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?"
If you are stone drunk, pass out, and fall down, you can't remember how you fell down.
Did Rhodes get fresh with a butcher lesbian than she’s used to, and get popped?
That's very charitable of you. Even that 10 year old airbrushed shot isn't particularly easy on the eyes.
Thanks for posting that. During our original discussion this morning, the new details about her being wasted had not come out yet.
Your co-works blame the Wing-Nuts!
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Maybe her ratings numbers came in, so low, her jaw hit the ground? That would have been my first speculation.
Can Rush put her teeth on ebay, it is for charity?
Maybe the perp was a minority and she did not want to file a police report. She needs some street cred and did not want to “snitch’.
Maybe she was fighting Rosie O and Joy Behar over a donought
It’s a weeknight, the people libs label “right wing nut jobs” are to busy. We have to take our kids to Karate, and walk the dog, get the oil changed, and work 80 hours a week at our jobs. We have to wait at home for the water heater repair guy to show up, and pick up the package which wasn’t delivered yesterday because no one was home. Then we have to feed the kids, give them baths, get their clothes out for school, help them with their homework, finish that report that the boss will need in the morning, do a draft of our speech for the conference we’re going to next month, clean up the dishes, walk the dog again, and maybe, just maybe, try and get a kiss on the cheek from the wife and a couple minutes of sleep.
More likely the lib or lib coddled.
Rove tripped her.
DOES SHE QUALIFY FOR SCHIPS?
“Marxists lie with every breath, with every word, with every thought.”
With every beat of the heart.
I LMAO today about thisndent.
I had to say sometihng.
A FReebee for the admireable FReepers.
take a peek at my YT Vlog of the incident . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGb0tHVY5EQ
- RM
(feel free to post this as you see fit ;) )
Epilepsy.
She was a looker before she lost weight.
Clinton was chasing her for a while.
If we had HilaryCare she would be heading down to Home Depot to get some Epoxy and glue her teeth back in.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Ms. Rhodes... Ugly, stupid, drunk, and liberal is no way to lead your life.
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