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2016 Postmortem

Spazito

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12. I loved Air America....

Reply to FreakinDJ (Reply #9)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 09:03 AM

Jan 2012

and was very sad to see it go. Two positives did come out of it, though, and they are Rachel Maddow's rise to the level where she became a staple on MSNBC and Al Franken being elected to office, both of which may not have happened without Air America.

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