the Z girl

"I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess."

The "Man's Prayer" from The Red Green Show

Sorry I missed Maron being forced to accept a compliment. Working pays the bills, but it certainly comes with disadvantages.

Marc,We love ya man !

Keep it going AAR..

Do something Smart,AAR..You know,something Smart,as opposed to something that you normally do..

Bring back Maron And Seder !

It is such a pleasure to listen to an AAR host actually have a conversation with an interviewee. One of the things that drove me nuts about Randi Rhodes was that she constantly interrupted people, even her guests, and never listened. Marc Maron (and of course Sam Seder) knows how to have a dialogue. The Boettcher interview was mind-blowing. Each question uncovers more information and takes us deeper into the issues. It stimulates thought and discussion after the show ends. It is sad how rarely that happens today in the media. PLEEEEEZE give us more of this. We are starving for authentic, informative interviews. Where will we get it after this week?

Loved Belzer, too. But Marc Maron is my favorite out of anyone who's ever hosted on Air America. Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder are very nearly tied with Maron .... but Marc Maron is "THE ONE". Thanks for letting him guest host. I hope he'll be a regular again very soon.

A great insight, Maron!

That's one of the few original thoughts about a reason for the Wright hype I've heard in all this!

Thankks!

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The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt

and friends for talking about the racism involved in the attacks on Rev. Wright.

It is so wonderful to hear truth being spoken on the radio!!

and sweet reason. Oh please, AAR management. Give us thoughtful, funny hosts who don't grandstand, who can actually carry on a conversation, who are curious and well-informed. You know who I'm talking about: Seder, Maron, more and better Rachel Maddow, ... Thank you.

Another great show, Marc! Wonderful to hear you this week.

Marc is a great interviewer! Always has been, from the start.
Submitted by nora on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 6:03pm.
Has such an ease about it and is so authentic in his form of questioning, that is, his questions come from his own personal interest, is what I mean to say.

I heard Hedges interviewed by Hartmann, too, and Marc's interview was so much better, because Marc just let Hedges do his thing so we could find out where Hedges is coming from. (Hartmann's interview of Hedges got all confused and strange; I couldn't figure out the odd energy.)

But, Maron, interviews like the guest and audience are all just stopping in "TO HANG"! Love that relaxed energy, too. Just like I love Sam's LASER INTERVIEWS that get to the nucleus of any issue.

Both Seder and Maron are VERY special talents!

Maron and Seder are the best hosts AAR ever had!

I even signed back up for "premium", or whatever they call it now, just in case
Air America makes a good decision. Glad they give a free 2 week trial, just
in case Air America makes a poor choice for this time slot.

"They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going...
...What if you're not tough...?"
- Rodney Dangerfield -

Two distinct talents that need to be heard daily on Air America.

We need their voices on AA. Now more than ever!!

I don't understand why it is rocket science to the suits at Air America that Sam Seder and Marc Maron are the AAR "brand" at this point. Al Franken is gone. Randi Rhodes is gone. Rachel Maddow's future is in television news. So what else have you got? Jon Elliott and a few vanity shows? Yes, Mark Green, I'm talking to you.

Sam and Marc are, as we've seen this week, ready to go right out of the gate. Sam is smart, well-prepared, and far kinder to his conservative callers than many of them deserve. And he has bled Air America blue for the last four years and deserves better treatment than he's getting.

Marc Maron hasn't been on the air on any kind of regular basis for four years, and this week, in his first time flying completely solo, with no Jim Earl or "buddy Don" next to him -- it's as if he never left. Thursday's opening rant was absolutely brilliant. He challenges the audience to think. Maybe that's just too dangerous for the corporatistas in the executive suite.

Sam and Marc ARE Air America. They always were. Air America isn't about celebrity blather on the air like Roseanne Barr and Joy Behar. The early Air America was something special and rare, and Sam and Marc are the last vestiges of that. No one else on radio does what they do. Why is it so hard for the suits to see this?

How many radio hosts hold onto their audience TWO YEARS AFTER THEIR SHOWS GO OFF THE AIR? You can't buy this sort of loyalty, and you can't get it from hot and cold rotating celebrity hosts.

We want our Seder/Maron, and we want it NOW.

The World Famous Thanks to Morning Sedition Brilliant at Breakfast
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com
"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." -- Oscar Wilde

... SamSeder and MarcMaron need to be back on AAR as regulars, like 5 days a week.

Takecare, :) :) :) :)

Deborah from Kansas ....

Peace

We need more Sam & Marc! AAR needs it too, use them justly or lose them!

And as a non-religious person, not sure if it technically makes me atheist but using Christopher Hitchens and the like as things to launch generalizations is nuts, and also it's not like atheists have regular meetings.

This pretty much goes for anyone but when someone is advocating violence, maybe you need to look into why they are advocating for such an extreme position. Whether your killing for the state or "humanity" or your deity it bears some inspection. It's likely to me that the people Hedges is pointing out are not doing it because their atheists but because they are intolerant and have little issue with mass murder, as long as the targets are chosen from their special kind of bigotry.

I understand how it can be difficult to be tolerant of certain people, and they see a real danger in being tolerant of certain people, but I mean going so quickly to violence shouldn't be an easy sell. Unfortunately our recent history has shown that many unfairly maligned groups (also misunderstood) combined with bigotry, also the very small minority of actual criminals who should be prosecuted not invaded.