Thursday, May 13, 2004
Air America Host Calls for Bush assassination
NewsMax: Comparing Bush and his family to the Corleones of "Godfather" fame, Air America host Randi Rhodes reportedly unleashed this zinger during her Monday night broadcast: "Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw."
Rhodes then imitated the sound of a gunshot.
In "Godfather II," Fredo Corleone is executed by brother Michael at the end of the film.
Has the Secret Service launched a formal investigation into the Rhodes knee-slapper, as it normally does when the president's life is threatened - even jokingly?
New York Daily News
Liberal radio is airing bad jokes and worst taste
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "ought to be tortured." President Bush should be taken out and shot.
Those are a few nutso nuggets from the hosts of Air America Radio, which calls itself the new liberal voice. I tuned in, expecting to hear sober policy analysis mixed with glee over President Bush's political pickle.
Instead, I got 10 hours of rancid venom directed at the President, Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, the Catholic Church and anyone else the hosts felt like slamming.
If you're a card-carrying lib who likes crude sex jokes and a cartoonish echo chamber, Air America is for you.
Of Franken, "The church was a day-long obsession, as was Limbaugh. He is an "awful man," "a pig" and "a Nazi."
Ryndee Carney, GM's manager of marketing communications,.. said the station was ordered to "cease and desist" yesterday, and added: "GM will not advertise on any Air America affiliates."
NewsMax: Comparing Bush and his family to the Corleones of "Godfather" fame, Air America host Randi Rhodes reportedly unleashed this zinger during her Monday night broadcast: "Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw."
Rhodes then imitated the sound of a gunshot.
In "Godfather II," Fredo Corleone is executed by brother Michael at the end of the film.
Has the Secret Service launched a formal investigation into the Rhodes knee-slapper, as it normally does when the president's life is threatened - even jokingly?
New York Daily News
Liberal radio is airing bad jokes and worst taste
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "ought to be tortured." President Bush should be taken out and shot.
Those are a few nutso nuggets from the hosts of Air America Radio, which calls itself the new liberal voice. I tuned in, expecting to hear sober policy analysis mixed with glee over President Bush's political pickle.
Instead, I got 10 hours of rancid venom directed at the President, Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, the Catholic Church and anyone else the hosts felt like slamming.
If you're a card-carrying lib who likes crude sex jokes and a cartoonish echo chamber, Air America is for you.
Of Franken, "The church was a day-long obsession, as was Limbaugh. He is an "awful man," "a pig" and "a Nazi."
Ryndee Carney, GM's manager of marketing communications,.. said the station was ordered to "cease and desist" yesterday, and added: "GM will not advertise on any Air America affiliates."
