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Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged (oops)
NY Daily News ^

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?"


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airamerica; drunk; errameirca; fakebutaccurate; liberaltalkradio; lyingliar; oops; randirhodes; smearcampaign; talkingradio; talkingradioblog; talkradio; walkthedog; waronerror
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...oops, I guess wasn't a 'Right Wing' attack as claimed here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/16/2007-10-16_air_america_host_randi_rhodes_wasnt_mugg.html
1 posted on 10/16/2007 10:25:53 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: dennisw; PJ-Comix

Ping


2 posted on 10/16/2007 10:27:12 AM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian.)
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To: mnehrling

Why should believe anything these evil vermin say?


3 posted on 10/16/2007 10:28:10 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is self administered by its ignorant victims)
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To: mnehrling
Perhaps a right winger dropped a banana peel…
4 posted on 10/16/2007 10:28:19 AM PDT by cartan
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To: mnehrling
I wonder if the rats are going to back pedal on this...You can bet Media Matters won’t say squat.


5 posted on 10/16/2007 10:28:29 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: mnehrling
Gee libs lying...

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise....(/s)

6 posted on 10/16/2007 10:29:01 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.../ Get well Soon John Force!!!)
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To: mnehrling

Marxists lie with every breath, with every word, with every thought.


7 posted on 10/16/2007 10:30:26 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is self administered by its ignorant victims)
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To: mnehrling

ROFLMAO


8 posted on 10/16/2007 10:31:14 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Was this just a play for sympathy from somebody who has an audience of three people?


9 posted on 10/16/2007 10:31:21 AM PDT by juliej (Vote GOP!)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Was this just a play for sympathy from somebody who has an audience of three people?


10 posted on 10/16/2007 10:31:33 AM PDT by juliej (Vote GOP!)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Don't you fools realize that this poor defenseless woman was mugged by her Republican DOG???
11 posted on 10/16/2007 10:32:13 AM PDT by Shryke
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To: mnehrling

A smear a day.........


12 posted on 10/16/2007 10:33:53 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: juliej
"Was this just a play for sympathy from somebody who has an audience of three people?"

That, or a plot to get out more bad press against Republicans. They tried to put the liberal spin on it to infuriate the masses.

13 posted on 10/16/2007 10:33:57 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.../ Get well Soon John Force!!!)
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To: mnehrling

Typical


14 posted on 10/16/2007 10:34:33 AM PDT by ThreeYearLurker (She Married Him? And They Have 8 Kids??)
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To: juliej

That is what I was thinking. Hoping to up their pitiful ratings with a fake mugging.
maybe she can claim to have cancer and then have a fund raiser.
Maybe she can claim to have traumatic brain injuries....she is a liberal, so I guess that goes with the territory.


15 posted on 10/16/2007 10:34:55 AM PDT by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: mnehrling
Wikipedia still shows the story as being true (as of 1:33PM ET today).

First they had it up (yesterday).

Then someone took it down this morning.

Now it's back up again.

The person who wrote it used a computer at Boeing.

This person had been asked to stop vandalizing Wikipedia pages in the past, according to the history of their IP.

Pretty soon they'll have to take the false story down yet again.

Look at the edit history on her page:

(cur) (last) 14:17, 16 October 2007 71.103.13.137 (Talk) (13,068 bytes) (Press) (undo)


16 posted on 10/16/2007 10:35:29 AM PDT by jdm
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To: mnehrling

Significant-Other beating gone wrong? Shades of Tanya Brawley!


17 posted on 10/16/2007 10:37:00 AM PDT by 50sDad (Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
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To: Deb

It now sounds like a case of the Irish Flu


18 posted on 10/16/2007 10:38:36 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: mnehrling

Even this doesn’t sound just right, for some reason. It still smells funny..............


19 posted on 10/16/2007 10:39:17 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: mnehrling
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.

Drunk?

20 posted on 10/16/2007 10:39:20 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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