Air America Host Suspended - Called Hillary a Whore

NY Times Blog ^ | April 3, 2008 | Brian Stetler

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Randi Rhodes, an afternoon host for the progressive Air America radio network, was suspended Thursday after repeatedly insulting Hillary Rodham Clinton at an event last month. Ms. Rhodes used vulgar language that likened Ms. Clinton to a prostitute at an event sponsored by KKGN, the Air America affiliate in the San Francisco area, on March 22. A video of Ms. Rhodes’ remarks was published to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on Tuesday, prompting condemnations by some bloggers.

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Couldn't happen to a nastier human being that 'Randi Rhodes' (which isn't her real name and neither is that face she's had constructed for TV).

[weegee]

Was Randi Rhodes suspended when she made a death threat against President Bush (saying that someone should take him outside like on the Sopranos and then made a gun sound)?

[samtheman]

It’s not that Randi disapproves of whores. She just hates the competition.

[utherdoul]

hehehhehehe I love it when Liberals are at each others throats. I hope this keeps up.

[HAL9000]

What a terrible thing to say about Whillary.

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even better, there is video of it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DfdhWi5MILo

[Red Badger]

You mean THIS one?..............

[Typical_Whitey]

I’m sure he mispoke he obviously meant Bill was a whore.

[Resolute Conservative]

Too bad he was in the top 5 of all time guitarist :)

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

I hope that evil woman is forced to resign. As much as I don’t like Hillary, Hillary didn’t deserve to be called that.

[Republic of Texas]

It’s not that Randi disapproves of whores. She just hates the competition.

The $150 whores always bitch about the $4500 whores.

Or so I've been told.

[ontap]

In a statement, Charlie Kireker, the chair of Air America, said the radio network “encourages strong opinions about public affairs but does not condone such abusive, ad hominem language by our hosts.”

Unless they are directed towards a Republican that is!

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Air America didn’t mind that Reagan, Cheney and Bush were called anti-semite racists who ‘didn’t want to see a Jew or a black person near the White House’.

But calling Hillary a whore is just over the line.

This skank daily says things which could not be put on television - even on cable.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Truth to power?

[evets]

That pic looks ‘photshopped’.

[george76]

An insult to ho’s ?

[massgopguy]

She said “How Gay is that”. Isn’t that a Hate Crime?

[Izzy Dunne]

was suspended Thursday after repeatedly insulting Hillary Rodham Clinton at an event last month.[... ]A video of Ms. Rhodes’ remarks was published to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on Tuesday,

It ain't about the remarks.

It's about the publicity.

[KarlInOhio]

Air America Host Suspended - Called Hillary a Whore

The prostitutes' and courtesans' union is pretty strong and demanded the suspension for the uncomplimentary comparison.

[rawhide]

Why not fire her? Imus got it when he screwed up.