I simply cannot shut my mouth.

I must admit, it pains me to see how Air America is slowly but surely becoming more or less irrelevant. Several years ago, when I was trying to find interesting AM radio stations to listen to, I came across radio stations such as the “Head On Radio Network”, a channel I found through the iTunes radio listings. These stations would either have their own shows, or they would syndicate shows from other talk shows hosts such as Thom Hartmann, Ed Schulz, The Young Turks, and many others. If you’ve been following liberal talk radio, you know that some of these talk shows hosts have gone way beyond their radio shows and now have either national exposure through various Satellite Radios stations, or they’ve even been picked up by some of the Major networks, as is the case with Rachael Maddow and Ed Schulz, both having been with Air America before their move.

During the height of the past Bush Administration, which gave conservative talk shows hosts around the nation justification for their hate speech, Air America was a beacon of hope, as corny as it may sound. When I first started listening to talk radio back on my college days and delivering pizza, the only thing I could ever find on the AM dial was rush and a few other local talk shows. There was certainly nothing to be found on the radio that would represent some kind of liberal alternative to Rush and his cohorts, not counting NPR here since they’re on the FM dial.