The New AARP
....as in Air America Radio, Public:
But (cue Wink Martindale voice), THAT's NOT ALL!!!
* [They]'ll send you a monthly Associates insider email with the backstage news from [their] shows and our headquarters.
* When [they] take Air America Radio on the road, [they]'ll invite you to meet [their] hosts and progressive leaders in your community.
* And for gifts of $50 and up, [they]'ve got FREE STUFF to send you. [I swear I'm not making that line up]
This is a for-profit corporation running an honest-to-goodness radiothon, hawking fifty-dollar (and up) "free stuff." This is an ostensible business operating as a de facto charity contributions to which by definition cannot be tax-deductible. This is a gang of thieves and crooks who stole nearly a million smackers from poor kids and Altzheimer's patients begging their paltry band of listeners (who probably weren't listening today because they were all marching down Pennsylvania Avenue behind Cindy Sheehan) to "give till it hurts."
This is like Elmer Gantry looking into the television camera and asking his viewers if any of them are lonely, wasted half their lives in bars pursuing sins of the flesh, and sitting in beanbag chairs naked eating Cheetos, and then saying, "Do you feel the urge to get up and send me a thousand dollars?" [h/t Ron White]
These are the most greedy, money-grubbing bastards I've ever seen.
On the bright side, they sure as hell aren't Republicans.
Resembling an online PBS or NPR pledge drive, the site offered paltry "benefits" for cash "gifts" to the liberal talk network. Is Air America unintentionally a not-for-profit enterprise?
For $50, they'll send three "official" bumper stickers, while $100 gets a "stylish" tote bag thrown in. The sucker who has everything might choose the $250 version, including the above and an on-air thanks from one of Air America's talk hosts.
Tote BagAnother option: send "any amount", for which they'll be "grateful". Only you can prevent the next Boys & Girls Club financial raid. Send a buck, save midnight basketball in the Bronx.
But (cue Wink Martindale voice), THAT's NOT ALL!!!
* [They]'ll send you a monthly Associates insider email with the backstage news from [their] shows and our headquarters.
* When [they] take Air America Radio on the road, [they]'ll invite you to meet [their] hosts and progressive leaders in your community.
* And for gifts of $50 and up, [they]'ve got FREE STUFF to send you. [I swear I'm not making that line up]
This is a for-profit corporation running an honest-to-goodness radiothon, hawking fifty-dollar (and up) "free stuff." This is an ostensible business operating as a de facto charity contributions to which by definition cannot be tax-deductible. This is a gang of thieves and crooks who stole nearly a million smackers from poor kids and Altzheimer's patients begging their paltry band of listeners (who probably weren't listening today because they were all marching down Pennsylvania Avenue behind Cindy Sheehan) to "give till it hurts."
This is like Elmer Gantry looking into the television camera and asking his viewers if any of them are lonely, wasted half their lives in bars pursuing sins of the flesh, and sitting in beanbag chairs naked eating Cheetos, and then saying, "Do you feel the urge to get up and send me a thousand dollars?" [h/t Ron White]
These are the most greedy, money-grubbing bastards I've ever seen.
On the bright side, they sure as hell aren't Republicans.
posted by JASmius at 9:41 PM
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