I reckon Teach had his say into Air America Deadbeat and their thieving, treacherous ways, not it’s my turn. Thanks to AD and Evan Cohen, the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club is pretty much toast (along with Pathways). So those poor minority kids, which Dems always seem to mention, then hurt, are out of a nice program, along with others. And Air Deadbeat is hemming and hawing over repayment of what looks to be illegal loans.
Michelle Malkin has an article up at World Net Daily, wondering where other Dems are:
Where are they? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the supermen of the civil-rights establishment – able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to get in front of a picket line. When victim politics calls, the demagogic duo leap into patented action: March. Boycott. Shakedown. Repeat.
But the raging reverends are nowhere to be found as a scandal involving the liberal radio network Air America and a Bronx, N.Y.-based inner city charity for poor children brews. Why the silence?
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If a conservative radio network had been entangled in a scam to steal from black children to line the pockets of wealthy white con artists, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would already be staging hunger strikes in protest. But both have hefty political and financial stakes in Air America’s success – and the big mouths aren’t about to badmouth their friends.
Where is the outrage from the Left? No one seems to care on that side. Matter of fact, they mostly ignore this story. And the New York Post has a story entitled "Pay Up, Lefties!" (reg req’d)
Officials at the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club  under investigation for lending Air America radio nearly $900,000  yesterday demanded that the left-wing network start repaying the money.
“Air America reached a legal agreement to have that loan repaid in full,” beginning this summer, said Martta Rose, a spokeswoman for the Bronx-based Boys & Girls Club, which is the subject of a probe by the city Department of Investigation.
Air America had earlier said it put on hold plans to pay back the money because Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club was shut down by the city.
And they were shut down because of the improper, and probably illegal, loans to Air Deadbeat. Face it, AD needed the cash influx, and repaying the “loan” would have hurt their purse strings badly. They are #24 in the NYC market, lower then the Caribbean station they replaced. Libs do not even want to listen to them. Their advertising rates are pitifully low. The only way they can stay in, well, I guess you can say business, is with massive loans and donations. That’s fine for PBS. Not fine for a corporation.
Brian Mahoney at the Radio Equalizer has more.
