Comments on: Air America’s Randi Rhodes Makes It Big http://www.livereal.org/blog/randi-rhodes/ Progressive Politics Blog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: LiveReal http://www.livereal.org/blog/randi-rhodes/#comment-54533 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:16:12 +0000 http://www.livereal.org/blog/randi-rhodes/#comment-54533 Good points. I understand she was doing this for a comedy thing but come on... this is a woman who lots of liberals and progressives look up to who is calling Hillary a Whore at a time when things are this sensitive. Randi Rhodes is not known as a comedian she is a radio talking head/pundit... Bill Maher is a comedian - he does that for a living. What if Chris Matthews said the same thing? Good points. I understand she was doing this for a comedy thing but come on… this is a woman who lots of liberals and progressives look up to who is calling Hillary a Whore at a time when things are this sensitive. Randi Rhodes is not known as a comedian she is a radio talking head/pundit… Bill Maher is a comedian - he does that for a living. What if Chris Matthews said the same thing?

]]> by: Ozy's Dog http://www.livereal.org/blog/randi-rhodes/#comment-54499 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:10:06 +0000 http://www.livereal.org/blog/randi-rhodes/#comment-54499 I do take exception to any entity trying to suppress free speech or use specific instances to eliminate progressive voices. In this case Ms Rhodes was not on the Air but performing at a sponsored benefit of about 500 paid guests. She was doing a stand up routine which if fairly common in these types of events.Bill Maher, Whoppie and others do the same stuff. Her current Owners who recently bought Air America including contracts with the network hosts were trying to force Ms Rhodes to amened her contract to fit their agenda. Sound Familiar? This bit was sensationalized to pressure Ms Rhodes and force others at the progressive network to do the bidding of the owners who may or may not be supportive of Democratic progressive issues. My point is that Ms. Rhodes has done massive amounts of research and maintained opinions which benefit the American public NOT the political insiders or pandering politicians. She has also supported numerous public events and sponsored to help educate and support an end to this illegal and unconstitutional war! She is a friend of Veterans and the troops overseas. If we do not support her voice as she is on our air waves and base our support of her on this single private event I sense we will be just cutting our nose off to spite our face and certainly doing an unforgivable injustice to this gal who is behind the progressive voices of this country! I also want to point out that it has been the goal of some to silence the voices of strong women in the radio medium and it's appalling! I applaud all progressive women in the media an we need more! All that being said I want to remind everyone about the quote from Voltaire "I may not agree with what you say , but I will fight to the death your right to say it" I do take exception to any entity trying to suppress free speech or use specific instances to eliminate progressive voices.

In this case Ms Rhodes was not on the Air but performing at a sponsored benefit of about 500 paid guests. She was doing a stand up routine which if fairly common in these types of events.Bill Maher, Whoppie and others do the same stuff.

Her current Owners who recently bought Air America including contracts with the network hosts were trying to force Ms Rhodes to amened her contract to fit their agenda. Sound Familiar?

This bit was sensationalized to pressure Ms Rhodes and force others at the progressive network to do the bidding of the owners who may or may not be supportive of Democratic progressive issues.

My point is that Ms. Rhodes has done massive amounts of research and maintained opinions which benefit the American public NOT the political insiders or pandering politicians. She has also supported numerous public events and sponsored to help educate and support an end to this illegal and unconstitutional war! She is a friend of Veterans and the troops overseas. If we do not support her voice as she is on our air waves and base our support of her on this single private event I sense we will be just cutting our nose off to spite our face and certainly doing an unforgivable injustice to this gal who is behind the progressive voices of this country!

I also want to point out that it has been the goal of some to silence the voices of strong women in the radio medium and it’s appalling! I applaud all progressive women in the media an we need more!

All that being said I want to remind everyone about the quote from Voltaire

“I may not agree with what you say , but I will fight to the death your right to say it”

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