Air America Scandel: Inside Air America, An Investigative Blog Report Part Two
AAR/Scandal graphic by Darleen Click
Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney have collaborated and published an investigative piece on the Air America Scandel involving the misappropriation and theft of $875,000 from an inner city New York Boys and Girls Club.
Read all of the piece, INSIDE AIR AMERICA: AN INVESTIGATIVE BLOG REPORT PART TWO here.
Brian Maloney and I take a close look at the financial plans of Sheldon and Anita Drobny, the deep-pocketed, far left Illinois Democrat couple who dreamed up Air America and have been involved in its many strange and dubious business reorganizations. The key questions that curious radio industry veterans, financial observers, skeptical investors, and business reporters should be asking Air America:
What is Nova M? And why now?
There may be an easy explanation for Nova M. It will be the replacement company for Air America Radio after Piquant LLC files for bankruptcy.
Of course, the poor kids at Gloria Wise will never be repaid and the federal government will now after exposure of this scandel search out, indict and convict Evan Cohen and the rest of his cohorts for various federal crimes. Then, the New York authorities will file their charges.
Nova M will be the purchaser of the bankrupt assets of Air America Radio.
A shell game, you betcha.
What do you have to say Al Franken?
Michelle Malkin has more on the tardiness of the New York Times in reporting this scandel here.
Others weigh in about the hesitiancy to report his story or the outright biased coverage:
If the Times wants us to believe that it objectively reports the news, especially that which occurs in its own back yard, then we expect to see some in-depth coverage of the apparent fraud involving Piquant Media, Progress Media, Air America, and Gloria Wise, and not just a bloodless regurgitation of facts already well known to anyone with an Internet connection.
Barney whipped out his Sherlock Holmes hat and magnifying glass, conducted a thorough investigation, and found that the Times is not a liberal newspaper! Yup, here are his exact words: “There’s another reason to get to the bottom of the scandal. It’s the perception problem — a perception of liberal bias for which I haven’t found any evidence after checking with editors at the paper.”
Reassuring, isn’t it? Liberal bias at the Times does not exist. It is a “perception” problem “inspired by conservative bloggers.” It is all in your imagination. The Great Oz has spoken! Besides, Calame has proof. He called the editors who ignored the Air America story, and they denied that liberal bias was the reason. So the Times is not liberal. Time to go back to the divan.
Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker:
Mediacrity is justifiably stunned that he cannot uncover any evidence of bias. But I also find it stunning that he admits his search for bias consists of asking the editors. They will never admit their bias because they don’t see it. And neither does Calame.
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Leon H. at Macho Nachos:
Yet more activity from the Drobnys that skates right on the borderline of legal and illegal, and wanders squarely into the territory of slimy. I don’t want to belabor the point that Brian has already hammered home with great efficiency, but this Nova M maneuver is the most Enron-esque move we’ve seen from the Drobnys and their Air America partners, yet. Switch the name “Drobny” with “Fastow” and you’ve got something straight out of Conspiracy of Fools. Will Al Franken condemn this shell game maneuvering?
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