He wasn't even asking to be paid for it.

He said, "Look, I make $10 million a year from this TV show.

I'm getting older.

The show is shtick.

It's not who I am.

It's what I do.

But who I am is really a liberal pundit and politician, and I would just love the opportunity, and you don't have to pay me, and I have my own aircraft.

Air America declared bankruptcy and shut down in twenty ten.