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A Google News search for Air America returns only blogs and the Washington Times.

At the writing of this entry:
A CNN website search reveals nothing.
A Washington Post website search reveals nothing.
MSNBC, empty.
NY Times, nada.

And perhaps most surprisingly,
Fox News, zilch.

Why hasn't Fox News jumped on this? Are we witnessing reverse fair-and-balancism? Are they perhaps going out of their way to not look biased after the O'Franken/O’Reilly conflict? Or is it not newsworthy to report the fact that a half million dollars of taxpayer money – earmarked for community programs – has vanished somewhere in the seedy halls of Air America Radio?

As a comparison, a Google search of “Tom Delay House Ethics” yields 494,000 results (57,000 w/ ‘House Ethics’ in quotes). Even if every accusation against Tom Delay were true, he still wouldn’t be anywhere near the half-million dollar figure that Air America Radio stands accused of "borrowing." And Delay's funds weren’t intended for children’s clubs and Alzheimer’s patients.

But perhaps most disturbing is Air America Radio's cavalier attitude, undoubtedly emboldened by their immunity from MSM scrutiny. Their statement says

[...] we agreed months ago to fully compensate the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club as a result of this transaction.

Regrettably, the camp did not survive the closure of the Gloria Wise organization.

Which begs the question: Do you plan on returning the $500,000 to the government, or are you just going to invest that back into the station? And since no one in the press is bothered enough to ask these questions, I'll go ahead and assume that Tom Delay can borrow Air America Radio's excuse that he "agreed months ago to fully compensate" the American people for his overseas travel.