Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged (oops)

NY Daily News ^

[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?"

[weegee]

At DUh they are still speculating on just how this story got misreported.

Just as with the Clintons, they hold out hope that they weren’t deliberately lied to. And then with the truth comes out, they shrug it off.

Just like someone in an abusive relationship. Demagogues can “batter” too.

[woollyone]

hey!

It’s THE LAW!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Maybe he peed on her while she was knocked out....

[Veto!]

The famous teeth that supposedly were knocked out. Photo from a poster who called her Randi Rodent. Perhaps a fellow rodent named Ralph or even Rosie might have hit her during an argument or in a moment of drunken abandon.

I heard her one late night long ago when she was talking about that horrible teacher in Seattle who had an ongoing affair and two children with a 13-year-old boy named Vilii Fulaua. When teacher was released from jail, she and the boy were married. Rhodes reported that they had the nerve to post their wedding gift registry online including "sheets in the 'backseat upholstery' pattern. I thought it was darned funny.

[AppyPappy]

You laugh but Karl Rove as a Falling Machine

[Hoffer Rand]

That looks a lot more like a face plant, than a mugging. She was asphalted, not assaulted.

[weegee]

Randi Rhodes could star in the Mildred Gillars story, A Lifetime Network original made for tv movie about an outspoken broadcaster, a critic of the administration and the war, a woman who was put on trial for speaking her mind. Now a more timely tale than ever before. < /s >

[rgboomers]

“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?” “

I am positive the guy quoted who shot back the above quote is a freeper!

[theFIRMbss]

Spacey 'comes clean' over 'attack'

LONDON, England -- Oscar-winning film star Kevin Spacey has "come clean" about why he told police he had been mugged in a London park but then dropped the complaint.

The actor said he reported "the attack" after a youth conned him into handing over his mobile phone while he was walking his dog early Saturday morning.

He said he actually injured himself when he tripped over his pet as he chased the youth. ...

[jdm]

[Holicheese]

“In reality she’s hideous.”
Thats why she is on radio.
She is really an ugly person inside and out.

[numberonepal]

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

Speaking truth! So do Islamofascists.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The Left.....seriously. lol

[jdm]

Too bad she doesn’t have a dittocam like Rush.

Otherwise you could see for sure (when she goes back on the air) whether or not she’s lost any teeth.

I don’t know how else anyone would be able to see recent photos or video of her, to verify what’s been alleged.

[MrB]

If they really have a legitimate political philosophy shouldn’t that be easy to express?

Your "if" premise is false, so the "then" phrase is not valid either. No, they DON'T have a legitimate political philosophy, at least not one that people will accept if it were to be expressed openly. They never DO express it openly. However, if you want to know how they think about this, here it is: the masses won't accept their political philosophy because no one is smart enough to understand it. The masses just aren't smart enough to recognize how good they would have it "if only" the elite, super-intelligent leftists were put into power over every aspect of their lives.

[raccoonradio]

The AAR host said “are we a threat to them?” or words
to that effect. The answer is, no, at least as far as
talk radio is concerned. Hosts like Rush have 600
stations, most of them powerful. Air America is on maybe
60 stations and it keeps shrinking. San Diego will be next to lose it, on Nov. 1

Sites like nonstopradio.com are dedicated to bringing back
AAR stations that got flipped to profitable formats. Other
than one marginal success in Madison WI, such efforts
are failures. Things like “let’s drive past Clear
Channel’s building and honk our horns!” That is the
huge success that liberal talk radio has become in this
country.

[Holicheese]

On Lifetime, it was always “Valarie bertineli in a role that will shock you”.
Who would play Randi Rhodes?

[lormand]

It doesn't matter that she was not physically mugged by the right wing, all woman of progressive courage like Ms. Rhodes are being mugged every second by the knuckle-dragging right.

< /lib speak >

[Irish Eyes]

YIKES.. Not good

[FormerACLUmember]

Marxists lie with every breath, with every word, with every thought. Speaking truth! So do Islamofascists.

Hence the de facto alliance between al Queda and the Marxist usurpers of the democrat party. Think Lynne Stewart.