Randi Rhodes speaks
Maybe she should have just kept her mouth shut.
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Man, I wish my work computer allowed me listen to that audio….have to wait til I get home….
But it sounds like typical Liberal attitudes at work….
Blaming others and not taking responsibility.
Man….
Words fail me.
Who Cares?
You know I saw this when this story first came out and it was not really reported about, because I guess they thought it was some right-wing nut bashing her.
Was Randi Rhodes Drunk and Belligerent Before Mystery Fall?
“Randi Rhodes was no more assaulted by a right-wing fanatic on Monday than Dick Cheney was. She, in fact, fell down and injured her teeth outside of a Midtown Irish bar at around 6 o’clock Sunday evening after downing about fourteen Ketel One Bloody Marys. She was abusive to the barstaff and generally gross, crass, loud, and pretentious. I genuinely hope she has a speedy recovery.”
“I never would’ve disclosed this (I believe that anyone should feel free to hang out at Irish pubs at any time and not be concerned about someone publishing their behavior) if Air America hadn’t grossly interpreted a drunken indiscretion and allowed it to be morphed into some bullish rhetoric on air. Whatever journalistic integrity the station may have ever had is now completely compromised. The manipulation of the public diminishes any cause, whether just or fabricated.”
Did she fall down in a drunken stuper or was she fleeing the NYC boys and girls club with a bag full of cash when she decided to use her face as a fall break?
If only Bush hadn’t stolen the 2000 election, she wouldn’t have become such a lush.
Sounds like her oral surgeon still has some work to do. Wonder when he’s going to get around to extracting her foot from her mouth?
Your wrong pressto! It gives them more credibility on the left.
Why, I hardly call that getting drunk…you’re just getting started at that point.
JK
heh…
Apparently, yon Ms. 30 isn’t what the boys in college call a “cheap date”…
It happened when she went outside for a cigarette. Doesn’t she read the warning labels on the cigarette packs?
lolz
I don’t know about 14 bloody marys.
It took all of 4 apple martinis to put me under one night…long time ago.
#10, ha! The hubby doesn’t seem to think so, either.
Man! That woman has a very abrasive voice. I could only take about 30 seconds of her rant. So she was drunk and fell down when going outside to smoke a cigarette. I hope she has her carbon credits paid up. I love the hypocrites on the left rules for thee but not for me.
She’s classy. blech! gak! splffft!
Maybe she can auction her teeth off on ebay.
She was too busy visiting doctors to call in and correct the story. But, she did find time to get a lawyer out there to flash the ‘walking the dog’ story. Do NYC health reg’s allow dogs in bars?
Credibility? This floats well in the ‘false but accurate’ standard. This will have more moonbats hanging nooses to prove violent, racism on the right.
Randi is like the child so un-loved that its parents would tie a bone around its neck just so the dog would play with her. Creating wild-eyed personal situations where she can inflame her few listeners is a sign of desperation from a talentless liberal foil.
Sympathy for Randy Rhodes who died in a 1981 plane crash but not sympathy for Randi Rhodes who fell down because she was drunk and broke her teeth. It’s been a very long time since I could down 14 drinks and still stand up to smoke a cig. Her voice is like fingernails on a chalk board. Listened for as long as I could but it wasn’t very long-maybe I’ll grab some of my Ketle One and whip myself up a Bloody Mary-it’s 5:00 somewhere, right Randi?
I don’t wish to hijack this thread but I really felt moved to share this with you all. I received it from a co worker. We worked for a major pharma company and sending emails like this is frowned upon…so kudos to her for sending it.
A lot of truth in this
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her “How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”
In light of recent events…terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with “WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.”
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
# 19: Thank you!
I would take a bullet for Ben Stein.
I want his as president. I want it sooooooooo badly…
C’mon, don’t be so tough on Randi. Give a girlfriend a break. She makes things interesting and gives us conservatives something to talk about.
May be she got amnesia or dementia from the fall, or D.T.’s (was she drinking?) Give a girl a break.
after that many bloody mary’s, she was “a little drunk”, in the same way that Hurrican Katrina was “a little bit of rain”
#20, You are welcome.
swj719AWG #23: LOL! “a little drunk,” indeed.
#1 jr: Don’t be in such a hurry. I tried listening to that audio but it was too painful on my ears. No wonder nobody listens to Air America.
Liberals can’t even get drunk and fall down correctly and they wan’t us to listen to them on health care?
I honestly tried to listen to Randi…but the lack of a coherent thought and that voice, ugghhh…she sounds like one of those cigarette smoking, gin swilling skanks you find in smelly bars…you know the type…they act sooooo self important and sophisticated until they open up their mouth, and you just know gallons of gin and thousands of cigarettes have damaged their vocal chords and clouded their already limited reasoning capabilities…is she married? I’d certainly buy her husband a beer or a coffee…if he can actually perform when she opens her mouth, he’s a better man then I…
As an Irish drunk, I take exception to Randi Rhodes behavior. First of all, who drinks Bloody Marys at an Irish bar? Thats almost inconceivable. Secondly, every good drunk knows to fall over backwards to minimize facial damage; the Irish only get facial damage from a fistfight. I hope you don’t let this ruin your opinion of Irish drunks – this bitch doesn’t speak for me!
Isn’t it just a little curious, that Rhodes was completely mum regarding any contribution alcohol may have played in her fall? Of course, if the rumors are true that she had 14 drinks at the bar, it would make perfect sense that she (1) was “fall-down” drunk, (2) was too drunk to remember what happened, and (3) surely wouldn’t admit to any of the above.
You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a slur.
The story clearly states it was vodka she was swilling, and no one has offered any proof that the bar was smelly.
First, I hope Ms Rhodes will be ok. It’s awful for anyone to sustain this type of injury. I wish her the best, no more pain and a speedy recovery.
But man, I’ve just come from listening to libbers captured on Youtube blaming this “attack” on conservatives, or Bushies, right-wing hatemongers or Fox TV viewers. What the hell is up with these people who somehow assume that because I disagree with their political solutions or opinions, or watch a TV station they don’t like, that I’m violent. How dare they make such stupid and dangerous assumptions!? These are people always saying they want peace and tolerace, while taking every opportunity to smear and name-call and, now apparently, even taking the opportunity to blame fake crimes on those with who them disagree, seemingly just because they disagree. What madness!
class act!
http://grandstreetnews.com/images/Randi_Rhodes.jpg
Hopefully, she’s covered by SCHIP.
I agree limmo. Somehow, and for some reason, those with extreme views cannot bear the thought of their positions being wrong.
I think, and it is just me saying this, the vemonous hatred coming from the middle to far left, is easily explained as defense mechanism. A challange to thought is no longer perceived by them as a search for truth or compromise, but it is seen as a physical attack on their belief system. When logic, proof, or evidence supports your opposition’s viewpoint, their base instinct is to strike out with lies, distortions, and verbal insults. All this, not in an attempt to win the argument, but to belittle, de-humanize, and maginalize the opponent.
I can’t listen to the video here, but she was drunk? I thought so, but didn’t say it. Why – because her lawyer said she was walking the dog.
If I remember correctly from my law enforcement days, a 150 lb. person needs to drink 3 drinks an hour to exceed the legal blood alcohol limit (for DUI) of .08. It takes approximately 1 hour, of no consumption to reduce that BA level by .02.
I don’t know how much Randi Rhodes weighs (and I don’t care), and I don’t know if she is an habitual drinker who has built up a tolerance (heh, to alcohol), but…14 drinks…she would’ve had to have been at the bar quite a while to consume that amount. At only 3 drinks per hour, that’s approaching 5 hours. If she wasn’t there for 5 hours, that’s even worse!
Throw the doggie into the picture and it is not pretty.
Enquiring minds want to know…
The dog didn’t seem to need a lawyer.
This is the #1 reason why I don’t listen to liberals. I don’t like being lied to.
Minor point of contention with a prior post: It’s a pork chop, pork chop, not a bone, that one ties around a child’s neck to ensure the dog plays with said child.
Iowa State Motto: Eat Pork or Die!
Wow. I guess all the REAL credit and thanks should be going to the FDNY Paramedics who rushed to the scene and helped stabilize and stem the flow of blood. Can’t you just see them, working feverishly to make sure her C-Spine was properly protected as the gingerly rolled her onto a long-spine board. After all, having fallen as she did, striking her face and head onto a concrete and steel grated surface is a very serious item, based on Mechanism of Injury, she is claiming to have “Blacked-Out” just prior to or as a result of the fall. Following the fall is a serious issue that could mean there are hematomas and swelling in the brain, especially as we do not know how long she was out. The bystanders that must have come to her aid, following this fall, would best be able to determine, and I am sure the medics relayed the info to the ED when they arrived following the extensive care they gave her enroute. After all, this was serious enough that one opthamologist worked very hard to make sure she didn’t lose the sight of her eye.
What’s that you say? She didn’t call an ambulance? She walked home after such a serious spill, not even seeking help from an emergency physician? Instead she sent a note claiming to be mugged to a colleague, not knowing how such a rumor got started then called her attorney BEFORE seeking medical attention, only after standing in front of a mirror for an unspecified period of time?
Well that can’t be. I would hate to think that ANYONE is accusing her of being a martyr or trying to gin up a bunch of wellwishers and such, trying to make things sound far worse than they are. After all, she had such a huge medical staff working on her every day, for hours at a time. That in itself is odd since we know that the healthcare industry in the country is a mess and that since insurance is what it is, there is no way that could happen. Wow. Being a paramedic sometimes does get in the way of things I guess.
If Randi Rhodes falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does she still blame republicans?
She originally said she was mugged simply because she is a Lib.When she realized she was too drunk to do her show,instead of doing the adult thing and telling the truth,she was compelled to do the child-like thing–make up a lie and blame someone else,instead of taking responsibilty for her own stupidity.Be prepared for the after-the -fact “I take full responsibilty”speach.Of course that will only happen after she paints herself into a corner she can’t lie her way out of.
I just happened to be bored and brought up Randi Rhode’s show on my computer here and have listened for the last 5 minutes…..
She took two callers in that time – the first one stated that he’d just called Rep. Stark’s office and praised him for ’speaking the truth’ – to which Randi stated that THAT is what upset Republicans – not his words or language – but that he spoke the truth.
The second caller was a woman who, in her conversation with Randi, brought up the cable show “Dexter” which revolves around, apparently, a serial killer with morals – and this caller stated that “The President has less morality than a serial killer”… to which Randi agreed.
THIS is the new Democratic Party of the USA – people who support a politician who says the President, during a time of war, enjoys having soldiers have their heads blown off, and who has less morality than a serial killer.
Liberals should be ashamed.
Another clue listening to the tape is the mention of her ex. I’m still holding to the domestic fistacuffs theory. If the truth had been told someone would have to go to jail. So her ramblings of not sure, someone bumped her from behind, etc. don’t fly. The impact on the mouth enough to remove that many teeth would not of allowed the same impact force on the orbital bone that would possibly threaten loss of eyesight which she referred to. However, multiple blows to the face could do both. I don’t think this info will come out.
We should all know by now that the liberals have no shame.
Nor do they feel guilt.
These are moral values that help keep moral people in check. If your words and actions have no consequences, why not just keep doing and saying what you will?
The liberals will always think they are right.No amount of logic will ever sway their positions.
They have always thought that if “they” were allowed to talk to our enemies, that things would be different. That when “they” get in power, things will go smoother.
Which one of their leadership said recently, that they had “mis-judged” their ability to “sway” Republicans in Congress to their way of thinking?
Americans need to understand that this is also their approach to dealing with world leaders, and I believe they are terribly mis-judging their ability to persuade here, to the detriment of the United States.
Mis-judgement seem to run rampant on the left.
I am still shrugging. If she was at an Irish Pub on a football Sunday, three sheets to the wind, falling over herself drunk. I don’t know about everyone else, but most bars (Pubs) are packed during football season. I am just wondering were are the YouTube photos/movie. Man wouldn’t that be the dogs meow and great to boot if it showed up on Youtube! I’ve fallen and can’t get up, get me another bloody mary “hickcup”
What a pathetic attempt at a “Checkers” speech! Some personal favs:
She doesn’t know if she either fainted (right outside a bar) or was mugged and slammed to the pavement (right outside a bar) …but she definitely knows that Saddam never had weapons of mass destruction, and that GW is a liar.. Hmmmm.
When one falls down out of instinct one put his or her hands out in front. Unless their hands are in ones pockets, the when falling one will surely hit thy face in the pavement. Now couple that with a few cocktails… this pavement looks so close. mmmm
Why does Randi Rhodes keep mentioning that she fell ass-backwards, or face forwards (same difference from the photos of her that I’ve seen) in front of an IRISH bar? You would think that, by the year 2007, Err-America wing-bats wouldn’t have to bring race into every damn issue…even Ms. Rhodes’ all-day benders!
Oh, how I long for the day when liberals stop labeling bars as “Irish-bars,” or “boobie-bars,” “biker-bars” and just call them BARS.
Ah, it was an vast Irish alchohol conspiracy.
Officer O’Malley:“Now tell me lassie, how did ya’ come ta fall down in front o’ tis fine Irish bar?”
Randi Rhodes:“I didn’t come to fall down, you fascist pig, I came to get plastered…and don’t call me Lassie!”
It’s all Bushes fault! Cheney and the “vast right-wing conspiracy” had something to do with it as well!
I want to know where this “pub” was in relationship to where she lived? I want to know why the attorney felt the need to lie in claiming she fell while walking her dog. I want to know how full this pub was. Why?
She claims to be drinking at a pub and goes outside for a smoke. Now, not being from NY, I can only use the pubs here in Northern Calif. for referrence, and i can tell you that when there is a game on, there are usually more than one person outside grabbing a smoke. Not only that, but you can see that there is more than one person outside when you go to smoke. She claims to have fallen by some unknown force…maybe gravity was particularly strong there that day, but yet where are any witnesses? I would think that this is a pub she has frequented more than once, and thus, knowing the Liberal mind, people there obviously knew who and what she was, therefore they would have noticed her falling when it happened, and if not, then at least when she walked through the place bleeding profusely from the mouth and various other places. i would also imagine she would have asked someone for some ice or milk to put said broken teeth into. As for hwo far away from her home it was, she would have to either drive her own car (drunk) or take a cab to her house if it is beyond walking distance. this means she is either guilty of drunk driving or there is a cabbie who had a woman with a busted up face, in a great deal of pain, bleeding profusely from the mouth and various other places that would have information on this. Otherwise she walked, with a busted up face, bleeding profusely from the mouth etc., for whatever distance to her house. this would have been seen by various people as well, and yet no one offered to help her? I know it is NY and all, but to hear her talk, you owuld think someone would have done SOMETHING from the minute she fell until she got home.
Where are these people? Where are any witnesses to any part of this event? Why has the media not looked into this, visiting the pub, asking around etc.? She claims the Poperazzi was accosting her and her doormen…wouldn’t the doormen have seen something of her walking into the door with a busted face, broken teeth and bleeding profusely? And again, no Paramedics at the sscean of this event or at any time even though she is claiming to have such traumatic injuries. Wouldn’t someone in the bar have called 911 at some point after seeing how badly hurt she was?
The more I think about this and the more I try to piece it all together based on what she has said, the more I want to call “Shenannigans” on the whole thing. I smell a rat. An awfully big and smelly rat. She is lying about this somehow and I think the Press has a responsibility to find out. Her lies are also why she is claiming to be done with this and does not want to talk about it anymore. She tried something, it backfired and now she is wanting to get out of it. There is much more here to find out.
My point RetFireman (from #48), her she is outside a bar on Football Sunday and nobody is there to witness her falling down or getting knocked down mmmmm, I just don’t buy into it that why I am shrugging. Yet, if people did witness it no one had a iPhone or cell with a camera. Just makes one go MMMM (tapping on the chin).
Makes us almost sound like one of those Libby conspiricy nuts, but when it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck…
Michelle was right. She should have just kept her mouth shut. However, when have you ever known one of them to do that?
RetFireman,
All great questions. NYPD from the 17th Precinct(East 30th-59th Streets)already got involved and disproved Err-America’s initial claims of criminality. This is one of the most highly populated regions of Manhattan. If Miss Rhodes fell down and sustained those injuries while outside a pub on NFL Sunday, it would have been a MAJOR spectacle to at least 25-50 initial pedestrians.
In addition to no reported witnesses in a very crowded neighborhood, I know of no female friends who frequent sports bars alone on NFL Sunday, even in Manhattan (it’s embarrassing for a female to frequent a male-dominated establishment alone.) Does Miss Rhodes buck this trend by getting sloshed alone in sports bars? If not, why can’t she (a national radio personality) corroborate her story with ANYONE she was with that night?
These uber-hyped, Liberal accusations – that slink away with little to no credibility and/or follow through (Duke Lacrosse, The New Republic, George Washington University, misquotes attributed to Conservative pundits, Columbia U. nooses, Randi “I was mugged” Rhodes, etc.) are getting really tiring.
It’ll have to be after the proctologist removes her head from her ass, and that might be awhile. With so many libs crawling out of the wordwork, those guys are pretty busy these days.
I have good friends that are liberal , so I don’t try to engage them in political conversation. Becausse I know that they will just spew talking points. Yet when I do hang out with them I make sure I am wearing my Friendly liberal shirts. Like this one “ How do you feel when you shoot a terrorist” RECOIL! which is the back of one shirt. And this one “In the face of TERROR and MURDER the call for Peace is NOT PATRIOTIC, IT”S COWARDICE!”. My beloved EGA on the front left breast Semper Fi and big OOHRAHH!So of course the conversation leads to sports, ect,ect…
While her protologist is at it a colonoscopy should be performed to find were Err America ______________. (Fill in the blank)
Err America?
Try “Dur America”…
I used to tell friends when there were doing something I considered foolish and posibly injury-inducing “If you hurt yourself, I’m going to laugh at you. I’ll call 911, but I’ll be laughing while I do it. Just letting you know…”
It sure sounds like she’s puffing away during the pauses in the sound clip.
After much study and many meetings, the proctologists involved have decided it will be more cost effective and less invasive to permanently install a “glass navel” thus allowing Ms. Rhodes the ability to see where she is going, eliminating further falling down drunk episodes.
This woman is a joke right ? Got drunk , tripped and busted her left wing azz and can’t deal it . guess that means leftwingers can’t fly