Air America Employee Comes Forward

Air America's 'Deep Throat'

Plus, Bill Press Has Major Conflict Of Interest


Has a partial repayment now been made by Air America?

That's what the New York Sun is reporting, via an anonymous inside source, so it can't be confirmed.

While Air America has a deal with Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club to repay the money, over two years in interest-free installments, a letter from the New York Department of Investigation appears to demand it immediately place $875,000 in an attorney-overseen escrow account.

According to a DOI source who spoke to the Sun, the department did not want Air America to wait until the investigation was completed to repay the money, nor to send it directly to Gloria Wise.

Clearly, the DOI doesn't buy the liberal hogwash circulating around the Internet by Air America supporters and Bill Press on FOXNews, that Air America's newer owner has no connection to the old one, Progress Media, that it's all about Evan Cohen, the invisible bad man.

Then why does the DOI believe Air America's current owners owe the money? Why is Air America repaying it?

Is it because, other than Cohen, it's primarily the same people who continued on with the company after the sale?

This, via Michelle Malkin today:

BILL PRESS: Look, the reason--there's no connection to--this is a stretch even for Fox, and surely for Jim Pinkerton. There's no connection. Al Franken is not out there popping buckets of oxycontin. Al Franken is not doctor shopping. Al Franken didn't go to rehab.

Evan Cohen, who bilked the boys and girls club out of this money, also bilked Air America out of money. He is the guy, he's the con man we ought to be going after. And by the way, what the hell--

Michelle and others picked apart Press's sleazy statements very thoroughly today, but I didn't see anybody make this point: he has a dog in this race!

Remember, Press has launched a so-far floundering syndicated liberal talk show of his own and needs Air America to survive.

No AAR (perhaps resulting in an abandoned liberal talk format), no stations for the Press show. It's very simple, his career is on the line.

I previously covered Press's troubles here and here (get a good laugh out of the second one, it was covered in a radio trade publication).

So far, the launch of his national show has been a disorganized mess, to the point where he was scolded in public by a major station owner (who used the Radio Equalizer to communicate his message).

Even now, Press lists just three tiny (so small, you need a microscope to find them) affiliates, in addition to SIRIUS.

Why didn't Cavuto ask Press about his blatant conflict of interest? And why doesn't he interview those of us who kicked off this firestorm and have been covering it morning, noon and night, ever since?

MSNBC knows how to find the Radio Equalizer, after all (as did CNN last week). The Political Teen has the video clip here.

Press owes Cavuto and his viewers an apology, for failing to mention his clear self-interest, in protecting Air America. If he won't, he should be held accountable for one of the sleaziest interviews in recent cable news history.

Cavuto ought to do a follow-up on the story, with the points here and in Michelle's piece.

Meanwhile, we shouldn't let Press get away with this on-air behavior.

Novak storming off the set might be more entertaining, but Bill's Save Air America crusade is of greater significance, if it misleads the public.

Note: There is a new story here

Franken graphic by Darleen Click, City Kid$ by George Adair, Bill Press photo from WorldNetDaily.

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