Dustry Rhodes -- the professional wrestler.
Posted on 10/16/2007 5:55:17 AM PDT by FooBarBaz
Randi Rhodes is the Victim of a Violent Attack Randi Rhodes was mugged on Sunday night on 39th Street and Park Ave, nearby her Manhattan apartment, while she was walking her dog Simon.
According to Air America Radio late night host Jon Elliott, Rhodes was beaten up pretty badly, losing several teeth and will probably be off the air for at least the rest of the week. At of late Monday night we have not able to locate any press accounts of the attack and nothing has been posted on the AAR website.
Several liberal blogs, including the Randi Rhodes Message Board and Democratic Underground have logged numerous posts on the Rhodes mugging with most of the posters expressing concern about the condition of the popular lib talker.
Morning talk host, Lionel filled in for Rhodes on Monday, but did not say anything about why she wasn’t on hand to do her show. The Randi Rhodes board reports that Sam Seder, who does a Sunday afternoon show for AAR, will be filling on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Elliott was extremely agitated when he reported on the incident. He opened his show by saying "it is with sadness that tonight I inform you that my Air America colleague Randi Rhodes was assaulted last night while walking her dog near her New York City home."
Pointing out that Rhodes was wearing a jogging suit and displayed no purse or jewelry, Elliott speculated that "this does not appear to me to be a standard grab the money and run mugging."
"Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own," he asked. "Are we threatening them. Are they afraid that we're winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us."
Some of blog posters also expressed concerns that the attack on Rhodes was hate crime. Other posters warned that we need more facts before any judgements are made.
According to Elliott, Rhodes was resting in her New York City apartment and was not hospitalized.
Attacks on liberal talk radio stations and their hosts are not a new thing. About a month ago a gunman fired a shot through a window at the studios of KPFT, Houston’s, Pacifica station narrowly missing a DJ who was hosting music show at the time. There is currently a $10,000 reward offered to anyone who identifies the shooter.
This is not the first politically motivated attack on KPFT. More than 35 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan blew up the station's transmitters twice within the Houston station's first year on the air.
Also, according to a blogger on Democratic Underground, Thom Hartmann said on his Friday show that his auto repairman, after replacing his windshield, pointed out to him that he had three bullet holes in his car.
Apparently, some right-wing critics of lib talk aren’t happy that conservative talk only accounts for 90% of the programming on talk radio. These whack jobs appear determined to whatever it takes to silence the opposing point of view.
Not surprisingly, the only talk radio host killed for his political views was a liberal. In 1984, two right wing extremists gunned down Denver talk show host Alan Berg. Berg’s tragic murder was memorialized in a chilling movie Talk Radio
Guess she’ll be converting to conservatism, now that she’s been mugged?
The DUmmies are already blaming this on right-wing goons who just roam the streets looking for lefties to beat on.
A known hive of conservative activity.
What's the frequency Randi?
Best regards,
Second, whoever wrote this needs medication.
LOL. Yah, muggings in New York are primarily by right wing, politically active types. I didn’t know who this lady was anyway. The reason I looked at the article was that I thought that she was a he and that he was a professional wrestler. Mugging a pro-wrestler would be funny and hard to do. Mugging a left wing Park Avenue talk show host . . . well . . . not as hard.
Dustry Rhodes -- the professional wrestler.
Just love it. But what else is new with these crackpots. First the conviction, then the trial.
" More than 35 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan blew up the station's transmitters twice within the Houston station's first year on the air.
Oh my. Reaching back 35 years to tie the present incident in with the Klan and an unfounded suspicion of conservatives.
"Apparently, some right-wing critics of lib talk aren’t happy that conservative talk only accounts for 90% of the programming on talk radio. These whack jobs appear determined to whatever it takes to silence the opposing point of view."
Yeah, Rush probably had his bodybuard Stalin attack Rhodes.
” ‘Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own,” he asked. “Are we threatening them. Are they afraid that we’re winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us.’ “
Unfricking believable. Last I noticed, it was the dems who were the violent ones.
I hope they catch who did it - I’d be willing to bet a month’s pay that it wasn’t a “right winger”. Most people on the right are too busy working for a living and raising their families to have time to roam the streets looking for left wing kooks to mug.
“Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own,” he asked. “Are we threatening them. Are they afraid that we’re winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us.” .......(What no question marks?).............. Maybe its an extreme staged attempt to gain publicity? It looks like a typical NYC mugging where someone wasn’t pleased that the rich b*tch had no money? Why would a right wing screwball even listen to her on the radio? Beatings and muggings of women in NYC occur daily, the majority don’t make the MSM. Don’t mean to play this down, but it has to be looked into further.
Let’s see, we didn’t go after them for Waco, for being so anti freedom of Iraq, for partial birth abortion, Ruby Ridge, preventing the murderers of loved ones from being executed in several states, calling the Prez a nazi.. etc..... but we , the freedom lovers, are going to attack someone we wouldn’t know if we fell over them, for speaking out .. on a financially troubled radio channel ??? Ooooo - k
That’s it, packs of right wing avengers out looking for AA hosts to beat on...the only problem is that no one knows what an AA host looks like. Heck, only about twenty people even know what they sound like.
“Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own,” he asked. “Are we threatening them. Are they afraid that we’re winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us.”
I don’t think the right wing hate machine needs to silence her. Err America is doing a good enough job on its own flopping and losing stations.
I was thinking the same thing.
Whoops, wrong Randi Rhodes. PJ, didn't this Randi Rhodes used to live in Liquordale?
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