Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer | Baggage

Like many liberals, John Sinton was mad after George W. Bush won the 2000 election.

He credits his daughter with inspiring him to do something with his anger.

I was driving with my tween age daughter, and I had Rush Limbaugh on the car radio.

Feminists, did you hear that? I mean, look, on one hand, you are nothing but sex objects, stalkers, unstable, maniacal, G-star women.

You never know-

We were on our way to the, uh, gym, and man, he started talking about feminazis and all kinds of horrible stuff.

And my daughter says to me, "Daddy, can you not do something about that?" And that honestly was the, the inception of the idea for Air America.

Air America would be a radio network that would serve as a liberal counterweight to right-wing talk radio, where hosts like Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck had found massive audiences.

Sinton started building a lineup that would include funny and cerebral on-air personalities, like Rachel Maddow, then a complete unknown, and former SNL comedian, Al Franken.