Randi Rhodes Mugged By Reality, Oh, And Mugger (UPDATE: Lying Liars on Left Lying Again)
October 16th, 2007 at 11:02 am by Preston Taylor HolmesI don’t have any particular animosity towards Rhodes. I’ve tried listening to her atrocious show on the soon-to-be-bankrupt Air America, and it’s the same Bush Lied, People Died garbage you hear at every Code Pink rally. I certainly don’t wish her any physical harm, so I don’t find this story particularly funny.
According to Air America Radio late night host Jon Elliott, Rhodes was beaten up pretty badly, losing several teeth and will probably be off the air for at least the rest of the week. At of late Monday night we have not able to locate any press accounts of the attack and nothing has been posted on the AAR website.
However, I’m puzzled as to why didn’t she try and reason with the assailant. According to her ilk, all you have to do is sit down and talk with people and whatever problems you may have between you can be worked out. She could have at least used sanctions against the mugger.
The reason may have been that the mugger was hired by the Right Wing Hate Machine™ to do the job on Rhodes. Or that’s what some other Air America retard speculated…
Pointing out that Rhodes was wearing a jogging suit and displayed no purse or jewelry, Elliott speculated that “this does not appear to me to be a standard grab the money and run mugging.”
“Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own,” he asked. “Are we threatening them. Are they afraid that we’re winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us.”
Some of blog posters also expressed concerns that the attack on Rhodes was hate crime. Other posters warned that we need more facts before any judgements are made.
According to Elliott, Rhodes was resting in her New York City apartment and was not hospitalized.
Hate crimes are everywhere, aren’t they?
So while all lefty talk hosts have to do is protect themselves against hateful muggers, those on the right have to defend themselves against the entire Federal Government. I’d take the mugger any day.
NO MUGGER UPDATE:
The boys from ThisGoesTo11 tipped me off that this was NOT a mugging, but instead a dumb twat with two left feet. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
HEH UPDATE!
Our blogbrother RWD supports the invisible mugger(s). And we support RWD. Therefore, vicariously, we support the mugger(s) as well, except that they don’t exist.
EL CRANKY UPDATE!
Perhaps the worst part of this whole affair is the appalling ignorance on display. Look what this loser says: “Well, we suppose that there are a few other points of interest in this whole Randi Rhodes brouhaha. First: Wasn’t Randi Rhodes the bassist for Quiet Riot?”
October 16th, 2007 at 11:16 am
It is kind of creepy that she wasn’t carrying anything of value at the time. We do have crazies on our side too, so it’s possible it was a personal attack on her as a left wing radio host. Our crazies aren’t our poster boys and we do our best to disavow them.
My more insensitive side thinks, now that she’s been mugged, will she become a conservative?
October 16th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Didn’t Randy Rhoads die in a tragic, private plane crash in March of ’82? That ushered in the Brad Gillis Dynasty as I recall.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Of course had she been packing heat…
I’m just sayin’…
October 16th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
NEWSFLASH…Rhodes wasn’t mugged at all. Turns out Air America made the story up!
Randi was just a little clumsy, that’s all.
Is Six Meat Buffet the right venue to float the rumor that Rhodes was drunk off her ass and cramping from a 3-some she had with Amanda Marcotte and Joe Wilson?
October 16th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Check out the Reasoned Discourse here:
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Is it a little weird to have a category named “right-wing hate”?
Is that biased? I am not feeling the love.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I question the timing.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
OK, for the record, we did not say Rhodes was a “dumb twat with two left feet”.
WE simply ASKED if Six Meat Buffet was the right venue to float the rumor that Rhodes was drunk off her ass and cramping from a 3-some she had with Amanda Marcotte and Joe Wilson?
I guess not then. What…you guys over here turned into responsible “journalists” now?
(Of course I wouldn’t put that rumor on MY site…I’m not as well-lawyered up as you guys)
October 16th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Damn, Nigel. I said twat, what else do you want from a blogger?
Number 9, I don’t think you’ll be feeling the love over there anytime soon, unless it’s the loveknife.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Who is this paragon of journalistic integrity, Jon Elliot? Some people believe everything they hear if the information comes from someone with whom they tend to agree. Facts Shmacts. Especially on the lib side.
I know. I just bought a load of crap from Preston. But it was only momentary.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Hey #9, I left a comment over there…curiously, it hasn’t been posted.
I don’t suppose I should be holding my breath…
October 16th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Hey #9 (and that’s almost a Steely Dan song), I did get my comment posted there…and now we have a little factual battle going.
Seems the gal can’t get any of her facts straight. At least she is trying.
Wanna jump in? Although I know you don’t really like to Pwn liberals…
October 16th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
All your dumb twat with two left feet are belong to us!
October 16th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Twat’s that you say, Holmes? Drunk off her ass?! Hmmmm… An entire Sunday of drinking Grey Goose, watching The Jets f*&% a football with a few of her closest Gal-Quada friends, only later to go “walk the dog” and fall on her face on Park Avenue while wearing her velour, Fila track suit. What do you want to bet that she was muttering $%&^* Bush; *&^%# Cheney until an EMT arrived to help her pick up her bicuspids and inscisors.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Swampy…
I can’t believe we didn’t see that coming!
All your three-somes with Joe Wilson and Amanda Marcotte are belong to Swamp Rabbit…
October 16th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Right Wing Duck has some IMPORTANT COMMENTARY on the issue.
And no Brad Gillis had nothing to do with it. I can vouch that he was busy thumbing through a collection of Night Ranger LPs at Fillmore Chuck’s Used Records and CDs.
October 16th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Nigel, I just want the hating to stop. For the children.
The real story has yet to come out. It seems George Bush had a specially potent bottle of Grey Goose set to Randi’s condo. 150 proof. It is not her fault.
Damn Bush. But at least it wasn’t another hurricane. For that we should all be thankful.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
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October 16th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Southern Beale is the Randi Rhodes of the Nashville blogs. We can only pray to Right Wing Jesus that she takes a “fall” in the near future.
Get your screenshots while they last. Something tells me the commies will be deleting their fevered rantings with Stalinist vigor.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
So. Is it funny, yet?
October 16th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Yes, Dan, it is. Especially after it was made known that she suffered a beatdown at the hands of Ketel One.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Alcoholism is a disease. An absolutely hilarious disease.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Perhaps she saw her paycheck and realized the mugging the Liberals perpetrate on us tax wise.
Take care everyone.
-Caomhin
October 17th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Alcoholism is a disease. An absolutely hilarious disease.
I need this etched into brass, mounted on a plaque and hung above my cubicle.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:32 am
This just in, Rhodes in the dentist chair says to her dentist, “I hope you’re not a Republican”.
Not very original Randi.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Randi Rhodes has just said on Air America that she emailed her company after her fall to cover her shift saying she “thought” she had been mugged or that “someone” had bumped into her, knocked her down, and fled.
She says she was disorientated and unsure of what happened. All she wanted to do was cover her shift.
This is the sorriest coverup I have ever heard. Rhodes says she had not eaten all day and had gone outside to smoke a cigarette.
The short story is she doesn’t know what happened, according to her. But she wants to keep the idea she was mugged alive and give cover to her radio buddy who spread the “unsure” story of what happened.
Witnesses say she had multiple Bloody Mary’s and fell the old fashioned way. The drunk way.
Nice how she supports the original story. Even though there is no proof and it doesn’t pass the smell test and witnesses dispute it.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
She didn’t eat? I think that’s the funniest joke she’s ever told.
I got mugged at the Alice In Chains concert last night. 6 Yazoo Pale Ales held me down and forced themselves into my mouth while a 32 oz. Bud Light watched.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:54 am
I have the audio over at our site. I emailed it to Preston, perhaps he’ll post it after he’s done watching the mixed doubles final of the Stockholm Open…
October 19th, 2007 at 9:31 am
All Rhodes has done is lie. How many drunks are on Air America?
She is accusing wingnuts of a virtual rape. It is like “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
She is a pariah.
October 19th, 2007 at 9:32 am
One more thing, if the doctors had given a blood alcohol test they would know why she did a face plant.
October 19th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
And Lynne Stewart is Atticus Finch.
October 19th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Take another look at Randi Rhodes’ picture.
Pay close attention to her haircut.:shock:
How can you HONESTLY sit there and say that she was NOT mugged?
You think she did THAT to her own hair?