Comments on: Randi Rhodes Suspended For Calling Hillary ‘Big F-ing Whore’

By: PROUDAMERICAN

PROUDAMERICAN — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:48:37 +0000

WHY DIDN'T OBAMA OBJECT TO RHODES' OUTBURSTS? HE WAS THE FIRST CANDIDATE TO DEMAND DON IMUS BE FIRED WHEN HE MADE REMARKS ABOUT A WOMEN'S TEAM----OOPS---I FORGOT---THEY WERE BLACK. HE ONLY FIGHTS FOR HIS FATHER'S HERITAGE---NOT HIS MOTHER'S. TYPICAL WHITE PEOPLE DON'T COUNT.

By: Gilman Vital

Gilman Vital — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:56:25 +0000

I really don't think this merits a suspension, but I agree that Randi Rhodes comments were over the line and distasteful. I think the fact that she didn't say this on the air should be considered. Air America obviously hired her because of her outrageousness, so Air America shouldn't try to disown her as soon as that outrageousness boils over. I think she should be let off with a warning.

By: J Hernandez

J Hernandez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:26:34 +0000

How can someone like this woman can be allowed to host a Radio show?? Why was Imus fired again??? No matter how bad she may think Ferraro and Clinton are, the whore like behavior belongs to
Randi Rhodes. They should keep her off the airwaves. All her admirers should have their own fund raising for her. You will need the money to get this nut-job a 10 years counseling program with Dr Phil

By: Eneils Bailey

Eneils Bailey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:06:37 +0000

Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton

Ever once in a while, I listen to this person on the radio; I think she falls somewhere to the left of Marx and Engels and to the right of Mao Tse-Tung and Stalin.
Don't want to give her too much credit, she may increase her listening audience from ten to twelve.

By: ObamaMama

ObamaMama — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:21:42 +0000

in response to Opinionated1, how she handled herself during Monika-gate is irrelevant. How long ago was that? How is she handling herself now? She has been grasping at straws, trying to come up with ways to re-interpret the facts. It's rather pathetic and sad, really. And then there's Bill. Until recently, I was impressed with what he'd been doing post-white house with all the charity work, but now, he's coming off at least as bad as Hillary. They both apparently think they are entitled to it. The arrogance! She thought she had it all wrapped up well before super-Tuesday, which she thought would confirm her assumption. And she was OK with FL & MI being stripped of their delegates back then, too. She agreed to not campaign in those states. Was she not disenfranchising them?! She and her campaign are acting more and more republican in their tactics and their tone as time passes. I would have voted for her, if Obama hadn't come into the picture, and I was torn for a while, but the more she opens her mouth, the more I'm convinced Obama is absolutely the right choice. Hilary is a politician, Obama is an inspiration.

By: M1EK

M1EK — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:38:41 +0000

She's just awful. When we still had AA here in Austin, I tried to listen, and she was a less entertaining version of Rush Limbaugh with the kind of accent I still have nightmares about from growing up in South Florida.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:04:51 +0000

This comment refers to a since-deleted spam message - jhj

tom chastain:
Way to push book sales in a completely unrelated story.

Well, maybe there is some relationship to whoring and unsolicited sales pitches....

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:07:54 +0000

This is part of why I am enjoying this years democratic primary. It is exposing the left's hypocrisy. Saying vile things about republicans is just humor, can't you take a joke? Say something vile about a democrat and its suspensions and lawsuits.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:06:41 +0000

She is just another Andrew Dice Clay - nothing intelligent to say therefore just fill the airtime with expletives - can you imagine if this was done by Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity? There would be congressional inquiries.

By: Opinionated1

Opinionated1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:06:22 +0000

This race is amazing. Hillary a whore....if anything she handled herself with dignity and grace during that whole Monica thing. Where do these people come off.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:45:08 +0000

How does one suspend an "on-air" host for a radio network that isn't broadcast anywhere?

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:38:25 +0000

On what basis, Richard, do you make that statement?

By: Richard Jacobs

Richard Jacobs — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:22:04 +0000

Perhaps she should not have called Ferraro and Clinton whores, but calling Nixon, Reagan and Cheney racists and anti-Semites is right on.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:20:24 +0000

Ah, but did she call them big f — -ing racists?

I don't recall. One suspects the Air America management isn't particularly offended by expletives, though, given their track record.

By: Irony abounds:Randi Rhodes calls anti-Obama types ““big f-ing whores” | BitsBlog

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:11:36 +0000

[...] ----James Joyner: The bitterness of the Democratic presidential race kicked up another notch yesterday, with the discovery that popular Air America radio host Randi Rhodes recently performed a profanity-laced standup routine in which both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton were repeatedly referred to as “big f-ing whores” (minus the sanitization, naturally). (She also called Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Dick Cheney racists and anti-Semites but Air America seems not to be upset by that.) [...]