Posted on 05/21/2004 9:25:54 PM PDT by Pikamax
Randi Rhodes announced today that she is quitting Air America. Rhodes made the surprise announcement in a prepared statement at the opening of today's broadcast of the Randi Rhodes Show.
On a related note the Arbitron ratings came out (for New York only) and it is not pretty. Air America on WLIB came in ranked #24 between #25 Mexican Radio and #26 Wall of Voodoo.
LEGAL CLARIFCATION REQUIRED: If you quit on a radio show with no ratings does that count as a resignation?
The Air America message board is in mourning.
In case you missed it...here is the updated timeline of the Air America Death Watch. I won't cheat and post it but I had meant to post a prediction that she would be the first to go. From what I understand she had a bigger audience in Florida then she was getting on AAR's "national" network. I don't think her little "assassination" joke helped.
Thanks again to the Randi Rhodes Archives.
If you don't want to download the clip or can't listen where you are, here's the transcript of the conversation between Soul Doubt and Randi:
Soul Doubt: I'm a regular at morons.org, and we do in fact love you.
Randi: I know! Thank you.
Kudos to Soul Doubt for mentioning us! Kudos to Randi Rhodes for continually kicking ass. We love you, Randi!
---Nick
Can you make him punch the half intelligent mike boorer?
Looks similar to Hot Lips on 'Mash'
post 201 bump
"The DUmmys have been dead for a long time, they just don't have sense enough to lay down and rot decently."
AAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH! (Cramps) AAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!
Welcome to the freerepublic.. Did you know you are full of s*** ?
Well, let's see. You signed up today, using the screen name of someone who's not exactly revered on this site, and you tell us we have it all wrong, and just how wrong we all have it . . . and then you wonder why you're called "troll," which (since you don't appear to know) is Internet slang for someone who baits in the middle of a discussion just to get tempers flaring.
I know Mexican Radio, and I know WoV, but I don't understand this non sequiter.
Randi is two of them.
In her dreams. She has a lot of dreams like that, sometimes even when she is asleep.
No joke. I am not sure what is going on there.
I don't understand the tie in with Mexican Radio and Wall of Voodoo...must be a joke of some kind.
If you going to make a posting to a site you should make sure people can get to it.
To check out the link:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0405270273may27,1,6621136.story?coll=chi-business-hed
use the account freeread as a username and freeread as a password.
"...treelovinhippie
Joined: 12 May 2004
Posts: 16
Location: North Idaho
Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 2:52 am Post subject:
It was a joke! At the very end of her Friday show she mentioned that she's taking a trip to Florida this weekend to visit home. She's taking Monday off and will be back Tuesday.....
bandit
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
Posts: 1
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject:
i am not sure what is going on here but i am listening to her and she just addressed this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1140206/posts and she stated never said that, and she didn't. I don't know if free republic sites anything but as far as i can tell they are siting this string as why they know she "resigned". Actually we're all laughing at the Free Republics signature lack of truth and information....."
OK, I'm confused. Was it a joke? Is she still on the air? Does anybody really care?
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