She's the one on the left, which is apropos.
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
She's the one on the left, which is apropos.
whoops. “which is subsidized, rather than being taxpayer supported”
s/b
“much of which is subsidized, rather than being advertiser supported”
Great update!!!
yup, did see that shortly after I made my post!
(i.e., NYDN piece about how actually she fell while
walking her dog)
 ...but her Dog escaped serious injury then...? |
Liberals would be funny if they weren't so dangerous.
Some liberal breed, probably joined in the attack, blamed Rhodes, and will picket for the release of the perpetrators if they’re caught.
It sounds like she tripped over her dog while jogging.
She didn’t fill out a police report. There’s not hospital stay and she claims she has no recollection as to how it happened.
She was not mugged. she started this cock and bull story because she emailed her boss saying she could not make it to work because she was mugged. FACT IS -SHE WAS DRUNK AND EITHER PASSED OUT OR WAS PROPELLED BY A BOUNCER. She used to get thrown out of bars when she lived in Ft. Lauderdale. That is how she met her husband.
OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE....SPIN RANDI SPIN
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Has anyone seen the Ann Coulter piece yesterday (Thurs, 18th)? Funny she mentions this incident (nameless):
“Some anonymous liberal hag on Air America Radio, which no one knew was still on the air, fell down outside her Park Avenue apartment this week, and her liberal colleagues were claiming it was Kristallnacht.”
About all the racist/sexist/liberalist hoaxes committed to prove racism, etc.
Was she reading DU to get that view? :D
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