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
I’m sure glad she didn’t have a gun, her attacker might have gotten hurt!
A conservative might be a liberal who’s been mugged, but since she’s an uber-liberal, the mugging will probably only make her a moderate liberal.
She was attacked walking her dog. Some gun grabbers say carrying a gun won’t guarantee safety. Well, neither does having a dog with you.
LOL - well, sometimes I skip a few dots.
I want to wish well to those I disagree with when they're hurt.....but the left has gotten so crazy and hateful it's difficult to muster empathy for them when they go down.
Still, I hope she's alright and the report of the extent of her injuries is just drama.....it would be horrible if she actually lost teeth in a mugging.
Best wishes to her.
“I am sorry to hear she was injured.”
That was my first thought, and prayers for a quick recovery. Despite her liberal rantings, I cannot as a Christian take joy in another person’s suffering.
This is the woman who said she wanted someone to kill Bush..on her show. She mimicked the bullet sound one time.
Going off the rails on a Crazy Train!
Even if it is a bogus story, I think its an important one. Liberal talkers are not free to walk the streets because they might be attacked by thick headed, knuckle dragging conservatives. Isn’t that the most important thing we can all take away from this possibly bogus tale?
Or that women, even today, are not allowed to control their own bodies because of George Bush...
I could go on for hours like this!
(sarcasm lamp is lit)
Just trying to help and really fill in the picture for some of the others. You know all of us knuckle dragging conservatives are all pretty stupid. Especially because we are all at KKK rallies working to keep down the under classes and steal their childrens health insurance.
“She was attacked walking her dog. Some gun grabbers say carrying a gun won’t guarantee safety. Well, neither does having a dog with you.”
My dogs would have licked him to death. Worthless watch dogs. I should have bought a gun.
Ping—
I'm hoping that the assailant and the dog are OK.
You pray for someone to be mugged? Just disgusting!
"Rhodes' radio career began in Seminole, Texas, where she supplemented her income as a waitress in a Mexican restaurant as her radio career developed. Like many radio personalities, Rhodes worked at several radio stations in various American markets for over 10 years. While teaming with host Perry Stone at Milwaukee's WQFM, Rhodes was suspended in 1987 when their program offended the homosexual community and led several businesses to cancel ads."
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I didn't know that. I hope that some day she understands what an awful thing that was to say, and regrets it.
Still, it is dreadful that anyone would be attacked like this, and I hope they find the thugs who did it.
Hysterical and idiotic. There is an almost certainty that the mugger is a likely democrat voter profile. We know this because democrats are are everywhere trying to restore voter rights to felons and violent predators. Right-wingers are big on law and order - they also have jobs that don't include beating up very old looking ladies.
Hate crime? Who gives a $h!+? A crime is a crime. I hope the left-wing mugger is caught and beaten in jail. It'd be great to have to hear Randi have to come to his assistance.
You might be on to something here.
Also remember Al Sharpton’s Tawana Brawley hoax from the early 90s?
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That makes sense.
PULEEEEZZE
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