AIR AMERICA RADIO INVESTIGATED AFTER BUSH 'GUNSHOTS'

Drudge Report ^ | April 27, 2005 | Matt Drudge

[Quilla]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED APRIL 27, 2005 09:01:25 ET XXXXX

AIR AMERICA RADIO INVESTIGATED AFTER BUSH 'GUNSHOTS'

**Exclusive**

The red-hot rhetoric over Social Security on liberal talkradio network AIR AMERICA has caught the attention of the Secret Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Government officials are reviewing a skit which aired on the network Monday evening -- a skit featuring an apparent gunshot warning to the president!

The announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."

The audio production at the center of the controversy aired during opening minutes of The Randi Rhodes Show.

"What is with all the killing?" Rhodes said, laughing, after the clip aired.

"Even joking about shooting the president is a crime, let alone doing it on national radio... we are taking this very seriously," a government source explained.

[A Randi Rhodes Fan site is offering an mp3 clip of the broadcast.]

Developing...

[RushCrush]

Are there any FReepers who actually listen to Air America?

[Quilla]

I doubt it. Drudge just added this:

Secret Service officials are reviewing a skit which aired on the network Monday evening -- a skit featuring an apparent gunshot warning to the president...

[bikepacker67]

Maybe Garofalo just burped.

[GAD]

Somebody have a mp3?

[RushCrush]

They are slime with zero creativity.

[piperpilot]

Now that it's coming to XM, I might try to tune in just to experience how truly bad it is. If, however, it's anything like DU--and I suspect that it is--I think that once will be more than enough!

[Michael Goldsberry]

What did they do? Spoof an assassination?

[sierrahome]

I thought they didn't like guns.

[Quilla]

One night, while suffering from insomnia, I caught the HBO special on Air America. What a bunch of filthy mouthed, vindictive little people!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Somebody have a mp3?

No - but I'd like to have an MP-5

[mlc9852]

I thought they were against guns.

[dts32041]

It has been on xm for over a year 167, how do I know this I avoid it with a passion as well abc talk radio in the am>

[RushCrush]

I once tuned to America Left on XM by mistake. I almost drove my car into a concrete pillar out of sheer boredom.

[bitt]

Secret Service, IRS, and Jack Bauer...send in all of them. These idiots are dangerous.

[Ron in Acreage]

They celebrated the death of Terri Schaivo and the Pope. It's not surprising they would want the death of our President. They glorify the culture of death. Whether it's infanticide, euthanasia or assisted suicide. Useless eaters, all of them.

[Guillermo]

Kill the President?

Is that all they can come up with?

And they call right wing radio "hate radio."

I have yet to hear a righty radio host suggest Clinton (or any other Dem politician) should pay with his life.

[Portnoy]

I've listened to it from time to time. I try to listen to all types of talk radio. Its not the fact that it's left wing radio that makes it so bad...it's the fact that the hosts are so darn awful! I've heard better radio hosts on College and Highschool radio stations.

Sadly, her ein Michigan, we lost a great one yesterday. Mark Scott. Excelsior! Mark....You will be missed.

[theDentist]

Can you imagine if Rush, Gelnn Beck, or Jay Severin played a skit featuring Bill Clinton (during his term) and gunshots???

[thoughtomator]

They're not even original. Remember this gem from the NY Times?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/weekinreview/07murp.html

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"The Republicans are basically unchecked," Professor Wilentz said. "There is no check in the federal government and no check in the world. They have an unfettered playing field."

Until the next act of God, that is.