For the love of GOD, somebody give Randi Rhodes a lozange!!!

[Artemis Bunyon]

She's been hacking up phlegm for WEEKS now for Christ's sake. I love her show, but her constant coughing into the mic might just turn me off for good.

[movonne]

1. Really!!!

[Butterflies]

2. I assume she's a smoker

when I smoked I had that cough too.

[Artemis Bunyon]

4. "Buh-HWAUGHK!!! buh-HWAUGHK!!!" right into the mic.

Not very pleasant.

[caledesi]

8. She is a heavy smoker and yes, when I smoked I had the same

cough.

8 years smoke-free

[hippiechick]

3. I vote for a valium

She irritates me to no end.




:hippie:

[Carson]

6. Amen. n/t

[hippiegranny]

7. i like her

i think she's funny. every so often she gets a little carried away, but she is smart and a fast thinker.

[NervousRex]

5. AAR needs a fund drive

for a new cough button.

[krkaufman]

9. I could take the coughing...

... if she'd just mention Sibel Edmonds during her discussion of the translation "difficulties."

Transcript of '60 Minutes' Sibel Edmonds interview ...

Edmonds says that to her amazement, from the day she started the job, she was told repeatedly by one of her supervisors that there was no urgency,- that she should take longer to translate documents so that the department would appear overworked and understaffed. That way, it would receive a larger budget for the next year.

“We were told by our supervisors that this was the great opportunity for asking for increased budget and asking for more translators,” says Edmonds. “And in order to do that, don't do the work and let the documents pile up so we can show it and say that we need more translators and expand the department.”

Edmonds says that the supervisor, in an effort to slow her down, went so far as to erase completed translations from her FBI computer after she'd left work for the day.

“The next day, I would come to work, turn on my computer, and the work would be gone. The translation would be gone,” she says. “Then I had to start all over again and retranslate the same document. And I went to my supervisor and he said, ‘Consider it a lesson and don't talk about it to anybody else and don't mention it.’

"The lesson was don’t work, and don’t do the translations. ...Don't do the work because -- and this is our chance to increase the number of people here in this department."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml

Yet nobody other than Ms Edmonds has been fired.