Air America host brutally assaulted?

Randi Rhodes, a talk show host on liberal talk radio network Air America, was reportedly attacked on Sunday near her apartment in New York - which knocked out several teeth and forced her to miss several of her shows. (If you're unfamiliar with Air America, it's because the radio industry is so bent on silencing progressive views that the network only has about 60 affiliates nationwide even though there's 302 Arbitron-rated markets. Meanwhile, a right-wing has-been like Rush Limbaugh has about 550 affiliates.)

Fellow Air America personality Jon Elliott believes the incident was politically motivated and not just an ordinary mugging, for Rhodes was carrying no purse or jewelry. I think so too. The dinosaur media can lie to us about Giuliani eliminating violent crime from his city, but it'll ignore this crime even if it is proven to be a political attack. (Incidentally, the area where Rhodes was attacked has one of the lowest crime rates in the otherwise crime-plagued city, so that's more evidence it probably wasn't just a plain old mugging.)

"Is this an attempt by the right-wing hate machine to silence one of our own?" Elliott inquired. "Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we're winning? Are they trying to silence, intimidate us?" Anyone who possesses cerebral tissue knows the answer to the last question (and can probably make a good guess at the others), because I've worked in suburban Cincinnati (the geographic heart of the New Right experiment), and I know the kind of violence the Freeper types are capable of.

One commenter on the blog where we first read of the apparent attack asked, "Of all the conservatives you have ever known, how many advocate violence under circumstances other than self defense?" Um, lots of 'em. Another commenter, a self-described conservative, said, "We are not animals." I know. Many conservatives I've met are lower than animals. A turtle or a horse doesn't go around swaggering about their sadisitc "electric bleachers" proposal for juvenile offenders (like the conservatives we've met do). Conservatives are by and large nasty "people", as some of their other blog comments prove.

If you think the incident against Randi Rhodes couldn't be politically motivated, think again. Denver talk show host Alan Berg was assassinated by right-wing extremists for his political views. KPFT in Houston has been attacked for its progressive leanings, including just recently when gunshots were fired through the studio. Air America host Thom Hartmann says he's found 3 bullet holes in his car.

Modern conservatives are such cowards and bullies that they won't fight in wars that they start, yet they fire gunshots at radio stations and kill talk show hosts they disagree with. They've destroyed their own souls.

(Source: http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/1311/air-america-host-randi-rhodes-mugged;
http://talkingradio.blogspot.com/2007/10/randi-rhodes-is-victim-of-violent.html)