Randi Rhodes wasn’t mugged, Air America credibility plunges to NYTimes stock-level depths
Update 10:45pm Eastern. I’m thinking of selling these. Whaddya think:
And the logo on the back:
Update 8:30pm Eastern. “It was the brownshirts!”
Lord, what fools these moonbats be.
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The real story:
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.”
The nutroots are sorely disappointed. But the truth isn’t likely to stop them from believing that it’s the Reich-wing’s fault.
Rush Limbaugh tripped her! Ann Coulter silenced her! Karl Rove poisoned her dog!
Newsday: Talk show host apologizes for faulty report of NYC mugging…
Air America released a statement saying that “the reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded.” Elliott followed that up with a retraction.
“I shouldn’t have speculated based on hearsay that Randi Rhodes had been mugged and that it may have been an attack from a right wing hate machine. I apologize for jumping to conclusions based on an emotional reaction,” he said in a written statement.
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It was my fault!
Ed Morrissey is amused: “Another Liberal Fantasy Hits Hard Reality.”
Radio Equalizer Brian Maloney takes a step back and traces the anatomy of the non-mugging on the Internet.
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Here’s a screenshot of the left-wing blog that disseminated the “hate crime” rumors (click for full-size):
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That whole walking and chewing gum at the same time foils yet another liberal.
I’m sure us right wingers found a way to silence her before she could go to the cops. We can’t have her dominating talk radio anymore….wait a minute, who is Randi Rhodes?
WOW. Where do they come up with this stuff?
Well then did she trip over her feet walking home drunk? I know not nice but she is a terrible person and while I don’t wish anything bad to happen to her or especially the dog, I wondered if this was an actual event or not.
TODAY’S STOCK TIP:
Buy Alcoa and Reynolds Aluminum. Tin foil sales are going through the roof!
I wonder what type of introspection is going on with Ms. Rhodes right now. Could she be starting to realize how insane her listeners are, or maybe she’s decided to believe the military industrial complex has created some sort of ray gun that trips people from outer space.
“Are they trying to silence intimidate us?”
Huh?
I bet the worst part for her is knowing that we conservatives just got more evidence of how nuts these lefties are.
I don’t believe the New York Daily, her Lawyer or the Police. It is all lies lies lies.
Only Air America can tell the truth.
Loose Change II is on its way
I can see why the VRWC would resort to physical attack to silence Rhodes. With her radio show reaching an audience that easily numbers in the dozens she’s a real threat.
If an Air America host falls in the city and no one was listening anyway, has she been silenced?
It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, their listeners will take it as the truth and get all riled up over the “right-wing” conspiracy.
They are cracking under the pressure.
I was disappointed by this story. From the headline I thought it was about Ozzy’s dead guitar player. That would have been interesting. Who cares about a liberal talk show host?
(I don’t wish her harm, I hope she’s physically okay.)
#11 & #12, Gold, pure gold!
Ahhm,
it sounds like par for the course, and certainly faking an attack upon yourself is not good for the rep, however Michelle, I have to take issue with something here. You assert that now their rep is at the levels of NY Times stock, well frankly their rep was there years ago, and this only reinforces it.
You guys are giving them far too much credit. For the AA guy to even come up with that conspiricy means he has a long arm span, for that was an immense reach. Then, to go and read those comments, to see just how far these idiots went with this conspiricy and just how easily it was believed…wow. Just how many COnservatives do you guys know that go around mugging people anyway? I’d venture to say not many, otherwise Hillary wouldn’t be trying to get felons and people in prison the right to vote.
However, now that the truth came out, there is not a single Lib to be found on the message board. Not a single one. Seems they are completely terrified of the truth and their innate ability to never admit fault or admit they are wrong has sent them scurrying like cockroaches now that the light has come on.
However, once againe, they parade forth with their calls and incitements to violence towards any Conservative. They sit there, decrying this alledged violent act, then spend their time being guilty of everything they are complaining about.
Let’s just imagine for a moment what would happen if Michelle, Rush, Ann or Sean had come on the air, claimed that a Conservative radio host had been attacked by some wild, crazed Liberal in an effort to silence them. What do you think would happen to them? How many protests, cals for their termination and riots in Muslim lands would go on?
Now, what do you think will happen to this idiot who made this claim of violence against some nobody radio host on a failed Liberal network? That’s right, absolutely nothing. There will be no statements on the floor of the Senate, no letters to the parent company calling for his ouster, no one throwing him under the bus…instead they will sit there and blame the Right for making them say what they said.
Despicalble, loathsome creatures, every damn last one of them.
BTW if you want to read some funny comments just pop over to the DailyKos on this. I liked the claim about Bush Brownshirts claim before the truth came out.
DailyKos on Randi Rhodes
Satire!
Head over heels?
I fear the reverse polarity.
There is a whole lot of high dungeon posts over on the left side of the blogsphere they will have to deal with since this story came out.
Not to worry they are all safely tucked away in my RSS reader if they suddenly go poof over there.
- Aw, c’mon Michelle, there’s no use trying to distract us: we all know it was you with a voodoo doll that caused her to “trip.”
KKKarl Rove probably used his mind-control powers to make her repeatedly strike her own head against the pavement. Duh.
/sarcasm, obviously.
I think I may have hit something??!!
That’s what the aluminum foil hats are for - to deflect the rays.
I spouted off about the mugging and the lefty accusations earlier today at the yahoo group, and I’m glad to see that Michelle ( as usual ) and the NY Daily News are on top of things and disseminating the truth.
Outstanding work.
As for Air America - PT Barnum would be proud. There is one born every minute… and they know how to keep those circus tent bleachers full.
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LOL!
I sure hope Air America provides health insurance for their hosts.
“Meanie, Meanie, how dare you question her about health insurance at a time like this?!”
I think I may have hit a dog last night on the way home . . . .
Wait a minute!
Air America is still on the air?
Did they have a bake sale or something?
I read about this on DU late last night, and they were in full tinfoil mode.
Since no one has mentioned it, but doesn’t this remind anyone of Morton Downey, Jr?
I love how the Air America Thread has been silent for hours now, with one of the last threads being called “and we wonder why they call us moonbats?”
What? She tripped while walking her crap-weasel?
Where does this come from? Also, your post,,, not so funny.
#30-Me thinks it was some government bailout that has kept them on the air…
it’s called - ISLIPPED.
Can’t these morons get it through their heads? The simple fact that people hate them–and that they are filled with hate themselves–does not make them victims of “hate crimes”.
Surprised no one has brought up the possibility that she tripped on a faulty sidewalk, a testament to the failing infrastructure of our cities, brought on by the failed economic policies of the Bush administration which spends hundreds of billions of dollars on a war based on lies while innocent women can’t walk their dogs in their own city without falling prey to the neglected streets and sidewalks of our once beautiful landscape….
Whew… Head hurts again…. Oh..it’s the tinfoil… nevermind.
‘phoney mugger’
I suppose it’s hard to balance when you’re wearing a large tinfoil hat.
…actually, it’s sad that someone has to get hurt for us (i.e. them), to realize how stupid they are. This of course assumes they realize how stupid they are.
Are you saying that there was no muggers? That the muggers were not from the future? That the muggers did not confuse Rhodes for a future President? That there was no questions, such as “What’s the frequency”?
Since we are talking about AirAmerica, should the question in this hoax have been, “Is there a frequency?”
John Kerry was quoted as saying “Randi Rhodes was mugged, before she wasn’t mugged.”
You can’t make this stuff up, can you? They just seem to shhot themselves in the foot time and again.
All,
Somebody tell Marty…this is kind of embrassing isn’t it.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/
shoot themselves in the foot, that is.
Dear Randi,
It’s called Karma, get used to it. Remeber a couple of years ago when you went on the airwaves and hoped for the death of President Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld?
Well honey, karma is a funny thing.
In the words of Emily Litella:
My Karma ran over her dogma.
Nahhh, it was Bush. He probably tripped her. It’s his fault.
Link for the incident of Randi Rhodes shooting the President on air.
If a liberal trips and falls, is it funny? I just want to know if I should feel bad for doing so.
Again, too much credit. They will never admit fault, never admit they were wrong and will do one of two things depending on the Nutroot:
1) Sweep it under the rug, act as if it never happened, remove all postings concerning this incident and deny all knowledge
2) Claim that there was a muging and that the Neo-Con Death Squads have obviously been blackmailing and threatening her to keep silent and hide the truth “or else the little dog gets it”. Nothing like this could ever happen and she floats above the ground, thus impossible for her to have “tripped”. Once Jan 2009 comes around and they have assumed all power, then they will get to the truth following the detainment and torture of all Neo-Cons and their families.
Ever wonder why they spend so much time accusing Bush of trying to take over all power and declare himself Emperor while hey spend the same time trying to gain all the power?
Dayam! Liberals gunning-up?
Wow!
This should be fun.
That liberal bloggers could blame this on converatives would be funny if it weren’t such a sad commentary on their mindsets.
You people are ALL wrong. I have an independent secret source as to what REALLY happened.
RHodes is a leader in the Draft Al Gore Campaign. Now at first, I thought wh
y
try to draft him, since he dodged the draft the last time they tried to do that. But this is something different. From Rhode’s web site to draft Gore:
It’s so clear a blind man could see it. So clear if a bear defecated in the woods and no one was around, ah, um, the Pope would still be Catholic! Or something like that.
Ms. Rhodes plight was not the result on crazed right wing perpetrators who roam the night. Think about it. THINK!
It was the Clintons!!!! Hillary does not want Al in the race. After a lengthy discussion with Tonya Harding, the plot was hatched. My source tells me that it was actually Bill, cleverly disguised as a shrubbery, that did the deed.
Who has the most to gain by keeping Gore out of the race?
And why would Hillary and her evil minions be trying to extend SCHIP coverage at this time? As a payback to Rhodes to cover her injuries?
Yes, yes, it all makes sense now.
Oops. Gotta run. Just ran our of tin foil.
Sure. “The police” and “her lawyer” as sources… very sneaky of you, Michelle.
However, we should listen to what KOS says. Now THAT’S a source! KOS says she got mugged, so what do “the police” or “her lawyer” know about it?
Hey!I remember left wing Pa.Gov.,then mayor/Philly.,got some “union thugs” to beat up on the Adams,a brother,and sister,protesting Clinton’s visit,to Philly. This is factual.The thugs did time.Fast Eddy,got elected Gov.of PA.
So Who’s the Facist now?
This story is false….but accurate…
Remember those words, Malkinites…they will return again…and again…and again…
Amazing, last I heard Michelle was too little. Now she’s big enough to mug people.
You people are ALL wrong. I have an independent secret source as to what REALLY happened.
Rhodes is a leader in the Draft Al Gore Campaign. Now at first, I thought why try to draft him, since he dodged the draft the last time they tried to do that. But this is something different. From Rhode’s web site to draft Gore:
It’s so clear a blind man could see it. So clear if a bear defecated in the woods and no one was around, ah, um, the Pope would still be Catholic! Or something like that.
Ms. Rhodes plight was not the result on crazed right wing perpetrators who roam the night. Think about it. THINK!
It was the Clintons!!!! Hillary does not want Al in the race. After a lengthy discussion with Tonya Harding, the plot was hatched. My source tells me that it was actually Bill, cleverly disguised as a shrubbery, that did the deed.
Who has the most to gain by keeping Gore out of the race?
And why would Hillary and her evil minions be trying to extend SCHIP coverage at this time? As a payback to Rhodes to cover her injuries?
Yes, yes, it all makes sense now.
Oops. Gotta run. Just ran our of tin foil.
Sorry, I had to repost - electrical interference jumbled my original post - they do not want anyone to know the truth!!!!!!!!
Randi who???
These libs are something to behold. Only libs would play Russian Roulette and play with all the bullets in the gun.
You know this reminds me of that movie Liar, Liar with Jim Carrey. The guy walks in the bathroom and says, “Hey what are you doing!?” Carrey replies,”What does it look like! I’m kickin’ my a$$!”
and what were the last words heard from Randi before her Park Avenue face-plant Avenue?
“What’s the frequency Kenneth?”
Why did her lawyer know about this so soon? Who were they planning to sue?
Newsflash:
Tonight on “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann - New York City Sidewalk Repairman is today’s “WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!”
You are so right jrlingreenbay.
One thing I found fascinating was the level of profanity used by the visitors to the liberal sites (I don’t make it a habit to lurk on their sites, always feel like a need a shower afterward). Being a retired Air Force Senior NCO I do freely admit to knowing and using a few obscenities in my time on planet earth, but all I can say is WOW!!! I am so glad most conservative sites do not endorse this type of behavior. It just shows the irrational level of emotion overriding the ability for critical thinking armed with facts.
Makes me wonder if one from our side baited them with that rumor.
“Hey, watch what they do, when I do this…”
I love “Bluesee” on the Kos thread writing about
Ye who smelt it dealt, it, blue. What are his credentials as a fascism expert? Here’s how:
I was immediately suspicious the instant I heard Randi was “attacked”. It’s just the kind of thing the left does to themselves to launch another campaign of vitriolic diatribe against the right.
The left has a history of doing the very things they blame the right for. Projection at its worst.
Nice to see that some of them still believe in the 2nd Amendment….
That stupid, stupid and I mean stooopid, Bush/Cheney/Neocon/Scooter/Meanie/Nazi/Brownshirt/ChildSmearing Conspiracy fooled us again!!!
One of my talents is to see things differently than anyone else, so here’s my thought on the whole “tinfoil hat” theory:
If the tinfoil is supposed to keep out frequencies that affect brainwaves, wouldn’t it keep the brainwaves IN?
In order to prevent the brain from cooking itself, the Department of Public Health should issue a warning that tinfoil hats should only be worn by those who cannot or do not think.
Okay, it’s official:
I cannot access any link to the Daily Kos website from work because the filters block it, calling it Profanity.
’nuff said.
Well, apparently you can…
I find this funnier and funnier the more I think about it. They got so MAD! Such anger. Such rightous fury! ‘They are attacking us! They are silencing us! They come for you next!’
Almost a shame it was all a lie. They must really, feel like crap now…
Wow….
Verrrrrry scary.
Worth repeating what has been stated before by others, and by me.
The current state of irreconcilable polarization that exists in our country seems to me to be rivalled only by that which existed prior to the Civil War.
Very scary that language thought-expression-challenged clowns like those posters on Kos can vote.
Very scary, and dangerous for our country.
This is gonna be some election next year.
Like the 1860 election, perhaps?
Who? Wha…?
Okay - quick informal poll.
How many of you conservatives here could identify Randi Rhodes from a photograph or in person?
I couldn’t.
THAT is
prettyVERY funny.Seriously - how can ANYONE take these people seriously? They lie, they cheat, they steal…yet they never get called on the carpet for being raging hypocrites.
But as this editorial cartoon points out, it’s really easy to avoid the “hypocrite” label when you have no morals, no values, and no standards.
In all seriousness, if she was mugged, the perp should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. No Grace Kelly myself, I understand being klutzy (I once sprained my ankle walking down the hallway at work…that’s it, just walking), and it sucks to fall in a public place and get hurt.
But for them to jump from mugging, to her simply falling and equate it to a “vast right wing conspiracy” is both insulting and damaging to their credibility (even if they hold little with me anyway).
If it comes to civil war, they’ll lose. We have the guns, and the ability to use them. They would be utterly lost.
How can you silence someone no one pays attention too?
Pretty sad they have to resort to this to get attention…..
They only believe in it for dealing with those they disagree with.
If this is true it would be the icing on the cake
Any word on whether she’d been charged by the authorities for biting the sidewalk?
Was this incident linked to her well-documented barking at the moon?
oops forget the link http://gawker.com/news/developing/was-talk-show-host-randi-rhodes-jumped-by-14-ketel-ones-311453.php
Must have slipped on all the flung peas.
granite and swj719AWG I agree with you both 100%. I believe we will win because we will have the conviction to fight for the “rule of law” and the US Constitution. Plus our side does have all the guns owners and we know how to use them too.
swj719AWG #78:
I’ve pondered that from time to time.
And, I’ve reached the same conclusion as you did - the loons would be crushed.
(We do plan to move back to our home state as soon as is practicable, where I may very likely purchase my first firearm.)
queen,
I couldn’t have pointed her out if my life depended on it. Just saw her pic on Newsbusters…She’s kinda cute…too bad she’s got that Stepford Lib thing going on.
Would now be an appropriate time to point out that the only people in America who have been assaulted because of their political views have been conservative?
once again forgetting the link http://michellemalkin.com/2007/02/22/facebook-nightmare-college-republican-targeted-by-stalker-speaks-out/
Now that just tops it!!! Profanity..LOL
I’ve been laughing myself into the hiccoughs all day since I first linked from Drudge. Reading the comments was too priceless and now finding out all the outrage at the horrid, nasty, conservatives was all wasted is just too funny. Also, love the Tin Hat mental pics….hic, hic, hic….
Let us not forget the infamous Coulter - Pie in the face incident….
But it’s the imaginary right-wing muggers who are the most dangerous!
Alan Berg………
Best Gawker quote-
“Wait you mean Ozzy Osborne’s guitarist is still alive?!?”
Recently…if all you got is something that happened over 20 years ago, then you don’t have much>
Furthermore, white supremicists aren’t conservative, that’s why we call them white supremisicsts.
If we want to play the ancient history game…we could always bring up Abraham Lincoln
I thought Air America was defunct. I guess I was wrong again.
Sheesh! Classic Liberal Projection…
Everything the Liberal MSM is trying to do to Talk Radio, Fox, Conservative Bloggers, etc.
I guess you could say that for these folks,
All ‘Truth is Inconvenient’.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Alan Berg…23 years ago…killed by NeoNazi White racists…Conservative don’t approve of killing liberals (sorry to pop the lib bubble). We’d rather have them alive and kicking so we can pull up the side of the circus tent so everyone can see them in action…we don’t even charge for it.
Loved this quote from her lawyer:
Hate crime. So now LIBERALS are a protected class.
Do we need any further proof to do away with hate crime laws?