The latest Sarah Palin smear from the Left: teen molester
posted at 12:30 pm on September 13, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Just when you thought the Left could not possibly sink any lower in their bid to smear Sarah Palin, Nova M manages to provide what hopefully will be the nadir of their efforts. Randi Rhodes of Nova M Radio told her listeners that she knows Palin’s type — the type that can’t be trusted with teen boys in the neighborhood (via Brian Maloney):
She’s the woman who shows up at the kid’s birthday party and starts opining about everything from politics to lawn care. This is the woman that knows it all. Will shout you down, will get revenge on you. That’s who she is.
She’s friends with all the teenage boys. You have to say no when your kids say, ‘can we sleep over at the Palin’s? No! NO!’
Rhodes recently offered the novel claim that John McCain got treated like a “prince” by his captors in North Vietnam. Apparently her separation from reality has accelerated with this piece of character assassination. There’s really no other term for it; she accuses Palin of being at least a latent child molester.
Even apart from that despicable accusation, the rest of Rhodes’ argument sounds strangely like projection. What does Rhodes herself do for a living? She “opines about everything from politics to lawn care”. Rhodes also acts as though she “knows it all”, including Palin’s sexual proclivities. If Rhodes finds opinion from strong women so offensive, maybe she should find another line of work. After this bit of lunacy, perhaps her employer should expedite that change.
Update: Rhodes is exclusively on Nova M, and has been for several months. She is no longer on Air America.
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Randi Rhodes is a c*nt.
There. I’ve said it. Ban me if you must, Ed and Allah, I’ll happily take the hit for the team.
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:33 PM
rhodes is s disgusting, lying drunk. A useless “newswoman” foma failed nework.
Mazztek on September 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Is she competing with DailyKos for the title of completely deranged idiot?
aikidoka on September 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM
That’s horrific. Someone fire her.
MrsWeebork on September 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM
You’re right, Manly Rash, but I wish Rhoades could read it.
drjohn on September 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM
ManlyRash, those were my exact thoughts while reading this.
sobincorporated on September 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Randi,
Thanks for the new donations.
Sincerely,
McCain/Palin ‘08
James OK on September 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Oh, and I have no problem saying the same thing about men.
sobincorporated on September 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Team Obomica is using the John Kerry playbook now. Excellent.
Rhodes is just another nail in the political coffin for Barry.
Mojave Mark on September 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Guys
We should be thankful for Rhoades and her ilk.
She’s not hurting us, she’s helping us.
drjohn on September 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Watch as the nation gives a collective baseball bat to the head of this useles idiot.
Calm Before the Storm on September 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM
I will never be thankful for a scumbag such as she/he/it.
Calm Before the Storm on September 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Randi Rhodes is a preacher to the choir. Her opinions are a negative gain for the nonmoonbat class. Manly, we should welcome her histrionics because it will embolden the moonbats to slip up and go over the line again and say such things outside their echo chamber.
Err America’s parting gift may well be being remembered for its role in McCain’s win.
A fitting overture actually.
sven10077 on September 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM
I liked her interview with the sidewalk.
Coronagold on September 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Waste of space.
tru2tx on September 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Let us rejoice on how the wacko left is helping us win the election. Unbelievable how insane these people are.
poljunkie on September 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM
That’s what everyone thinks. Should have said it this way though.
Can’t
Understand
Natural
Thinking
I learned this from another HotAir commentator.
cjs1943 on September 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM
I thought BDS was, bad. DrJohn is right though, she is helping our cause. Moderates and independents are hearing this and thinking, this isnt the democrat party I used to consider voting for before.
Elric66 on September 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM
thats all you got?
as John Fund said on Maher, “keep it up.”
billypaintbrush on September 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM
great point Ed.
Calm Before the Storm on September 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Jealous, ugly, and unpopular; homely girls can be soooo mean.
Perhaps a fresh set of batteries for her worn-out vibrator…………
yeah, I went there.
FiveWays on September 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Okay, a joke to amuse everyone:
What is the difference between a pygmy political strategist and Randi Rhodes in the NY Marathon?
The former is a cunning runt…
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Nicely done, CJ. Nicely done. You have class, whereas yours truly is a bloviating ass.
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:39 PM
The beauty of people like Randi Rhodes is that they are self-censoring. With each outlandish and incredible phrase they utter, they make most of their remaining audience a little more embarrassed to listen to them until, as it the case with Ms. Rhodes, their audience boils down to a hardened core of true believers or those who monitor true believers because they can quote them and then classify them as “democrats” or “liberals”. Ms. Rhodes is not typical of democrats or liberals. She is to the left as David Duke is to the right: a wannabe Pol Pot without the army to carry out her purification agenda.
Immolate on September 13, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Just a matter of time before Rhodes gets drunk, passes out and falls on her face in the sidewalk - again.
Philly on September 13, 2008 at 12:39 PM
The fact that Barry is going to the smear card does nothing but erode his credibility with “change’ moderates.
The nutroots are doing nothing but firing up a base for Mccain that was all but dead pre-Palin.
I love the smell of total panic!
jjshaka on September 13, 2008 at 12:39 PM
I believe the word is prick…Joe Biden, for example.
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Slob.
V15J on September 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM
I agree with the “projection” part; I think RR is channeling her inner, secret desires….someone call SVU…
Dale in Atlanta on September 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Ha!
mrsmwp on September 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM
roflmao-
kareyk on September 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Gosh, I don’t know guys. Maybe I am being to Pollyanna. While it is obvious that she feels that there would not be proper adult supervision at the Palin home I think maybe it is being taken a bit far.
Cindy Munford on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Ah, I see what happened. When they started up the LHC it created an alternate reality which is where Randi lives.
rbj on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I have no use for Rhoades, but let’s tap the brakes on the personal name calling. Her own words will damn her in the marketplace of ideas.
That said, I totally understand the sentiments of ManlyRash and everyone else. She is not helping her cause, or her candidate, and I wish we could ignore her freely without consequence. But we have to be there to beat down the spread of her own ignorance.
It is going to be a wild ride between now and Election Day.
itzWicks on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
and the nutroots can’t understand why Air America has no audience like Rush, Hannity, Beck, Ingraham etc…
kareyk on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
If Barry loses, especially by a land-slide;
I can’t imagine the reaction of these far-left fruit-balls.
Seriously- that dgree of crazy doesn’t just dissipate. It has to transfer to something.
Will these vermon eat their own?
Dare I dream?
FiveWays on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I’m sure she has some 90-proof for her allegations.
snickelfritz on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I don’t always have class. I just don’t want to be banned so that I can continue to comment on these threads. But, I’ll tell you, that was exactly what my initial reaction was.
cjs1943 on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
This stuff is awesome. The more ridiculous the claims against Palin, the further Obama falls behind in the polls. Keep it coming, losers!
holygoat on September 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I take great pleasure in knowing that her comments went out to about 5 listeners.
bopbottle on September 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Cindy Munford- that was sarcasm — right?
kareyk on September 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Oh, come now. Let’s get the facts before we point fingers.
Was she sober?
jeff_from_mpls on September 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM
She could pull that stunt at an orgy- and STILL not get laid.
FiveWays on September 13, 2008 at 12:43 PM
*kiss on the forehead*
Don’t ever stop being a sweetheart. Women like you make men like me want to become better persons.
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Another disgusting rant by liberal white trailer trash. Jeez, were these people raised in a closet? And if they were, who opened the damned door and let them loose on polite society?
Savage is right. It’s a mental illness!
hopefloats on September 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Wow, when is the left going to realize that they are shooting themselves, not only in the foot, but in the head with this stuff?
vcferlita on September 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM
If I may so advise, as kindly as possible, though everyone thinks they are being amusing, reference’s to the “C” word, however made, are…well…
Kat_Mo on September 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM
ManlyRash- being a female… the comment TOTALLY applies to her. Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade…
kareyk on September 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Randi Rhodes doesn’t have children of her own does she? I sure wouldn’t want my kids hanging out at her house.
ctmom on September 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM
I’m not watching the clip, I would like to keep my IQ where it is.
Buford on September 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
I’ve never listend to her before.
What frequency does one dial their tin-foil hat - to receive such bat-signals?
FiveWays on September 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Well, she couched that in terms of her being “friends with all the teenage boys”. That’s not a complaint about a lack of supervision; it’s just the opposite.
Also, we should cool it with the name-calling. It doesn’t help to point out the misogyny of the Left by using crude references to female genitalia.
Ed Morrissey on September 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Her timing is perfect. She spouts this garbage right after Barry talks about getting tough. I wonder if he’ll feel the need to disavow this as being part of his attack. :)
a capella on September 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
cjs1943 on September 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Oh, nice…okay…
Randi Rhoades is a piece of
Wretched
Humongous
Ornery
Retarded
Euro-trash…
Dale in Atlanta on September 13, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Obama condemning her comments in 1,000,000…999,999… crickets???
HawaiiLwyr on September 13, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Unless, of course, you are referring to Obama.
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:46 PM
So noted
*pushing my inner Andrew Dice Clay back into the basement*
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:47 PM
See, now I learned something else again. That’s why I like HotAir.
cjs1943 on September 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM
correct- then it would just be empty suited dumb a**
kareyk on September 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Just plain hateful.
Randi, you must be a very sad person. I’ll pray for you.
bridgetown on September 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM
I question the sliming.
Ugly on September 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Isn’t this the same person that got “pushed down” on an NYC sidewalk while walking her dog, then blamed a conservative for doing so? She then had to retract her statement.
I expected nothing less from this tool.
RMCS_USN on September 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM
..this is news?
We need a list of ImPalin’ (thanks to Laura Ingraham) idiots to boycott completely, for all times forward and not continue to highlight them in blogs, and therefore continue to give them a spotlight.
I am not going to expose myself to such lunacy and waste my time on such idiots.
Mcguyver on September 13, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Obama had an extramarital affair has a secret child. I have all the evidence but I won’t share it.
/sarc
It works both ways
justinok on September 13, 2008 at 12:50 PM
I mean this sincerely, honestly……I simply can not wrap my head around the kind of things this woman says. I know no one like this! Is she actually expressing her true honest to goodness thoughts or is it more of her ’schtick’….angy white female liberal….and it is where she has found her ‘audience’ (the half dozen or so there are) and so she is on a mission to outrageous even herself? Each time I read of yet another astonishing quote from her I just shake my head. How could anyone be this angry, this mean, and still find any worth in their lives? It’s just got to be an act.
dustoffmom on September 13, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Ed Morrissey on September 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
I guess everything is relative. When my kids were young the “cool moms” that you didn’t want your kids to be around were supplying liquor. Sorry, real world just to rough sometimes.
Cindy Munford on September 13, 2008 at 12:50 PM
These people are the “Gift” that keeps on giving. I dont know who will drive “The One” over the edge quicker Palin or the leftwing moonbats acting on “the Ones” behalf.
oxnard777 on September 13, 2008 at 12:51 PM
This is what The Left considers “witty”.
SouthernGent on September 13, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Pig in a wig.
RobCon on September 13, 2008 at 12:52 PM
:: jaw drops ::
I just finished contacting ABC and now this. I’m not sure I can take much more. Mocking Obama based on perception is one thing but this. This is beyond anything I have ever seen. It’s no wonder Liberal radio is an epic fail. Obviously, this person is a ratings whore playing to the lowest of the low.
The good news is I have a vote and a circle of influence for getting out the vote. I suggest we all try to focus on that.
Mr_Magoo on September 13, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Damn it! You beat me to it! lol
Spot on ManlyRash, 3 times in a row today.
Where is this c**t and were is a lead pipe?
Damiano on September 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Actually, I think the use of that particular word in this case…..disparages the word…..
Duane1947 on September 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Y’know, more people probably heard this moonbat’s verbal diarrhea here than heard it on her show.
Don’t expand her coverage.
flipflop on September 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM
You can put lipstick on a lib, but it’s still a lib.
jeff_from_mpls on September 13, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Frankly, my nephews would be hanging out at the house all the time. Simply put, “wow! she shoots moose, fishes and drives snow mobiles”. That’s before you get to the cute daughters, the cool son or the dad that runs the big snow mobile race.
Seriously, they are the epitome of the family that all the teenagers swear “wow. your parents are the coolest!”
Obviously because they don’t live with them, but isn’t that always the case?
Anyhow, Randi Rhodes is really just a shock jock. She pretty much has nothing else she can say on Palin. I just keep thinking about Margaret Thatcher. If they can only attack you personally, they can’t lay a glove on your policies.
Kat_Mo on September 13, 2008 at 12:54 PM
This is so typical. We might well get used to it and/or ignoring the craziness. A McCain/Palin win will be more years of BDS only perhaps worse.
Another blog posted a link to HuffPo with an article by some guy wanting to sleep with Palin on his Obama sheets with his wife watching. I’m not posting a link.
It’s terribly sick. Unfortunately, we can’t deport these folks although we can always hope they will self-deport as promised… probably won’t happen. Their one, true joy in life is their misery.
Cody1991 on September 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM
My inner Brit Hume has now emerged.
Ed’s analysis is spot on, of course. The severity and intensity of this personal attack will ultimately boomerang to the detriment of the Obama campaign in light of its recent announcement that “the gloves are off.”
What Ms. Rhodes has tragically failed to consider is that her remarks will travel far beyond the listeners of her radio show and it is in those areas that her words will cause the most damage, as they will offend the sensibilities of average Americans.
Needless to say, members of the alternate media - including websites such as HotAir - will amplify Ms. Rhodes remarks throughout the United States in the weeks to come. I suspect the Obama campaign will be forced to go into defensive mode once again, thereby depriving them of a valuable opportunity to attack.
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Keep it up lefties….
Without a doubt, you are helping us win this election.
Please, keep it up….
Kini on September 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Politically, this benefits the GOP as every other smear not only maintains and strengthens party unity (especially among conservatives), but pulls in independents and moderates.
The only benefit I see to even bringing Air America up at all is because of demonstrating how wide spread the implosion is in the Democrat Party. Rhodes obviously not only felt that way about Palin (no doubt she has far worse comments), but her purpose is to get ratings, and so in her bringing this all up at all demonstrates the audience wants to hear it.
Since the audience wants to hear that sort of stuff, (this isn’t the first instance of foot-in-mouth by Rhodes, nor Air America), I submit that as a major evidence in the Left’s continuing meltdown and implosion.
Keep it up, Dems! It’s been 4th of July ever since the day after your convention.
Weebork on September 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM
ROFL!
flipflop on September 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM
After my initial shudder, I smiled a little. This type of stuff is only good for us, like the way all the Hollywood people help us every election.
Moxie on September 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Per Ed’s post above, no more “c” word.
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:56 PM
The left must have some really sharp knives in order to scrape that much scum off the bottom toilet seats.
rplat on September 13, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Randi Rhodes
Sounds like a porn name.
Mr_Magoo on September 13, 2008 at 12:56 PM
She has to be a neocon plant. Rove you magnificent bastard!
coyoterex on September 13, 2008 at 12:56 PM
If anyone looks and acts like the weird hag in the small town who all the kids thinks is a witch it’s Randi Rhodes.
RobCon on September 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Question:
I am not defending their respective remarks, but how is it that Howard Stern got fined by the FCC more times than anyone in history and Don Imus got fired, but this piece of trash is permitted to rave like a Kos kid with a botched lobotomy and remain unhindered?
Damiano on September 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM
I like you just the way you are. :-)
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Her three listeners were probably amused.
Bishop on September 13, 2008 at 12:58 PM
I just realized who Rhodes reminds me of…Robin Byrd. lol
RobCon on September 13, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Rush’s Undenialbe truth #24 Feminism (used loosely in regards to her)was established to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
kareyk on September 13, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Bill Maher and Rosanne Barr, last night on Bill Maher’s show, might have been worse.
Over30 on September 13, 2008 at 12:59 PM
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Ditto.
Cindy Munford on September 13, 2008 at 1:00 PM
You are funny, dude. Thanks for lightening up my mood.
Moxie on September 13, 2008 at 1:00 PM
I had no idea who this person was. The spelling was off; but still, I was wondering “What does Ozzy’s late (and awesome) guitarist have to do with this?”
I’m realize I’m echoing a comment up thread a bit; but it seems that she is threatened by Sarah Palin’s intelligence and youthful good looks and that’s why is making fun of those things in such a vile way.
Those are also things she will never understand: having diverse knowledge and not looking like a hag well before her time.
She is behaving like one of those Mean Girls from high school.
tehd on September 13, 2008 at 1:00 PM
It appears to me that Randi Rhodes has a screw loose. She’s appears to be an angry dissatisfied women who never has a good thing to say about those with different views or her country. I wouldn’t be surprised if she has yet to find one thing that finally makes her proud of her country. Birds of a feather.
sinsing on September 13, 2008 at 1:00 PM
I think we can write off her 5 listeners as solid Obama supporters anyways.
NotCoach on September 13, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Stupid is as stupid does I suppose.
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to listen to anything the Left has to say. It’s either a flat out lie (about any R opponent) or just plain mean.
And Obama thought he could control this? He wanted to talk about “issues”? How is this an “issue”?
I wonder how Obama will feel back in the Senate with VP Palin.
Good luck losers!
JohnnyD on September 13, 2008 at 1:01 PM
More often than not the comedian is more in need of comic relief than his audience. *sigh*
ManlyRash on September 13, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Manly Rash: I hate that word, but in this case I agree with you and Duane…and Ed. Projectors think that they can read people when they only expose themselves with their own words. RR must be a child molester; that’s the only way she can get a male to touch her.
Ever since the Clinton Zippergate Follies the left has tried to pull our side down to their lowest common denominator: anything goes.
Christine on September 13, 2008 at 1:02 PM
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