Strange To Say The Least On This Event...

The only time you ever hear anything more than a peep from this amazingly still on the air failure Air America it's something strange and goofy like this episode from yesterday now in the news barely.

Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged:

New York Daily News "Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but cops and her lawyer say reports she was mugged near her Manhattan apartment were bogus. Fellow host Jon Elliott said on the liberal network that Rhodes was attacked at 39th St. and Park Ave. on Sunday night while walking her dog, Simon. Elliott, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy. 'Is this an attempt by the right-wing hate machine to silence one of our own?' he asked on the air, according to the Talking Radio blog. 'Are we threatening them?'

What an idiot it takes to make a dumb statement like that, as if Randi Rhodes is such an important figure in the world that anyone even gives a damn what she has to say, especially the government.

A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Rhodes' lawyer Robert Gaulin told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog, but she wasn't sure exactly what happened. 'She did get injured. She's in pain and is recovering and looks forward to being back on the air Thursday,' he said. Elliott issued a statement Tuesday apologizing for his on-air comments:

'I shouldn't have speculated based on hearsay that Randi Rhodes had been mugged and that it may have been an attack from a right-wing hate machine,' the statement said. 'I apologize for jumping to conclusions.' Rhodes appeared to have a cut lip when she was ushered to a car in front of her ritzy Park Ave. building Tuesday. She did not answer a reporter's questions."

Can anyone say "drug and alcohol attack machine" would be more like it? A fall from walking the dog requires a day or two off from work, yeah ok. Again her lawyer's quote:

Rhodes' lawyer Robert Gaulin told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog, but she wasn't sure exactly what happened. 'She did get injured.

Wasn't sure what happened? Quite a blackout or buzz that night or morning apparently. A Promises rehab stay sounds like the next press release I'm betting.

UPDATE 10 am cdt

Immediately after posting this story a few hours ago I happened over to my daily read of Newsbusters and they in fact confirmed my suspicions of the obviously drunken state she was likely in after now bogus reports of falling down while walking her dog and losing some teeth, an episode in which her dumb ass Air America co worker described as a right wing attack of some sort that's shown above.

This dumb statement has opened her up to ridicule and scorn by now bringing attention to something that could have remained totally out of the public spotlight and view. However, due to the raging BDS of that host and his reckless on the air radio remark, this is now all over the news and blogs and they have no one to blame but themselves. Too bad for her.

From Newsbusters:

Was Randi Rhodes Mugged by 14 Bloody Marys?

By P.J. Gladnick | October 17, 2007 - 10:24 ET newsbusters photoshop

As reported here in NewsBusters yesterday, liberals immediately began blaming conservatives for the supposed mugging of Air America talk show host Randi Rhodes on a New York steet. After much blame cast in the leftwing blogosphere against evil rightwing muggers as the culprits, it turned out that there was no mugging in the first place. continued

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