We [Heart] Air America!

New York City

Nicholas von Hoffman doesn't like Air America ["Calling Air America," May 23]. He thinks that Janeane Garofalo talks about sex too much, that Al Franken talks too slowly and that Jerry Springer is a "barking seal." He writes that Air America "loses itself in its own smog." Whatever emotional button Air America pushed in von Hoffman led not only to this meanspirited prose but to willful distortion of facts in service of his bias.

Von Hoffman states, "As of this writing Air America is still not back on the air in Chicago." But Air America did go on the air in Chicago on May 5 (WCPT 850 AM), the very day his article was posted on the Nation website. Long before his deadline, I told von Hoffman we would soon be on in Chicago. He chose not to follow up.

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