Re: air america radio

["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

I heard some Randi Rhodes yesterday.

She had Nader on as a guest and kept
shouting over him with stupid questions
('who will you caucus with if you are
president?').  He wasn't too good either,
but there wasn't much he could do.  He
hung up.

Otherwise her rap was ultra-partisan-
Democrat, not too sharp on facts, and
effective in the same way that Limbaugh
etc are.  I suppose somebody has to do it.
I can't say how effective it will be.

She's good as a radio talker, glib,
funny.

mbs

Response (Jim C) I caught a few minutes of this Randi Rhodes and thought
she was a shrill, abusive, know-it-all who kept interrupting and
wouldn't let a guest or caller get a word out that didn't fit with her
bullshit lib-dem line and her Nader bashing. She kept repeating that
line that Nader cost Gore the election. Bullshit. Gore himself, plus
Clinton, plus the calculated purging of 94,000 voters in Florida as
convictec felons (a process begun in 1998--which constitutes criminal
conspiracy to deprive persons of civil rights--91,000 of whom were not,
54% of who were Afircan Americans) cost Gore the election.

So far, this is no "liberal alternative" to right-wing talk--it is an
imitation.

Jim C.