"Left Of The Dial"

I caught the last half of the HBO Air America documentary "Left End Of The Dial" last night. It was pretty interesting to see how close they came to bankruptcy and how these liberals were deducting health insurance from employee checks and not paying for the insurance.

Overall what struck me was the total absense of talent among their on-air personalities. I mean: Zip. Franken is probably the best, but that's not saying much. The other two "stars," Randi Rhodes and Janeane Garofalo are horrible on-air personalities. Shrill and unfunny.

I don't like Bill Maher or Jon Stewart, but there's no denying their talent.

The best part was election night. (Why was I still nervous Bush might lose?) Anyway, probably because of those wonderful, liberal-heartbreaking, terribly wrong exit polls, the entire Air America crew was working that night, excited, so sure of victory, and ready for the revolution.

To see the looks on their smug faces -- to hear the pain in their shrill voices... Priceless. First Florida. Then Ohio. Priceless. God love those exit pollsters. They made victory just that much more sweet.

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[kitty]

Correction: Bill Maher is a no-talent ass. :)

[Clyde]

I just finished watching it and thoroughly enjoyed it in a schadenfreude kind of way. It did for talk radio what "This Is Spinal Tap" did for heavy metal music, except of course that this wasn't fictional. It felt kind of like watching "Titanic" and rooting for the iceberg. And yeah, watching them on election night was heartwarming. :-)