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?"
Well that’s certainly a condition that could precipitate a fall. Has that been floated by Randy Inc. as the reason?
Unless this was a first seizure of newly diagnosed epilepsy, I wouldn’t think she’d still be clueless about seizuring though, if that’s what happened.
The excuse used to be “I walked into a door”. You KNOW there’s a domestic angle.
Rhodes enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1977 and worked stateside as a mechanic in Texas, achieving the rank of Airman First Class. She left the Air Force early and relocated to Ohio, where she participated in a program called Palace Chase to release her to the reserves and honorably discharge her. Although she left active duty before her contract was up, she still received an honorable discharge after completing the program. [2]
What is that disturbing picture about?
darn what a shame-they say that “a conservative is a liberal that got mugged”. So I was counting on her getting her mind right.
I was just going to say that. Absolutely NOTHING that comes out of her mouth is the truth...
Hoax gone sour?
Have to consider the possibility.
Let’s waterboard Jon Elliott till he comes clean. Of course “Err Amerika” and “clean “ go together like “Cindy Sheehan” and “Intellectual Honesty”.
(No, I don’t seriously propose waterboarding Herr Elliott. Just cut off his meth.)
My guess is that she was “trippin”, busted her ass, thought that she could blame it on right-wingers, then realized she couldn’t get away with it.
No. not enough kool-aid in the vodka
Mugged by a right-winger, falling down drunk, it’s all good. Alan colmes and susan estrogen lept to randi’s defense tonight.
Was Randi Rhodes Mugged by 14 Bloody Marys?
News Busters | October 17, 2007 - 10:24 ET | P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 10/17/2007 2:30:39 PM EDT by Clint N. Suhks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912577/posts
A short documentary of the Randi Rhodes Conspiracy
Democreatic Underground | 10/16/2007 | ResearchMonkey
Posted on 10/17/2007 12:05:20 AM EDT by ResearchMonkey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912291/posts
DFU SONG: London Bridge
(Randi Rhodes is falling down, falling down, falling down)
DFU News of the Day in Song | Oct. 2007 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
Posted on 10/16/2007 4:15:56 PM EDT by doug from upland
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1912077/posts
Is this person female?
She looks like Algore trying to look like Ann Coulter.
What’s the frequency, Randi?
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