Has another conservative been born? Apparently not:
Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but
claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are
bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that
Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night.
Elliot, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a
possible conspiracy."Is this an attempt by the right-wing, hate machine to silence one
of our own?" he asked on the air, according to Talking Radio, a blog.
"Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? Are they
trying to silence intimidate us?"
If conservative talk radio behaved like this, it would have gone off the air a long time ago. Conservatives, for all of their philosophical problems, at least tend to unequivocably despise the sort of person who would stage something like this. I don't know which is more disturbing, the fact that Air America is still solvent, or the fact that there are many left-liberals out there who would have initially bought in whole hog into the idea that this might have been a right-wing conspiracy to shut down a third rate talk show host on a network that barely shows up as a blip on the radar of right-wing talk radio.
Anyone who was surprised by this has not been paying attention to the way that the left works. Apologies and excuses fly left and right when it turns out that a woman faked that she was raped, for whatever demented reason she had at the time. I see no reason why it would be any different when they try to claim a "lesser crime" like mugging in order to win a few cheap seconds in the limelight.
Thanks for the heads up.
Yeah. The right has the accountability market all locked up. Scooter Libby.
Your stupid comment about this non-story reveals nothing but your desperation.
Slag forgot to take his meds today.
Your point is valid. If Rush or any conservative radio host tried to make up a story like this, they'd be pilloried for months. The left would cry out for the person to be fired, and would spend as much time mocking that person. The fact that Rhodes' story won't get much airplay simply demonstrates no one really knows her or cares. As for Scooter Libby, OH PUH-LEAZE!
Your "yeah well, they do it too" argument is the real desperation here. The fact that you even bring up such a stupid example shows that you lack the basic mental capacity to do something as draw a decent comparison between two unrelated, but ostensibly similar, situations.
Seeing as how I am a nice guy, I'll give you a good idea of where to research so you can come back and redeem your sorry ass. Find an example where a moderately popular conservative talk show host had something bad happen to them, and then they, and their network, blamed it on a vast left-wing conspiracy to shut them down. Go now, and get started.
I love how you left-liberals pretty much can't ever read for comprehension. I'm not a conservative, and indicated that I am not in the post.
A potentially similar story is the "Hush Rush" efforts in Congress, but it is dissimilar in one key area: they specifically name Rush and it is indeed an attempt to silence him.