Posted by: McQ on Friday, April 04, 2008 Have you been following this little kerfuffle that has the leftosphere in such an uproar while most of the rightosphere laughs? Seems Air America talk host Randi Rhodes was doing a stand-up gig in San Francisco and called Ms. Clinton everything but a child of God. In a profanity laced rant, she went after both Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro, dropping the "F" bomb and calling them both whores. Clinton supporters were simply aghast. And as a consequence, Air America has suspended Rhodes indefinitely. First note that this wasn't done on the air, as was the Imus thing. Now, I'm not sure if it was an Air America sponsored event [commenter Horatio says it was an AA event -ed.], But as James Joyner notes, "[s]he also called Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Dick Cheney racists and anti-Semites but Air America seems not to be upset by that". He also cites someone who claims Rhodes has made even more outrageous statements about the likes of Mitt Romney without repercussions. So one has to believe it's not what she said, but about who she said it. That, for most reasonable people, smacks of hypocrisy and underlines again the divisiveness this primary campaign is having among Democrats (if you don't believe that read the comments at the AA link). In fact, my guess is had she limited herself to those baseless insults against Nixon, Reagan and Cheney, her performance would have never made a ripple and the smug left would have continued to believe that all hate is spewed on the right. (You can see the video of her "performance" at OTB.) Don Surber, sarcastically calling them "Taliban lefties", lists the reaction of some: So, how are the free speech lefties handling it?One of the values of this primary, as far as I'm concerned, is to finally see the veneer the left has tried to hide itself behind ripped away. As is obvious, "smear" and "hate" aren't the exclusive property of the right nor is "hypocrisy". And free speech? Well, that's exclusively reserved for those on the left with whom they agree. Calling Reagan an anti-semite and racist? OK. Calling Hillary Clinton a whore? Off with Rhodes' head. |
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