Posted on 04/28/2005 5:39:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
Randi Rhodes, the leftist talk-radio host who found herself in hot water yesterday for airing a skit that warned President Bush with gunfire, has joked about assassinating the commander in chief before.
Last May, Rhodes, who hosts a show on the struggling Air America network, imitated the sound of gunfire while saying somebody ought to take the president fishing and then shoot him.
On May 12, New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin wrote a piece criticizing Air America, saying he had listened to the liberal radio network one day for 10 hours.
"The queen of venom, Randi Rhodes, followed [Al] Franken in the host slot," Goodwin wrote. "Her imitation of a cracker military type telling a soldier to 'insert this fluorescent light bulb into that man's buttocks' was revolting. She compared U.S. prisons in Iraq to the 'Nazi gulag' and said, 'The day I say thank you to Rumsfeld is the same day I'll say thank you to the 12 people who raped me.'
Goodwin then notes Rhodes compared Bush and his family to the Corleones in the "Godfather" saga.
A review of the show's recording reveals Rhodes said the following in a discussion with a caller:
"The Fredo of the family is the president of the United States, so why doesn't his father or his brother … take him out for a little fishing, and let him say some Hail Marys – he loves God so much. … You know, Hail Mary, full of grace, God is with thee – pow [gunshot sound] – works for me."
As WorldNetDaily reported, on Monday Rhodes opened her show with an audio skit.
The announcer said: "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 four gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."
According to the Drudge Report, government sources took the skit "very seriously," though Air America denies there's any federal probe taking place.
Rhodes has since apologized for the joke, saying it was a "stupid bit."
"If the bit was understood to be a threat against the president," Rhodes explained, "I need to apologize to the president of the United States, and I do. I also need to apologize to the Secret Service [which] has a very, very serious job. If they had to take two seconds out of their day to look into me, I apologize for that. ... But where is the apology when they threaten judges from the Senate floor or from the House floor? Or where's the investigation into [WND columnist] Ann Coulter's mouth? ...
"[My apology] is sincere. I feel bad that anybody would feel threatened by comedy. That's one thing, but I also feel bad that it wasn't funny. And I also feel bad that there could be a perception that I would be advocating violence against anybody, let alone the president of the United States of America. It's no secret that I think he's a terrible president, but I don't think that anybody should have violence advocated against them in any way, shape or form ever! ... That [skit] will never see the light of day again. It was bad."
Alan Skorski is writing a book for WND Books about Rhodes' colleague at Air America, Al Franken. In his book, Skorski notes Rhodes' disdain for Bush, saying a promotion for her radio program last summer stated: "The difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."
bust this bag....time to make an example that you cannot make
frivolous seditious remarks on air , in public , without consequence . I'd love to see her slapped down , way down...
cheap attempt at free PR for a show with no ratings.
It's understood as incitement to violence against the President, which is a distinction even the regulars on the short bus can understand intuitively... but I guess when one is blinded by hate, they're in no position to take a good look at their own behavior.
Oh jeez, she can't even admit that the "gulag" set up by the Soviet communists.
And all this time, I thought Randi Rhodes was a wrestler.
Now, now, those weren't gulags, they were re-education centers for subversives who were trying to corrupt the glorious worker's paradise.
Rhodes is a sick bitch.....I hope the SS will review her hate full dialog on S Fl radio over the years and rein her sorry ass in.
Randi Rhodes = Jane Fonda 2005.
This idiot isn't sitting on some Iraqi gun placement for only one reason. She knows that the Muslims would make mincemeat out of her on the Internet. One could only hope...
[And all this time, I thought Randi Rhodes was a wrestler.]
I thought he was a dead heavy metal guitar player with Ozzy Osborne.
By golly, I think you've got it nailed right there, PR for a show that's getting abysmal ratings, even in NYC!
Even most of the lunatic fringe 'Rats dropped the "illegitimate president" line after last November, but not these imbeciles.
It would seem that Randi Rhode's "apology" lacks any value, considering that she pulled the same crap a year ago.
Maybe she could apologize for that too, and everything will be hunky dory.
On the other hand, I'm still waiting for the Secret Service to haul Craig Kilborn's ass in for putting on that GWB clip prior to the election of 2000 with the caption "snipers wanted". If there was ANYONE who should have done prison time for that, it was Kilborn. But he got a pass.
So too, will this no talent, unintelligent beeotch Rhodes.
She seems to want to make herself become embarrassingly notorious right before Mother's Day.
My beef with Randi Rhodes spewing this bile is some barking moonbat type might get "inspired" to follow through. And based on the Democrats behavior here in Saint Paul, MN (trashing Republican Party offices, torching a front porch in Richfield, etc.), the probability appears to increase.
Savage is right. Modern liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
RE: "I thought he was a dead heavy metal guitar player with Ozzy Osborne."
Former two-term president of the Deceased Guitar gods council, now an aid to current president Dimebag Darrell (RIP brother!).
Actually..if memory serves..hitler was not elected..his party received around 40% of the vote..and they literally bullied themselves thru the legislature with violence..he intimated hindenburg to literally hand over power to him..
Hell, the left still thinks the Nazis were conservatives, while in reality they were to the left of the communists.
Randi's words are like flatus vapor;
a foul stench, and irrelevant.
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