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Randi Rhodes Quitting Radio, Slams Ex-Colleagues Maddow, Franken on Way Out
NewsBusters ^ | April 26, 2014 | Jack Coleman

Posted on 04/26/2014 1:37:58 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

The vast arid wasteland known as liberal radio is becoming even more barren. Loose-cannon lefty Randi Rhodes is pulling the plug on her show.

News of Rhodes' impending departure came in a terse statement from Premiere Networks, which broadcasts her show through 35 affiliates -- "[We] can confirm that Randi Rhodes has decided to end her national radio program. We've had a successful partnership with Randi for several years and we wish her all the best for the future. Premiere Networks will conclude syndication and production of Randi Rhodes on May 16, 2014." (Audio clips after the jump)

Rhodes spent considerable time on her show this week saying goodbye to listeners and outlining the rationale for her decision. She also couldn't resist taking swipes at Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, her former colleagues at now-defunct Air America Radio, especially Maddow (audio) --

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airamerica; alfranken; bushhassers; herramerika; liberalism; mentaldisorder; rachelmaddow; randirhodes
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To: PJ-Comix
Ah yes, Air America Radio...

I retired in 2007 and had a 40-minute commute every morning, and I just had to listen to this thirty (forty?)-something adolescent.
It was so bad, it was good for guffaws every day, all the way to work. Or maybe it was all the way home, I can't recall.

Her political and social insights were what one would expect from a stoned, totally uninhibited 13-yr-old. And the program lasted almost 2 years!!!

Remarkable.

61 posted on 04/26/2014 7:09:55 PM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

First of all, I don’t believe she quit.

Second, how stupid can a radio station’s management be to carry her show? Maybe they’re not that stupid and that’s why she’s “quitting”. hee hee


62 posted on 04/26/2014 8:01:30 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: golux

The flagship 100 watt community college radio station will be devisated.


63 posted on 04/26/2014 8:46:28 PM PDT by matt04
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To: PJ-Comix
and it was the worst of times because frankly that place was run like, OK, into the ground.

And yet liberals feel free to give their opinions of how the country ought to be run.

Everything they touch is "run into the ground".

64 posted on 04/26/2014 8:58:08 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Does the federal government qualify as a terrorist organization?)
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To: mowowie

google “janeane garofalo plastic surgery”


65 posted on 04/26/2014 8:58:23 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

I don’t need an ipecac.


66 posted on 04/26/2014 9:02:48 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: golux
For 2014 she is still listed as #63 in the Top 100 Talkers.

#63

Have any of you ever listened to her rant and rave when she was on ErrHead Amerika and Bush was in the WH? Any non-Libtard that had the gonads to call her show would be treated to being screamed at, entertained with an argument devoid of facts, and eventually being hung up on. She is one wack job. I had lost track of where she ended up after Errhead Amerika disappeared as well as it's successor Nova M after Sheldon Drobny attempted suicide.
67 posted on 04/26/2014 9:18:09 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Does so
Avast called this picture a threat.
Mine did too......Hmmmmm

...and mine...!


Here also - I got the bells and whistles
68 posted on 04/26/2014 9:20:32 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: PJ-Comix

Rhodes bitter? Sounds like. But Franken made it all the way to the Senate and meaner little troll would be hard to find—though goodness knows he has enough competition among his colleagues in that body.


69 posted on 04/26/2014 9:40:32 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Cheerio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWBgT02i1W4


70 posted on 04/26/2014 9:47:33 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Rome2000

I could only take 2 min of that!!!!!


71 posted on 04/26/2014 10:07:21 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: VerySadAmerican

you bring up a good point, that may just have been cover for her being let go.


72 posted on 04/26/2014 11:18:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Let’s just hope that Christmas Trees are safe now.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1179470/posts


73 posted on 04/27/2014 2:42:34 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Chode; Organic Panic; catnipman

That was some BS. Libs are still fuming that they were had and it wasn’t a Conservative mugger;

Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn’t mugged (oops)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1912007/posts


74 posted on 04/27/2014 3:03:25 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: smokingfrog

I looked over the list of thirty-five. There’s some things that you ought to understand.

Some of the thirty-five are simply a sister station in the same area of station #1, that delays the transmission to a evening hour.

From the south, there’s only around three stations that carry her. Most of her thirty-five are on the west coast. Few folks talk about the amount of listeners, and I’d take a guess that fewer than 150,000 folks listen to her on a daily basis, from the thirty-five stations.

Why slam Maddow and Franken? She’s stuck in a small market situation and making probably next to nothing on salary. I doubt if she even makes $80,000 a year. She’s been hoping for the past five years that friendships would pay off and she’d finally get moved into the major leagues. Franken didn’t ever help, and Maddow has virtually nothing to get her onto MSNBC. I would imagine that the guys funding her show talked up 2015 and an anticipated pay-cut, for her to stay on the air. She probably added up the time and future....thinking there’s nothing much to stay around for, and just retire.

It’s hard to stand in her shoes. Mostly nutcase folks listen to her show. There’s no national trends based on what she says. She doesn’t get invited to any fancy Democratic conferences to speak. No foundations ever offer seats or situations to her.


75 posted on 04/27/2014 3:05:28 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: PJ-Comix

What a piece of excrement this Rhodes creature is.


76 posted on 04/27/2014 4:44:30 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: PJ-Comix

Dam we got rid of RR down here years ago. She was banished to NYC where she belongs. Hope she doesn’t slither back here.
Nasty piece of work.Always keep the dump button handy when shes on.


77 posted on 04/27/2014 4:50:13 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: PJ-Comix
Randi Rhodes is/was the most vile, hateful individual on any type of media format!

A number of years ago, her show came on right after Rush. Talk about night and day!

Anyway. I didn't know she was still on the radio. Good bye, Randi!

78 posted on 04/27/2014 5:32:33 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: PJ-Comix

Premier Networks calls 35 affiliates a “national” program? Hate to hear how lonely a regional one sounds......


79 posted on 04/27/2014 5:43:52 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: mowowie
Whatever happened to that freak Janeane Garofalo?

Probably a carpet munching predator at some junior college.

80 posted on 04/27/2014 5:46:16 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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