Randi Rhodes Is At It Again

Two posts in two days! Wow.

So last week I tuned into Air America on Tuesday (I appreciate a good laugh on my drive home), only to find Sam Sedar filling in for Randi Rhodes. I have a real love/hate thing going with Rhodes, you hate her because she is such a pinhead, but then again you have to love her, because she’s a pinhead for the left. Okay, she’s one of many pinheads for the left.

Anyhow, Sam was filling in for Randi. Then when I went to pick up my daughter from school on Wednesday, I again was greeted with Sam’s voice instead of Randi’s. Oh well, even pinheads need vacations, I guess. Thursday is my day to close at work, so on Thursday I get to listen to Randi on my drive into work, insuring a fun-filled day all day long. Of course by now I was expecting Sam instead of Randi, and Sam I got. I also got an explanation for Randi’s absence: She had been suspended.

Of course Sedar was apprehensive to go into the details as to why Rhodes had been suspended, so when I got home I went to the Air America website, and found this:

New York - Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station."

Air America encourages strong opinions about public affairs but does not condone such abusive, ad hominem language by our Hosts," said chair Charlie Kireker.

That was it. That was the entire explanation. So I dug a little further, and it seems that Randi was doing “stand-up” at an event in San Francisco, an event sponsored by the local Air America affiliate. Now I found this information to be dubious at best, because Randi Rhodes doing stand-up is an interesting concept, since Randi Rhodes isn’t funny, at least not intentionally. We all know that one person that thinks they are the funniest person on the planet, while they in fact are rarely the funniest person in the room, even when they are the only person in the room. That person, is Randi Rhodes.

Here is a sample of some of Randi’s “comedy” from the San Francisco show: Apparently she repeatedly called Hillary a "big f***ing whore", to both cheers and jeers from the audience. In addition, Rhodes referred to former Democrat vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro as "David Duke in drag".

Before we go any further, lets look at some of the things that Randi has done in the past on her show that did NOT result in her being suspended: In February she aired a piece on her show, a psychotic “faux ad, supposedly for Mitt Romney, says his supporters will commit mass killings if John McCain becomes the nominee. Here is part of the script from that piece of “comedy”:

ANNOUNCER: "... If John McCain is the Republican Presidential nominee, it will destroy the Republican Party. We’re Romney supporters and we know. Cause, if you vote for John McCain, we’re going to go on a killing rampage. Hey, better dead then moderate.”REPUBLICAN

CHARACTER VOICE: "Look, I for one don’t want to die in a hail of gun fire from crazed Mitt Romney supporters, but it’s better then nominating a man who opposed the Bush tax cuts. Hell, John McCain spent years in a North Vietnamese prison. A prison? That doesn’t make him a hero. That makes him an ex-con.”

It goes on, stating such classy things that if John McCain is elected he’ll call for legalizing sodomy among other things. And no, she wasn’t suspended for this.

This following an earlier skit calling for the assassination of George Bush. Here is that “ad”:
The announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."

Classy. And again, no suspension.

She also claimed on the air that Blackwater started the San Diego wildfires, and that she had been mugged by a “conservative operative” when in fact she passed out drunk in a New York Bar. No suspension. Hell, Randi Rhodes wasn’t even suspended after – and I am not kidding about this – she urinated on the Christmas Tree at the company Christmas party.

But call Hillary a “F*&%#$g Whore”, and she’s off the air. If that doesn’t show you the scary kind of power that Hillary has, nothing will. Apparently calling for the assassination of a sitting president is slightly less offensive than calling a candidate a name.

Now it might surprise you to know that I am with Randi on this, not because her target was a Democrat, but rather because the real target is freedom of speech. I believe Ms. Rhodes has the right to say whatever she wants. I also believe the people who pay her have the right to do whatever THEY want, and in this case I think they should fire her, OR let her remain on the air. If they had suspended her after the other incidents that I listed, I would have felt a suspension was fine here as well. However, they are clearly just proving what we as conservatives already know: Liberals do not believe in free speech. They believe in the freedom of THEIR speech, just not yours or mine, at least if our speech disagrees with them.

Some of you may know that I run a book store. I have been with this company for a short time, and yet almost daily I find books written by conservative authors either mis-shelved, hidden behind other books, or turned around so the spine is facing in. Occasionally I’ll find a pro-George Bush in the “Humor” section (okay, that’s kinda funny). Why? Because Liberals don’t believe in free speech, and they want to surprise what the right has to say at any cost.

And in the same amount of time I have not once, not ONCE come across a book by a liberal writer being treated in similar fashion. Why? Because conservatives don’t believe a damn thing liberals have to say BUT the respect their right to say it. Okay, I will admit I have a hard time not shelving Hillary’s autobiography in the “Fiction” section, but I have not.

And so, I would like to say that like most things that come out of the mouth of Randi Rhodes, I find this latest episode sick and disgusting. And at the same time I totally stand behind her right to say it, moronic as it may be.

There is an old philosophical question that asks “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound?” I think the real question is “If a talk show host is suspended from a station no one listed to in the first place, has she really been “suspended” from anything?”