Remember Air America. No, not the government-run chain of propaganda programs blasted across the world to pump up the US and diss our enemies. Air America. After Rush Limbaugh saved AM radio and the right took over the medium, a bunch of rich liberals felt they needed an answer.
Air America.
It was non-stop bitching, and complaining, the way only angry resentful liberal victims can.
From March 2004 to January 2010, it managed to whine its way across the airwaves, propelling itself Forward until even deep-pocketed advocates could no longer stand it. Absent the kind of following attracted by Limbaugh and others, the network couldn’t raise enough advertising revenue to keep the failure funded.
In other words, it was the entire liberal political experiment without forced taxpayer props ups. Absent someone else’s money, like every other liberal idea, it failed.
Podcasts
The new media is podcasts, and despite the whining from the left that they don’t have a Joe Rogan, they do. His name was Joe Rogan (10 Million YouTube subscribers). They also had Russell Brand and a slew of top-shelf investigative journalists who were mugged by the Left’s tyranny during COVID and now play for the other team. They have huge audiences and dominate the space, which features a few successful podcasters on the left, as well as Michelle Obama.
Michelle isn’t actually successful. Not by the modern standards of followers or subscribers, or whatever her revenue model may be. But she’s got a podcast, and she’s Michelle Obama—the wife of Barry. The woman who ruined school lunches, allowed hubby to get a Portuguese Water Torture Dog to frame a better family-friendly image, and who spent obscene sums of public dollars on world-hopping entourage-laden junkets.
Michelle Obama is politically connected, but not overly talented. She’s not a great public speaker despite commanding grotesque sums to show up and talk. A reflection of her ability to use other people’s influence to get paid, like that 300K a year make-work job in Chicago before Barry O got that job in the Oval Office.
Given who she is, who she knows, and what she knows, there ought to have been a built-in audience for whatever it is she had to say about whatever her podcast is about.
Not so much.
Despite the name recognition and a massive promotional media tour, she should have more than 200K subscribers.
And yes, since some proglodyte or troll might bring it up, she’s got a lot more followers than any of the podcasts we share. But we’re not thinking we deserve an audience. We have to work for it, pay for it out of our pockets or whatever donations we can raise, and one of us was not the wife of the president of the United States, on the front line, for eight years.
Mz. Obama, to her credit, has had some compelling numbers on a few occasions, depending on the guest. Daymon and Marlon Wayons were on, and she scored 650K views on YouTube. I mean she knows people and I’d bet that anyone she asked would be like, damn. I have to say yes. She is Michelle Obama, after all. But absent the high-profile guest, she’s likely to get 6K views.
So what success she can lay claim to depends on who she knows, just like her real life. And I bet that pisses her off.
Poor thing.
She’s got time. Her podcast may not end like Air America. I mean, she’s loaded, so even as a failed vanity project, she could keep it running for years. And who knows. She might find a voice, an angle, a thing that catapults her near Rogan, Shapiro, Brand, Peterson, or not.
Probably not.
