Right-wing conspiracy causes Randi Rhodes to fall while walking her dog
posted at 2:22 pm on October 16, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Oh, to think of the fun we would have had with the inevitable “Countdown” segment tonight blaming the mugging that wasn’t on Michelle, if only the Daily News had held back its report another eight hours or so. For of all sad words of tongue or pen…
Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.
Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night. Elliot, 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 Talking Radio, a blog. “Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? Are they trying to silence intimidate us?”
A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Cops from Manhattan’s 17th Precinct called her attorney, who told them Rhodes was not a victim of a crime, the source said.
Rhodes’ lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog.
In defense of Elliott, bad-faith accusations come with the job at AAR: former host Mike Malloy was known to ruminate about the lingering questions surrounding 9/11 and Rhodes herself, when she’s not busy “joking” about Bush’s assassination, has a super-keen theory about how the bridge collapse this summer in Minneapolis was, as all bad things are and must be, a direct result of the wingnut war for oil. As my least favorite nutroots commentator is wont to say, this is who they are and this is what they do. So don’t act surprised when they do it. Thanks to Shawn Wasson for the tip.
Update: See LGF’s last update. Gawker thinks it has an explanation for Rhodes’s calamitous fall.
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Cry me a river…
eanax on October 16, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Rove again! This guy just will not go away!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on October 16, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Well if Bush hadn’t been focusing all his energy on Iraq he could have been there walking her dog for her. Hmmmm government provided pet care……why it has to be a right.
Kahuna on October 16, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Which is worse: if they’re knowingly throwing around false accusations or if they actually believe this crap?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on October 16, 2007 at 2:30 PM
“She would not have tripped if we were paying for infrastructure and sidewalk repair instead of BLOOD FOR OIL!!!!!!’
/I live near Berzerkeley, i got their rap down……
bbz123 on October 16, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Come on, some one in power supressed the report and forced her to recant the report.
Anyway, isn’t Rush in NY today?
sunny on October 16, 2007 at 2:33 PM
Fool.
Since I refuse to enter into debates with liberals anymore, I’ve decided to send a tossed salad in my place, just to even things out.
reaganaut on October 16, 2007 at 2:33 PM
Word was she was assaulted at gunpoint.
She does know what gunshots sound like, right? After all, she uses them on her show when she waxes about assassinating Bush.
Feel better, Randi, and stay classy, Air America.
saint kansas on October 16, 2007 at 2:33 PM
Instant Karma would seem to be the liberal mantra at times such as these. Being a Christian and all, I don’t believe in Karma, nor Mantras. I think
God reached right down into Gomorrah and tweaked her with one of those finger tweaks and bounced her ugly, fat stinker off a brick wallshe just tripped while walking her dog.Jaibones on October 16, 2007 at 2:35 PM
How can you silence Air America when they’re already silent?
MadisonConservative on October 16, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Aaww, Wandy fall down, go boom.
Kini on October 16, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Strong.
Jaibones on October 16, 2007 at 2:36 PM
What a bunch of clowns on Air America.
I guess they’re still broadcasting?
forest on October 16, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Had Global Warming(tm) not caused the climate of New York to become so hot that banana trees now grow wild there, the banana peel laying on the sidewalk wouldn’t have been there and she wouldn’t have tripped.
Hollowpoint on October 16, 2007 at 2:38 PM
air what???…who is randull roads…???…never heard of her/it…
areseaoh on October 16, 2007 at 2:42 PM
boo freakin hoo
I’ll be a typical liberal in expressing that i’m sorry she didn’t break her damn jaw on the way down and can’t talk for 6 months because it’d give her audience a break and a chance for their poor ears to recover.
and in case tehre are liberals I was being sarcastic
Defector01 on October 16, 2007 at 2:45 PM
It’s truly staggering that this is par for the course with libs. Lying is simply what they do. I suppose the guy who spouted off all this crap will say it was “just a joke.”
And once again, assign to others what they themselves are trying to do to those exact others.
crazy_legs on October 16, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Further deterioration of our infrastructure causes more pain and suffering of American citizens. The sidewalks would be safe for all if only Bush and his lackeys had just laid down and died when the Floida vote was in dispute.
drewas on October 16, 2007 at 2:47 PM
A botched joke.
In the manner of Genghis Kahn.
saint kansas on October 16, 2007 at 2:49 PM
And the retards at Air Amerika have the nerve to wonder why nobody will listen to them. With any luck keeping them on the air will bleed comrade Soro’s dry.
doriangrey on October 16, 2007 at 2:49 PM
Actually, crazy_legs, I think their schtick is that it’s “satire”.
Jaibones on October 16, 2007 at 2:50 PM
The Bush Administration must have really intimidated her to get her to cover it up. I bet her stance on the war will suddenly change when she’s back on the air.
frankj on October 16, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Jaibones on October 16, 2007 at 2:50 PM
That’s what Alan Colmes will say.
jdawg on October 16, 2007 at 2:52 PM
The long-winded Rhoads has left a spool of jeers.
mymanpotsandpans on October 16, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Rhodes hard and put away toothless.
T J Green on October 16, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Gossip is more powerful than truth, researchers just concluded.
Entelechy on October 16, 2007 at 2:52 PM
I hope Ms. Rhodes’ injuries were not as severe as Mr. Elliott reported, and that if she is scraped up from her fall, she will recover quickly. I hope her dog is OK too.
RushBaby on October 16, 2007 at 2:53 PM
wooooooooow. those accusations are on some tinfoil hat level of weird. even if she did get mugged…CMONNNNN, no one knows who the hell that chick is, let alone “hates” her enough for her liberal positions to freakin mug her. jeez
ernesto on October 16, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Don’t worry, CNN will cover this as a right wing hit job
Defector01 on October 16, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Rush just mentioned it at the end of his show, called her insane.
He also got a caller that bestowed upon him the honorary title of “Microphone Marine”, as he is very adept at this weapon of choice, the golden EIB microphone.
The caller also went on to say that Pelosi,etc are “phony Americans”
It was great.
bbz123 on October 16, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Air America is still on the air??? What childrens organization/charity did they scam this time?
striper1 on October 16, 2007 at 2:59 PM
She really was mugged. The only problem is that AAR brought Nifong in to conduct a private investigation of the assault, and when he conducted a photo array consisting entirely of Republican Senators, Rhodes would identify the picture of Lieberman in blackface as her attacker each time. It was found that the accusation did not play well with the New York Money Men, so she was forced to back away from her allegations.
rw on October 16, 2007 at 3:04 PM
‘Phoney Mugger Fugger’
Wade on October 16, 2007 at 3:04 PM
Maybe one of the poor underprivileged children from that Bronx school Air America stole from enacted a little revenge?
kcluva on October 16, 2007 at 3:06 PM
Isn’t the loathesome and venomous MIke Malloy a true blown Truther?
Kensington on October 16, 2007 at 3:06 PM
Boo-fvckin’-hoo.
Andy in Agoura Hills on October 16, 2007 at 3:06 PM
+1 to RushBaby. Best wishes to Rhodes for a full recovery, whatever happened. (Hopefully, when Rhodes feels better, she’ll clear the situation up.)
Kind of scary how fast the thread at Talking Radio turned ugly. The tone of the original post and those wild on-air accusations sure didn’t help.
Well-Armed Lamb on October 16, 2007 at 3:07 PM
Hmmm… interesting…
I heard one of my Dad’s freinds say America is going to the dogs… but…
Mike Vick’s whole thing started when a Police dog alerted on a vehicle he owned… started the whole chain of events which brought him down…
Could Rhodes dog have had somthing to do with her “accident”?
Maybe even the dogs a fed up enough to stick a hand… er… paw… into the situation…
/takes off his tinfoil hat and looks strangly at his dog…
Romeo13 on October 16, 2007 at 3:08 PM
I have never heard of these people. After checking the links I have reached the conclusion that I live in a much better world than those of you who live in places where these people are actually heard over the air.
Buford on October 16, 2007 at 3:09 PM
It’s AirAmerican’t for a reason. I knew that the Party line was false when “while walking her dog” was used. Everybody knows that the dog always walks the Socialist. You see, Socialists can’t do anything for themselves – even walking the dog.
It’s the little things – yes, the little things that expose the lies.
OhEssYouCowboys on October 16, 2007 at 3:09 PM
No! Randy Rhoads died in a plane crash! Ozzy is still traumatized to this day!
Black Adam on October 16, 2007 at 3:12 PM
They’re shocked someone heard about this.
Countdown to the satire defense in 3…2…1…
Exit question: If Air America goes off the air, how will anyone know?
JammieWearingFool on October 16, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Is Air America resorting to financing from the tooth fairy?
gabriel sutherland on October 16, 2007 at 3:17 PM
Ace has more via a Gawker reader.
Hearsay? You betcha! But that didn’t stop this from initially being a right wing fascist conspiracy!!!
Hoodlumman on October 16, 2007 at 3:17 PM
Republicans couldn’t do a better job of silencing Error America than they themselves are doing by being completely unlistenable. But I’m sure they constantly fantasize that they’re being kept down by the Man.
I think her lawyer’s part in this is pretty interesting, though–it’s funny how even he doesn’t want any part of
EllIdiot’s phony paranoid delusions.ReubenJCogburn on October 16, 2007 at 3:18 PM
I think “Waaahndi”might be a better spelling.
Allah, Quick! Go check The View to see if Joy(less) has started ranting about “what this party is capable of” again!
The Monster on October 16, 2007 at 3:20 PM
For conservatives to be concerned enough about what Randi Rhodes says on the radio that they’d want to silence her is like the rest of the NFL hiring mob hits on the Miami Dolphins to insure they don’t play in the Super Bowl…
radjah shelduck on October 16, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Her dog was unavailable for comment.
JammieWearingFool on October 16, 2007 at 3:32 PM
Come on guys. You know if she wasn’t mugged physically, she is being mugged mentally, everyday, by “right-winged nuts” who are terrified by the “brilliant” oratory she dispenses to her six (6) audience members every day.
Good grief! I am sure even these nuts at AAR didn’t expect this much success when they planned this PR stunt.
RMR on October 16, 2007 at 3:33 PM
Wow. After all that, and it’s possible she just got drunk?
I don’t wish ill on her, but her audience is loony.
Esthier on October 16, 2007 at 3:37 PM
She was bombed and fell on her arse.
I’d put money on it.
Talon on October 16, 2007 at 3:40 PM
Yup, here it is
Randi Rhodes was no more assaulted by a right-wing fanatic on Monday than Dick Cheney was. She, in fact, fell down and injured her teeth outside of a Midtown Irish bar at around 6 o’clock Sunday evening after downing about fourteen Ketel One Bloody Marys. She was abusive to the barstaff and generally gross, crass, loud, and pretentious. I genuinely hope she has a speedy recovery. I never would’ve disclosed this (I believe that anyone should feel free to hang out at Irish pubs at any time and not be concerned about someone publishing their behavior) if Air America hadn’t grossly interpreted a drunken indiscretion and allowed it to be morphed into some bullish rhetoric on air. Whatever journalistic integrity the station may have ever had is now completely compromised. The manipulation of the public diminishes any cause, whether just or fabricated.
bbz123 on October 16, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Rover again!
Fixed that for you.
right2bright on October 16, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Rover, that magnificent bitch!
right2bright on October 16, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Like that time Hillary was sexually assaulted on stage at gunpoint* by Rick Lazio!
*By gun, of course I’m referring to the sharp-edged phallus-like sheet of paper he was holding.
saint kansas on October 16, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Ahhh… but it was a Right Wing Bloody Mary….
Romeo13 on October 16, 2007 at 3:49 PM
how dare she place a collar and leash on that poor dog , this is torture and its about time the poor innocent
dogvictim broke free of its bonds of slavery.there is only one Randy Rhodes and it is not you ,
you toothless liberal hack.
Mojack420 on October 16, 2007 at 3:49 PM
This bimbo is wild-eyed in-freaking-sane.
infidel4life on October 16, 2007 at 3:50 PM
I confess. It was I who made Randi Rhodes fall. I am part of the right wing death squad who planted the banana peel in Rhodes path. We’ve been surveilling her and her dog for weeks, studying the optimum place to plant that peel and take her out. Blast our luck, she turned to look at something just as she planted her foot not quite on the banana. We missed it by an inch.
So we’ve gone back to the drawing table for a new plan. This time we’re ordering jet-powered roller skates from the Acme Company to run her down. Heh, heh, heh. They don’t call us super-geniuses for nothing.
Tantor on October 16, 2007 at 3:51 PM
She was drunk …
darwin on October 16, 2007 at 3:59 PM
But the important point is that the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is chock full of the sort of people who would have mugged her if only they had the chance, and that’s the thing we need to focus on, people! Also, how do you know that Cheney’s Haliburton cronies didn’t grease her front step with some of that oil they stole from Iraq?
morganfrost on October 16, 2007 at 4:02 PM
It is really bad when your lawyer disses you. That should be a pretty good clue that you are waaaayy overboard.
right2bright on October 16, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Sigh… I told you not to try to launch that bannana peel with the Acme Catapult! Anything under 5 tons in weight makes it an unstable fireing platform!
As to the Rocket skate idea… don’t forget the optional Rocket backpack… just make sure you lean over enough so you are propeled forward… and watch out for cliffs…
Romeo13 on October 16, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Another ill-advised liberal attempt to walk while chewing gum…
trigon on October 16, 2007 at 4:25 PM
I believe that’s Jenjis, to you.
Jaibones on October 16, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Hey, Blackwater had to do something since they’ve been kicked out of Iraq for killing children and puppies…
/nutroots
Bad Candy on October 16, 2007 at 4:35 PM
The rabid, psychotic ravings of the tinfoil hat brigade is an example of what too much pot can do to you. Then again, I don’t think that the word moderation is in the vocabulary of a tinfoil hatter.
Personally, I find them quite amuseing, in a “I’m so glad I’m my parents daughter sort of way”. I can’t imagine living my life filled with as much bitterness (no wonder the average lib female always wears a pinched expression on her face!)or paranoia as these people. It must be a horrible way to live, always being the victim of some huge, invisible cabal.
Perhaps we should pray for them?
Pulchritudinous Patriot on October 16, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Back to the plastic surgeon for her!
jugger on October 16, 2007 at 4:41 PM
Ahahahahahahahaha! Funniest quote in a while. Although I have to admit the child-like naivete of AAR is sort of charming. I bet both of their listeners had a chuckle too.
Mallard T. Drake on October 16, 2007 at 4:56 PM
That’s the real story here: Air America is Still on the Air! Who knew? (Except the 9 people who actually listen.)
foxforce91 on October 16, 2007 at 5:06 PM
BTW: A good fall could only improve her looks. That woman is Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly – no matter how much plastic surgery she gets, it won’t help.
foxforce91 on October 16, 2007 at 5:07 PM
Rhodes purchased the dog as a puppy from a known, outspoken neocon breeder of conservative hounds, raising speculation that the dog had been pre-programmed to attack Rhodes by intentionally darting out in front of her only to suddenly stop, causing her to trip and fall. In a rather amusing act of disrespect, witnesses then reportedly saw the dog lifting it’s hind leg and releaving himself against Rhodes prostrate frame.
CliffHanger on October 16, 2007 at 5:10 PM
I heard that a little DRAGONFLY distracted her dog and cause the whole thing!
It laughed as it flew away, carrying off one of her teeth, which was later found under Karl Rove’s pillow.
profitsbeard on October 16, 2007 at 5:24 PM
hmmmmmm she was walking her dog….. maybe it was a lovers spat?
j/k
mrfixit on October 16, 2007 at 5:30 PM
Rosie O, “The first time in history concrete broke teeth.”
The Zoo Keeper on October 16, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Apparently Ace has been attacked (probably killed) in retailiation by lefty hobos wearing Al Franken masks and Ron Paul pins.
http://minx.cc/?post=243709
Iblis on October 16, 2007 at 6:00 PM
this is basicly the same thing neo-nazi Michael Crook tried to pull when people weren’t paying enough attentioin to him.
http://urbangrounds.com/2005/05/17/michael-crook-not-dead/
jummy on October 16, 2007 at 6:03 PM
Paranoia!
terryannonline on October 16, 2007 at 6:03 PM
“Mugged by Fantacy”
jummy on October 16, 2007 at 6:22 PM
she was beaten by her boyfreind in canada.
jummy on October 16, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Is it just me or is the fact that the liberal bloggers were calling it a hate crime, not only very telling but hilarious. political affiliation constitutes harsher penalties?
CaptainObvious on October 16, 2007 at 6:26 PM
Is her dog a republican?
- The Cat
MirCat on October 16, 2007 at 7:00 PM
She must’ve tripped over a 6-year olds’ chalk drawing/graffiti on the pavement.
Or maybe she was just hopping scotch.
Coronagold on October 16, 2007 at 7:16 PM
She should have gone all out and written “MOONBAT” on her own forehead with a Sharpie. In reverse.
(What, nobody else remembers Morton Downey Jr.?)
Jim Treacher on October 16, 2007 at 7:29 PM
… So I guess she gets to stay Liberal.
Gwillie on October 16, 2007 at 7:52 PM
Randi often stumbles, as she tries to walk the dog from the wrong end of the leash.
petefrt on October 16, 2007 at 8:27 PM
That’s the second time I’ve noticed you quoting Quaker poetry, Allah… Let’s try to stick to Aliens clips and such, please.
Alex K on October 16, 2007 at 8:49 PM
Man oh man…she must have been pretty tanked to bounce her face into the concrete or whatever she did to lose some teeth?
I remember in past when I was drinking and in all the times I was badly inebriated, I never did something like this??
Weird….funny….but weird….
Albertanator on October 16, 2007 at 8:53 PM
dose this mean we will start hearing the cries about needing free dental care for all Americans ????
a flower here
a butterfly there
moonbat teeth every where.
Mojack420 on October 16, 2007 at 9:10 PM
“Ring around the Randy, pocket full of candy…ashes to ashes she falls down”.
SouthernGent on October 16, 2007 at 9:19 PM
I’m just surprised they didn’t blame Bush.
They’re getting soft. But they still get high marks
for stupid.
Texyank on October 16, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Randi Rhodes was mugged. The mugger’s name was Jack Daniels.
SoulGlo on October 16, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Jack Daniels was just fending off her unwanted sexual advances.
Mojack420 on October 16, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Does Elliot think that Randi is too ugly to be sexually assaulted?
4shoes on October 16, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Maybe the sidewalk is a radical right wing lunatic.
Jordan Yentsch on October 16, 2007 at 10:33 PM
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