In today’s New York Post, Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin take a hatchet to the straw man that is Air America Radio. The right wing dynamic duo look at the liberal radio station’s dealings with the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club of the Bronx (See: Investigators probe community center loan to Air America Radio, AP, Newsday, Aug. 12, 2005) and its checkered financial past.
But what’s really got Maloney and Malkin worked up is a gushy quote from The New York Times—cough, cough, The Liberal New York Times—that seems to gloss over the station’s financial problems:
Air America, the much-hyped liberal media venture that was supposed to revolutionize talk radio, is “solvent and apparently stable”: So claim the gullible cheerleaders at The New York Times, who made that unsubstantiated assertion in a recent glowing profile of Air America host Janeane Garofalo.
Seems like an egregious oversight, no? How could The Times see fit to print such a phrase in a recent profile if the station is being probed by Eliot Spitzer?
Well, it all depends on what your definition of ‘recent’ is. The above quotation comes from a Times ‘Arts & Leisure’ profile of Garofalo, by Paula Span, And Don’t Even Get Her Started on the War, from March 27—nearly four months before the whole Air America/Gloria Wise story broke in late July.
Related: From the online edition of Maloney and Malkin’s piece, as of 10:30 AM, EST:
Or, hey, you could keep it in there. (Emphasis added)
—Matt Haber
