Air America suspended Randi Rhodes for calling Geraldine Ferraro & Hillary Clinton "f**king whores." Today, Rhodes announces that she's quitting AA. I wonder why they even suspended her? After all, Ferraro & Clinton are a couple of whores, according to at least one definition of the term, which is "a venal or unscrupulous person." They both sold out so long ago that it's obvious they've been "working" for decades.

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Would you be as forgiving if it was Rush Limbaugh that called them "f**king whores"?

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I hope she gets back on the radio through another entity. They were completely wrong to fire her for something she said OFF THE AIR on her own time.

They didn't fire her, they suspended her and then she quit.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

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Any idea of who is going to be filling in for her?

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Suspend, fire = punish. She shouldn't be punished for saying something off the air.

Sam Seder and Tom Hartmann have been filling in. Maybe Sam will get the spot. Or maybe another station will pick Randi up and put her back in the same time slot. I listen on green960 am and it's not only Air America radio hosts on there.

In portland we have 620KPOJ (that is the largest liberal radio in the area) that is all AA. I haven't been listening for the last week, as I haven't been doing anything for the last week in politics or even on this forum, so I don't really know whats going on.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

We have others mixed into the same station, Ed Schultz is on green960 but he's not Air America.

Air America was a dumb idea anyway IMO...progressives don't listen to talk radio....what a surprise.

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I do. I mostly listen to NPR, but sometimes AM talk radio.....I was actually quite relieved that there was finally a liberal talk show station. For years I had to listen to the right wing extremists because they were the only thing there. I like Sam Seder and Tom Hartman and Rachael Maddown and Ed Schultz. Lots of democratic politicians call in and the radio hosts talk about interesting things like constitutional rights and violations, details about sunnis and shias in Iraq, etc...