To "Air" is Human

Was it a disagreement over covering the 9/11 anniversary that cost Janeane Garofalo her perch on Air America?
"She said she quit because she asked to do a segment where she intended to interview some FDNY 9/11 heroes, and the radio brass killed the idea," says a snitch.
Garofolo's manager wouldn't comment beyond saying, "That may very well be true."

An Air America Radio spokeswoman, however, denied that version of the story.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/449010p-378008c.html

The obvious retort... Who cares? But I must say that Garofalo's "stand-up" was some of the sharpest and funniest comedy I've ever heard.

The reason why Air America is such a commercial and popular failure is best demonstrated in the fact that liberal politicians must hide their political beliefs from their constituents in order to be elected. Political Talk-Radio that heralds these beliefs (the beliefs of those who control the Democrat Party) simply has no audience.

Liberalism survives politically only through obfuscation and disguise. Uncloaked, as on Air America, it sounds so... weak and un-American, and cannot compete in the realm of ideas, or for the hearts of the American public.

By contrast, Conservatism plays well in debate and generally only fails nationally when it is moderated.