Air America’s Randi Rhodes Suspended: We Did It! [Updated x2]

Sountracking, thank you for posting another clip for people to comment. I cannot keep up with moderating some of the hateful comments that I see. I turned off the comments when the post was put up like all the recent ones because I don’t ahve the time to moderate a video blog.

I simply run the channel to help the Blogs, and all you readers, to see for yourself the footage you may have missed. I get attacked for posting the videos as if I was Hillary Clinton herself. I’ve been told I’m a DLC hack:

Youtube user: wildofski
You give yourself away as a DLC Democrat when you can’t even bother to spell Randi Rhodes name correctly. Anyways its too late, as its now over for the Clintons and the rest of the self-hating neo-con liberals. Its time for the Progressives (True Democrats)to salvage what the thugs have done to the Party and return it back its true traditionand core beliefs

It is amusing that people project their feelings on you, but it is also indicative of some severe psychosis in American citizens.

We’ve had over 120,000 views to this clip in 2 days. Its amazing. I thank Susan and Larry, Fleaflicker and the other great bloggers here for their job. I’m simply a video worker. I don’t almost never endorse the comments found in the clips. I am not a Democrat, nor Republican. I support your right to view for yourself. All clips but one, are raw from the TV. The only one that is edited is Donna Brazile’s comments about “moderate” black preachers.

Take care crew, back to my silence…(lots of videos to post now)

Thanks for the info, Susan – I just used the link to write AAR and suggested they relieve Rhodes of her duties, and consider Taylor as a replacement. At the very least they could give her a try while Rhodes is suspended. Here’s hoping they listen to us!

Oops; I was referring to Disenfranchised voter’s comment re: everything being videotaped these days.

get the hell out of here idiot…..

you mean you dont see all of the people on this blog are stepford wives- we get a world class leader like Obama, whose the voice for those making 10 dollar contributions and a backbone against the Bush War and all you can do is compare Obama with Limbaugh- you are all Karl Rove bots and you will live in your little brie and champagne fascism

then why do you listen to Air America- none of the hosts support Hillary, because they, unlike you have done the research and know about the Glass Speigalmen Act, NAFTA, the War vote, the cluster bomb on children vote, the money from the Arabs, the 10 million for the library, the uranium deals with Bill and all the next 4 years would be about bills sex scandals, we’ve got a clean leader of the youth, not of old bags like y’all here- ya dummy Hillary lied right to your face about Nafta and the economy and here you are a working stiff about to vote to have it all happen again, not to mention the telecommunications act and the money from Murdoch for Hillary

Randi Rhodes signed a contract with Air America, and she knew the rules for the paycheck.

Choices have consequences.

Her trash mouth is why C-Span no longer invites her on their morning show, either.

Randi only has “free speech” as it is defined within her CONTRACT with Air America.

She is their employee, period.

You seem to miss the point. There is no line. Obama or Clinton (actually their rather immature supporters) have every right to say what they want. Nobody gets a free ride because it is our responsibility to call people on their vitriol (like I’m trying to do here). Ferraro is no different than Wright in this respect. They were both free to say what they did and both were very wrong.

Once again – know the real enemy and stay on target.

DAF

I did Marco.

DAF

I think comments are appearing out of order or I just missed yours referencing Ferraro. Apologies, but anyhoot…

I agree we’re all free to say what we want, but obviously you’re also free to voice your displeasure as some Democrats and AA listeners did in regards to Rhodes and her ass-backward comments.

Regarding you being kneecapper…
… Yes, yes you are. If I were to call you on your actions by seeking out your employer and requesting that you be fired, I too would be acting as childishly as you. However, I am simply attempting to point out to the children on this list that they need to grow up. Stop forming a circular firing squad and killing our chances in November.

Regarding “RR calling…”…
… you supposition is incorrect. RR was wrong.

DAF

DAF

Is that the level of your political accumen, to resort to “enjoy the McCain administration”? This is base level politics at best. This is how the Democrats treated Nader supporters after 2000, and you haven’t yet realized that it makes your Party smaller and smaller. Its the strategy of the idiot pundit.

If you don’t start winning over voters, You can thank Yourself for an administration you don’t like.

Go enjoy that Bamaglow, i hear its better than oxygen

She’s a narcissist. I’ll never forget her rantings regarding her hysterectomy. Who in the world goes on and on about something that personal on the radio?

Imagine if we all went on radio talking about our bowel movements, our menstrual flow, our snotty noses and gas? And this is her level of discourse! And she really believes she’s a genius. She actually believes she’s the most articulate, inspiring person on air.

She has no manners, no finesse, no respectability, no class, no nada!

The idea that you find Maddow ‘objective’ says everything about the rest of your comments on these topics. Not much left to say about your views after such a comment. Enjoy your Air America before it finally tanks off the air.

Quick Note: Air America is owned primarily by Green Family Media.

And Sajo, your analysis skills are rather pedestrian. You fall for the obvious, and as a kid who used to practice magic, I would have loved to have you in my audience because you fall for misdirection real easy.

(left hand turns away with your basic animal instincts following it…while the right hand picks your pocket)

Obviously, I was referring to the mindless hit job that has become this site, and this thread in particular.

Unless Larry has stopped blogging entirely on his own site, or has adopted the name “SusanUnPC”, his site got hijacked by either Hillary campaign drones, or some agent of Taylor Marsh who basically wants her to get Randi’s gig, even though nobody’s ever heard of Taylor Marsh, and whoever this woman is, she doesn’t have nearly the ratings or national popular support that Randi does.

And PS, I didn’t say that calling a woman a whore isn’t necessarily a sexist connotation, the DICTIONARY said that.

Project much?

The only ones being intellectually dishonest here are you, and the faux outrage team from Camp Hillary.

Stop being such crybabies.

The FACT is that you simply don’t have the numbers. You’ve already lost, there is no path to the nomination available to you through the votes, unless Hillary wins 60% or better in every single contest from now until the convention, and she’s never done that in any previous contest. Unless she ignores the will of the people and has these undemocratic superdelegates overturn the popular vote, she will not be the nominee.

But her ego and yours are preventing you both from coming to that realization.

I’m sorry that both of you don’t have the simple grace and humility to accept that FACT.

Barack is clearly my candidate of choice in this most important election.

Why?

Obama owes women an apology. He should make a statement saying he doesn’t condone the words RR used at the event his campaign helped to organize. He needs to denounce RR sexist remarks said on his behalf. Is that too much to ask from the Great Uniter? Probably.

Dear PMS – You understand, right, that this was the local radio station Green 960 in San Francisco hosting a party with Randi Rhodes as the headliner? It was not an Obama Campaign Event/Fundraiser, unofficially or officially. It wasn’t a campaign event for anyone.

And no, I wasn’t okay with what Don Imus said. (Where did I say that in my post???) But since you bring Don Imus up, I will say this – A) I did not agree with what he said and found it offensive; B) I did support him being suspended, not fired, but not because I somehow thought what he did was worse or that there should be censorship, but rather because unlike Randi Rhodes, IMUS said what he said on the public airwaves, not in a private setting. C) Imus was making offensive comments (including racially implicating with the comment “nappy headed” as opposed to calling them “whores” by themselves) and he was making it in reference to women athletes who are not politicians. As even Bill Clinton himself recently pointed out, Politicians who are out there, deserve to be criticized and dissected and if they can’t take the heat, they need to get out of the kitchen. You are comparing Apples to Oranges there with the Don Imus analogy and wrongly assuming I was “okay” with it. I am against censorship. period. Even of the Ann Coulter’s and Hannity’s of the world. Censorship is wrong.

Dear Chris – Where did I say that I “used to respect” Larry Johnson? I did not put it in past tense, but I definitely disagree with the pursuit here by Larry or any of those who want to see Randi Rhodes pay for her comments through censorship and removal. Where did I indicate in anyway that I agreed with what Randi Rhodes said or supported what she said? Rather I support and wish to protect her right to speak. And while you may think that Freedom of Speech is merely a privilege, I disagree, it is last I checked a Constitutionally protected right. The word “whore” may be offensive to some or most people, but it actually is a word that has meaning, particularly in reference to someone who would sell themselves for money, which while there are those that would disagree, there are many who feel that about the Clintons as well as most Politicians. I personally feel that way about many in the media as being “Media Whores”. And while you might not like the word “whore”, its not illegal to use it and in fact you could call a cop a “fucking whore” and it wouldn’t be illegal, just stupid because a pissed off cop might find something that they can get you on with a little probable cause. I actually for grins asked one of our local police officers today if it was illegal to call them that and they laughed and said it wasn’t, just what I said in the previous line about the consequences. So, I guess Randi found out consequences, but ones I don’t agree with because I don’t believe in censorship and I believe that is what we are seeing here and being called for many on this blog. I still believe that as repulsive and ignorant sounding and vulgar Randi was, she was not “on the FCC controlled and public airwaves” she was in a private nightclub after hours and she had a right to say what she said, no matter how much any of us disagree. Air America management at the urging of many on this board to remove her is censorship and I find that reprehensible and wrong and against what I believe the Constitution stands for and needs to be protected and possibly in particular because she is a member of the “media”. Everyone here too has the right to their freedom of speech and I don’t question that right, I question why people are for censorship if they say they are for freedom. I think that is a really important question for everyone to ask themselves.

Why would I lay off the koolaid, I’d rather ask for another cup. Obama is the most exciting candidate to come on the national stage in more than a generation. I am still yet to figure out why Clinton supporters like to point to Obama’s oratory skills as a bad thing. I again state, policy wise they are not all that different, health care included. Clinton likes to talk about how the detailed specifics of her plan are so much better the Obama’s. If you agree that is great (personally I think both plans leave something to be desired and Edwards had the only really good plan), but we are talking small differences in a policy that is yet to even be proposed, not trying to work the fine details of an existing program.

You are welcome to vote for whomever you want. But if you believe in Clinton policy wise than there is no place you can show McCain being closer to those policies than is Obama. What I hear from Clinton supporters is if my candidate does not win, I am taking my ball and going home.

(Just to be clear, it bothers me equally if an Obama supporter says they will not vote for Clinton if she were the candidate.)

I am still open to having anyone point out all the places that Clinton is so much more progressive than Obama.