Even though liberal radio network Air America has declared bankruptcy, its defenders are still making last-gasp arguments for its relevancy. Most recently, Air America radio host Thom Hartmann defended his network on the Huffington Post, comparing it to Fox News and the Washington Times in the sense that those news organizations also initially lost money. Hartmann wrote:

While Fox News and The Washington Times have devoted themselves to promoting the interests of America’s most wealthy, most of the programming of Air America Radio has been committed to discussions of labor, the middle class, and holding up the founding ideals of this nation.

That was Brian Maloney’s cue:

Hartmann’s ideological dishonesty here is astounding: Air America Radio has from day one been about pumping up the bank accounts of liberal elitists like Al Franken. Any network that pays Stuart Smalley $2 million a year in addition to many perks, despite a lack of audience performance, isn’t at all concerned with the working class. […]
Elitism has been at the very core of Air America’s operations from the beginning, just as it has at the Huffington Post. The kind of people you associate with, Mr Hartmann, wouldn’t know working class if they tripped over it on the way to one of their lavish Manhattan cocktail parties.

I would imagine that, for the denizens of Air America, facing up to that reality is even harder than facing up to the fact that their network has run out of cash.