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Secret Service investigates Air America

ThePresence

ThePresence

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Hmmm, I didn't realize they were still on the air...

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April 28, 2005 -- ALL-liberal Air America and talker Randi Rhodes apologized yesterday for a "bad taste" comedy bit in which President Bush was shot.
The Secret Sevice said yesterday it was looking into the incident to see if it constituted a threat to the president.

Rhodes opened her Monday afternoon radio show with an announcer blasting the president for his Social Security plan:

"A spoiled child [Bush] is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he's gonna fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [sound of three shotgun blasts].

"The AAARP ? the American Association of Armed Retired People [sound of rifle being cocked]. Just try it, you little bastard."

"It was a bit. It was bad. I apologize a thousand times," Rhodes told listeners yesterday on WLIB (1190 AM), adding: "I'm not in charge of the bits."

"Our normal vetting process failed . . . and we regret it," Air America's Jon Sinton told The Post.

Informed of the bit at a White House press briefing, spokesman Scott McClellan said: "It sounds very inappropriate and over the line."

Secret Service spokesperson Lorie Lewis told The Post that "if we determine that questions need to be asked, we will attempt to get them answered, but at this point we have not made any inquiries to anyone connected with the show."

During Dan Quayle's vice-presidency, ex-WABC lefty Lynn Samuels was investigated by the Secret Service for saying "Too bad it can't happen here" while discussing a vice-presidential candidate getting beaten up in South America.

Yesterday, on her Sirius Satellite Radio show, Samuels drew the line at shooting:

"There are very few things that you absolutely, positively cannot do on the radio," she said, "and pretending to shoot the president is right up there at the top."
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Consciously sending young men and women to die unnecessarily along with a hundred times as many Iraqis is in better taste than the idea of veterans shooting at Bush jokily presented?
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i thought liberals were anti-gun, why do they want to kill the president?
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Stupid joke on AA's part but come on, who in their right mind would believe that tasteless joke actually advocated shooting the Dub?

That said AA and Rhodes deserves all the grief for that spot if just to educate them about taste.
 
i was just baiting. my post isn't any stupider than mercanucaribe's

this is why i am ascared of P&N
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i was just baiting. my post isn't any stupider than mercanucaribe's

this is why i am ascared of P&N
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:laugh:

Anyways, didn't we have a similar thread about a joke like this and it was brought to our attention that the SS is required to investigate all threats, whether obviously a joke or not?
 
and i am sure the fine folks of P&N will have a civilized logical debate with quotes from scholarly noble people that are much more brilliant than us neanderthals of OT
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i thought liberals were anti-gun, why do they want to kill the president?
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Stupid joke on AA's part but come on, who in their right mind would believe that tasteless joke actually advocated shooting the Dub?

That said AA and Rhodes deserves all the grief for that spot if just to educate them about taste.
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The thing is, this isn't the first time Rhodes has done this on her show. Link Link
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.
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She doesn't strike me as the sharpest bulb in a rather dim closet.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
and i am sure the fine folks of P&N will have a civilized logical debate with quotes from scholarly noble people that are much more brilliant than us neanderthals of OT
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😀
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i thought liberals were anti-gun, why do they want to kill the president?
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Stupid joke on AA's part but come on, who in their right mind would believe that tasteless joke actually advocated shooting the Dub?

That said AA and Rhodes deserves all the grief for that spot if just to educate them about taste.
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The Secret Service automatically investigate any threat made against the President. That said, a radio show is different then a private citizen making a threat, because they may inspire one of their wacky listeners to actually go through with something like that.
 
LOL, more evidece of the superior civility of our tolerant and peace loving liberal friends. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
and i am sure the fine folks of P&N will have a civilized logical debate with quotes from scholarly noble people that are much more brilliant than us neanderthals of OT
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QFT
 
Originally posted by: Corn
LOL, more evidece of the superior civility of our tolerant and peace loving liberal friends. :roll:
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tolerant and peace loving? last time I checked, two notorious lefties (hitler and stalin) were responsible for killing millions of people. killing people they don't agree with comes natural to them. 😛


<for the record, i realize you were being sarcastic>
 
Originally posted by: Nik
A threat to the president? A radio advertisement for AA is a THREAT to the president? :roll: Good friggin grief. Tax dollars hard at work! :roll:
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It wasn't an advertisement. It was a bit that Rhodes' show put together.

"It was a bit. It was bad. I apologize a thousand times," Rhodes told listeners yesterday on WLIB (1190 AM), adding: "I'm not in charge of the bits."
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Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Nik
A threat to the president? A radio advertisement for AA is a THREAT to the president? :roll: Good friggin grief. Tax dollars hard at work! :roll:
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It wasn't an advertisement. It was a bit that Rhodes' show put together.

"It was a bit. It was bad. I apologize a thousand times," Rhodes told listeners yesterday on WLIB (1190 AM), adding: "I'm not in charge of the bits."
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OH MY FVCKING GOD THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Nik
A threat to the president? A radio advertisement for AA is a THREAT to the president? :roll: Good friggin grief. Tax dollars hard at work! :roll:
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It wasn't an advertisement. It was a bit that Rhodes' show put together.

"It was a bit. It was bad. I apologize a thousand times," Rhodes told listeners yesterday on WLIB (1190 AM), adding: "I'm not in charge of the bits."
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OH MY FVCKING GOD THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
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Like I said before, a radio show is different than a conversation you may have with a friend. Lots of people are listening, and it may inspire some demented, unbalanced idiot to go out and actually try to kill the pres.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i thought liberals were anti-gun, why do they want to kill the president?
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Stupid joke on AA's part but come on, who in their right mind would believe that tasteless joke actually advocated shooting the Dub?

That said AA and Rhodes deserves all the grief for that spot if just to educate them about taste.
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The thing is, this isn't the first time Rhodes has done this on her show. Link Link
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.
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She doesn't strike me as the sharpest bulb in a rather dim closet.
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Wouldn't that be "Brightest bulb". Unless of course it's broken glass.

 
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Like I said before, a radio show is different than a conversation you may have with a friend. Lots of people are listening, and it may inspire some demented, unbalanced idiot to go out and actually try to kill the pres.
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That's like arresting software engineers who make video games because some kid shot up his high school and blamed it on playing violent video games.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Like I said before, a radio show is different than a conversation you may have with a friend. Lots of people are listening, and it may inspire some demented, unbalanced idiot to go out and actually try to kill the pres.
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That's like arresting software engineers who make video games because some kid shot up his high school and blamed it on playing violent video games.
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A video game shows violence, sure, but not against a specific real-life person, based on real political ideology. It's quite different IMO. Oh, and nobody was arrested.
 
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Like I said before, a radio show is different than a conversation you may have with a friend. Lots of people are listening, and it may inspire some demented, unbalanced idiot to go out and actually try to kill the pres.
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That's like arresting software engineers who make video games because some kid shot up his high school and blamed it on playing violent video games.
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A video game shows violence, sure, but not against a specific real-life person, based on real political ideology. It's quite different IMO. Oh, and nobody was arrested.
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There are loads of games out there directed at specific people and political ideologies. Nobody *has* been arrested because it would be fvcking stupid if anyone *does* get arrested. The SS should move on to real cases instead of wasting our bloody tax dollars. What are they going to do? Magically know who all was within radio broadcast distance, then investigate the millions who probably listen to the show? Heh. What a waste.
 
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