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October 17, 2007

Air Embarrassment

A few days ago, reports began circulating that Air America host Randi Rhodes was beaten up on the streets of NY and lost several teeth in the battle.

Never a station concerned with accuracy or the truth, Air America Late Night host Jon Elliot jumped to all sorts of conclusions and asked "Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own? Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we're winning? Are they trying to silence and intimidate us?"

Turns out, no, she reportedly just got plastered on 14 vodkas (14! I'm Russian and can do maybe 10 tops--and that's with food!), fell down and cracked some teeth. Stay classy, Air America, stay classy.

Posted by Karol at October 17, 2007 01:19 PM | TrackBack
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Just goes to show you, when you lean too far either way, you're bound to lose your balance.

Posted by: Shawn at October 17, 2007 01:41 PM

Isn't Karl Rove's cousin a bartender?

dum dum DUM-MMM

The plot thickens...

Posted by: Marco at October 17, 2007 01:59 PM

Karol, let me play lawyer for a minute. You are certainly not claiming personal knowledge that Ms. Rhodes had 14 vodkas, or indeed that she was drinking at all. You are just reporting a report published on the internet, rather than vouching for its accuracy. Right?

Posted by: bob m at October 17, 2007 02:14 PM

I'll add "reportedly" immediately. :-) Thanks!

Posted by: Karol at October 17, 2007 02:16 PM

Drunks are funny. Especially when they get the heathens all up in a tizzy.

Posted by: AlCantHang at October 17, 2007 03:09 PM

Mmm, yeah, because jackbooted thugs only mug someone they want silenced. Has no one been paying attention to the "Vladimir Putin Handbook of Media Intimidation"?

Posted by: James at October 17, 2007 03:23 PM

You could hear everybody on the left get so disappointed when the truth came out. Now they need to vent their hate on some other lies they are creating. SCHIPs anyone?

Posted by: StB at October 17, 2007 04:04 PM

Alarming News: We copy Malkin, so you don't have to read her.

Classy!

Posted by: m2f at October 17, 2007 08:18 PM

It takes a lot of hard work and money to get your alcohol tolerance to the point where you can drink fourteen Vodkas and not die. I think I'm starting to understand why her show is so loopy.

Posted by: Eric at October 17, 2007 09:15 PM

I dunno. 14 vodkas (reportedly) and all she ends up doing is a faceplant? That's impressive. She probably does those one-arm push ups too.

Posted by: Shawn at October 17, 2007 09:47 PM

To the left it isn't the truth, it is how it feels when they say it and people of their ilk hear it. More important to feel good saying it, than being the truth.

Posted by: StuLongIsland at October 17, 2007 09:48 PM

Air America is still on ?

Posted by: Von Bek at October 17, 2007 10:08 PM

i think the biggest news here is that air america is still broadcasting. who knew?

Posted by: brent j. at October 17, 2007 11:39 PM

Your source of the 14 vodkas in an Irish Pub is from a basically anonymous blog comment and this comment is not being backed up by anyone else providing any proof. Didn't anyone ever tell you not to believe every thing you read on the internet?
Anyway the NY Post canvased Irish Pubs in the neighborhood it supposedly happened in and had negative results verifying any of its true.

Posted by: PAUL at October 18, 2007 10:23 AM

"Alarming News: Bringing You Unverified Smears Cribbed From Malkin Since 1834!"

Posted by: m2f at October 18, 2007 12:43 PM

The funniest part of this story is contemplating how many credulous Err America listeners actually believed that Randi Rhodes was attacked by a right wing mob roaming the streets of Manhattan.

What is she, the eightieth most popular syndicated radio host?

I would be shocked if anyone outside her immediate family even recognized her on sight.

Posted by: Gerard at October 18, 2007 02:14 PM

Speaking of media types going crazy, did anyone, right or left, jump all over Coulter for her latest bout of verbal diarrhea?

Posted by: Shawn at October 18, 2007 02:52 PM

This apocalyptic Hate Crime! This outrageous, grevious atrocity! This flagrent assault of one of the few brave, courageous, intrepid Beacons of Truth left in this once free land is truly the AMERICAN KRISTALLNACHT!

We are truly, officially living in the Facist States of Amerika!

Posted by: MUMIA at October 18, 2007 08:16 PM

Carol
sweetie, lay of my sista the great Randi Rhodes, all is heresay, nobody knows if she was drunk or not!
Even if she was BIG DEAL. It is not illegal, such as Limbaugh's oxycotin deals at local parking lots in Floridia was...........

why do people jump the gun and assume wing nuts attacked her???

wing nuts have indeed killed in the past. Alan Berg, a liberal talk show host in colorodo was killed by wing nut right wingers in the early 80's, the Oliver Stone movie "Talk Radio" was based on it. There is a reason why people think wing nut Republican cultists and counterfit conservativtes are violent...........

Now correct the blog, we do not know if Rhodes was drunk.

Posted by: Jared at October 23, 2007 11:00 AM

It's spelled with a K and she does have reportedly in the body of the text.

Posted by: Shawn at October 23, 2007 01:45 PM
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