{"id":393,"date":"2006-01-06T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=393"},"modified":"2006-01-06T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T22:24:06","slug":"radio-ga-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/01\/06\/radio-ga-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"radio ga ga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003976\"><\/a>I remember at its inception, Air America was supposed to be infused heavily with a strong &#8220;comedy&#8221; component.  It had various bits throughout some of the programs, such as a parody of VH1&#8217;s &#8220;I Love the 80s&#8221; that had comments about Iran-Contra after comments about Cabbage-patch kids.  They hired some writers from The Daily Show.  The skits tended to be a bit lame, and it&#8217;s probably for the best that they&#8217;ve been etched out of the fledgling little radio network.<\/p>\n<p>But I bring my mind back to &#8220;Morning Sedition&#8221;, the cancelled program, and how it compares with its replacement &#8230; the &#8220;Mark Riley Show&#8221;, &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; combined to form &#8220;Air America Mornings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an earnestness to it, and a dead seriousness to it, and a&#8230; boringness to it.  I also note a depressing trend that is set through whom is being interviewed here.  Morning Sedition had regular interviews with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameswolcott.com\/\">James Wolcott<\/a>, some musical blasts from Mark Dougherty, and I once heard an interview with Chris Elliott.  Who have I heard interviewed, taped I may add, on &#8220;Air America Mornings&#8221;?  I hear the Democratic governor of Montana call Rachel Maddow a &#8220;cowgirl&#8221;.  I hear an interview with Democratic representative Barbara Lee contemplating her &#8220;no&#8221; vote on the Afghanistan Resolution.  I hear Democratic party politicos.  <\/p>\n<p>No fun, and bah to that.  I guess it&#8217;s what the president of the company wants, and dove-tails to his over-all purpose (the comedy was a ruse?).  Or something to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>More later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember at its inception, Air America was supposed to be infused heavily with a strong &#8220;comedy&#8221; component. It had various bits throughout some of the programs, such as a parody of VH1&#8217;s &#8220;I Love the 80s&#8221; that had comments about Iran-Contra after comments about Cabbage-patch kids. They hired some writers from The Daily Show. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}