Err Amerika’s Randi Rhodes Attacked?
by Big Dog on Oct 16, 2007 at 11:04 Uncategorized
There is an Internet report that Liberal Radio Show Host Randi Rhodes of Err Amerika was assaulted and badly beaten while walking her dog near her New York apartment. Rhodes lost several teeth and will be out of work for at least a week. Let me start by saying that I pray she heals and that they catch the scum who did this.
I do want to address the idiots on the left who are, without evidence, accusing the “right wing hate machine” of trying to threaten and intimidate Liberal talk out of fear. Liberal talk accounts for about 10% of the programming on talk radio and Rush Limbaugh has a larger audience than all of Err Amerika’s staff combined. Of course, I do not know who did this or what the motivation was but I am willing to bet that it was not some Conservative looking to attack her. However, I will wait to see who they catch and what they say before I comment on the attacker. Let it suffice to say that, it is more likely that she was the victim of a random act of violence than a deliberate attack. It might have even been one of the poor drug abusers or violent criminals that Liberals like Rhodes want rehabilitated and released from jail.
Of course, in New York people are not allowed to carry guns unless they are police or body guards for important people. However, I will state this right up front so there will be no mistake abut it, open carry permits would not have helped Rhodes. She is a Liberal and does not believe in gun ownership (though many libs want to take that right from us while retaining it for themselves, like Dianne Feinstein). I cannot help but wonder if she will have a change of heart about being able to defend oneself when threatened. If Rhodes had a firearm, perhaps she would not have been beaten. Maybe now she will actually support the Second Amendment rather than oppose it and the unconstitutional assault on it and our citizens.
Regardless of all that though, the idiot who filled in for her was way off base blaming the right for this attack. This is not like saying that the crime of defacing the Vietnam Memorial was probably a liberal because a conservative would most likely not do this kind of thing. This attack on the right is not based in any rational thought. New York is full of criminals and an overwhelming number of the prison population (people who eventually get released) are Democrats. Conservatives are not usually involved in violent crimes. Of course there are some extremists in any group but by and large violent criminals are likely to be liberal and registered (if at all) as Democrat. I am not going to say what ideology the attacker had because I do not know though I know what it is most likely to be. This could prove wrong but we will only find out if and when the attacker is caught. This premature condemnation of the right only shows how ignorant and intolerant the left really is. Besides, we already kick their asses on the air, why physically harm them?
I also wonder if people who make a big deal about blaming Liberals for defacing monuments will go to these Liberal sites and admonish them for making accusations without evidence.
It is amazing that the comments from some on the left point to a right wing attack (though some sane people said that they needed to wait to get details).
Those very liberals were saying that they should cruise to the Free Republic to see if anyone is bragging so I went to see. There are more comments wishing here well and hoping that the attackers are caught than anything else.
To their credit, the folks commenting at Kos (from what I have read) are saying it looks like a random crime and they are not jumping on the right wing attack meme, as of yet. There are a few trying to infuse it, but most are not.
I am still having a problem with this not being reported in all the news outlets. It seems to be confined to a few websites and on the show of the loser who filled in for her. Did she really get attacked (and if so, why no news), Is this a publicity stunt? Did she have an abortion that got botched and she needs to be home a few days and the mugging sounded like a better excuse?
I just don’t know. If she was truly attacked then I pray she is OK. If not, just what is going on?
UPDATE: ooooh snap, it appears as if Randi Rhodes fell down while walking her dog and that is how she was injured. She does not know how it happened (maybe her brain had a bit of chemical alteration) but one thing is clear, if she was not mugged she was not mugged by a conservative right wing hate monger. I wonder how many apologies we will see from the ding dongs on the left. I knew that something was fishy when it was not all over the news. Seems the police heard all this stuff and called to find out why she had not reported it. That is when the truth came out from her lawyer. I wonder why Rhodes did not squash this when it first started?? New York Daily News
Tags: Air America, attack, Democrats, mugging, Political Commentary, Randi Rhodes
Did she have an abortion that got botched and she needs to be home a few days and the mugging sounded like a better excuse?
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Okay, while I think it is premature and immature to even say it was some rightwing attack on Ms. Rhodes, you do far worse by making a joke out of a botched abortion. That’s beyond disgusting. Reducing the serious and troubling issue of abortion to the likes of a publicity stunt doesn’t do the pro-life crowd any favors.
Btw, Ms. Rhodes has had a hysterectomy. Know what that is, dumba**?
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“New York is full of criminals and an overwhelming number of the prison population (people who eventually get released) are Democrats. Conservatives are not usually involved in violent crimes. Of course there are some extremists in any group but by and large violent criminals are likely to be liberal and registered (if at all) as Democrat.”
Really? Care to back that up with some actual statistics? It’s hard to take anything one says seriously when such ridiculous generalizations are being thrown around without any factual support
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Of course I know what it is, I am a medical professional.
I was just pointing out that there are any number of reasons that she could be off the air and that immediately attacking the right is no more sensible as alluding to any other.
New York City crime rate increases
This Study demonstrates the Democratic mix of felons. The opening paragraph says it and there are other references. The nutshell is, felony disenfranchisement affects the Democratic party more than the Republican party because more Democrats are affected by felon status.
I pray for her quick recovery and I also pray Randi Rhodes and and her fellow Air America Radio hosts who dont know JESUS in their lives will come to know him.
JOHN 3:16-17:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
None of the Air America hosts know Jesus? I think that’s a pretty arrogant statement to make, and I’m pretty sure that’d come as a surprise to the many Christians who are working for Air America.
Regarding the crime statistics you’ve supplied, I don’t think anyone would be particularly surprised that crime rates have risen in several cities. It’s a growing problem all over the country (as that article makes fairly clear). As for the study you linked to, I think we have to be careful and think critically when someone makes a broad statement like “Felons are most likely to vote democratic,” simply because that kind of statement leads to false conclusions being formed. In this case, are Democrats more likely to commit felonies because of their political ideology, or are lower class minorities (who are more likely to vote Democratic in the first place) simply more likely to be convicted of felonies? I’d argue it’s very clearly the latter.
I don’t think there’s anything about one’s political ideology that makes them more predisposed to commit crimes. After all, it sure seems to me that both major political parties are fairly concerned with reducing the crime statistics you linked to previously.
Nate,
I do not believe that I said a political ideology makes one more predisposed to commit crime though I suppose one could comment on what types of crimes might be influenced by ideology.
I believe conservatives commit many crimes, usually white collar and less violent ones. However, they still commit crimes.
The fact is, a high number of folks in jail are black and Hispanic and these demographics register as Democrats in overwhelming numbers. There is no escaping that. However, this does not imply a cause and effect relationship just as there is no cause/effect on her being attacked and it being a right winger (though now we know she was not attacked). People were quick to jump on that, let us not forget.
I never said that other cities were not full of criminals, but we were talking about New York. The fact is, Baltimore here in my state, has more crime than New York.
I only took issue with your statement that “Conservatives are not usually involved in violent crimes” since the likely conclusion to be to be drawn here is that Liberals are somehow more violent people than Conservatives. I’d argue that Liberals are no more predisposed to violence or crime than Conservatives simply because of their political ideology, but that those who commit crimes are likely to be low class impoverished people who largely vote Deomcratic.
Nate, I do not disagree with your assessment. I do not think, and I tried to make clear, that the ideology does not cause the criminal behavior but people more disposed to violent crime are likely to be Democrats. However, poverty is not necessarily the only factor. There are many impoverished people who are Republican who are not violent criminals. Certainly there are some.
However, certain demographics, such as the black population, are hugely Democratic and they have a high rate of single parent households. The gangster rap culture also plays into the ideology.
My point was that if it was a violent rime there are many possibilities that should be thought of before saying a right winger attacked her.
I appreciate your input and I can see how what I wrote would lead you in the direction you went.