Well, Air America is on the Air, all right. I just woke up and heard the host on the phone with someone, arguing with them pretty vociferously. It sounded like quite a fight, they were overtalking, and at times, the host was nearly screaming at him, and the guest was really agitated. My first thought was, boy they really don’t screen the callers, and they just let the people who call in go too far–not to mention the host! And then, as I listened on, I slowly realized… the voice on the phone was Ralph Nader! And the host really got him pissed off! I mean, he was discombobulated, trying to get out his standard lines–but the host, Randi Rhodes, was really digging into him, telling him point-blank that we can’t afford him running and not accepting his usual platitudes… until Nader got so pissed off he shouted at her about her interviewing being really bad, and she was screwing up the first day of Air America, and he hung up, angrily. Wow. Now that’s an interview.

So, fortunately, we can get the streaming audio. Unfortunately, the web site has been so overwhelmed by visitors, they had to take it down and leave the main page as a simple link to their streaming audio (for the moment without any registration required).

I was able to catch only about ten minutes of Franken last night before falling asleep, and it looks like I’ll miss them on the repeat, dangit. I can only hope they’ll have it in the archive.