Air America's Invitation

[babylonsister]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/Air_Americas_Invitation.html

Air America's Invitation


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Dear Republican Chairman Ray Hoffmann of Iowa, Republican Chairman Paul Willis of Nevada, Republican Chairman Katon Dawson of South Carolina and Republican Chairman Fergus Cullen of New Hampshire,

As the new president of Air America, I'd like to offer to host or co-host one of your upcoming presidential debates.

Why us? First, this would allow your debate to reach many voters. Combining our 2 million radio audience, along with our satellite, internet and web audiences, means that some 2.5 million Americans would hear or read about the debate..

Second, it would allow Republicans to differentiate themselves from Democrats – embracing a debate hosted by a progressive media outlet after Nevada Democrats canceled a debate scheduled to be hosted by the conservative Fox Cable News Channel. The MoveOn organization spurred 265,000 people to complain about the original plan, calling Fox a “mouthpiece for the Republican Party.” In reply, Fox’s Mort Kondracke called the Nevada Democratic Party's rejection of Fox a “Stalinist” violation of “free speech and free debate.” So should you accept Air America's offer, Republicans would both embrace free debate and stick it to Stalin at the same time.

Third, our offer permits you to include any other national media company as a co-host -- like Fox. For example, a panel with Fox representing the conservative viewpoint and Air America the progressive viewpoint would make for a very "fair and balanced" debate -- not to mention that Fox's viewers per evening are coincidentally comparable to our 2.5 million listeners, meaning that several million unique people would hear your debate (assuming next to no overlap between our two disparate audiences).

We would be honored not only to co-host such an event; but also to broadcast it live without commercial interruption on the day that you choose.

I look forward to your response and to working with you on this important event.

Yours,

Mark Green

President, Air America Radio

[tblue]

1. Brilliant! But those wusses ain't got the guts nt

[FogerRox]

2. Since the Greens took over I felt better

Now I feel even more betterer.

[Maat]

7. I agree.

And I'm pleased to see that Mr. Green is such a little ol' muckraker!

[NYCGirl]

9. When Mark Green was the NYC Public Advocate, he sued Giuliani something

like 42 times!

Here's a high profile case from Wiki:

One of Mark Green's most high profile accomplishments as Public Advocate was a lawsuit against the unpunished racial profiling in Rudy Giuliani's police force. As Green told The Gotham Gazette, "I sued Mayor Giuliani because he was in deep denial about racial profiling and police misconduct that went unpunished. I won my lawsuit, I released an investigation showing a pattern of unpunished misconduct ... the rate that police with substantiated complaints are punished went from 25 percent, up to 75 percent." Green was one of the first politicians to draw attention to this problem, and for this and other accomplishments in this area he was, until 2001, one of the most popular white politicians among New York City African Americans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_J._Green#Political_career

[Maat]

10. Wow (n/t)! Quite impressive!

[Kurovski]

3. Good plan

I know they were trying to be politic and well-mannered here, but it still rankles to see FOX called a "conservative" news outlet.

And hell's bells, but it sure sets the bullshit alarm to clanging when it's referred to as a "news outlet."

[patricia92243]

4. I don't like it. There are enough Republicans on the air. Use our airwaves to try to get our messa

message out.:(

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. i don't think is a serious request

he's jsut pointing out the stupidity of expecting dems to debate on a rightwing outlet-while reps. would never go on a progressive one

[FogerRox]

8. I wonder....

I imagine that Randi Rhodes & Thom Hartman would have to hold back to keep from shredding the Fox yaking heads. I think that our folks are way better than anything that Fox has to offer, in fact Fox better not do this, they have enough problems as it is. If they do a show with Randi Rhodes & Thom Hartman it would be the beggining of the end for Fox news.

[flying rabbit]

12. I would pay to see that

[a kennedy]

5. This should be sent to Lou Dobbs.......he was blabbering last night

on John Edwards and the Democrats pulling out of the Nevada event. :mad:

[orleans]

11. way to go mark! now FIX THE STREAM so we can listen! n/t