Jon Sinton was the president of Air America. Air America was a miserable failure. Nobody likes to be at the controls of miserable failure. Sucks to be Sinton. So, it would seem that Jon Sinton is lashing out ... lashing out at talk radio. Against the advice of several friends I'm putting a link to Sinton's screed here. If you must, read this! Caution: Sinton has been stung. His ego is bruised and he is lashing out at those evil conservative talk shows that decimated his baby.

OK .. did you read it? Fun, don't you think! Since Sinton was unable to talk you into listening to his liberal talk show hosts, he's now begging you to quite listening to those disgusting conservatives. Sinton really needs to get some original material. You certainly noticed the liberal (pun intended) use of the word "hate." Now there's a big surprise! Sinton was really showing his originality there. Let's see; we have "spool up the hate," "hateful talkers," "hate and fear", "politics of hate" and "mastered hate." Sinton also brainstormed and came up with "spew venom", "incite violence" and "fear mongering." I've been telling you for a while now that the left likes to run out the "hate" word whenever they're presented with an idea, a thought or a critique for which they have no ready-made response. By attaching the "hate" word to the idea you can't logically refute you allow yourself to walk away from the conversation imagining you are taking the high road when you're actually taking the coward's escape route.

Sinton also came up with some statistics in his column. He says "The dirty little secret of right-wing talk radio is that the audience is largely male, almost exclusively white and averages 67 years of age." He cites no research, expecting us to take these figures at face value. Sorry ... no can do.

As a matter of fact, I have some figures that I'll actually source for you! These numbers come from the Talk Radio Research Project â„¢ published in Talker's Magazine. Talker's has been gathering these statistics for many years now, so they're worth a look. Let's go through a few Sinton points from his whiney little column and compare them to the real world:

• Sinton says the audience is "largely male." Talker's says that the audience is 57% male and 43% female. If that counts as "largely male" than I'm largely handsome.
   
• Then Sinton says that the audience is "almost exclusively white." Hmmmm. The Talker's research shows the talk radio audience to be 63% white, 20% black and 10% Hispanic. This would mean that blacks listen to talk radio in numbers larger than their share of the U.S. population. Largely white? Yes .. but with an overrepresentation of black listeners. I can understand why Sinton left that little goodie out. Doesn't fit well into his imaginary world.
   
• The audience "averages 67 years of age." A little ageism there, but let's check the Talker's research. The audience breakdown shows that 63% of the talk radio listening audience is between 24 and 64 years old. Twenty-eight percent of the listeners are older than 55 and of that group only 7% are over 65. Nine percent and younger than 15. The numbers for my show skew even younger. Clearly I'm no math whiz, but how can the average age of talk radio listeners be 67 when only 7% of the listeners are over 65? This sounds rather like the way liberals and Democrats compute poverty statistics. It also sounds like Sinton's a liar. Poor guy .. just can't get over his failures.

Let's take it easy on Jon Sinton. He had some mighty high expectations for Air America, his liberal talk radio project. It went bankrupt within two years. I'm sure that did a hell of a lot for his resume. Now he runs a state news service that nobody has ever heard of. It didn't take long for him to realize that radio listeners just weren't going to tune in to his illogical dog squeeze. There just wasn't enough Boy's Club money to embezzle to make it work.