2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThank goodness Randi Rhodes is back on the air. She's a great Democrat and American.
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DinahMoeHum
(22,426 posts)Thanks
floriduck
(2,262 posts)liberalla
(9,878 posts)floriduck
(2,262 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)George Eliot
(701 posts)She was the best researched of all of them on current information.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)Yeah, no interest in listening to Randi Rhodes. Who refused to even apologize for that slime.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Turned into a cross between Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter. So did Stephanie Miller. I will never listen to either of them again.
Zorro
(16,210 posts)larkrake
(1,674 posts)Hillary over-reacted, a preview of tyranny echoed by the whitehouse staff. Cross Hillary and you die professionally. But Randi is back, this time on a channel Hill cannot bark at. she is fearless and very popular. She liked Obama so saw to her personal life for 8 yrs. Now she has raw meat and will expose both nominees dark sides.A counterbalance of the drivvel coming from corp media. I am so happy.Yes I expect her to go after Hillary, but Hill is use to that. She is just as strong a woman as Hillary and wont back down. I have to credit her a little vengence. It is going to be entertaining.
The GE was going to be so damn boring, now we have some fun coming our way
kimbutgar
(23,040 posts)The energy was sucked out if the room and several people got up and walked out. I didn't expect her to be taken off the air so swiftly.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)She was unlistenable for about 4 months before she got herself fired.
zappaman
(20,608 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)I don't listen to women who call Democratic women "whores."
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)There are so many elephants in the room of DU these days, I'm surprised there hasn't been a stampede.
DemonGoddess
(5,012 posts)obamanut2012
(27,716 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Frankly, some part of me liked it better when those that are now spewing their hate over at Jackass Ridiculous could spew it here. Now they're just being passive-aggressive and posting their Hillary hate in ways that lack enough context to fly under the alert radar, especially without the ability to comment or put it into context. Kudos to them for mastering such vague tactics but it does make the discourse rather difficult because the real thing they're trying to say is that much harder to address. I suppose we must feel pity for them. They are in the death throes of their dreams, especially with Bernie poised to support our candidate. I can't say I didn't wonder if he would do the right thing, especially with the Jacked Up Roidicals going on constantly about how he's going to run independent, but then, like the 9/11 truthers, I think some of them will still be campaigning for Bernie when he's little more than a footnote on Ancestry.com.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)... "The line".
A test to see what they can get away with.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)JCanete
(5,272 posts)don't call democrats out for the same things you've been calling republicans out for for decades, you are a hypocrite and a shill, and thankfully she wasn't.
larkrake
(1,674 posts)bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)If you like seeing truth exposed and muck raked in an entertining manner, even if the wrongdoers are on your side Randi is great.
That's the divide here. As someone who believes that sunshine is the best disinfectant, I like Randi.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)jack_krass
(1,009 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)but she's a pathetic hack who called Hillary Clinton a whore. I've seen calls for banning people on DU for using that word about women.
RandiFan1290
(6,366 posts)We love her
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)you down for being a complete hypocrite? Got it. And you use "we" pretty liberally there - I've been here a very long time and I don't love her - at all. She deserved all the problems she got from her big mouth.
RandiFan1290
(6,366 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)That was proven as she trashed Maddow and Franken. She is a friend of the right.
kimbutgar
(23,040 posts)I am a liberal who listened to her for years. Never heard her say repuke stuff.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I have heard all I can of Randi. No more. She has a long track record of trashing progressives, an ego that is second to none, and a limited grasp of the language considering her profession.
Mike Nelson
(10,248 posts)...fond of Randi. But I'm for free speech. I'm guessing she will be an aggressive critic of the approaching HRCadministration.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Mark Green, President of Air America Radio, said, "Her abusive, obscene comments obviously crossed the line of what talent at a media company could say," and added that the comments "were in the Imus league," referring to radio host Don Imus.
MineralMan
(147,300 posts)living room coffee klatch.
leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)Response to leeroysphitz (Reply #35)
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obamanut2012
(27,716 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Air America suspended Rhodes from the network on April 3, 2008 after an event in San Francisco, California for Air America affiliate KKGN. While doing a 'Stand-up' Comedy act, Rhodes said on March 22, 2008:
"Geraldine Ferraro turned out to be the David Duke in drag ... What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is! She's such a fucking whore! I wanna see her have to stand beside her husband at one of those mandatory 'I have sinned against you; I'm a whore' kind of a press conference. Mr. Ferraro should have to stand next to his whore of a wife ... Hillary is a big fucking whore, too. You know why she's a big fucking whore? Because her deal is always, 'Read the fine print, asshole!'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randi_Rhodes#Departure_from_Air_America
Chemisse
(30,990 posts)This forum is for discussing the 2016 elections.