Apr
10
Randi Rhodes Quits Air America
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One of the most distinctive voices on progressive talk radio, Randi Rhodes, quit Air
America Radio today after she’d been suspended for calling presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a “f—ing whore” at an event sponsored by the station. In other news, Barack Obama will be delivering the second most important speech in his political career in which he’ll address Ms. Rhodes’ anti-prostitution statements because it is fast becoming his job to apologize for everything that’s ever happened — ever.
Randi’s landed at Nova M Radio, a station I couldn’t be more unfamiliar with. If the station’s not owned by Clear Channel — a media giant that I believe has opened gateways into parallel dimensions just to buy up their airwaves — it’s probably just some guy in his basement with a HAM radio. That being said, Air America’s so much the poorer for alienating one of the few stalwarts from the net’s early days.
Now, was what Ms. Rhodes said about Senator Clinton untoward? Sure. But John McCain’s said worse things about his own wife, and no one’s suspended his lopsided mug from television. As a representative of Air America, I suppose Randi could’ve dialed down the f-bombs and accusations of whoring at the event, or at least smashed every techno-twerp’s digital camera and cell phone, like any sane person should these days. But alas, she finally had her Michael Richards / George Allen / Reverend Wright YouTube moment.
If Andy Warhol were alive today, he’d revise his “fifteen minutes of fame” quote to something like, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for losing their job because somebody posted their hate speech on the Intertubes.”
At any rate, noon-3 pm won’t be the same without Randi. Now if only Hillary would say something offensive, maybe we can get her to quit and find a job somewhere else, too. Might I suggest Air America?
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