Randi Rhodes was mugged on Sunday night on 39th Street and Park Ave, nearby her Manhattan apartment, while she was walking her dog Simon.
According to Air America Radio late night host Jon Elliott, Rhodes was beaten up pretty badly, losing several teeth and will probably be off the air for at least the rest of the week.
Some are already floating the proposition--without any evidence--that "this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own..."
Speaking as a self-appointed minor functionary within that hate machine, let me just say how I wish Ms. Rhodes had possessed the means and the will to defend herself and either stop her attacker in his tracks or send him off howling in the darkness.
I wish she did not consider advocating gun rights to be "pimping,"and that she did not disparage those who advocate an armed citizenry as "nuts."
And I certainly don't mean to diminish the pain and horror she experienced. But I will note that the policies she advocates will enable future attacks on new victims, who will be compelled to either obey the law and suffer, or defy it and assume the legal risks of state retribution.
Why would anyone want to force another human being to make that choice?
I know the term has been bastardized over the years, but how is that even remotely considered "liberal"?
UPDATE: IT TURNS OUT SHE WASN'T MUGGED AFTER ALL. THIS WHOLE STORY IS APPARENTLY NOTHING MORE THAN LYING HYSTERIA FROM THE POLITICAL LEFT--AS IF THAT SHOULD SURPRISE ANYONE.
UPDATE 2: It's telling how the Democrat Underground is ready to form a lynch mob and "round up the ususal suspects" with absolutely no evidence other than their own paranoia and bigotry.
In all honesty, I wouldn't have been sorry for her one bit if she had been attacked. Let them suffer the consequences of the policies they advocate.
ReplyDeleteRandy Rhoads?
ReplyDeleteYes! \m/ \m/
So who spread the rumor that she was mugged and beaten?
'Some are already floating the proposition--without any evidence--that "this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own..."'
ReplyDeleteAnd they say we wear the tin foil. ::laughs:: Further proof that the looney left thrives on baseless rumor and petty innuendo for their agitprop.
The evil gun lobby brainwashed the sidewalk to trip her and smack her in the head.
ReplyDeleteWho spread the rumor? Her own co-workers did this, on the air.
ReplyDeleteThe lady fell down while walking her dog. Her co-workers go on the air telling the gullible that the she was mugged by the right-wingers.
This IS the level of "journalism" one finds on Air America. Consistently and continually the hysterics come before the truth.
If they didn't play it this way then they'd pretty much not have an act.