RANDI RHODES WAS NOT MUGGED !!!!

[BeatleBoot]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/16/2007-10-16_air_america_host_randi_rhodes_wasnt_mugg.html

The only exercise some people get around here is jumping to conclusions.

[rusty quoin]

1. I need to start exercising. I'll try that 'jump to conclusion' plan.

[Blashyrkh]

2. Well it was a conclusion fed to them before all the information became available, as I undersand it.

[SharonRB]

4. Sounds like Jon Elliott jumped to some conclusions and

put it out there.

[Blashyrkh]

16. That was my point. A conclusion was fed to DUers here, they didn't jump anywhere.

[ret5hd]

3. Huh! Ya' don't say? Oh wait, it's right there in the LBN column:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3030927

[Swamp Rat]

5. LOL!

Love the Ghouliani pic. :D

[annabanana]

6. And why is this report 3 days late?

and via her lawyer?

An ordinary slip & fall would have the victim calling in, jokes about her clumsiness on the air, NOT all this silence.

I guess we will have to wait until Thursday when she is back to get any kind of real info. (Unless, like KO and the anthrax scare, she was asked by the Feds not to talk about it while they investigate)

Something stinky, or at least odd nonetheless.. . .

[Mutineer]

10. Her own lawyer is denying that she was mugged

and I read it in Newsday, not the NYDN. Big difference. AAR has also issued a statement saying it was not a mugging.

[Breeze54]

21. He said they don't know what happened, she may have been pushed

she doesn't remember. Call it what you want.

Attacked? Mugged? Pushed? Shoved? Hit from behind?

She still ended up in the street and didn't know

what happened and is missing teeth.

[cali]

12. 3 days late? Where did you get that from??

She was injured last night aroung 8 p.m. Nothing stinky about it.

[dweller]

7. and the NYDN is

our credible source du jour?

:shrug:

dp

[tyedyeto]

8. Tin-foil hat time............

What transpired between the attack and now?

Did she get some sort of warning?

It's happened before and it can happen NOW!

[MADem]

9. Good grief.

This bit sounds ODD, frankly.

Rhodes' lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog. He said she's not sure what happened, and only knows that she fell down and is in a lot of pain. The lawyer said Rhodes expects to be back on the air Thursday. He stressed there is no indication she was targeted or that she was the victim of a "hate crime."

Does she have a significant other who likes to smack her around? Or does she drink excessively?

Or does she have an illness that would cause her to get woozy and fall down like that?

There's something missing here.

At any rate, I hope she feels better. I have to say, I enjoyed it when she took on that crazyass fundy lady who did the "Lalalalalalala I can't HEEEEEAR you!" routine.

[Texasgal]

11. Sometimes....

People just simply FALL.

[MADem]

14. Sure.

But usually, when they "simply FALL" there aren't fifteen bullshit stories that leak out before the 'true' circumstances are revealed.

And usually, when people "simply FALL" they KNOW that this is what happened, and don't have confusion over the course of events like Miss Rhodes expressed.

Certainly, there are exceptions to that usual course of events, but I don't think I am out of line in wondering about this.

It seems a bit curious to me.

[bridgit]

13. Nail? Meet hammer: "The only exercise some people get around here is jumping to conclusions."

True Dat!! :thumbsup: It will be interesting to discover what did happen. They started to let it out today that she wasn't mugged. Said she just "feel down". Still sounds funky and I still wish her well specially if she's just 'falling down'. That still doesn't seem right to me, and I hope her Med people are on top of that situation.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

17. Self delete

Operator error strikes again. MKJ

[bridgit]

18. oh...well then cheers it is...

:toast:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

19. :-)

:toast: MKJ

[Breeze54]

22. From: pinto DU Moderator --> most current update here:

pinto DU Moderator

Tue Oct-16-07 07:17 PM
Response to Original message
144. most current update here:

Attorney for radio's Randi Rhodes disputes report of NYC mugging
1:49 PM EDT, October 16, 2007

NEW YORK -

An attorney for Air America radio personality Randi Rhodes is disputing on on-air report by a colleague that the liberal talk show host was attacked on a Manhattan street.

~snip~

Elliott's account of the incident, however, was contested Tuesday by Rhodes attorney, Robert Gaulin.

Gaulin confirmed that Rhodes was injured after she was floored by someone _ or something _ as she strolled the streets of Manhattan's Murray Hill district around 8 p.m., but wasn't sure herself what sent her tumbling to the pavement.

"She hit her head on the street and was disoriented," Gaulin said. "She's not sure what happened.
She didn't see anything." He added that she never reported the incident to police.

Air America released a statement saying that "the reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded."

Air America's vice president of programming, David Bernstein, said Rhodes missed her shows on Monday and Tuesday, but hoped to be back soon.

more:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny ...

I'm very disappointed in you. I thought you were an open minded liberal.

:(

[bridgit]

25. As we drove about listening to these various reports, in particular the one...

mentioning her not knowing just what happened, which includes you at this point, my husband mentioned further that that is more likely the one way people are taken out without knowing just what happened i.e. being taken out quickly, and violently from behind never seeing your attacker...or the object that has contributed to your malady.

He knew a woman that was the victim of such an event as he found her in that very state all groggy. Having to help reconstruct events for her as she'd lost whole chunks of time while suffering a big ole bruisy bump on her head.

The fact does remain, Breeze54: "The only exercise some people get around here is jumping to conclusions."

I thought you knew that :shrug:

If, as I'd mentioned others mentioned; such as her attorney, she simply fell, then re-posted accounts of Allen Berg will not assist Randi where her doctors will do her a better service.

Let's wait a bit for some additional information before casting any aspersions, or discounting people's thought process or political affiliation shall we, Breeze54? That only makes sense to me.

[Breeze54]

26. .

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

15. There's something hinky about the whole thing, but thanks for your contribution.

:hi: MKJ

[Breeze54]

20. Dumb people post in all caps without searching first for posted topics!

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Randi Rhodes is the Victim of a Violent Attack

Updated on October 16 at 8:50 AM PDT. Update set in bold face italics

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

http://talkingradio.blogspot.com/2007/10/randi-rhodes-is-victim-of-violent.html


SNIP-->

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, shortly after AAR morning talk show host Thom Hartmann, started doing talk radio (about four years ago), he was told by auto mechanic that there were several bullet holes in his car.

"To this day I don't know if somebody shot out my car as kids joyriding with a pistol or rifle... or was a warning or statement of displeasure about my radio show," Hartmann told TR. "I've gotten a lot of death threats and hate mail over the years - hate mail is pretty much a norm in this business - but nobody has taken a shot at me or my car since 2003."

Talk show host, Tom Leykis, who known to express liberal views on his daily "hot talk show" was assaulted outside a Seattle bar three years ago by agitated radio listeners.

According to the Seattle Times, a witness reported two men were involved in the incident:
"…One of the men said to Leykis, "I called your show once and you called me" a name. "You had no right to do that." Then a man standing to Leykis’ left kicked him in the face. The blow knocked him to his knees, leaving his right knee scraped and bruised."

Last year Stephanie Miller received a death threat from a nut case in Ohio named "Sock" Sokolowski. Here's what the letter said in part.

"As with Cindy Sheehan the best thing that could happen to you would be seeing some WONDERFUL
activist sticking an AK-47 up your Glory Holes and sending you into eternity" ---
Miller called Socko during her show (yes, he actually included his phone number in the letter)
and Socko claimed several times during the phone call that he didn't threaten Miller in the letter.

(Socko is not to be confused with Spocko, who is a liberal blogger who was threatened by ABC Radio's lawyers after he posted a list of advertisers to Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan's conservative talk show on KSFO-AM in San Francisco.)

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

What were you saying about people jumping to conclusions? :shrug:

Seems the above validates the speculation.

[me b zola]

23. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!!1!!1!111

[Gravel2008]

24. Damn, that's too bad!

Maybe now we CAN'T blame it on the right wing hate machine after all! If only she would lie and SAY she was mugged so we could still score a political point!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

27. To quote Mos Def,

What's with this "we" s**t? MKJ