Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Randi Rhodes is the Victim of a Violent Attack

Randi Rhodes was mugged on Sunday night on 39th Street and Park Ave, nearby her Manhattan apartment, while she was walking her dog Simon.

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.


Several liberal blogs, including the Randi Rhodes Message Board and Democratic Underground have logged numerous posts on the Rhodes mugging with most of the posters expressing concern about the condition of the popular lib talker.

Morning talk host, Lionel filled in for Rhodes on Monday, but did not say anything about why she wasn’t on hand to do her show. The Randi Rhodes board reports that Sam Seder, who does a Sunday afternoon show for AAR, will be filling on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Elliott was extremely agitated when he reported on the incident. He opened his show by saying "it is with sadness that tonight I inform you that my Air America colleague Randi Rhodes was assaulted last night while walking her dog near her New York City home."

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.

Attacks on liberal talk radio stations and their hosts are not a new thing. About a month ago a gunman fired a shot through a window at the studios of KPFT, Houston’s, Pacifica station narrowly missing a DJ who was hosting music show at the time. There is currently a $10,000 reward offered to anyone who identifies the shooter.

This is not the first politically motivated attack on KPFT. More than 35 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan blew up the station's transmitters twice within the Houston station's first year on the air.

Also, according to a blogger on Democratic Underground, Thom Hartmann said on his Friday show that his auto repairman, after replacing his windshield, pointed out to him that he had three bullet holes in his car.

Apparently, some right-wing critics of lib talk aren’t happy that conservative talk only accounts for 90% of the programming on talk radio. These whack jobs appear determined to whatever it takes to silence the opposing point of view.

Not surprisingly, the only talk radio host killed for his political views was a liberal. In 1984, two right wing extremists gunned down Denver talk show host Alan Berg. Berg’s tragic murder was memorialized in a chilling movie Talk Radio.

http://talkingradio.blogspot.com/2007/10/r...of-violent.html

I anxiously await the TRUTH.

Mike Malloy said on his show tonight that it wasn't true the stories that she fell and hurt herself and broke some teeth but she wasn't mugged.

Thats all I know.

Well, hopefully that is the case, it just seems the first reported scenario makes sense (many progressive talk radio hosts are targeted & threatened... like Thom Hartmann and the three recent bullet holes in his car), the second scenario doesn't make as much sense. How statistically possible is it to be leisurely walking along with your dog and whoops :!: fall down and bust out several teeth?!?! :?: I'm just sayin'... but I'm gonna let it go, I'll just go with whatever they're putting out, no point in stressing over it. :Y:

I think not only was she attacked, she also was made to go silent

Personally I think the Bush/Clinton machine is one and the same

And Randi has upset the proverbial apple cart

The FAMILY takes care of problems, and Randi is/was a problem.
I don't care about the disclaimer

I made a joke somewhere that it will end up like the proverbial bodytransfered to a park with no blood anywhere around, and they say he did it
Yet no blood, no readily apparent suicide not(til one is later planted in something that was already searched),

yeah, that's the ticket

We should all stress over things like this, first they created a phony riot in 2000 at miami Dade county courthouses, to take away our freedom, and look what has happened since...

I don't disagree with you on that point ReElect. I also believe however that more than any two people I can think of, I trust Al Gore and Randi Rhodes to do the right thing. Now, given the issue with Randi does not make sense to me, I DO trust that she WILL do the right thing. So with that I say I'm not going to take a huge amount of time to stress over it myself other than to keep my eyes open, be careful, and work my butt off to get Al in the White House.