Posted on 10/16/2007 10:25:49 AM PDT by mnehring
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.
Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night. Elliot, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy.
"Is this an attempt by the right-wing, hate machine to silence one of our own?" he asked on the air, according to Talking Radio, a blog. "Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? Are they trying to silence intimidate us?"
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.
Rhodes' lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog. He said she's not sure what happened, and only knows that she fell down and is in a lot of pain. The lawyer said Rhodes expects to be back on the air Thursday. He stressed there is no indication she was targeted or that she was the victim of a "hate crime."
Rhodes started with the Air America when it launched in 2004. Her show airs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.
The network released a statement that said Rhodes "experienced an unfortunate incident."
"The reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded," the statement read by a receptionist at the network's New York offices said. "Ms. Rhodes is looking forward to being back on the air on Thursday."
Still, the tale lived on in the blogosphere.
"What the %$#$ is WRONG with you people?? Are you that SICK in the head that just because you don’t agree with someone’s political views you believe that they deserve to be mugged? Are you on the right that DEMENTED??," a blogger called neddlenosehanty posted on watchingthewatchers.org.
Another blogger shot back, "I very seriously doubt if this unfortunate woman was mugged by a conservative. To jump to the conclusion that she was mugged by someone on the right is bigotry of another kind. Think not?"
LOL!
“The wrinkles and imperfections have been airbrushed out...”
If that was true the picture would be blank!
Jon Elliott’s mail box is full....
Apologies. You surely did win!
Hey, I beat you by an hour....something was fishy when the articles said no police report was filed and she wasn’t hospitalized. I didn’t know that Jim Beam mugged her, but I knew it didn’t pass the smell pass.
Nice shoes.
“Who would play Randi Rhodes?”
“Tori Spelling.”
Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
No dear, remember what happened last time? You got mugged.
The Minutemen are physically attacked at Columbia. Starr Parker, Ann Coulter, Bill Kristol, David Horowitz, and Pat Buchanan are physically attacked while speaking at colleges. The donks in Congress try to silence Limbaugh. Now who is attacking who and trying to silence them physically and/or vocally?
kooks are alive and well on Air America
Browne? I doubt it. Her voice isn't the most pleasing sound in the world. Better than H. Clinton's though.
Baldwin? I don't care. Is his show still running on the Great White Way? If so, doesn't he tend to drive women away from it?
How about Kathy Griffin?
Is that the bar that banned Lindsey Lohan’s father a few years ago?
If she experienced injuries and declined to involve police, it’s possible that she had a fight with a “significant other” (of whatever persuasion)
Man, they can sure do wonders with surgery these days, her name used to be Randy.
Very interesting, especially given that Boeing is now headquartered out of Chicago (the Democratic belly of the beast where Hillary! no doubt intends to use the same tactics as Joe Kennedy did to steal the 1960 election for his son).
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