Air-America suspends radio host for Clinton comment

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"(CNN) – The liberal radio network Air America suspended one if its most popular radio talk show hosts Thursday after a video clip surfaced on the Internet in which she used derogatory language to describe Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro. The comments came during a San Francisco appearance in late march sponsored by a local Air America affiliate. During the event, Randi Rhodes referred to both Clinton and Ferraro as 'f—ing whores.'"

http://tinyurl.com/5f259s

http://youtube.com/watch?v=blkKbMN9hzc

I guess in Rhodes' world, being totally in the tank for Obama is not enough. You have to completely despise any opposition and launch disgusting attacks against them--you know, the way Republicans have been treated by left-wing loons for years.

I fucking love that the moonbats are getting a taste of their own medicine. It's karma, man.

4/5/2008 4:23:38 AM

I think you should start your own blog.

4/5/2008 4:42:19 AM

I fail to see what significance this has on anything. Extreme right wing media (Limbaugh, Ann Coulter) frequently say things that are just as outlandish as this with little or no reprimand. Who really cares what these talking heads say anyway? I don't know anyone who actually listens to Air America.

4/5/2008 7:13:27 AM

Uh oh. Controversy again. Someone must be telling the truth...

4/5/2008 8:45:13 AM

YOU, ME AND HOT AIR

CHARLOTTE COLISEUM BABY DOLL

4/5/2008 10:04:19 AM

There has got to be more to this story.

It seems hard to believe that the ethically-challenged AR would choose this place and time to make a stand for decency. I'm betting that they have been trying to dump Miss Rhodes and took advantage of this opportunity to look good while doing it.

4/5/2008 10:33:33 AM

that sounds too capitalist for alleged commies

4/5/2008 10:40:51 AM

4/5/2008 1:58:48 PM

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"I fail to see what significance this has on anything. Extreme right wing media (Limbaugh, Ann Coulter) frequently say things that are just as outlandish as this with little or no reprimand. Who really cares what these talking heads say anyway? I don't know anyone who actually listens to Air America."

IMStoned420

You "fail to see a lot"--that's the fucking problem. But you're right about one thing: the financially and intellectually bankrupt Air America does suck and has few listeners.

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"Uh oh. Controversy again. Someone must be telling the truth..."

Gamecat

What, that Clinton and Ferraro are "fucking whores" and Ferraro is "David Duke in drag"? I disagree with both of these women on policy issues, but I would never refer to them in such a way. The ridiculous comments in question just show the level of left-wing hate--and your post is evidence of a general acceptance of that hate. GG.

4/5/2008 3:20:35 PM

Haha I love it when posters like hooksaw posture and play politics on a message board.

Is it fun playing politician?

4/5/2008 3:28:25 PM

I've never heard Air America, but I can't see how anyone on talk radio sans Alan Handleman (and Art Bell, but don't tell anyone I said that, shhh) couldn't be considered intellectually bankrupt as well.

Just because a lot of people agree with you and listen to you doesn't make you right, from Charles Coughlin to Rush Limbaugh to that guy on 680AM at night that does nothing but scream at the microphone about god knows what. Print media is where it's at.

4/5/2008 6:16:54 PM

I think its funny a few years ago the right wingers were saying Air America wouldn't matter and would be gone in a few months, and now the rightwing nut du jour is posting all about its internal affairs like it *WAS* important!

4/5/2008 6:23:13 PM

I think it's supposed to prove that liberals or Democrats are bad, or something.

Where are these threads about right wing radio that this is balancing, now?

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2008 6:29:07 PM

Where are the right wing radio hosts who calls liberals fu@$ing whores??

4/5/2008 6:59:11 PM

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"Where are the right wing radio hosts who calls liberals fu@$ing whores??"

have you listened to talk radio before? they may not say "fuck" on air, but they get the same point across.

4/5/2008 7:13:47 PM

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"have you listened to talk radio before? they may not say "fuck" on air, but they get the same point across."

Nah dude, calling Hillary a whore is so much worse than making fun of Marty McFly's Parkinsons.

4/5/2008 7:18:48 PM

^^ Show me an instance in which anyone on conservative talk radio has called someone a "fucking whore" and "David Duke in drag." Did you even watch the video?

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"I think its funny a few years ago the right wingers were saying Air America wouldn't matter and would be gone in a few months, and now the rightwing nut du jour is posting all about its internal affairs like it *WAS* important!"

3 of 11

It wasn't "internal affairs," dumbass. When you spew this kind of hate and it spills out into the public, it's no longer internal--Air America's dirty laundry is now out for all to see and comment on. In addition, the reprimand of Rhodes has been widely covered by the media.

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"I've never heard Air America, but I can't see how anyone on talk radio sans Alan Handleman [sic] (and Art Bell, but don't tell anyone I said that, shhh) couldn't be considered intellectually bankrupt as well."

PinkoandBlacklist

It's Allan Handelman, genuis.

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"Haha I love it when posters like hooksaw posture and play politics on a message board. Is it fun playing politician?"

When are the ChiComs going to free Hu Jia and Yang Chulin, LostClues? STFU.

PS: Did the controversial comments by Don Imus not matter?

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 7:29 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2008 7:28:01 PM

Sorry, next time I'll be sure to call Allan and ask him to verify the spelling of his name with me since I just listen to him and don't read him.

What's your big hangup about spelling again?

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 7:32 PM. Reason : ,]

4/5/2008 7:31:06 PM

^ Or your lazy ass could have taken ten seconds to Google.

Yeah, nothing matters, right, you buffoon? Spelling, what people say--it's just a free for all. . . .

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-c2OM7HEfrs

Please don't get any of your moral equivalency on me.

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 7:38 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2008 7:37:12 PM

for the record, the little i've heard of air america is crappy, just like most talk radio. ideological radio shows are for sheep.

4/5/2008 8:08:02 PM

hooksaw... the face of reason...

4/5/2008 8:10:10 PM

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"Or your lazy ass could have taken ten seconds to Google. Yeah, nothing matters, right, you buffoon? Spelling, what people say--it's just a free for all"

It's a fucking college message board and i misspelled the name "Allan", get a life.

If we're going to brag about language prowess, then I'll let you know I'm posting from a friend's computer in Grenoble and the the commands are all French and it's making me think too hard whilst drunk.

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 11:17 PM. Reason : .]

4/5/2008 11:15:40 PM

I lean to the right, but I've gotta admit that hooksaw is the biggest douchebag in the soapbox.

4/5/2008 11:32:06 PM

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"Show me an instance in which anyone on conservative talk radio has called someone a "fucking whore" and "David Duke in drag." Did you even watch the video?"

Savage on Sawyer: a "lying whore" who "in essence, is agreeing that the Holocaust didn't occur"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200702210005?f=s_search
O'Reilly asked: "[W]hat's the difference between David Duke" and Daily Kos?
http://mediamatters.org/items/200707260001?f=s_search

4/5/2008 11:33:36 PM

I'm kinda in love with Rachel Maddow

Also hey do you remember that time Ann Coulter called John Edwards a faggot

[Edited on April 6, 2008 at 1:03 AM. Reason : .]

4/6/2008 1:03:10 AM

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" You have to completely despise any opposition and launch disgusting attacks against them--you know, the way Republicans have been treated by left-wing loons for years. "

Haha, you have this backwards. It's the republicans that have been spouting the most delusional hatred the past few years (as most of your anger, hate-filled posts are evidence of).

4/6/2008 1:25:33 AM

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"hooksaw: It's Allan Handelman, genuis. "

It's "genius," genius.

4/6/2008 1:27:31 AM

It's Allan Handelman, genuis.

4/6/2008 10:37:07 AM

for good measure

4/6/2008 6:17:01 PM

[Edited on April 6, 2008 at 7:31 PM. Reason : ]

4/6/2008 7:16:36 PM

RIP Dude, RIP

4/6/2008 7:48:08 PM

Okay, I misspelled "genius" because I was typing in a hurry--my mistake. I never indicated that I'm perfect--but there's a difference and a distinction in making a simple error and not giving a shit about traditional standards of decency or spelling or just about anything else. I understand that some of you don't get and will probably never get that.

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"I lean to the right, but I've gotta admit that hooksaw is the biggest douchebag in the soapbox."

Prawn Star

No, you're the biggest douche bag! STFU.

4/6/2008 8:14:40 PM

I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TRADITIONAL STANDARDS OF SPELLING

4/6/2008 8:18:41 PM

^ That's the problem.

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"Many millennials may lack basic spelling and writing skills because they have come to rely on spell check. Moreover, some millennials have become so accustomed to using IM abbreviations, such as 'b/c' for 'because,' that some don’t know how to spell it correctly. Wendover recommends asking candidates to write a letter from scratch without the benefits of grammar or spell check. 'Then, you’ll know what their writing skills are,' he says."

http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0507/0507cover.asp

4/6/2008 8:35:22 PM

Yet you spelled "genius" incorrectly.

There's a saying about glass houses...

4/6/2008 8:49:37 PM

Grandpaw is still hung up on someone spelling a name with multiple common spellings wrong.

4/6/2008 9:35:16 PM

its really funny

that hooksaw of all people

our resident grammar pedant and spelling nazi

will try to insult someone's intelligence by sarcastically calling them a genius

yet misspelling the word "genuis" in the process

the irony. you gotta love it.

very funny indeed.












[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 12:43 AM. Reason : ]

4/7/2008 12:42:15 AM

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"No, you're the biggest douche bag! STFU. "

Damn, what a comeback!

4/7/2008 12:57:47 AM

^ no doubt. i was waiting for the punchline, but it never came.

4/7/2008 1:00:49 AM

Okay, I'm just trying to get the list together of things that don't matter to young elitist nutsacks:

1. Spelling

2. Hate speech

3. Common decency

What else? (And hooksaw is a given.)

4/7/2008 4:11:44 AM

1. democracy

2. capitalism

3. the threat illegal immigrants pose to our way of life

4. Al Gore's "global warming" conspiracy

5. fluoridation

4/7/2008 10:30:08 AM

^ Add her to the list.

4/7/2008 10:37:54 AM

I have no idea who that is, I'm assuming it's the person that you made this thread about that apparently shares a name with a dead guitarist.

Explain why this matters in the cosmic sense.

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 10:45 AM. Reason : .]

4/7/2008 10:44:29 AM

the constitution

oh wait thats the bush administration





slam dunk

4/7/2008 11:32:11 AM

^^ Apparently, Randi Rhodes, the far-left broadcaster (yes, that's her), chose that stage name to honor the late Randy Rhoads, Ozzy's phenomenal guitarist. I'll actually give her credit for that.

BTW, evidently, Rhodes' suspension is "indefinite"--so somebody gives a shit about this flap.

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 11:57 AM. Reason : .]

4/7/2008 11:57:30 AM

i learned one thing from this thread.

Kevin Dubrow died of a coke overdose in November 2007.

i dont even remember hearing about it.

and to think I chatted with him and Rudy Sarzo after they played at the Lake Poon Country Club. man was that 10 years ago??

Kevin Dubrow, we hardly knew ye. apparently money can buy your hair (and a lot of cocaine), but it cant buy you love.

Godspeed man.

4/7/2008 1:08:15 PM

irellevent radio host gets kicked off irellevent radio network.

suprisingly, no one cares

4/7/2008 1:10:49 PM

^^ Wildly off topic--fuck it, though; I'll bite.

I saw Quiet Riot in '83 (I think) opening for Iron Maiden. And I have to say I enjoyed Quiet Riot a lot more than Maiden. As you may understand, I have trouble remembering all of the details.

4/7/2008 1:17:31 PM

^ i think it was '84. i saw that concert too. Iron Maiden "Piece of Mind" Tour. Queensryche
opened, with "special guest" Quiet Riot. I was there to see Iron Maiden, though I was quite
impressed by Queensryche. I dont remember much about Quiet Riot, other than they only seemed
to have one or two songs anyone ever heard of, and Kevin Dubrow was about bald.

When I saw them in 1999 in Raleigh at that shittly little club on Lake Boone Trail, it was about the
same. except he had a righteous 'do. But still just the same 2 or 3 songs padded with a bunch of
stuff no one remembered (at least not me) ... what was really funny was the people in the audience
I swear it was an incredible amount of Mullets and Jean Jackets with metal studs and band patches.
Yeah, and that was in 1999. I thought I was at the State Fair.


BACK TO THE TOPIC...

^ you know, i consider myself to be just as liberal as the next guy here in the city of Seattle...

but yet, i dont think i've ever listened to Air America. I've never heard Randi Rhodes not even once:
wouldnt recognize her if she came up and slapped me.

i dont even know anyone who listens to Air America. Except for one dude when I worked at
microsoft, but he wore a beret.

now, as a liberal who likes to consider himself reasonably well-informed, i do listen to BBC, NPR and
Democracy Now... and, when im in the mood for idiocy, i occasionally even listen to the local
moonbat conservative ranters on KTTH 770 ( "The Truth" )

but I honestly wouldn't know but a fraction about Air America if it wasn't for Hooksaw alternately
railing about their station and whatever Rosie O'Donnell is doing.

I mean, am I missing something here? When did Air America come to represent progressive liberal
politics? who even listens to them?




[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 1:33 PM. Reason : ]

4/7/2008 1:24:33 PM

well, I thought for a fleeting moment I was going to read an impartial hooksaw thread, since I didn't see a political party mentioned in the title, but alas....

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"you know, the way Republicans have been treated by left-wing loons for years."

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM. Reason : .]

4/7/2008 2:01:11 PM