Alex Bennett (finally) fired (Sirius XM Left). Maybe an actual Liberal host & liberal AM show now???

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83. 'Alex Bennett' was not suitable for Sirius Left [Progress]

I just found out about this minutes ago!

I knew from Bill Press's Current TV simulcast that his program was going off Sirius Left. Press announced it, and informed listeners/viewers of alternative methods to tune in his radio program. And I see that the 6 a.m. ET is now The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt. Oh! … And it's well past time that Stephanie Miller's program was played out in its entirety. (Sirius Left, on ch. 127, is being renamed Sirius Progress. Bill Press's program is on, at 6 a.m. ET, the Internet-accessed Sirius Left Plus, on ch. 781.)

@ http://www.siriusxm.com/siriusxmleft?p=1283872745429
@ http://www.siriusxm.com/siriusxmleft?p=1283872745429
@ http://www.siriusxm.com/siriusxmleftplus/weeklyschedule


I did not know until now that Alex Bennett's program was taken off Sirius XM.

My feeling with him was mixed.

I applaud someone who says he's a liberal, generally, before being a Democrat. It used to be that Republicans were liberal and the Democrats were conservative. (Think of an inverse of today's electoral map of which states were base ones for the two parties.)

With Bennett, I had too difficult a read on him. Would some say he was in the way of a centrist or a moderate? (Admittedly, I wasn't tuned in often enough to distinguish; but I'm certain he wasn't genuinely liberal. Bennett, for example, defended Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in that recall election, from 2012, because Bennett figured that when a state's voters elect a governor, the citizenry should not turn around later to try to recall him. That was the extent of Bennett's regard for that particular situation.)

Alex Bennett is an old man. There is nothing wrong being old. But, it hurt him that he was so out of touch. He did not belong on the Siriux XM Left. In fact, when one compares that Bennett was on that station while Mike Malloy, who is truly ethical in his arguments, and is truly liberal, Bennett was one of the last people appropriate for that programming channel. The only one who struck me as obviously worse was the late Lynn Samuels, who copped to being a "birther" but, in reality, had flipped out for reasons I don't quite understand (because, like with Bennett, I didn't follow Samuels too much. That may have been good for me).


I used to subscribe to Sirius XM Radio. I canceled my subscription early this year due to personal matters. I may end up getting into it again. I hope to come across, here at Democratic Underground, any information here about the replacement program, The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt. (Thank you, in advance, as well as to the OP of this thread!)