Randi Rhodes attacked by rightists!!!! ... Well, maybe not

Shouldn't that be moonbatty?

A moonbattery would be a really weak battery powered by moonlight. Just enough charge to fire up a useless discussion about an obvious idiot, the guy who lied about what happened to her.

Hope she didn't hurt herself when she fell; that's my only sentiment.

 

Bingo.
I think the other AA host assumed and tried to play it up for all it is worth.
Isn't him assuming it was a Republican trying to shut her up just as much bigotry?

 

Since there was an assault alleged, I thought moonbattery fit better. Moonassault and moonbattery.

 

There was never an alleged assault, only assumed.
Big difference.

 

Rhodes has always been unlistenable, even in her earliest, less political local talk days in Florida. No quality hosts would join up with an obviously flawed business plan like Air America, so that kind of dreck is what they can offer.

Air America was always a doomed idea because it went about things the wrong way. For any radio venture to succeed, you need people who understand radio running it and people who know how to use the medium for air talent. Instead, AA based their programming around "celebrities" like Franken, Garofalo and Chuck D rather than people who had shown the ability to be entertaining on radio. All those people are talented at other things, but they are not radio hosts and their performances showed that.

Radio success isn't about a specific political point of view. Conservatives concluding AA's failure is about ideology should remember how Oliver North's show turned out, for example, or check the current dismal numbers for O'Reilly's program. The completely opposed viewpoint shows of Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh are enormously successful because they ENTERTAIN their audience. Nothing else will work.

 

Limbaugh, I claim, is a direct descendant of the early Don Imus. (If memory serves, I first heard Imus on the Big Ape out of Jacksonville; Limbaugh years later when I was job hunting in Atlanta.) They started simply outrageous and politcally incorrect, then found a political groove that served them well in cultivating an audience.

These idiots who happen to be marketing geniuses get me a lot less upset than the politicians, whom we should expect to have integrity a lot greater than an entertainer's.

 

Seemed odd to me that Ed Schultz and his audience seems to be running tonight with the idea that she had, indeed, been mugged. Maybe his internet(s) was down.

 

Actually, the story got squashed almost immediately, by AA, among other people.
Nutsy Fagin here has been hanging out at his one website again.
As to the market dictating the ideology of talk-radio, well, Ed Schultz, who is not AA and, therefore, not victim of what truly was a terrible start-up business model, does quite well against Hannity in a number of markets, and that hasn't translated into more stations. And, considering such ratings losers as Monica Crowley and Laura Ingraham seem to have litle trouble maintaining their outlets, I'd say something was amiss.
HH -- got a quote on that?

 

Thought the Franken Show was at its best when Katherine Lanpher served as the foil...the point raised about Ed Schultz re entertainment/station attainment applies to Stephanie Miller, too...

 

His Tribute album is one of my favorites...

 

Yeah, and "the Left" and the Democratic party are truly in tatters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-retire16oct16,1,5705428.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-news-politics-national&ctrack=1&cset=true

 

The Republicans are taking their toys and going home. Game's over.