Air America Host Randi Rhodes Mugged (few teeth knocked out)

weswsewes ^ | October 16, 2007 | Rogers Cadenhead

[dennisw]

Air America Host Randi Rhodes Mugged

By Rogers Cadenhead

Watching the Watchers

Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes was mugged near her Manhattan apartment Sunday night, losing several teeth in a brutal attack that has knocked her off the air while she recuperates, fellow host Jon Elliott announced on his show early Tuesday morning.

"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," Elliott told his listeners this morning on Air America.

The attack took place near the corner of 39th Street and Park Avenue, Elliot said.

Because Rhodes was wearing a jogging suit and had neither a purse nor 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 on the air. "Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we're winning? Are they trying to silence intimidate us?"

Rhodes has been with Air America Radio since it launched in 2004, becoming a mainstay of the national liberal radio network. Her show airs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern weekdays. Lionel filled in for her show Monday afternoon, but no announcement was made of the reason.

An Air America representative confirmed Tuesday morning that Rhodes was mugged. Calls have been made to Rhodes and the New York City police department's press office, and as more details become available they'll be reported here.

[tioga]

Speaking of rough, have you ever heard her on the air? She can take it, if not she shouldn’t dish it out.

Irregardless welcome to FR.

[Arrowhead1952]

Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged (oops)

[ctdonath2]

It is, it just hasn’t stopped moving yet.

[LucyJo]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1912007/posts

She wasn’t mugged.

[Hornitos]

No police report...it is now being reported that she wasn’t mugged...she fell down.

From the wires:

Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today. . . .

A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Cops from Manhattan's 17th Precinct called her attorney, who told them Rhodes was not a victim of a crime, the source said. . . .

"Nevermind"

[Doc Savage]

This poor mugger! My heart goes out to him. Obviously a victim of right-wing religious bigotry, forced to rob to feed his family because vicious conservative CEO's denied him a job merely because he was a felon drug addict.

Society is to blame for this poor miscreant's behavior. We should pour out our pity on this desperate man. Oh woe is me!

[weegee]

Will the Stalinists at DU now apologize for their suspicions or will they pretend that it never happened?

Revisionist history is a wonderful tool.

[HamiltonJay]

So every time a jogger gets mugged in NYC because they aren’t carrying a purse or wallet its the right wings fault? These people have lost any sense of connection with reality.

[antivenom]

With the few missing teeth it will allow her to speak more clearly with her forked tongue...

[gridlock]

Well, I guess she is not going to be go Conservative after all. She will remain a clumsy Lib.

[BlazingArizona]

if she had been packin’, she might still have the teeth...

Or if she had at least been walking a Republican dog.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for that!
“Fell down”, lol.

[y6162]

I suspect that it’ll come out that she was just having consensual sex.

[Rastus]

[gridlock]

Now you’re speculating.

Some people just fall down.

[New Perspective]

This was caught on a security camera immediately after the incident.

[New Perspective]

Found him.

[Diplomat]

lmao, ty 4 that.

[The KG9 Kid]

Oy.

Again, slowly:

"X-RAYS. OF. HER. HEAD. SHOWED. NOTHING."

You know, like there ain't no brains in there.

Yuk yuk, get it?

[Suzy Quzy]

LOL!!! No, I thought you were in the KNOW on her NON-hospital stay!