

Whatever your role in this was I applaud you because I now live in Florida right where Randi is and I'm so glad she's back.

You are fools. You are like the former frat boys who have never eaten in a restaurant of higher class than TGI Fridays but decide to buy a 3 Michelin Star Restaurant and run it into the mud in record time.

You are the laughing stocks of not only radio but the national media and you have succeeded in doing what several fools before failed to do, kill the first liberal network in the history of radio.

Go back to your failed political career longings and tell the other idiots there to start getting their resumes together.

Must go. Randi's on.

I really couldn't believe that you got rid of Malloy, Maron, Kent Jones (among others), then demoted Seder so you could bring in lunatic Lionel. Now getting rid of Randi? You guys keep pounding nails in your own coffin. Who's next for the Error America treatment? Rachel? It's the end for me. I'll stream off Nova M or affiliates who bring me the programming that I want. Clearly I can't get it here anymore.

Sam and Rachel - get the hell out of there. Sign up for Nova M so the talent will be in one place.

And shame on the Huffington Post for the trash job that they did on Randi. HuffPo bloggers responded by the thousands against the Randi smears there. Was it because Ariana wants to keep her own AAR hosting gig on 7 Days in America?

Bullshit.

AAR has never cared much about what its listeners want, and is now just a pathetic vanity project.

I listened to the first hour of Belzer's show, and was quite frankly bored. No guests. No news. Nothing informative. And very little that was even interesting. I found nothing that I'm looking for when I listen to AAR. I listen primarily to get informed, and also to laugh. Unfortunately Belzer's show did neither.

I'll stick with Rachel & Sam.

God damm did you guys fuck up or what?
That's why the right wing will always, always kick your fucking asses....cuzz ya' got' no balls.
Ok gota' go.....commercials are over

I had doubts about you since I heard you with Greene down playing the 9/11 INSIDE JOB FACT BASE, however I stand corrected thus far. Since you acknowledged the preposterous single MAGIC SPECTER bullet and the Sirhan MK-ULTRA, besides mentioning the preponderance of evidence implicating the GOVT in MLK's martyrdom, you have established some credibility in the TRUTH arena.

You realize of course that unless the EVILDOERS are convicted for complicity in the NORAD Operation Vigilant Guardian STAND DOWN and the CONTROLLED DEMOLITION of the unique singularity free fall symmetrical collapse of WTC-7 ( the violation of Newton's law of conservation of angular momentum aside, investigating just the destruction of Giuliani's Disaster Command Center / tryst crash pad love nest, will expose the pre collapse detonations in WTC-1 & 2 witnessed by numerous FDNY and William Rodriguez causing the entire CAVEMAN MYTH lead by CIA asset UBL - Usama Bin Forgotten - to disintegrate with the empty Shanksvile pit and the evaporating INDESTRUCTIBLE landing gear and 6 ton engines at the Pentagon ), there will be more FALSE FLAG ATTACKS like this NEW PEARL HARBOR, via a NEW Gulf of Tonkin at the Straits of Hormuz to kick off the BOM-BOM IRAN OCTOBER SURPRISE operation to lock in McCainiac with HAVA BLACK BOX DRE's help.

Pump the www.nyc911initiative.org and www.WexlerWantsHearings.com every chance you get and you'll be golden with www.ae911truth.org movement.

FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!

Ritter says White House preparing for war in Iran
- By ED BARNA Herald Correspondent, April 4, 2008
- W. Joseph Stroupe, Private Geopolitical and Energy Security Analyst

"The reality of Iraq is that it is a broken nation," Ritter said. Groups like the Kurds and Shia are not unified groups, there is already a civil war, and most of the opposition to our presence comes from our being the invaders, he said.

The main target of Ritter's criticisms was an American public that couldn't pass a test on the Constitution and understands little of international history and politics, and refuses to believe the life of an Iraqi is worth as much as the life of an American.

"It is far too easy to look for people to blame," he said. For instance, "we blame the media, but the media simply give us what we're asking for."

Everyone needs to start understanding and caring about their Constitutional rights, and everyone needs to start finding the facts for themselves and taking strong individual stands, Ritter said.

There is an 80 percent chance of war with Iran, he told about 200 people Wednesday at Middlebury College as part of a series of talks facilitated by the Vermont Peace and Justice Center.

INDICATORS:

• Recent visits to Middle Eastern allies by high officials, ostensibly for other purposes, but really to prepare them for the effects of such a war.
• The appearance of the "miracle laptop," as Ritter called it, a thousand pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian computer, which dubiously had just the sort of information the administration needed to support a hard-line stand on Iran.
• Congressional supplementary funding for more "bunker-busting" bombs, with a contract completion deadline of April.
• Congressional supplementary funding for the extra bombers to carry those bombs, with a contract completion date of April.
• Cheney's order to send a third aircraft carrier battle group close to the Persian Gulf, a necessary bolstering of forces for a war with Iran.
• The US has recently positioned an array of Aegis destroyers, which excel in ballistic missile defense, close to its Persian Gulf allies and Israel, ready to intercept Iranian and Syrian missiles.
• Dick Cheney has recently completed a ten-day tour of the Persian Gulf region, including also Turkey, where he met with leaders to discuss Iran, which was at the top of his agenda in every stop he made. His visit included every state that hosts large US military bases in the region, bases that would be key in any US military action against Iran.
• In Saudi Arabia, Mr. Cheney won the Saudi king's support for actions to ease oil prices - something the Saudis had steadfastly refused to do until now. Any US strike on Iran will produce an oil price shock. However, such a shock can be cushioned by increased supply by Saudi Arabia, it is hoped. Mr. Cheney won the cooperation of the Saudis with respect to an increase in the global supply cushion.
• Key European powers, most notably Germany and France, have recently come down firmly in support of Israel's security in the face of the mounting Iranian threat, which threat has been stated by German and French leaders to be grave and totally unacceptable. Though the German leader (Ms. Merkel) stopped short of endorsing military action against Iran, she vowed total support for Israel's security. One must realize that public statements that fail to explicitly support military action do not oblige Germany to withhold clandestine, real support for the military option. The French President is firmly on board with the US in a possible military option against Iran.
• Note that the US, if it does strike Iran and Syria, it will almost assuredly use nuclear-tipped bunker busters to ensure the destruction of key targets buried deep underground, including nuclear assets, command and control, and the hiding places of the members of the Iranian and Syrian regimes. The US will enjoy plausible deniability as respects any use of nuclear weapons, since it can proclaim that any radiation that is released came from Iran's nuclear reactor (already fueled by Russia) and from secret underground nuclear sites in the target areas.
• Mr. Bush has only about 10 months left in office. If he is to deal with the swarming Iranian threat, he must do so now. He cannot risk leaving the problem to a democrat successor and thereby go down in history as a totally failed leader. In his mind, that is not an option. The window of opportunity for him to save/establish his legacy is rapidly closing.
• Starting on Sunday April 6, 2008 the Israelis will conduct the largest-ever nationwide, week-long defensive war drill simulating ballistic missile strikes on Israel from Iran and Syria. The dimensions of this upcoming drill are unprecedented. This drill may well be a cover, allowing Israel to prepare for an imminent US strike on Iran and Syria, but without depriving the US of its element of surprise.

Admiral William Fallon, the first admiral to be head of Central Command, said that level of naval forces was unnecessary and blocked the move. Ritter said that was "a heroic thing."

The sudden resignation of US CENTCOM commander Adm. Fallon, a vocal critic of the militarist policies of the Bush administration, strongly suggests that the US is now poised to exercise the military option. Exactly one year ago, when the US had placed four aircraft carrier battle groups in and around the Persian Gulf, Adm. Fallon vowed he would resign before he would carry out the command to order US forces into action against Iran. In effect, he thereby vetoed the US strike that was imminent last April. In the year that has followed until now, the US pursued diplomatic options in a futile effort to stem Iran's rise. Adm. Fallon's sudden departure raises truly ominous signs that the US administration, along with key NATO allies, has decided it must resort to the military option. Adm. Fallon, as promised, resigned before he would have any part in such a foolhardy venture. Whether he was forced out or resigned willingly is of little consequence here. He leaves his post on March 31, 2008. After that date the way is clear for a US strike.

• http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080404/NEWS04/...
• http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1941

Once IRAN's Shock&Awe commences public demonstrations will NOT be tolerated

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees. According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton.

Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response to "a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order."The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.

Also in 2007, the White House quietly issued National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure "continuity of government" in the event of what the document vaguely calls a "catastrophic emergency." Should the president determine that such an emergency has occurred, he and he alone is empowered to do whatever he deems necessary to ensure "continuity of government." This could include everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack. Congress has yet to hold a single hearing on NSPD-51.U.S.

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has come up with a new way to expand the domestic "war on terror." Her Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR1955), which passed the House by the lopsided vote of 404-6, would set up a commission to "examine and report upon the facts and causes" of so-called violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative recommendations on combating it.According to commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Rep. Harman and her colleagues from both sides of the aisle believe the country faces a native brand of terrorism, and needs a commission with sweeping investigative power to combat it. A clue as to where Harman's commission might be aiming is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a law that labels those who "engage in sit-ins, civil disobedience, trespass, or any other crime in the name of animal rights" as terrorists. Other groups in the crosshairs could be anti-abortion protesters, anti-tax agitators, immigration activists, environmentalists, peace demonstrators, Second Amendment rights supporters ... the list goes on and on.

According to author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?
http://www.lit.org/print.php?viewid=41577

In August 2007, Congressman Peter DeFazio, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the House that he and the rest of his Committee had been barred from reviewing parts of National Security Presidential Directive 51, the White House supersecret plans to implement so-called "Continuity of Government" in the event of a mass terror attack or natural disaster.

According to the Department of Homeland Security,

Endgame is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Detention and Removal (DRO) multi-year strategic enforcement plan. It stresses the effective and efficient execution of the critical service DRO provides its partners and stakeholders to enforce the nation’s immigration and naturalization laws. The DRO strategic plan sets in motion a cohesive enforcement program with a ten-year time horizon that will build the capacity to "remove all removable aliens," eliminate the backlog of unexecuted final order removal cases, and realize its vision. ...

Detention can be affected by unforeseen events occurring in other countries, such as natural disasters (i.e., earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.), war, and economic/political crises. These events can produce a “shock” to DRO detention. Such shocks can produce large numbers of illegal aliens, additional detention needs, and the inability to remove aliens from the U.S. back to countries in crisis. Though these immigration emergencies are relatively short-term in nature, they can have a drastic and enduring impact on available detention space. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "ENDGAME, Office of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan, 2002-2012," June 27, 2003)

Commenting on ENDGAME, Peter Dale Scott wrote,

Significantly, both the KBR contract and the ENDGAME plan are open-ended. The contract calls for a response to "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." "New programs" is of course a term with no precise limitation. So, in the current administration, is ENDGAME's goal of removing "potential terrorists."

It is relevant that in 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be "enemy combatants." On Feb. 17 of this year, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country's security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called "news informers" who needed to be combated in "a contest of wills." Two days earlier, citing speeches critical of Bush by Al Gore, John Kerry, and Howard Dean, conservative columnist Ben Shapiro called for "legislation to prosecute such sedition." (Peter Dale Scott, "10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan for Detention Camps Revives Proposals from Oliver North," Pacific News Service, February 21, 2006)

But is the DHS' ENDGAME "only" a program for "removing all removable aliens"? Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, environmental activist Lewis Seiler and former congressman Dan Hamburg ponder the real questions posed by such antidemocratic initiatives:

What kind of "new programs" require the construction and refurbishment of detention facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house perhaps millions of people?

• http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8572
• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/04/ED5OUPQJ7...

Just another one moving to Nova M.

I get Randi, Hartman, Malloy and others, and no annoying Lionel. Our Madison radio station is polling listeners to see whether they want to stick with Randi or keep on listening to AA during her old time slot.

So far:

Air America Radio
18.25 %
Randi Rhodes
81.75 %

I've always liked Richard Belzer, I hope he does well for himself, but I won't be listening in, and it looks like neither will the rest of us in Madison.

And if AA does not appreciate Sam's talent I do hope he joins Randi and Mike over at Nova M.

start. and that's good since aar was not making money with randi and the old guard.

As we know, some hosts can go off the rails and listeners who like to think rather than get shouted at forever, will appreciate rotating hosts in the afternoon slot for awhile.

I'll be tuning in because thoughtful is VERY important and has become more important to me. Having someone who can speak without prolonged ums and ahs is invaluable as well.

But less rotating in management is also good.

Temple

HA! HA! HA! I am right now listening to Randi Rhodes on the Nova M network. You guys at AAR really blew it. I have also written to XM radio and urged them to drop your 3 PM show and pick up Randi Rhodes. Good bye, AAR.
Alan Dench

While I too disagree with replacing Sam with Lionel, however, Lionel -- taken on his own merits -- is highly entertaining. He's got a unique voice (literally), does plenty of prep work for his show and as part of a far stronger mix than AA has now, his off the beaten track approach is a nice break from riffing straight off the day's news.

Also, it's telling that Lionel never got it in the neck, comments-wise, until you plugged him into Sam's slot.

Lionel, man, you're not getting a fair shake!

(but confidentially man, enough with 'Live from the Chicken Ranch' already. I'm a proudly pro-sex, pro-porn feminist, but at some point you're beating ... well, I won't say a dead horse, but whatever it is your beating, the thrill isn't mutual).

http://bravenewfilms.org/petitions/show/16-give-sam-seder-the-chance-to-...

GOD IT'S GREAT TO BE PROGRESSIVE!!!!

BUT....

WE HAVE SOOOO MUCH TO DO TO GET THIS WORLD GOING IN A BETTER DIRECTION !!!

THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND PROGRESSIVES HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF SUCCEEDING AT THIS MONUMENTAL OBJECTIVE!!

CERTAINLY WE SHOULD ALL BE ON HIGH-ALERT! ""the IRAN vs NEOCON STAND-OFF"" HIGH-ALERT!

IT WOULD BE "INSANE" TO ATTACK IRAN!!

The U.S. would NEVER be the same!!! The world would NEVER be the same!!

HAVEN'T THE NEO CONN'S DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE??????

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--James Rollins, New York Times bestseller of The Judas Strain

may vey well be an actor and a celebrity but he is no radio talk show host. OMG he is unlistenable. I tried really hard to give him a chance but it was horible, only made it about an hour and a half.

Mark I must say you have lost me for the rest of this week and will check in next week to see if you want to continue this give a celebity a show for a week insanity.

So what do you have left fo talent there Thom Hartmann and Rachael Maddow? Will you try to run an entire network with Thom after Rachael finally gets the TV show she so deseves.

Sam is your answer for Randi's slot!!! He's better than most of the hosts you currently have and he is definitely an improvement over Randi Rhodes. Randi's problem is that she evolved into the liberal version of Laura Schlesinger. She was disrespectful to many of her listeners when SHE felt they didn't have the right answer; she wouldn't even listen to the question. She acted like she had all the answers and though I loved her in the past, felt she was pretty disgusting with the way she treated people that were in no way disrespectful to her. She had great info but she was moody and treated many people like dirt beneath her feet who were just as concerned with the direction the country was going.

Sam on the other hand is very well informed and will discuss the issues. He LISTENS to what people say and is a class act. SAM SEDAR IS YOUR ANSWER FOR RANDI'S TIME SLOT!!!! Throw the past away and give him some space. It would be a huge stepup for Air America and is a BIG improvement over Randi Rhodes. I listened to Richard Belzer today. He's a nice man but I won't continue listening to that time slot till a pro like Sam is put into that slot.

I tried to listen to Randi's replacement of the week Richard Belzer, and even though I like him personally I could not bear to listen after 15 minutes. Randi was very energetic like Rachel , Sam and Bill. I am strongly considering cancelling my xm subscription. Thanks for making progressive radio a little bit more boring.

Add Laura Flanders to that list above.. So many excellent progressive talkers, so few microphones. Pity.

Talk about the abuses of George Bush to out civil rights -- Ive lost all respect for Air Amer radio for the censor of Mike Meloy and Randi Rhodes on your network --- You have to be honest and truely different from the powers that Be to really effect a difference. Tell me how this corperate garbage is any different from the neocons. This truely sickens me.