I have just listened to Randi Rhodes for the last time.

[patrice]

She just referred to her caller as being, "Dumber than a Rock" when the caller was mearly begining to clarify the difference between whitehouse.gov and whitehouse.org.

She owes her caller an apology.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

yeah that wasn't too cool!

[patrice]

14. Caller was asking a valid question about something I've seen in

the paper myself, and I was wondering. Randi brushed it off and went for that silly google "failure" example, like none of us have seen that and others dozens of times. And when the caller pursued it a little, Randi was rude.

Hey Randi, power corrupts. Think about it.

[Mira]

20. I heard it and the woman was annoying and dense I felt like Randi did

Yet... I understand what those who find Randi abrasive object to. She gets under my own skin the most when she hogs the conversation with just about any caller and verbally runs over them.

Yet...
we need her, she is able to keep up the pressure, she is informed, she is smart, and if she isn't always totally correct it is part of doing a very difficult job that requires constant adrenalin.
If I can't tone her down, then I'll accept and love her as she is.

[anitar1]

30. I have no desire to attack Randi--I do read about what she says,

but I cannot listen to her voice. There is something about it that gets on my last nerve. Strident ect ect. Really can't describe it. So I do not listen. i dislike most talk radio.

[patrice]

49. Her voice is a turnoff.

That "I love you" stuff is pretty annoying. We can appreciate and respect what a person is doing with better words, without this insincere "I love you" tripe Every now and then it sounds read, but most of the time NOT.

[ohio_liberal]

51. Change the station then

What's the problem? :shrug:

[sled]

57. The problem???

Trying to bring people to progressive ideas, not drive them away...isn't that the whole idea, instead of preaching to her ever shrinking choir??? Sorry, it's just counterintuitive, to me. If she's losing progressives, she can't possibly be gaining other, not yet so, progressives...

:shrug:

[ohio_liberal]

62. And this is why you can't change the radio station?

:shrug:

[sled]

80. Yes, but...

my changing the station has nothing to do with encouraging other folks to support progressive causes. The fans she rants to, are going to support those causes, regardless, & the rest are probably going elsewhere, & treading water (maybe even sinking) isn't a winning strategy, unless, of course, I'm missing the whole point, of Air America, DU, etc.

How many singers, in the choir, did Randi convert today??? She, & the choir, could quite easily become a bunch of trees, falling in the forest...a circle of one hand clappers...

[leesa]

113. Her audience is growing. Wonder what you're talking about.

[sled]

127. OK...

But I think it's all relative...when you start from zero, anything beyond zero is "growing". My point being, if you look at this thread, which I must assume would include, at least, a few progressives, a lot of said progressives think she stinks. A lot of Randi's "growing" audience is due to Air America's growth, & nothing else...she's the only game in town. She's just finding a bigger choir, nothing more, nothing less, but at the same time, she's pissing off a lot of progressives, because of her rudeness, & inability to make a logical argument, except to her choir, & herself, both who already buy, what she's selling. Sure, occasionally she makes a valid argument, but when she starts screaming, blubbering, name-calling, & hanging up, you can bet, more often than not, she's in retreat. Not a good place to be, in a battle of ideas.

A good indication of why Randi's not the best messenger for progressive ideas is exactly what many progressives are saying...she hangs up on people, shouts callers down, etc., & ends up being passed off as "informed", "smart", etc. A very good indicator, in a discussion, of someone who can't defend their own views, & is ill-informed, is someone who does exactly those things...one clear example being Limpbaaa. Just because someone can scream the shrillest, & gag the opposition, doesn't make their arguments, or ability to debate, a winner, except in the minds of those who do likewise.

In the over all scheme of things, what does it matter, Randi sucks, or she doesn't, & it'll all depend on the definition of "sucks", & who may think she sucks, & how many she can add to her choir, or how many she drives away to greener pastures.

Personally, the "turning her off" argument's a winner, & exactly what I'll continue to do, along with about half the people on this thread, but the question, as to her bringing new people, to progressive ideas, remains to be seen, & is indeed a valid argument. For myself, every time I hear her blow her hole, "Click", she's out of my ears, simple as that, & that clicking sound you hear, just may be a lot of progressives, doing likewise, if this thread is any indication, of what progressives may be doing.

[patrice]

69. She misrepresents "Us"; that's the problem.

[libnnc]

78. What is your definition of "Us"?

You may be misrepresenting me. :shrug:

The solution to the problem is very, very simple.

Change the channel.

[Missy Vixen]

84. I disagree

Sometimes it's necessary to break a few dishes in the Democratic china shop. Randi is right vastly more than she is wrong. She's entertaining, she puts the "butts in the seats", so to speak, and she makes the other side think.

Long live Randi, and long live AAR.

Julie

[klyon]

91. as an abandoned sirius listener I don't care

see is rude and overbearing
never lets anyone finish a thought
insults people
is turning people off

I agree with the original poster she is not winning over the opposition but maybe like Rush she isn't trying to.

I won't miss her show at all.

KL

[proud2BlibKansan]

124. I like Ed Schultz a lot

In many ways, he is better than Randi.

[0007]

87. Randi does a hell of lot of good, so she pisses a few off now

and then, so fucking what!!

[Misunderestimator]

103. She represents me pretty damn well. Not sure which us you're referring to.

:shrug:

[Individualist]

112. Same here

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[crikkett]

1. she's really quite negative

or was when I last tuned in (January).

[0rganism]

68. Who the fuck wasn't negative in January? Oh yeah, republicans

Perhaps you've already forgotten what happened in January. I wish I could.

[crikkett]

129. yep, but when it's overwhelming

for months on end, something has to give. at that time it was not hearing was 3 hrs of her voice that made me feel better. At least other shows tried to have a couple of laughs... I miss 'unfiltered' - it was so life-affirming.

;(

[redqueen]

2. Doesn't this happen fairly regularly? n/t

[patrice]

16. Yes.

[Kurovski]

120. She also more regularly brings in converts.

She does an enormous amount of good. Remember that many Republicans are used to the kind of strong expression of views that is a part of Randi's personality. It's a good fit, really. Democrats are the navel-gazers and "well, maybe, but than again, maybe not" folks.

Right-wingers are attracted to her style, once they realize that what she says and does is closer to the truth than that which Rush Limbaugh & co espouse.

And she is just about the best one-woman welcoming committee as I've heard yet.

She also expresses deep respect for honestly concerned Americans, regardless of partisanship, even for those Republicans who do not switch parties (yet.)

[warrior1]

3. I don't know

that woman kept repeating what would say and Randi and had enough. Sorry, I'm going to keep listening.

[Kerrytravelers]

6. I love Randi. She's smart, aggressive and not afraid of the consequences

of standing up to the * regime.

[me b zola]

9. I'll keep listening to Randi as well

Randi, Malloy, & Hartman are clearly the best liberal voices on the radio. :applause:

[ET Awful]

13. Same here. I don't always agree with her, but I love her outspokenness

I'll keep listening to Randi until Randi ceases having something to say.

[patrice]

18. The woman was trying to get her question across, Randi interrupted

and talked over as she often does.

It would have been good to hear some discussion of the derivation of Rove's last name.

[emcguffie]

55. I like Randi, but I agree with you --

-- I get very angry with her when she won't let people make their point. Sometimes they're trying to agree with her, for goodness sake, and she just steamrolls over them and treats them like idiots.

Sometimes she doesn't.

But I sure do want to turn her off when she is so rude....

[Talismom]

101. I agree with you. I usually listen to her and often learn a lot,

but she frequently acts like a prima donna and tries to one up her callers--even if they're agreeing and making good points. This is especially the case when the caller is female; I think it's a cometitive, ego kinda thing. She'll interupt and not let them speak or if she's not thrilled with their particular wording she can get quite offensive. I've called and had a great conversation with Mike Malloy, but wouldn't bother calling Randi. Some days I just can't deal with listening to the abuse (if I needed that I could just call my mother!)and have to turn it off. But I wouldn't want to loose her show and she's still very bright and effective much of the time. I guess nothings perfect and overall, I'll keep listening.

[seemslikeadream]

4. RANDI RHODES GOES NEGATIVE!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ohio_liberal]

5. Well that woman was kind of dense

Randi told everyone to go to Google and type in "failure" and GWB's bio from the white house would show up. The lady was like, duh, "whitehouse.org?"

The woman on the phone was kind of dumb. She called it like she saw it.

[patrice]

19. That is completely unfair of you and Randi.

Wow.

[patrice]

32. She mentioned whitehouse.org because that is where the Bush

bio that Randi brought up is hosted.

[ohio_liberal]

40. It's whitehouse .gov

thanks ;)

[patrice]

47. There is or was a whitehouse.org Spoof site.

[ohio_liberal]

48. And that spoof site has absolutely nothing to do

with what Randi Rhodes was telling listeners to do. She said "google" how many times? And that google search pops up whitehouse.gov at the top of the list, not whitehouse.org.

[patrice]

70. google has connected the search term "failure" to the Bush bio

hosted at some spoof site, either whitehouse.org or one like that. That is what the caller was trying to get at when she started to say something about whitehouse.org.

[Pachamama]

116. Randi had to repeat herself constantly & the caller seemed clueless about

the word "google"....Then Randi says that *'s bio on the Whitehouse site comes up and the caller was like "Whitehouse.org?"...

NO, the actual White House website - duh!

I lost my patience listening to that caller too...and guess what? I've called in to Randi myself and she has given me a hard time, but I was able to answer her with intelligent answers and also joke around with her. This caller was dense and Randi lost her patience....I can't blame her, not one bit!

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Randi Rhodes is a pain in the ass

[Kurovski]

121. I'm sure that Rove, George, Cheney, Rumsfeld, DeLay,

et al., agree whole-heartedly.

[dave502d]

8. She didn't know what she was talking about,i heard her do that before.n/t

[patrice]

22. Randi didn't know what she was talking about this time.

Not the caller.

Randi missed the concept entirely or got it and disrespected it so much that she was rude to someone who was simply asking a question.

[dave502d]

26. That what i said.Randi.n/t

[patrice]

75. Okay, I'm sorry, I am getting frustrated with this.

Everyone is saying the caller was stupid, when it was Randi who didn't even listen to her and misunderstood something.

Then insulting her, that's arrogance.

[burythehatchet]

10. The lady didn't know what it means "to google"

so she had no idea what Randi was talking about. I find her so fucking offensive.

[patrice]

28. She started the conversation by talking about how she googled

Rove's name.

Apparently her phone connection wasn't so good, so she was having trouble understanding Randi when Randi said the "type in failure", so she asked Randi to repeat it. Have you ever had a bad phone connection and couldn't understand what someone was saying. Then when Randi mentioned that the Bush bio was on the whitehouse website, the caller started to make the distinction between whitehouse.gove and whiteouse.org, then she was interrupted by Randi, hung up on and referred to on air as being "Dumber than a rock". I'm embarassed for liberals everywhere.

Typing in "failure" and getting Bush's biography is a little engineering trick that has been going on for years. I'm surprised RAndi was impressed by it.

[burythehatchet]

56. thanks for clarifying that, I was only listening in the background

so I only noticed the call because Randi wsa being so harsh. It makes me uncomfortable when one person treats another in such a manner. When its a liberal who does it, its almost more painful to listen to.

[patrice]

72. It is so painful, because all of us are in pain from being treated

that way by the Republicans and Freepers.

[Buns_of_Fire]

67. Yep. Just a little ol' "Google Bomb" (see my sig line).

Which, by the way, still returns Commander Codpiece's official bio as the #1 entry when you Google it. Software is notoriously apolitical, if written correctly (a famous exception being Diebold's Double Super Secret Vote Processing Code (tm)). Heck, I could just as easily link the word "traitor" to a biography of KKKarl, and, if enough people did it, it would eventually rise to the top of the pile whenever someone Googled the word "traitor."

(Oops, I did it again... :shrug: )

[i miss america]

11. Okay, so she can be a little abrasive. I'll cut her some slack because

she doesn't pull any punches when slamming the sleaze bags in power.

GO RANDI!!!!!!!

[ohio_liberal]

36. I'm ok with abrasive

People who call in have got to know by now they're taking their chances. BTW, did you hear her stick it to Alan Keyes? That was classic!!

[Kurovski]

122. "It's geometric!"

[mwb970]

12. I had to turn off Lionel twice in the last week.

Same sort of thing - berating the callers. Maybe these two need a vacation just now. They are both usually great, and very smart, IMHO.

[sled]

15. "Dumber than a Rock"

Takes one, to know one...far & away the worst thing to happen to Air America. So many smart progressive ladies, & they end up with that...a perfect poster child, for the far right, as representative of everything wrong with progressives. Sounds like Limpbaugh, in a dress, reading the opposite script...

[Gabi Hayes]

21. really.....what about Nancy Skinner? she's on in Detroit

why doesn't Sirius pick her up?

[sled]

34. Skinner the Winner

I love listening to bright, strong, progressive ladies take it to the right, they're hot...but Randi ain't the one. Like fingernails on a chalkboard...more damage, than good...

[linazelle]

93. Love Nancy...she's from Chicago. nt

[BiggJawn]

106. Which station?

Oh, please let it be WJR...I can pull that one in sometimes....

[Eric J in MN]

25. Air America Minnesota plays Ed Schultz instead of Randi Rhodes (nt)

nt

[Gabi Hayes]

29. same in Chicago....he sux it hard, too. today they have former WLSer

Jay Marvin, who's found a liberal incarnation, after floundering in several markets

dunno where he is now

but he DID say how awful WLS was, that horrid witch Byrne he was paired with, in particular

he's far superior to blowhard Schultz, who's ignorance is often stunning, as well as the transparency of his 'liberal' pose

[Eric J in MN]

35. Was Jay Marvin a conservative radio host? nt

nt

[Gabi Hayes]

45. he considers himself mostly libertarian, but could be very

hard headedly conservative on just about any topic, depending on his whim of the day....contrarian, I spose

huge psychological problems, often displayed onair; used to call himself the station's resident bipolar, or something close to that

definitely in anti-Bush mode these days, and is vastly superior to Schultz, whose voice is enough to get me to change channels

it really annoys me that he's on when he is, forcing Randi into Majority Report timeslot, which, IMO, is by far the best show on AAR

Sam Seder's star should be rising, if there's any justice in this world, in which we all know there isn't

[sled]

43. Can't help but think...

Randi & Schultz deserve each other...somewhere else...two tools, sitting in a tree... :spank:

[patrice]

46. She does this frequently.

I listen, inspite of the fact that the yelling gets REAL old, and the "Bounce your Boobies" thing just isn't all that, because Randi is generous with information. I don't need opinion. I need information, that is whey I'm working to bring AAR to our city. Information.

[prodigal_green]

17. Unless they subscribe to what she thinks without any

variation, she'll talk over the callers, call them names, etc. And those are the people who more or less agree with her. I think she does make the same rhetorical mistakes that the right-wing blowhards do.

I listen to her show, because she usually has good information, but her narcissism is really distracting sometimes.

[patrice]

37. Exactly.

I listen for information. Randi gives lots of information, but so, sometimes, do callers.

[KoKo]

23. If her ratings are Great...give her a "pass." If she's not gaining

audience maybe it's because she seems too much like the Repugs/Coulter attacks. :shrug:

I listened to her a couple of times and really couldn't handle it. But then I'm not an Imus fan or a Franken Fan or a fan of "Slash & Burn" Politics or "Lie and Burn Politics" like Limpballs.

I'm very serious...I don't get off on "trashing people and making fun of them." I know Repugs have been great at this, but I'm one of those "policy wonk, discussion types" who like dialog and something more spirited than PBS ...but more a PBS when it wasn't run by the WH...type.

I think lots of voters who are serious get turned off by "antic's and fighting and folks trying to be too glib. I don't like Stephanie Miller, either...but understand that lots of very young folks who don't know which party they might want to belong to could get turned on by Randi or Miller or Franken.

To each his own...I just can't stand "screamers" and "trashers." Been there and done that...I need more info..:D

[liberaliraqvet26]

24. I love her when shes bashing the administration...

but she is too harsh on callers who have any disagreement or make a point. Most of the people she berates are not wingnuts.

[patrice]

33. My point exactly.

Why trash a compatriot like that? We need one another.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. To me, the proper thing for a host(ess) to do when faced with a caller

who is thick as a brick, not "getting it" or running the conversation in circles, is just to say "we're going to have to move on, thanks for the call" and then cut off if necessary.

As rude as this seems it's much better than calling the caller names, especially when they're "on your side".

[patrice]

31. I'm a high school teacher, I have very practiced ears, that caller

was NOT thick as a brick.

It was Randi who missed the entire connection.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

42. Sometimes, Randi gets so passionately involved with her own spiel

that she doesn't hear what the callers really have to say.

After saying that, I wouldn't trade Randi in for the world. She is exceptionally informed and is getting that information out en masse. In doing so, I forgive her occassional rudeness and embrace her as a true American hero.

[Jane Austin]

63. She is exceptionally informed except when she's

misinformed, and rides that horse on off down the rode.

It really diminishes her credibility for me.

That plus the occasional rudeness to her callers makes her sometimes difficult to listen to.

I'm inclined to like her but she makes it hard sometimes.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

110. I cannot think of any instance when Randi has been misinformed.

Can you please cite some of those times?

[Pachamama]

117. Yeah, when she gave the caller who was nursing at the DSM a hard time

In that call she was going off on the caller for having nursed at the DSM hearing, instead of realizing that it wasn't against the law, that there had been no where else for that woman to be and feed her child and that she had no idea that the camera had panned over to her. Randi made those comments right after playing "Bounce your boobies" and talking about having been in Phoenix and how great she thought it was that Gay Men who are married can come up and say "hi, this is my husband". Randi said how much she loves that freedom, then she takes the call from the woman who flew all the way from California with her baby and instead of saying "good for you" or even listening to why the Mom had no choice to nurse her child there, the next thing you know, Randi's going off on how she thinks that was just the most inappropriate thing to do there and that she could never have thought about it.

I love Randi, but she was just plain misinformed there (not to mention the mixed messages she sends out). Randi didn't understand the circumstances and also, it was perfectly legal and allowed for nursing to take place where the Mom was nursing. Randi acted like a Burlesque was performed....no, a mom was feeding her child and no breast was seen by anyone.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

128. I had very mixed feelings about that whole episode. I nursed both of

my sons on demand, which meant anywhere (my youngest is now almost 15). I saw the hearing live and both laughed and squirmed that this woman had a national audience. I don't think there was any forethought that she would be in the direct view of the cameras although she sat directly behind the panel. She needed a place to sit down and nurse her child, and as I understand the room was miniscule.
I squirmed because I realized that there would be some backlash, and laughed because the C-Span camera person had a hard time of it!

I didn't think that some of that backlash would be from Randi. I don't think that Randi gets it when it comes to breastfeeding. Maybe because she's never had her own baby and the maternal instinct when your child is hungry is overwhelming and she's never experienced it. Nor she didn't have to do the research that breast milk is the best nutrition for babies, because she never had to for herself.

Not that I'm making excuses for her, she should just have ignored the whole thing. It demonized one of the most natural of actions and important actions.

Yet Randi's voice is strong and true in getting Truths out there, and I appreciate her to no end.

[Jane Austin]

119. No, I can't, partly because I haven't had my coffee yet. :)

But I will be listening along, and she'll be giving the chronology of something; everythings's fine and then she'll confuse someone's name, or the order in which something happened or another small fact.

I am not saying that her main themes are wrong; when her story is that Mr X delivered a document to Mr Y, I believe she is always correct. It's in her supporting info that she makes her mistakes - - confusing a name or something even more minor than that.

I just think these stories are so complicated that it is just essential that everyone be super careful about everything they say and write about it. Her mistakes are small ones, but they undermine her credibility.

It may be as simple as her not having a co-host. When Al Franken, or Sam Seder, or Marc Maron make those slip-ups, their co-hosts jump in and correct them.

Like I said, I'm inclined to like Randi. I'm not one of those who can't stand her voice; her voice is part of her, and I think she's pretty appealing in general. I think she's funny and smart, too.

I just want her always to be right so the critics of Air America and of the left in general can't dismiss her or her arguments at all.

It seemed that after her surgery she was much nicer to her callers, so I'm sorry to hear people starting to complain again that she's being rude to callers who agree with her.

[Tommymac]

125. The caller in question here was out of it.

She was confused, or goofy or something right from the get go...Randi gave her several chances, but the lady kept repeating things, didn't seem to understand what Randi was saying...I don't blame her in this instance. The segment got boring and pointless...time to move on and Randi voiced out loud what a lot of listeners felt.

If you are not prepared, or can't take some heat, don't call in to a national radio talk show. It is not like calling in to a local talk show...national radio time ain't cheap.

[ClassWarrior]

38. Randiiiii hurt my feeeeeeeeelinngggssss...

This performance courtesy of the DUDQ...

<taking a bow>

NGU.

[dogday]

39. I like Randi Rhodes and I will continue to

listen to her ever if she says something I disagree with.

[Dr Fate]

41. Randi is ENTERTAINING.

She has to keep the show moving- the timid need not apply.

[ohio_liberal]

44. Ding!

We have a winner :D

[Tommymac]

92. I listen to hear Randi...

and not the callers. If you are unprepared or boring I want her to move on...this is a national call-in show, not your local yocal gab fest. Time is precious and every second wasted on crap calls are seconds where the message is not getting out.

That caller was not prepared...she was spacy and goofy and, well, boring. Randi had to repeat her directions several times... Randi just said what a LOT of listeners felt.

If you can't stand the heat, or are not prepared...don't call in!

And if you don't like her style, don't tune in...there are other liberal shows on air or streaming at the same time that may suit your taste better. I don't care for Ed or Franken...so I don't listen...but a lot of people do like them...to each their own.

Randi rocks...you go girl!

[derby378]

105. There it is

It's all about not putting the audience to sleep.

I'm a Randi caller - she and I have butted heads before, but sometimes we get along fabulously. If you wanna get on the show, you must stay sharp, or she'll cut you off at the knees.

Go Randi!

[rman]

107. hm yes, sure looks like a lot of people find calling people names

quite entertaining. not.

besides, somehow i thought Randi aims to be informative before being entertaining.

[Dr Fate]

123. Randi actually IS the most informative host as well.

Note her command of the details- I dont believe I've ever heard a Republican caller get the upper hand.

Talk radio is not baby-sitting- so sorry.

[rman]

126. she could not baby-sit and not insult at the same time, i'd think

btw there's no need for you to apologize to me on her behalf.

[hippiegranny]

50. I heard it, thought it was rude

but so what? {shrug}

I don't know of many others who talk like we talk, who know as much as we (on DU) do and who are not afraid to call a chickenhawk a chickenhawk. Randi is Randi - if you can't be snappy and original, don't call in. She was rude, but I'm not about to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

[DemFromMem]

52. Not my style, but....

I am not a fan of Randi Rhodes. She's sometimes entertaining, but her style reminds of the right wing talk show hosts that dominate the rest of radio.

On the other hand, one of the things I like about Air America is they have a variety of styles and if you don't like one host, there are others you probably will find more appealing. I enjoy Al Franken's show as well as the Majority Report. Springer puts me to sleep. Loved Rachel Madow on my morning drive and wish her new 5 am eastern time show would be repeated at a decent hour.

Even though AAR is on here in Memphis, I usually listen on XM. That let's me listen to Ed Schultz instead of Randi. But there's no way I can handle Alan Colmes in large doses when he comes on after the Majority Report(though he does get a lot of calls from right wingers and he's pretty good at putting them in their place).

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

53. She's the best host on Air America

She's the best informed and the most entertaining of the line-up. She's nowhere near the talk show host that Bernie Ward is on KGO or Ian Masters on KPFK, but then no one else compares to those two, either. Ian Masters has the most intelligent and informative show in America and hopefully he will go nationwide one day soon.

[zalinda]

54. Give me a break.............

the woman called in to tell Randi that she was on the net looking to see if Rove was short for something else, and came across a site that said Rove was German...blah, blah, blah and that's when Randi cut her off. It was really stupid, and Randi didn't want this woman to go on about her tin foil hat stuff.

Could she have handled it differently, yup. But, that's not why you tune in to Randi. You listen to her and Malloy because you are pissed and they help you realize that you are not alone, and with Mike, you realize you are not as crazy as he is.

zalinda

[swimming with sharks]

58. What does N/T mean ?

duh.

[ohio_liberal]

64. It means "no text"

A subject, but no message. Capisce?

[Must_B_Free]

59. The Lion of the Left - Bernie Ward is the best are fricaseeing freepers

Randi is a little overboard with her conspiracy theories, huge ego and NY abrasiveness, but she is a decent entertainer.

But all she really does is shout at freepers.

If you want to witness freepers having their fantasies shattered, tune into Bernie, he literally destroys the fallacies their beliefs rest on.

[patrice]

74. Thanks for the tip.

[bvar22]

60. Randi owes many people apologies....

..and occasionally, Randi makes a mistake. The GOOD she does FAR outweighs these minor complaints. She is the BEST thing AAR has going. She is THE ONLY professional at AAR, and the ONLY one at AAR who can take on Rush and win.

I listen to Randi and will continue to do so!

[Missy Vixen]

83. Uh, I disagree

>She is THE ONLY professional at AAR<

AAR also boasts the amazing Mike Malloy, who just got done being honored by those in his industry for excellence. Mike Malloy has been broadcasting for 20+ years at this point. We are truly fortunate to have both Randi and Mike on AAR; if they simulcast Bernie Ward and Ray Taliaferro overnight, my life would be complete.

Tune Mike in some time, you'll be hooked. You can also catch Bernie and Ray on streaming at www.kgoam810.com.

Julie

[Roxy66]

98. Ray and Randi are my favorites!!

[Talismom]

102. I agree with you! Malloy rocks and is a real professional

in every way! As abrasive and irritating as Randi can be, she is very knowledgable and is have a great impact. By comparrison, I can seldom stand to listen to the wishy-washy garbage that Springer, however nice he is, passes out! So, they're all human beings with their own strengths and weaknesses. I'm just glad AAR is on! Saves what little sanity I have left, sometimes!

[ClayZ]

100. Me too!

Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy, both, are working hard to get the truth out!

[Individualist]

61. No doubt Randi will be devastated

because you won't listen, and her ratings will plunge.

:crazy:

[Rainscents]

65. Most talk show host gets rude time to time... If people listen to every

talk show host long enough, they all gets rude to listeners time to time. Some does little more often than, other.

This is all part of their job, they only have short time with each callers and callers must have their shit together before getting on the phone with Host.
People need to keep in mind... Randi like giving out informations to her listeners and this is what she does best.

I will Not stop listening to Randi or another liberal host because, I don't agree with their action.

[B Calm]

66. Give Randi a damn break! I'd like to see you try to do a radio show.

She should be more like Malloy, take less callers and rant!

[BigBearJohn]

71. OMG! The woman does 1 million things right and you find 1 fault

I thank my lucky stars we have someone of her passion and caliber
and brains on OUR side.

Focus on things that really matter -- not this petty stuff.
Randi deserves more -- much more loyalty than this.

I wish I did 1/1000ths as much as this lady has done for our cause.

How about a little loyalty. She's earned it.
No one's personality is perfect.

[Stirk]

73. Once I was listening to Rhode's show, and she had a woman call in

and mention (at the end of her call), that she was in a local group that was organizing a protest of some sort. She was just beginning to say what it was, and Rhodes snapped, "yeah- I don't care", and hung up on her.

I don't care for her much at all. She grates on my nerves. Abusive, self-important, and endlessly talking *over* people who have actual information, in order to repeat some semi-lucid rant she's already stated 5 times. Usually ending up praising herself in some way.

Whatever.

[patrice]

76. I am sorry to say that you are right

and I WANT to like her. I just can't stand this kind of behavior.

[LizW]

77. I've said before, Randi shouldn't take callers

She's impatient, and she likes to hear herself talk so much that she can't listen.

She gets on my nerves sometimes and I turn her off for a while.

But I can't ever totally discount her show because she works hard and she knows what is in the news. She's always on top of the day's hot topic.

[CrispyQ]

79. Thom Hartmann is so much better.

IMHO he is our best & brightest progressive voice. My repuke Mom even likes him!!! (Did hell just freeze over?)

[paulk]

81. if she'd shut up for five seconds

she might actually hear what people are saying to her...

[rfrrfrrfr]

82. You won't have many hosts to listen to

if you take that attitude. I listen to a lot of talk radio and I have yet to find a host that hasn't on more than one occasion misunderstood what a caller was trying to say and been rude to them about it. Not one. Caller time is valuable and even the nicest, most polite talk show host has at one time or another lost their patience with what they percieve to be a troll or unprepared caller.

Randi's biggest fault is her tendancy to talk over people and is far outwieghed by the sheer volume of valuable information she passes on. The type of person Randi is and they type of show she does does leave her open to more oportunites for these type things to happen.

[Imalittleteapot]

85. Love Randi, but she crossed the line today. I hope that poor woman

has gotten over it.

[Pachamama]

118. I understand why Randi hung up on her-but she shouldn't have called her a

name like "dumb as a rock" afterwards....She just should have said.."sorry, I was getting to frustrated with her, I couldn't take it anymore".

[mondo joe]

86. Oh please. We've all seen posters here have misunderstandings and flame

wars based on them.

Randi had a boo boo.

[MarkTwain]

88. Agreed. She's shrill and hysterical....

... two qualities which lend nothing to her presumed advocacy.

I began listening to her over a decade ago when she was based exclusively on local talk radio here in South Florida. She was just as irritating then as she is now.

There are far better, more reasoned, and more substantitive radio hosts who are progressive and who find not the need to resort to the shrewish hysterics in which Ms. Rhodes engages. They employ effective debate, argument, and facts. Not "Rushistic" bombastic proclamations or the screaming and overtalking which is her constant mode of operation.

I turned her off many years ago and never regret doing so.

[tishaLA]

89. Just now played in LA

that woman was dumber than a rock.

[Catherine Vincent]

90. Give her a break. Randi's from the Bronx.

:-)

[Talismom]

104. No, from Brooklyn. Many of us in the Bronx like her show and

listen and learn from her, but she could learn a thing or two about how people should be treated with a little respect.

[dissent1977]

94. At times she can be entertaining, but other times she makes me cringe

I am probably even further to the left than Randi Rhodes, but when I hear a caller who disagrees with her call in I always get really upset with her. She just screams at people without giving them a chance to even finish their sentence. Now there are perhaps times when that is appropriate, for example if it is a completely rude caller or someone who is trying to dominate the conversation. Too often however that is not the case, the caller is trying to be polite but she just screams at them. We are not going to win the debate if our spokespeople are so obviously trying to shut people out of the debate. We need someone who has the ability to make the right-wingers look like idiots by making good arguments against them, not someone who merely screams to get them to shut up.

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[WillyT]

96. Whoa... What A Weird Thing To Say !!!

You're new to this, no???

:shrug:

[quiet.american]

108. Actually, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sam Seder.

I had no idea he existed before AAR, but to me, he's really grown into his own and become my favorite, especially when he substitutes for Randi -- he really seems to be about the only AAR host who can effectively handle her slot.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

109. Sam is great when he fills in for Randi. n/t

[NancyG]

111. I adore Randi

Sure she screws up by offending or overtalking, but it's part of her package. If she didn't have those issues, she likely wouldn't be as effective as she is in other ways. We need many forceful voices for our side.

[leesa]

114. Are you always this thin-skinned?

[rndmprsn]

115. yeah that is my one complaint about randi...

she doesn't like to be "one upped" by any of her callers, so she berates them and treats them generally like shit...i'll def never call into her show after hearing things like this happen dozens of times, don't get me wrong i love rando to death...but she just needs to chill on getting defensive to her callers.