Letters to the Editor
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Stephanie Miller - not an AAR employee
Stephanie Miller isn't an employee of Air America. She has her own her sydicated show. However, there are progressive radio stations around the country that broadcast her along with AAR programming. Coincidentally, Miller and Rhodes are good friends and have appeared on each other's shows, which likely adds to the confusion.
As to Randi's suspension: I usually agree with many of her talking points, but she's frequently become more strident the past few months as this campaign continues. That Randi was suspended is unsurprising; that she'll continue to work for AAR would be.
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It doesn't get any better than Randi Rhoades!
I am truly amazed at the idiotic thinking of the media. I was under the impression Air America was going to be different than the rest of the clones who only allow a certain type of coverage/opinion. The reason I take my lunch break after 3pm pst, is so I can listen to whatever refreshing opinion of the always entertaining Randi Rhoades. To suspend her for doing what we all listen to her for? Read my lips...YOU PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS!!! Here again, we have Billary running the show. It's no surprize. The Clinton's are the biggest bullys to hit the political arena. SHAME ON YOU AIR AMERICA!!! You too, have fallen to the level of media pressure you were supposed to be opposing. What is wrong with you? Get Randi back on the air
or you'll find your audiance has gone elsewhere. Or maybe you could get Hillary to make you her official radio station. How lovely! Regina in Oregon
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Sweeping judgments much?
I am disappointed in Lloyd as well as numerous Salon letter writers for implying (repeatedly) that Obama supporters are universally spewing vitriol against HRC and generating from the "spirit of unity" only hostility and hypocrisy. It is common sense to recognize that the most aggressively outspoken in an argument are those who are the most impassioned - good or bad - about the issue. Thus, some of the most passionately outspoken Obama supporters are obnoxious. Of course, as has already been pointed out, such supporters are absolutely matched in the intensity of their personal attacks by HRC supporters. You know, the ones who accuse those of us who support Obama of being empty-headed, star-struck naifs who lack the sense to watch debates, read policy papers, examine voting records, and generally make informed decisions about who we support as our party's nominee. The loudest on both sides are balanced in their disrespectful behavior, and the finger-pointing is juvenile and needs to stop. Now. I support and will cast my primary ballot for Obama. Should HRC win the nomination, I will wholeheartedly support her in her campaign against McCain.
After 8 years of a destructive Republican administration, I can't understand why we Dems aren't overjoyed to have two admirable, capable leaders vying for the party nomination, and are instead making the Republican party's life easier by petty in-fighting and inter-party animosity.
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Embarassing
I'm no prude and I'm not a kid, but I am embarassed by all the potty-mouthed rhetoric which seems to be everywhere. It just lacks maturity, and our country is definitely looking mighty immature.
I mostly agree with Randi Rhodes' politics, but this Hillary bashing has got me doing other things during her show. I'm not shy of using the "f" word when I stub my toe, etc., but this kind of name calling of both of these female politicians is misogynist at best. It's like she's spewing all of her anger and disatisfaction with the world at Geraldine and Hillary. Whether you like Hillary or not, is not the point. I agree with the author of this article that this is a mean and troubling streak in our culture.
"Hey Randi, stick to the point when you are speaking in public, and leave your troubled psyche at home".
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Do you hate yourself that much?
To all of you that have no problem with calling people such vulgar names and such, I have a question for you. Do you hate yourself that much? After all, it is you who the name calling reflects upon, not the person you are trying to insult. You need to look inside yourself and see what is in there before you shout out all your hate. That goes for both sides.
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Randi
Aloha...
I'm a sweet little old lady who happens to enjoy listening to Randi Rhodes; I have to listen to AAR programs on the internet as the local station which previously carried AAR has converted to all day sports talk....is there material for another story there?
So Randi said that HRC and Ferraro were "f****ing whores"....so???
Whose tender ears and sensibilities were offended?
From the dictionary:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English hore, from Old English hōre; akin to Old Norse hōra whore, hōrr adulterer, Latin carus dear — more at charity
Date:
before 12th century
1: a woman who engages in sexual acts for money : prostitute; also : a promiscuous or immoral woman2: a male who engages in sexual acts for money3: a venal or unscrupulous person
Perhaps Randi had the number 3 definition in mind, perhaps not....
I don't know. However, I'm feeling deprived of hearing a clever, outspoken woman with whom I don't always agree but who does seem to have to have the uncanny knack of uncovering stories (Valerine Plame anyone?) that seem to be studiously ignored elsewhere.
The concept of free speech includes that with which one disagrees, is horrified, insulted etc etc.....
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Air China
There is much animus amongst Obama supporters for Hillary because so many of us are former Clinton supporters.
We voted in '92. We gave financial aid. We believed in the dream. We watched as a Democrat co-opted Republican philosophies. His signature legislation was Welfare Reform, which withdrew the safety net from a million single women, without substituting education nor job training.
It's hard to listen to Billary talk about "fairytales" when his administration was the greatest fairytale of all time, the most massive betrayal of true believers because his DLC moderation made him impotent in every manner other than that needed, one to curb his Libertine urges when he knew his enemies were gunning for him.
It's hard to be lectured about who was more responsible for civil rights than MLK, coming from a woman whose mentor was Barry Goldwater, a Goldwater Girl who canvassed poor neighborhoods in Chicago to root out "Democratic voter fraud".
It's hard to believe we couldn't escape Draconian Attorneys General such as Ed Meese, only to end up with Janet Reno who unleashed the manipulative template that would later result in the fraudulent McMartin and Little Rascals prosecutions, ruining lives and falsely imprisoning innocents.
The same Janet Reno who would gas and incinerate the women and children of Waco (in order "to save the children"), and return little Elian to Cuba at the point of a gun, after his mother had drowned getting him here.
The Clintonistas gave us the same secrecy and vindictiveness that Bush would later use as his model. The same puffed up economic fantasy that Bush would rely on (dot.bomb bubble vs. housing bubble).
And while many of us that support Obama wished Hillary no ill will, that benign view was subverted by her campaign's insistence to use race as a wedge issue, something we would expect from the GOP. Then again, both John Edwards and Rolling Stone referred to her campaign head, Mark Penn, as Hillary's "Karl Rove".
Clinton surrogates suggesting Obama was a drug dealer, referred to "shucking and jiving", that any black man could win South Carolina (just look at Jesse Jackson).
Billary endlessly praised John McCain, saying he was qualified to be Commander-In-Chief (why, because he voted Yes on the Iran Resolution just like Hillary?), but Obama isn't.
They have made so many pro-McBush statements they have to know they will be used as clips in McCain ads this fall. Even when McCain revealed the emperor is without clothes, not even able to differentiate the actors in Iraq, Hillary offered no criticism.
Which is why many people believe Hillary is no longer pursuing the nomination, but now exists simply to destroy Obama. She has now started her 2012 campaign to run against President McCain. You can't expect the gal, who looks more and more like Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction" every day to wait a whole 'nother eight years!
She is Glenn Close and the Dem Party has become her rabbit, and she is in the process of boiling it. She will not be ignored.
Seems to me Randi was spot on. As Hillary has said in talking about Obama policies on "Today" and "Meet The Press", in spite of being warned that some made find it insensitive if not downright offensive, "a spade is a spade".