Come on, Air America. STOP peddling fraudulent products!

[Kelvin Mace]

They're selling Enzyte penis pills now. Add to this bogus baldness cures, bogus credit repair kits, ads for mortgage loans from predatory lenders, and fraudulent cancer cures from Wendi Friesen and AAR is disgracing us with their advertisers.

We expect this from Rush Limbaugh, but we cannot condone it from our side.

And please spare me the "everyone's money is green" crap. What next? Wal-Mart ads? Monsanto? Tom Delay campaign ads? Focus on the Family anti-gay marriage ads?

These product are FRAUDULENT and anti-consumer. There is no gray area.

Can we start pressing them to stop taking ads from crooks?

[Teaser]

1. You're telling me Enzyte doesn't work?

DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN

[Borgnine]

3. Yeah, there goes my last hope.

Smilin' Bob lied to me!

[xultar]

5. Had your hopes up ahe? Buhwaaaa! Pun intended! n/t

[solinvictus]

2. Snake Oil, Brooklyn Bridges, and Arizona Beachfront Land, and AM radio..

These are the bread and butter advertisers of any AM radio station. Remember back when Rush used to have Snapple, Hooked on Phonics, and an assortment of "the economy's going to tank in "X" number of months, buy my book on precious metals" peddlers? It hasn't changed and isn't likely to do so anytime soon.

[benburch]

7. Hey be nice!

I *like* Snapple.

[HairOnFire]

4. Sam's Club

I actually heard a Sam's Club ad sometime last week, and was quite disgusted.

[NYCGirl]

6. Those are local ads. Take it up with your local station.

We don't have Sam's Clubs or WalMarts here in NYC. Thank God.

[HairOnFire]

10. It was NYC 1190....n/t

[NYCGirl]

14. That's very strange, since we don't have Sam's Clubs.

Maybe in New Jersey? I've never heard the ads. What days are they on?

[HairOnFire]

19. NJ does have Sam's Clubs...

It was on last week some time, maybe Wednesday or Thursday, during the day. I thought it was really odd because they have been playing those Franken commercials often, the one about minimum wage and Wal Mart.

[NYCGirl]

23. I listen during the day in my office. I'll have to keep an ear out for

those.

[Kelvin Mace]

8. I can't think that they can't find other advertisers

CostCo
Suse Linux/Red Hat
Various unions
Hybrid model automakers
Low interest credit card banks (they do exist)
Wired!
Skeptical Inquirer
Penn & Teller's Bullshit



Please add to the list...

[pstokely]

30. I don't think Costco advertises much anywhere

[AspenRose]

18. Yup, me too

(Heard the Sam's Club ad and thought, "huh?" ESPECIALLY after watching that Frontline about Wal-Mart...have no use for anything Wal-Mart or Sam's related anymore.)

Don't understand (or like) the pharmaceutical commercials....some woman complained to Randi about it a week or so ago on the air. Randi said there was nothing she could do about it...

[newyawker99]

25. Hi HairOnFire!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. The first two months they were on there WERE no commercials.

Commercials are the life-blood of commercial radio. Better penis pills now than no AAR, I'd say.

Besides the more sophisticated crooks will read their market research and realize that AAR listeners don't want or NEED penis pills. Yeah!

[blondeatlast]

28. Good point, um, so to speak!

:evilgrin:

[jean]

11. I change channels when penis commercials air and don't change back

That asinine Enzyte ad is so irritating. They saturated TV with it and now if you hear the jingle starting on radio the image of that grinning, unblinking ass is unavoidable.

Some advice: avoid fast food and statin drugs and you'll be just fine.

[kcass1954]

12. I put up with Walmart ads...

The idiot who chose Walmart because they told him that the time it takes to become a manager is up to him. I hear that crummy ad 15 times a day, and I want to puke every time!

I was going to write to AirAmerica until I realized that the ads are sold locally - by the Clear Channel station that carries AA.

As my mother used to say, "Consider the source!"

[Kelvin Mace]

13. I'm not talking about local ads

but the network ads as I listed via Net feed and Sirius.

Just to clarify. <s>

[burythehatchet]

15. I'm a loyal listener

and everyday these ads force me to turn off AAR for a while.

[derby378]

16. Gimme a chance - I'm workin' on it

I'm trying to talk some folks down in Dallas into advertising on KXEB 910AM. Let's just say it won't be penis pills they'll be advertising.

[WillowTree]

17. So you think...

....that they should not run those ads and go off the air because they can't raise enough revenue to stay afloat? I'm sure they'd love to have a better class of advertiser, and some day soon maybe they will. But they have to sell the air time to those advertisers that are willing to buy it. That's just an economic fact.

[chalky]

20. If Walmart is stupid enough to throw money at a station

that frequently runs PurpleOcean.org ads that criticize the "Walmarting of America", then screw 'em. Take their dirty money and use it for good.

[Orsino]

31. Yes. This is Amurka, after all.

They have to get their revenues from somewhere, and maybe questionable medical supplements are ultimately less harmful than the products of the usual corporate sponsors.

[KittyWampus]

21. How Many Lexus Drivers Do You Think Listen To AAR Daily?

cause those are the guys whom big $ advertisers want.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. I listen to KCBS

the CBS Radio affiliate in San Francisco, one of the oldest stations in the country and a 50,000-watt boomer. About 75 percent of their ads are for Viagra-type products, car dealers and low-interest loans. This is typical of AM news/talk radio. It ain't gonna change anytime soon.

If AAR's sales reps were smart, they'd sign up Red Wigglers, the Cadillac of Worms. :D

[Charon]

24. Fraudlent products

I expect they would drop all of these bogus products if you or George Soros made up for the loss in advertizing revenue.

[Kelvin Mace]

26. So,

it's OK to help defraud people as long as the money we make goes for something we approve?

This makes us no better than the Right.

[blondeatlast]

27. It's just the reality of the situation. The ads offend me as well, but...

they would offend me even more on Rush Limbaugh's show--and yes, they are on the conservative networks as well.

I live in Phoenix, we have about FOUR conservative talking head stations here. They advertise the same damn products there--but our local AAR station actually advises their LOCAL advertisers to mention their support for progressive causes, and they virtually all do. Guess what? I have or intend to eventually, patronized nearly every one (Hamburger Mary's, My Florist Cafe--YUMMYYYYY!!!)

It sucks, but that's life on the radio. I don't think AAR is meant to be a public service, as much as we wish it were.

Without a profit, they die--and what else is there for progressives?

[pstokely]

29. it may not be Air America

the station may have put those ads on