Randi Rhodes quits Air America; Air America ratings comes in.

"...is seeking to raise new money in efforts to pay off debts and steer the business back toward profitability."

Back toward profitability? Somehow these guys ignore the fact that conservative talk radio took a long time to be profitable and only so because it was feeding a void. With liberal tv, movies, professors, think tanks, media etc., they were doing anything BUT filling a void.

51 days and they think it will turn a profit?

What a bunch of maroons!!!

"the same day I'll say thank you to the 12 people who raped me."

Like the other Air America employees, she didn't realize she was raped until their checks bounced.

***"I don't understand ANY Spanish, but I'd rather listen to Mexican radio..."***

I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
And the touch of a world that is older
I turn the switch and check the number
I leave it on when in bed I slumber
I hear the rhythms of the music
I buy the product and never use it
I hear the talking of the DJ
Can't understand just what does he say?

I'm on a mexican radio
I'm on a mexican radio

I dial it in and tune the station
They talk about the U.S. inflation
I understand just a little
No comprende, it's a riddle

I'm on a mexican radio
I'm on a mexican radio

I wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbequed iguana
I'd take requests on the telephone
I'm on a wavelength far from home
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
I dial it in from south of the border
I hear the talking of the DJ
Can't understand just what does he say?

I'm on a mexican radio
I'm on a mexican radio
I'm on a mexican radio
I'm on a mexican radio

Radio radio...
What does he say ?

"After her shoot Bush "joke" I have a feeling she has had a visit from guys with sunglasses and has decided to 'spend more time with her family"."

I was thinking the exact same thing. It's a strange coincidence.A Freeper posted recently that they contacted the Secret Service about Randi's "comments". Does anyone know if any action was taken against Randi?

Supposedly, she's the one that pushed, both on air and off, for the prosecution.

I'm sure that sounded like a great idea at the time- get Rush discredited, thrown in jail and up to his armpits in legal problems just before launching her vaunted national talk radio career and taking the world by storm.

Didn't work out too well. Randi better hope Rush isn't 1/10 as vindictive and mean spirited as she paints him to be.

It's amazing how Air America dropped the ball. I guarantee that 100% of the Air America hosts oppose the War On Drugs. I guarantee that Al Franken and Randi Rhodes have used more drugs recreationally than Rush Limbaugh ever used medicinally.

So when Rush admits he is addicted to painkillers, the only thing these clowns do is use it to attack him. These are the people who say they have a really, really important message and that the message isn't being heard. This was the best chance these people will ever have in their lives to make the case to mainstream America that drugs ought to be legal. And they fritter it away to launch into personal attacks. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

They got a little better than 1/3 the ratings of WABC. This in a city that is 70% dems good showing!

Randi, darlin', somebody's making a feces-load of moolah off of this little scam, and I hate to break it to ya, kid, but it ain't you. Thirty million buckadingdongs just did a vanishing act and the ones left onstage were the rubes that were invited there in the first place to make the magicians look smart. Which you did, darlin', you couldn't help yourself, you're the last, best hope of liberal America, which means that somebody gets left holding the stinking, empty bag while Soros's boys head for the horizon giggling. How's it feel, buttercup? I hear Rush has a few positions open, but he's looking for talent, and well...never mind.

What is it Rush says about ugly women and feminism?

I guarantee that 100% of the Air America hosts oppose the War On Drugs.

That's probably about the only thing they got right.

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.

LOL! The RATS will be crying about this. :-)

Rhoads is a Neil Rogers clone from Miami, Florida. Very predictable self loathing Jew, ala Rogers, Alan Colmes, Babs Striesand.

bttt

ROTFLOL. Funny, funny, funny.

Randi Rhodes

"It's disgusting looking back now at the friends you keep when you are addicted (when you are a news junkie). Brit Hume, Tony Snow, Bill O'Reilly... They are bad men. Very bad men. All they want is to get you into it. I call it "THE LIFE." They're dangerous. They distort your mind. They seem like they care about you getting the news, but really they just want their money and fix of Clinton...

Although... I am Glad that Laura Bush is in the White House... She believes that a child beginning at the very earliest age must be taught (how to respect the servants). What a great job she did with Jenna and the "other one". But by now I think the secret service must be used to those late night runs to the convenience store for beer, rolling papers, and condoms. Not to mention the boyfriend pick ups at the local county jail. But she tips well, though, as a liberal... I must observe that even when you are the progeny of a Patrician Dynasty there is certainly no excuse for not knowing how to hide your boozing...

GEORGE is a completely different matter. Did he really declare our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is finally over? I thought I heard that. I MEAN here is a guy who thinks we should solve California's energy crisis by running an extension cord from Vegas. Guess Exxon's losing too much money on those free coffee refills. The only explanation we've gotten is that Clinton had no energy policy. Well then I guess the DRUNK MONKEYS that pick the daily oil prices have been in a bad mood since Bush came to town...

You now realize why it took his father, his father's friends, the Florida Secretary of State, and the Supreme Court to pull this off. His entire life gives a new meaning to the phrase "assisted living."

rduke Posted: May 21 2004, 03:00 PM

"I personally think she is just Baiting the freepers.."

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

Yep. Kinda makes you wonder how they've lasted more than a week. Here from their website is evidence they don't know West/Central from East.(Yeah Minnesota is Central, but just barely)

West/Central

Anchorage, AK KUDO 1080

Honolulu KAOI 1110

Minneapolis - WMNN 1330

Portland, OR - KPOJ 620

Riverside, CA - KCAA 1050

Sacramento, CA KSQR 1240

Santa Cruz, CA KTEE 93.7 FM

San Luis Obispo, CA KYNS 1340

West Palm Beach, FL - WJNO 1290

How did you come to create a left leaning political radio talk show? How long have you been on the air?

RHODES: I've been doing talk radio for 11 years. I've always been left, always. I just think that a society is more sustainable if the most vulnerable come first. For instance, people always yell at me about affirmative action. They say "well if a man gets a job just because he is black isn't that reverse racism?" I tell them no, it's justice. I explain that I know it hurts that you and he were almost identically qualified, but that his race gave him an extra point in the "set" of factors considered. It hurts because justice is supposed to exact a price. It is just because this man was left out of all considerations precisely because of the color of his skin throughout slavery, share cropping and 81 years of Jim Crow laws. This is righting a wrong and that is justice.

This infuriates some people, and others tell me it takes their breath away and they repeat it at parties, which is good because that is how we become more human and solve our problems.

A lot of "mainstream media" think that there is no audience for progressive shows or outlets. What are your comments?

RHODES: Oh, I am so glad you asked. I am a ratings and revenue queen. Number 1 or 2 in the ratings usually. So what are the "mainstream" talking about? Well, they say Liberals don't make money because no one wants to hear them. Okay, let's think.

First, remember that more Americans are registered or identify themselves as Democrats than Republicans. So here's the dirty little secret of news talk. There are advertisers making huge "buys" on really low rated shows that air nationally. If advertisers only go where the listeners are why do they buy cable news, Oliver North, or Rush Limbaugh who has horrible ratings?

They are buying CONTROL of CONTENT. It's leverage, whether it's radio, cable or network. They control millions of dollars of any company's revenue source. So that if something is said or done to disrupt their global business, they take their advertising elsewhere, or threaten to and then shut down the message.

And, think about this . . . how many products are on TV that you can't even buy? Plastics, computer chips, prescription drugs, soybeans. I mean honestly. This is the story that NEVER gets told. People just think, "Well, if your good enough, you'll have a big audience and that's what advertisers want." "Whose being naïve now Kaye?" I am always number one or two in the market. Rush is somewhere around 21st. I replaced G. Gordon Liddy!

I hope this gets told over and over because it is how they control our news, our Information Awareness. Get it?

Explain the allegations that Rush Limbaugh has stated, that if Clear Channel syndicated your show, he would take his program to another company. Could there be a Democratic or Progressive Rush Limbaugh type personality on the airwaves?

RHODES: Not at Clear Channel.

First, let me tell you where the story came from. I had two meetings with middle managers who both liked me and what I had done for our 'pod'. (At Clear Channel the territories are split up into 'pods'.) In two separate meetings I was told "The Rush story." Additionally, I should never expect to be syndicated by Clear Channel because Rush had said he'd just do what advertisers do. He'd go somewhere else. I was an unknown, he was a known.

I begged for and got (6 months later) a meeting with a senior manager. He told me the "Rush story." So that's where it comes from. Now, when Oliver North was on the air, he stated that Rush was syndicated because Rush was a better talent and got better ratings. (This is insulting because of the fatness of the lie) . . . I then told him that Rush had threatened to take his show elsewhere if I were to be syndicated by Clear Channel. He said "I've heard that but I can't comment." So everyone does seem to know "The Rush Story." (North and Rush are friends).

Control the Content . . . we have business that cannot be disturbed by a questioning public.

Considering your success, there have been accounts that you've been shut out by large corporate owned radio stations and networks. Is that true and could you explain how?

RHODES: I've just begun to go outside the company. It's a slow process. I hope that Democrats will start their own networks seeking out businesses that want to win the hearts and habits of their customers. I hope it will be a free and fair environment in which to work.

Republicans did buy up the media, either through mergers and acquisitions, or through advertisement placement. They got control of the message. They are not letting go. Corporate America likes the arrangement entirely too much.

Democrats must become active on a few fronts. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine for one thing. Two, make sure that we have an organization that makes money, sure, but that gets OUR message out. Over and over and over . . . because it is a message of decency and problem solving. Not war and fear. If people could hear this argument, they'd know it to be true, because eventually they will believe their own eyes and ears.

******

RHODES: Some listeners are glad that Al Gore pulled out. They are the ones who have been marketed to repeatedly on the message that Al Gore lost the election. We are in Florida, so for the most part, we know what happened to us. 97,000 innocent people were precluded from voting because Katherine Harris gave out phony felon's lists. People were appalled here at the ease of selling the message that Floridians were old and stupid. Palm Beach County is one of the richest counties in this country. People here tend to be sophisticated and intelligent. It was a wake up call for most, even Republicans.

Since most of us did vote for Al Gore, most of us are very disappointed. We wanted that rematch, and I personally love Al Gore because he is brilliant, a wonk like me, but most of all a futurist. He understands where America should be now, where it should be headed and what kind of legislation could make that happen. It's a shame, but I understand. It's the money honey.

Sometimes I wonder if there are two distinct parties anymore. I know that the Bush administration is about as Republican as I am. Seriously, they are not Republicans. They are globalists. I wish more Republicans realized that. The Bush Boys, The Cheneys, The Rumsfelds, well they are as comfortably at home in Riyadh as they are in Crawford or Cheyenne.

Please dear God let there be a Democratic Party . . . and if there is, my early favorite is never mentioned, but it's Senator Bob Graham. He's on the Intelligence Committee, chaired it up until the 108th and knows everything about 9/11. He has integrity, he's smart, compassionate, and craves the truth. Plus, he has an everyman quality that people will feel comfortable with. I think he would be surprised to know that I feel this way about him, but I do. His are presidential qualities you won't see often. I think Bob Graham may be the real thing.

If you had Trent Lott on your program, what would you ask him?

RHODES: Did the White House stab you in the chest because you would have put Warren Rudman on the 9/11 commission? How much did the fact that you got to oversee the makeup of that 9/11 commission have on this sudden discovery that you, in fact, are a racist? Well, maybe slightly more gentile.

How often do you get right wing lunatic callers?

RHODES: Daily, hourly . . . we don't screen the calls. But I will tell you this: they aren't very smart. They can never make an argument. They usually hit and run.

For our readers not in Florida, how did Jeb Bush get re-elected to a 2nd term after all the scandals and hypocrisies he faced?

RHODES: Well, for starters, people don't read the newspapers, and I am the only voice that says things like "Jeb can't account for 3,000 kids in foster care," "Florida has the lowest High School graduation rate in the country," "Jeb was involved in the biggest Medicare Fraud in the history of the United States," "Jeb bankrupted the Broward Savings and Loan."

And then there was the debate . . . Oh my God. Not one question on the horror show that is Florida's Department of Children and Families. Jeb has literally lost and/or can't account for the whereabouts of more than 3,000 kids in his care. He then hired a kook named Jerry Reiger who believes that beating a child until you raise welts is the best way to teach him right from wrong. Tim Russert was the moderator and asked NO question on the topic. It was Jeb's Achilles' heel with white voters. With black voters it was the undoing of affirmative action. No question there either. Black enrollment in higher education in Florida is way down since he abolished it.

I can tell you that Jeb did not win Palm Beach County, the only county in which I'm heard.

What's the broadcast range of your program? How can readers listen to your show on the Internet?

RHODES: It's a big show in a smallish town. I mean Palm Beach County is well known and well visited, but it's not New York, Chicago, or Boston. So it's a local legend.

We are told that of all Clear Channel sites, mine is accessed more than any other. I do get mail from almost all 50 states, yes, including Texas. It's really great to know people hang in there on their computers for hours. I guess if you really try hard, there's more than one way to get the truth out.

the most experienced radio personality in Air America's lineup is Randi Rhodes, who for the past 10 years has been stinging conservatives and delighting liberals at WJNO-AM 1290 in West Palm Beach. Rhodes, a native New Yorker, talked with the St. Petersburg Times about the mistaken notion that liberals can't succeed on talk radio, the pleasure of humiliating Oliver North and the one thing about her hometown that she can't stand.

We asked Rhodes the origin of her purely political format:

Rhodes: When I got (to WJNO in 1994), O.J. (Simpson) had just started, and it was just a natural fit. My first day there, I showed up to work in a white Bronco with a police escort.

It was also an election year. I was a Democrat. Radio was still pretty conservative. I was expressing my point of view. I never really knew how the politics of AM went, then all of a sudden I found out that being a Democrat is an odd thing. I replaced G. Gordon Liddy. I inherited his audience, and they are real militant conservatives. I was on against Rush.

Times: You thrived down there.

Rhodes: Because they were wrong and I was right and I could show that over and over. Then the Monica thing came along. I totally defended Clinton. In retrospect, I think everybody sees how stupid it was to go after him about sex when we're at war because of lies. I was proven right every time I would say something.

Times: Other stations in other parts of the country have put on liberal shows that failed, and my question would be . . .

Rhodes: (Interrupting) Who? Who? Name me one.

Times: People mention Alan Dershowitz; they mention Mario Cuomo.

Rhodes: I'm going to give you the facts here. Dershowitz was on Friday nights. Cuomo was on Saturday nights. They were on one day a week on the weekends. They did interview shows. It wasn't personality-driven. That's not the same. These guys are constantly thrown in my face as being huge failures. You know what? They were one night a week. . . . The only (liberal talk show) that exists is mine, and it's wildly successful.

Times: During your show, you're as likely to quote from Eisenhower's "military industrial complex" speech as you are to talk about something lighthearted, like the shoes you wore to visit the senators in Washington. Can you describe your style?

Rhodes: It's real. If my shoes hurt, I'll tell you. When I introduced Bill Clinton, part of it was how great it was to get a hug from Bill Clinton, but the other part of it was the two hours I spent downstairs with the Secret Service not letting me pee. It's all part of the same story. I choose to tell the whole story.

Times: You like to be prepared for your interviews. The one I'm thinking of is the Oliver North interview. Can you tell me what happened when he thought he was coming in for a friendly chat?

Rhodes: I never thought he was coming in for a friendly chat. I was armed to the teeth. I had his indictment, I had his convictions, I had Firewall, the book written by the independent counsel Lawrence Walsh.

I was ready to confront him because I knew he would never admit there was a day in his life that he had been convicted for crimes against the United States and for lying to Congress. He was a convicted felon. (The convictions were later vacated.) This guy says what a great American he is, but yet he betrayed his country eight ways from Sunday. He laundered money for the Saudis, he did horrible, horrible things. He sold missiles to Iran, then took money and laundered it through a drug ring, and the money ended up supporting the Nicaraguan Contras in a secret war that was strictly prohibited by Congress by the Boland Amendment.

I wanted him to admit that one fact, and he wouldn't do it. He started screaming, "I've been shot. Who are you? I've been shot." He didn't know I've served in the military, too. I said, "What makes you think you're the only person who has ever put on a uniform? What's your problem? I put on the uniform, too, but I was never convicted of lying to Congress." He was furious because I had him dead to rights, and he walked off the show.

Times: How long did it take before he walked out?

Rhodes: Twelve minutes. I was hoping for 10, I got 12.

Times: What is the balance between entertainment and dissemination of information in talk radio?

Rhodes: Radio is the most personal medium there is. It's a real family thing. Who do you talk politics with? You talk politics with your friends and family. If something happened to me that's funny, I'll talk about it. My mother sends me these horrible cards all the time. She says, "It's okay, I'll eat by myself. Love, Mom." She'll always call me and she'll say, "I don't know how it came up, but they found out you were my daughter." You know what it is, it's my mother going, "Do you know who my daughter is? Do you?"

Times: One thing that has struck me about nationally syndicated shows is the name-calling. Conservatives call liberals "fat, stupid and lazy," and liberals call conservatives "jackbooted Nazis." Do you have to do that to make a show successful?

Rhodes: Conservatives call me a "femi-Nazi," but I haven't done anything except express my opinion. When I call someone a jackbooted Nazi, he's wearing jackboots. My attacks are fact-based. I call Rush the "three-hour hatemonger" because that's what he preaches: hatred for women, hatred for blacks.

He was sitting on the air the other day saying the families of 9/11 were Democrats and that's why they're upset (at President Bush's campaign ads). They're not really grieving. He actually said that. Kristen Breitweiser, who's the head of the group of families, wrote him a letter and said, "I'm a Republican. My husband was a Republican. He died in the Trade Center. He voted for Bush. I'm waiting for your apology." Which will never come.

Times: Conservative talk radio, some say, took hold in reaction to Clinton. I'm wondering to what extent the success of liberal talk radio depends on having an adversary in the White House.

Rhodes: You know the answer to that. I was on the air for eight years with Clinton, and I did great. That's just another bogus argument. Rush doesn't do all that well, by the way, and most of these conservatives don't. I was just on CNN the other night with this guy Michael Smerconish (Philadelphia talk show host), who's saying for the millionth time no one wants to listen to liberal talk. I had my ratings with me. I had his ratings with me. He's 18th in the market, and I'm No. 1. He's telling me no one wants to listen to me?

Times: But then how does conservative talk radio become so prevalent?

Rhodes: It's a copycat thing. TV's the same way. If something is successful, everyone copies it. If Roseanne is successful, then everyone wants to do a situation comedy starring a standup comedian. People are so reluctant to break the mold, to do something new.

Times: Why weren't you copied?

Rhodes: Because nobody knew about me. I was in West Palm Beach. It was the 47th largest market.

Times: Rush started in Sacramento.

Rhodes: But Rush had a money guy that syndicated him, a man who poured millions of dollars into (the show). I didn't have that until now.

Times: Is your show going to change now that it's going national?

Rhodes: Maybe it will get better because I'm surrounded by so much talent. I'm hoping the atmosphere, once we get up and running, will be really creative instead of all business all the time, like it is at Clear Channel.

Times: Let me ask you about your syndication. I heard a story that Rush forbade Clear Channel to syndicate you.

Rhodes: Last year, I asked for a meeting to get the definitive answer (about syndication). That meeting lasted 21/2 hours, and during those 21/2 hours all I did was cry, because I was told that I would never, ever be syndicated by Clear Channel. It was suggested I go outside the company because it wasn't going to risk all the guaranteed money Rush brings in for someone who was untried.

I got real serious, and I said I need a new contract, because I need to be able to go to other people and tell them I'm free. They wrote a new contract that said I could go outside the company for syndication.

Times: Do you think there's any chance the pendulum may be swinging away from conservative talk?

Rhodes: Absolutely. I've said that in every meeting I've gone to. Physics being what it is, the pendulum has swung all the way to the right and now it's got to swing back.

Times: So it's physics-driven? It has nothing to do with the political landscape?

Rhodes: I think that everybody's heard what (conservative talk show hosts) have to say for 10 years. People want to go back the other way. Eight years of peace and prosperity is kind of hard to deny. The idea that (Bush) has been president for three years and millions of jobs have been lost and we've been attacked, we had the biggest intelligence failure in the history of our country on his watch . . .

Times: I have to jump in here. There's blame being laid at the feet of the Clinton administration as well for that failure.

Rhodes: On Sept. 11, 2001, Bush was president. If they want to blame Clinton, let them do so at their own peril.

Times: But the 9/11 Commission has just said there was too much emphasis placed on diplomacy. I know you read the same things I read.

Rhodes: Clinton did try to hit Osama bin Laden with (Tomahawk) missile strikes. These same Republicans who are screaming about patriotism and national security were saying then, "No war for Monica." You can't have it both ways.

Times: Last question: How are you handling New York's antismoking laws?

Rhodes: I can't wait to get on the air and start screaming about that. This is Sin City. You can buy anything you want 24 hours a day, including a woman, but you can't smoke a cigarette in a bar? I can drink alcohol and get in a car, but I can't smoke a cigarette. Okay. It's wrong. This whole antismoking thing is wrong.

April 30, 2004

Randi Rhodes Is A Bully

I'm really glad that Air America is here now, but today I ended up solidifying my impression of Randi Rhodes, and she's a bully. I was on the fence for a while, but I heard a couple of calls in a row today that were along the lines of someone calling in to say something Randi didn't agree with, and then she wouldn't even let them talk. There was a liberal who considered himself pro-life, and I honestly wanted to hear what he had to say because I find it pretty interesting. But she wouldn't let him say a thing. Same with another guy who was trying to bring up something about Kerry's position regarding withdrawing troops. I don't honestly know what he was trying to say because Randi just called him stupid. Anyway, if I wanted to just listen to a bunch of noise from people who won't let anyone speak if they disagree, I'd listen to Rush - at least that would be more entertaining because his beliefs are so completely ridiculous.

Posted by Curt at April 30, 2004 05:21 PM | TrackBack

Agreed in full. Air America has such talented and wonderful peaople as Franken and Grafalo, but then this shrew gets on the air. Her mannerisims, her voice and her personality are all offensive. She is every bit as bad as Rush, I guess we needed a liberal version to keep the scales balanced ;)

Posted by: AslanC at May 10, 2004 02:50 PM

After listening to her for awhile, she's sounds convinced that only her view of things is the correct one and all those who don't agree with her are either morons or idiots. Hardly worth listening to to get an objective view. At least O'Reilly pretends to listen to other viewpoints even if you don't agree with him, he does say "let the audience decide". It seems to me if you disagree with Randi, wether you're from the right or left you're an idiot in her view. The problem with "liberals" like Randi is that they believe that they are smarter than everyone else and that you should always agree with them. Unfortunatley Randi is really not a liberal but rather a radical that gives "liberal" a bad name.

Posted by: Dennis at May 11, 2004 01:18 PM

Friday, April 2, 2004 12:22 p.m. EST

Nader Blasts 'Hot Air America'

Things turned ugly on the new liberal talk radio network, "Air America," Wednesday night, with guest Ralph Nader blasting the Democratic Party's counterweight to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly as "Hot Air America."

Nader got into an on-air tussle with "Air America" host Randi Rhodes, during which Rhodes repeatedly informed him she was "pissed" that he was running for president, complaining that he had "screwed up the last election."

The perennial candidate said the fact that Democrats couldn't hang onto what he described as their presidential victory was the party's own fault.

And for good measure, Nader blasted ex-President Clinton as a "draft-dodger."

It was all downhill from there, as Nader and Rhodes screamed at one another for the next 10 minutes.

On Clinton

RHODES: You know the Democrats' policy, you know when the Republicans talk about regime change was the Clinton administration's policy, but it was regime change from within. It was never military action on our part on Iraq. That was not the policy ...

NADER: ... You know, Clinton was a draft-dodger so he wasn't willing to take on the Pentagon. And he wasn't willing to take on the Congress on many huge military expenditures and that starved many of the necessities back home among the American people. ...

On Nader's Presidential Run

RHODES: How many ways to Sunday do I have to tell you? We can't afford you.

NADER: I'm sorry, can you afford freedom? Can you afford choice? Can you afford civil liberties?

RHODES: Gimmie a Democrat President!

On "Hot Air America"

NADER: ... can you – is this the way you want to start Air America? You want it to be Hot Air America?

RHODES: Oh, no, you see ...

NADER: ... Log on to the web site votenader.org ...

RHODES: Ralph, let me tell you something. If you did get to be president, tell me who you would caucus with. Tell me who you could get to vote for your ... views and visions, and your, your bills! Who is an independent other than Bernie Sanders and Jim Jeffords? Who are you gonna count on? You ... let's say you win, OK?

NADER: You can't win without a huge mobilization of voters ...

RHODES: ... let's say ya do ...

NADER: ... that would replace many members of Congress.

RHODES: ... let's say it's seventy years old, from your house in Connecticut, your little house ...

NADER: ... now wait a minute. Now wait wait wait. You're ...

RHODES: ... you are, you are ready to do this.

NADER: ... listen, listen. Now you're getting nasty.

RHODES: I'm not!

NADER: You are ruining the first day ...

RHODES: I'm not ruining anything.

NADER: ... the first day of Air America.

RHODES: This is Air America.

NADER: ... you're not letting your, you're not letting your guest be, have a chance to speak. You're ...

RHODES: I asked you a question.

NADER: ... you're not letting your guest have a chance to speak.

More bickering

NADER: ... you've got a very bad interviewing technique ...

RHODES: ... uh uh uh. I am not ...

NADER: ... and you're not going to get an audience by overtalking ...

RHODES: ... interviewing you ...

NADER: Do not overtalk!

RHODES: I am not ... interviewing you!

NADER: Do not overtalk!

RHODES: I'm mad at you! Don't you understand the difference?

NADER: Fine, just close up and start screaming to your audience.

RHODES: [laughs] Look. Don't tell me how to do radio; I've done it for twenty years. You screwed up the last election, and now you want to screw up this one, and I'm pissed!

NADER: (pause; speechless) You know, you ought to be ashamed of yourself because you ...

RHODES: But I'm not! You know you should ...

NADER: ... you agree with me ...

RHODES: ... be ashamed of yourself!

NADER: ... you agree with me on so many issues. You really ought to be ashamed of yourself.

RHODES: I'm not ashamed of myself. I can't afford you! [End of Excerpts]

The interview ended when Nader finally hung up on Rhodes.