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About Randi

The Brooklyn native turned South Florida legend turned progressive talk radio pioneer has been tearing up the airwaves for two decades and counting.

A former secretary, waitress, trucker and US Air Force aircraft mechanic, Randi’s radio odyssey began in Seminole, TX and led her to Alabama, Milwaukee, Dallas, NYC and Miami before she settled in West Palm Beach, FL to raise her niece Jessica after losing her sister Ellen to breast cancer.

Randi’s Air Force service in the late 1970’s is where the seeds of liberal ideals first took hold. She was taught that you are only as strong as the weakest among you – a tenet that guides her to this day.

In March of 2004 Randi moved back to New York to host afternoon drive on the Air America Radio national network.  Now, she has returned home and on to bigger and better things at the Nova M Radio Network.

Impeccably researched and infectiously humorous, she is listed in Talker Magazine’s Heavy Hundred, stared in the HBO documentary Left of the Dial, and is probably watching C-SPAN right now.


 
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It's Friday ya Bastids
Friday 09-05-2008 3:28pm PT


After 4 days of shrill shrieking FRAUD I need a nap OR a booby bounce.


CHANGE.


A man who voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time. A woman who , like George W. Bush, believes God is a card-carrying Republican who can't possibly dissapprove of war and neglecting the poor.


CHANGE.


A 'maverick' who has completely sold out his independence and flip flopped to appease the extreme right wing. A woman who, like George W. Bush, surrounds herself completely with 'yes men' types and fires anyone who dares to have a different perspective.


CHANGE.


A man who was born in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term and barely comprehends technology like the Internet. A woman who, like George W. Bush, was a hard partying youngster who found religion, and uses that discovery to hypocritically judge the rest of us on morality.


CHANGE.



A man living the rarified, disconnected life of a multi-millionaire. A woman who spends as many tax dollars as she can get.



CHANGE.


A sad old man who surrendered his values just to be nominated, in a lifelong quest to live up to ghosts of overachieving elders. A naive woman eager to be led around by the uneducated nose, by faceless, shadowy operatives who rank America's best interest far behind their own.


CHANGE.


HIM: Four more years of Bush policy and shortsightedness. HER: Four more years of Bush scheming and arrogance.



All together now.....

THAT'S NOT CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN


THE LYING


TAX PLANS HERE
http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/09/04/obamas-tax-plan-better-for
-working-families-than-mccains


HERE’S A CALCULATOR. Put in your adjusted income and compare your tax savings under Obama and McCain
http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/


FACT CHECK – MCCAIN ON TAX CUTS FOR THE RICHEST AMERICANS
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/603/


One More Tax Lie
New McCain ad keeps pounding the Lie Of The Year; Obama Will Raise Taxes On The Middle Class

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_new_stitch_in_a_bad
_pattern.html


HAVE WE MENTIONED IT'S THE ECONOMY?


Jobless Rate Hits 4 1/2 Year High
61,000 Americans 'Changed' From Employed to Out Of Work. Believe it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0439189920080905



The Fed 'Beige Book': Prolonged Economic Downturn
Inflation, Unemployment, Despair. McCain talks about empty words about change....pocket-change.
http://www.economyincrisis.org/articles/show/1738


SARAH’S SORDID PAST
Palin attended 5 colleges over 6 years

http://www.mercurynews.com/hotjobs/ci_10382124


The National Enquirer Palin had an affair
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/03/mccain_aide
_rips_tabloid_repor.html


VIDEO – SARAH PALIN’ in CHURCH


“Pray for a gas line” and some rambling about some stuff and OH my “Nanny” and “The war is GOD’S PLAN” and “Track got another tattoo” and “You’re a bunch of cool lookin Christians” and “God is gonna tell you what’s going on” and like, “Alaska is the head not the tell” and some more stuff and stuff.


GOOD THING THEY GOT HER A SPEECH WRITER !!
WATCH
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html


She also supported a ROAD to NOWHERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/palin-also-supported-the_n_123991.html



PALIN COMPLETE DEBUNK
http://www.samefacts.com/archives/campaign_2008_/2008/09/palin_v_reality.php


OBAMA REACTS AND SO DO HIS SUPPORTERS
Obama raised 8M from 130,000 donors online after the Palin Speech

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/obama-raises-8-million-af_n_124023.html


McCain raised 1M
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/04/donations-pour-in-to-rnc-after-palin-speech/


Ignoring the rest of his life, Constitutional Law Professor, State Senator, US Senator, Leader of the most awesome Grassroots Presidential Campaign in the HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 19 months on the campaign trail meeting almost ALL of us, 25 debates, 18 MILLION VOTES and a LONG list of incredible
LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

http://underdog.typepad.com/progressreport/2008/09/palin-vs-realit.html


What exactly is wrong with PUBLIC SERVICE anyway?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/barack_obama_the_community_org.html


GENDER CARD NO. RACE CARD…YES!


Congressman Lynn Westmoreland “Barack and Michelle are UPPITY”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/03/mccain_aide_rips_tabloid_repor.html


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014560.php


Oh I almost forgot – John McCain gave his POW speech to the Republican WAR Convention – NAP TIME!


The Speech: It Is What It's Not
At the Republican Convention , John McCain the Republican stood in front of Republicans to accept the Republican nomination and spoke of....how much he's stood up to and disagreed with Republicans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/us/politics/05assess.html?hp

Clean Out The Republicans...Change America With....Republicans!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090500121.html?hpid=topnews

The Speech: Sucked
Bush's speechwriter hated it. David Gergen derided the 'Same Old Ideas' . And GOP delegates were actually falling asleep.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/john-mccain-speech-reacti_n_124115.html

CNN Analyst/New Yorker columnist Jeffery Tobin at :15 "I thought it was the worst speech..." to :41 "shockingly bad."




Homework for Friday, September 5, 2008


Unbelievable
Thursday 09-04-2008 1:52pm PT





When your philosophy and worldview has wrecked an economy, destroyed 60 years of global goodwill, started a useless war that has cost thousands of American lives, run up a trillion dollars in debt, made the dollar an also-ran in world markets, shipped a good chunk of the post-WW2 Middle Class to China, indebted your nation to Communists and Islamic Militants, turned an efficient government into one that can't even collect drowned bodies of its own citizens off battered streets...and you have zero left but tired, divisive ideas that will do NOTHING to get us out of this mess.........what do you do when you stand up in front of an angry country expecting answers from you?........

BLAME THE 'LIBERALS'.

Yeah, it was those damned liberals, wasn't it....????


We could go on....and on....and on......

It's all Barack Obama's fault, right Rudy? It's all Bill Clinton's fault, right Rush? It's Hillary, and Biden, and Dennis Kucinich and Randi Rhodes....they did it!

IT'S NOT JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT. IT'S RUNNING RIGHT THROUGH MINNESOTA.


Homework for Thursday, September 4, 2008



Wednesday 09-03-2008 10:40pm PT

War Night Recap At The 'Ole RNC with Fraud Thompson

Did you see the cast from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” rocking out to AC/DCs Thunder last night?  While the cameras were desperately panning the pod people for female faces buried inside the 68% WHITE MALE crowd, THE LIES last night at the barely watched Republican National Convention were coming so fast, I got writer’s cramp!

  • OBAMA WILL RAISE TAXES
  • OBAMA NEVER REACHED ACROSS THE AISLE ON ANY PIECE OF LEGISLATION
  • PALIN HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA (being a wacko yes, taking care of people NO)
  • OBAMA CUT OFF FUNDING FOR OUR TROOPS ON THE BATTLEFIELD


THE DEBUNK
Obama’s tax plan does not raise taxes on businesses or people making less than $250K.  Over $250K the tax rate goes back to what it was under President Clinton…Now at 35% it would go back to 39%.

Seniors making under $50K would pay NO taxes

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1031268,CST-NWS-tax30.article


Another big piece of his tax plan involves CLOSING CORPORATE LOOPHOLES.  Loopholes that allow big business to sometimes pay ZERO in taxes.  Closing these would bring in 1 Trillion dollars!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/18/obama.taxplan/index.html


Obama after Katrina working with Senator Coburn (R-OK)
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/kimberlyk/gG5XNC/commentary


Obama and Senator Coburn (R-OK) creates Federal data base for keeping track of Federal Spending (Mostly due to the pork barrel project known as THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE)
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=LatestNews.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=8dcb8c35-802a-23ad-4d37-9c8ea9c43460


Obama’s legislation after Katrina
http://obama.senate.gov/press/060929-congress_to_pas/


Lugar (R-IN) Obama Non Proliferation Law
http://lugar.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=278019


It took about 1.8 seconds to call out the turncoat on his big doozy: Barack Obama DID NOT cut off funding for troops
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/?hpid=news-col-blog-viewall?
hpid=topnews


THE PALIN PICK seemed crazy at first, but now it’s CERTIFIABLE!
Tonight is Sarah Pork Barrel Palins’ big night!

Will she tout her record as Governor?  While Alaska is seeing soaring revenues from ridiculously high oil prices (Alaska is due to have a $9 billion surplus) Sarah Palin as governor cut spending on fire stations, emergency services and needed road improvement projects.
http://www.adn.com/legislature/story/415749.html


Alaska’s Governor has a line item veto and Sarah used it to reduce the amount of money that Covenant House a charity that gives pregnant teens a place to live, rehabs drug addicted teens etc needed to expand.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_funding
_to_help.html?hpid=artslot


Do you think she’ll include the title her little town won?  “METH CAPITAL OF ALASKA” That’s right, in 2003 the Mat-Su area (Wasilla Alaska) authorities uncovered 9 Meth labs. By 2004 the number of meth labs in Wasilla jumped to 42! http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml


Meth Lab Cleanup in Wasilla IS BIG BUSINESS
http://homemethtestkit.com/index.php?q=99629


Meanwhile the Wasilla police were conducting raids with automatic weapons on POKER GAMES?
McGregor knew many of the people arrested in the Wasilla raid two weeks ago. He said he's been told that there were as many as 20 police officers - armed with automatic weapons - involved in the bust. He said he can't understand why police are using valuable resources to arrest otherwise law-abiding citizens for gambling with their own money. Aren't we the meth capital of Alaska?” he asks. “Why are we busting poker games? No one is going to Gestapo-style raid your house on Super Bowl Sunday” '

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2007/04/29/news/news6.txt

And Sarah was BANNING BOOKS in the Wasilla library.


Mayor/Dictator
Sarah Palin brought Rovian tactics to a small town Mayor's race. Once in office, she governed with an iron...far right, Christian conservative....fist. Right down to the books she wanted banned from the Wasilla library

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html?
imw=Y


OR THAT SHE REFUSES TO PAY HER TAXES??
Palin failed to declare a business she owned.  The business was dissolved by the state for non payment of fees owed.  She also started a failed Marketing Company named Rouge Cou.  Translated from THE FRENCH it means “Red neck”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_scrubbing
_car_wash.html


The letter advising her that she failed to pay States fees owed on her business (a car wash) was written on her own letterhead?
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/pdf/warningletter
20070211.pdf


Even John McCain criticized Sarah Palin’s addiction to PORK
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-earmarks3-2008
sep03,0,284198.story


Frozen Pork Barrel: $27 Million in Fed Funds For a Town Of 5,000
Despite their oil wealth, Alaskan pols are experts at dipping into federal funding. Ted Stevens mastered it. His protégé' Sarah Palin was getting good too.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/
AR2008090103148.html?hpid=topnews


3 Degrees of Separation: Sarah Palin-Steven Silver-Jack Abramoff
In addition to being Ted Stevens' chief of staff, Mayor Palin's lobbyist Steven Silver was an Abramoff confidant

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/palins_lobbyist
has_abramoff_t.php


Alaska #3 on The Federal Spending List.......
For every buck they send in taxes, the get almost two back.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html

WHAT ARE THE ODDS FOR A PALIN PURGE?
According to Bloomberg Odds makers are betting McCain drops Palin from the ticket

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080902/pl_bloomberg
/azjwbcginwsg;_ylt=AvTTfx8Sb.nQiKspjlrUEhOs0NUE





Homework for Wednesday, Septemeber 3, 2008
Sarah Who?
Tuesday 09-02-2008 5:43pm PT
 

Alaska, An Independent Nation?

The hits just keep on comin! Perhaps “vetting” might have made sense here, but nothing McSame does makes sense.


Leave aside how many truly qualified Republicans McSame had to choose from, i.e. Governor Jodi Rell or Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and even Kay Bailey Hutchinson IF he wanted “ovaries” on the ticket, but choosing Sarah Palin without even KNOWING HER shows the kind of judgment that should scare the PANTS SUIT off everyone.


Sarah Palin didn’t even have a passport until she got a passport to go to Kuwait once.



  • She knows nothing about Foreign Policy - YOU know more about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, Russia and Pakistan than she does!!
  • She thinks Alaska should succeed from the “union”
  • She was FOR the Bridge to No Where until she was against it
  • She campaigned for indicted Senator Ted Stevens
  • She knows nothing the American Credit Crisis, Free Trade, Immigration, Economics, Foreign Policy, National Security, Education, Health Care, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea or China.
  • She is under investigation for abuse of power (she had her brother in law State Trooper Wooten fired during a custody battle with her sister)
  • She was a sportscaster, a city councilwoman and mayor of a town with less than 10,000 people before she was elected Governor almost by default
  • She now claims “13 years of Elected Experience”
  • She claims to have MORE experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden
  • She has served less than 2 years as Governor
  • She did not campaign with John McCain
  • She did not know John McCain
  • She hunts from airplanes
  • She is a radical Christian Right Winger who obviously does believe in choice “Bristol CHOSE to have her baby”
  • She thinks the Pledge of Allegiance was written by the Founding Fathers Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist
  • She brought the issue of ABORTION into the Wasilla’s “Mayor” race (a non partisan job that pays $68K/year)
  • Her mother in law won’t vote for her.
  • She doesn’t know what the Vice President “does all day”
  • She has a son who won’t take a photo with her, a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant
  • She stayed in Texas determined to “give a speech” at the Governors Conference AFTER her water broke prematurely with a high risk pregnancy
  • She is married to a guy who had a DUI
  • She doesn’t believe Global Warming is real
  • She doesn’t believe in Evolution
  • She would be a heartbeat away from being the Commander in Chief of the most awesome military and nuclear arsenal on the planet

What is this about?


John McCain is a desperate man who will do anything to TRY to win an election including putting us in the hands of a patently unqualified HOCKEY mom.


So Monica Goodling wasn’t available???


PROTESTORS BEING GASSED. AMY GOODMAN OF PACIFICA RADIO ARRESTED???

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ


Watch the cops just use hoses of pepper spray on people walking

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/rnc.security/index.html#cnnSTCVideo


Police surrounded I Witness Video crew who were there to document any police brutality. They are LAWYERS and Videographers.

They arrested everyone in the house without a warrant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi1eluuDGss





Homework for Tuesday, Septemeber 2, 2008


It's FRIDAY (from Denver) ya bastids!
Friday 08-29-2008 2:24pm PT
 

Obama says: IN YOUR FACE!!!

Barack Obama: "ENOUGH!" 'Nuff said… What a night! What a week! What a ticket!


Oh, and John McCain has just chosen his VP - the anti-choice half-term Governor of Alaska, Sara Palin. Previous experience: beauty pageant contestant and mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (population 5,470). Seriously!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcdLO3jKkPo


She's embroiled in a State Trooper scandal, has no foreign policy experience, no background in economics, but she was Miss Alaska runner-up! Joe Biden must be laughing his ass off!


http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/492964.html


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jihHrCRRZzC-rvT1HKiq81CPPoiQD92S12L00



Alaska is one of the most corrupt States in the US…Ted Stevens anyone? Yep, he's under indictment on 7 Felony Counts and just won his re-election primary. Geez…


What is McCain thinking? "We will build a bridge…TO NOWHERE?" He's in his 70's, has been battling skin cancer for years and this is who he believes should be a heartbeat away… Why? Was Jodi Rell busy?
http://www.ct.gov/governorrell/cwp/view.asp?a=1317&q=285278&governorrellNav=|


Judgment anyone?


Well, I suppose that it's all he had left.



Homework for Friday, August 29, 2008

Where was the stampede of the endangered Colorado PUMA?
Thursday 08-28-2008 4:05pm PT


Randi will only be on-air for one hour today due to special convention coverage.

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Today's Coverage Of The DNC On Green 960

3PM - 4PM:    Angie Coiro
3PM - 6PM:    Peter B. Collins (special internet stream)
4PM - 5PM:    Randi Rhodes
5PM - 9PM:    Air America Continuing Coverage
9PM - 12AM:  Mike Malloy
12AM - 3AM:  Peter B. Collins


I told you there would be no floor fight. The Corporate Media said there would be. I told you Hillary would do the right thing the Corporate Media said they were writing a new nominating speech. I told you Roll Call would end when they got to NY the Corporate media said otherwise.


The pundits were either stupid or making this crap up. Either way they lose and AMERICANS WIN!!!. It was a great day!


We watched two amazing things last night. The first African American man became the Democratic nominee for President of the Unite States and the powerful Clintons chose their country over their ambitions. Truly an American moment of conscience and decency. THAT was the best of American values and tradition.


Did you see Beau Biden and his dad Joe Biden? There wasn’t a dry eye in the entire Convention Hall. Michelle was crying, Jill was crying, the delegates were crying, Members of Congress were crying, and Beau and Joe ere both chocking back tears. Believe your own instincts. What you saw and felt and KNEW was REAL. The pundits, and the “heads” and the haters are the illusion.


Today is the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther Kings’ ’ “I Have a Dream” speech. And from that dream we will pull a new reality.


Tonight, on the shoulders of hundreds of thousands decent and brave men and women of the Civil rights movement will stand Barack Obama. One man representing the hopes of all decent people will proclaim that AMERICA IS after all the GREATEST NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Or as my mom used to tell me, “We will get there because we live here ONLY IN AMERICA Randi. Only in America”.


Love your country when it’s right. Right it when it is wrong and the American Dream expands, widens, and deepens to include EVERY Americans’ dream.


Slowly yes, but surely if the people are good. And we are good. That’s what makes us great!


Get ready for History tonight my dear ones. You and all you have done and will do make this night possible. CONGRATULATIONS! Well done.

So enjoy the fruits of your labors and then rest because we still have work to do together.

Randi In Denver! Day 4!
TODAY! SENATOR HARRY REID! CONGRESSMAN DENNIS KUCINICH!




Homework for Thursday, August 28, 2008




Hillary Nailed It
Wednesday 08-27-2008 12:09pm PT



Randi will only be on-air for one hour today due to special convention coverage.

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Today's Coverage Of The DNC On Green 960

2PM - 3PM:    Gavin Newsom
3PM - 4PM:    Rose Aguilar
3PM - 6PM:    Peter B. Collins (special internet stream)
4PM - 5PM:    Randi Rhodes
5PM - 9PM:    Air America Continuing Coverage
9PM - 12AM:  Mike Malloy
12AM - 3AM:  Peter B. Collins


Her speech was strong and sincere. I watched and understood how hard it must have been for her to have to support someone with whom she had been in a fierce competition for the most powerful job in the United States of America for Pete’s sake, but she was a lioness.


I never believed the PUMA hype that the media was peddling but I did understand how hard fought this primary was even tracking into dirty tricks territory which I detest, but in the end Hillary ever the Democrat stated the case for ONE PARTY ONE NOMINEE ONE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT IN 2008. A case for ending this Occupation, taking care of our Armed Forces, Health Care for all, Economic growth, Tax Relief for the Middle Class, repairing our alliances in the world and ending the privatization and degradation of everything!


“The fate of our Nation and the future of our children depend on electing Barack Obama” - Well done Senator!


When you are watching the speeches I know you must feel a sense of YES WE CAN AND YES WE WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER right up until the talking heads show up to tell you that all that you thought and felt was incorrect. She didn’t do this, she didn’t say that, she shoulda coulda woulda if only…


Just remember…YOU are REAL. THEY are the ILLUSION.


As Hillary said


NO WAY NO HOW NO MCCAIN.


Day 3 live from the Denver Convention!

Look who's stopping by to visit....

  • HOUR #1 - We'll talk to Rep. John Conyers, (D-MI)
  • HOUR #2 - Say hi to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
  • HOUR #3 - It's our good friend Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL)


Homework for Wednesday, August 27, 2008



MICHELLE!
Tuesday 08-26-2008 12:13pm PT



Randi will only be on-air for one hour today due to special convention coverage.

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Stop whining NOW!  What more could you ask for?  Personally I think she should move to New York and take Hillary’s Senate seat but maybe that’s just me!


There really is a new sheriff in town and the party hacks that got where they are thanks to the Clintons had better get on board. 


Last night watching Ted Kennedy muscle through brain cancer and Michelle Obama effortlessly give voice to the theme ONE NATION moved everyone in the arena to their feet, some even to tears (mostly us girls).


I felt proud of my country again.  Hopeful for the future for the first time in a long time.  I kept thinking of our soldiers getting orders to return home where a NEW American dream would be waiting for them with jobs, health care and gratitude.  This election can’t come soon enough for them, for me, for all of us.


We are ONE NATION and the fake divisions that are being drilled into our heads are nothing more than political theatre.  America is yearning and we are only one election away from restoring decency and equality back to our people.


GOD BLESS AMERICA.


Hillary may release her delegates.  Hillary may not release her delegates.  There may be a partial roll call with Hillary ending it or there may be a floor fight.  Stay tuned!


WE ARE LIVE FROM DENVER TODAY where protests are minimal and security is tight but not oppressive. Law enforcement managed to round up three meth fiends with big guns who seem to have some love of “white supremacist” meth fantasies regarding Obama.  We owe a great deal to Denvers’ finest today.


Randi In Denver! Convention day 2
GUEST TODAY: TEXAS REP. CHET EDWARDS AT 230 DENVER TIME



Homework for Tuesday, August 26, 2008


It Starts Today!
Monday 08-25-2008 5:36pm PT


Randi will only be on-air for one hour today due to special convention coverage.

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We're In The Driver's Seat Now!

GREETINGS FROM DENVER! 

The convention starts today.


IT’S BIDEN!

The scrappy Statesman from Scranton with all the political skills of an attack dog, Foreign Policy Experience and a former Chariman of the Senate Select Committee on the Judiciary.  An advocate for Women and Firefighters, cops and working families for more than 30 years!  His record is not perfect and expect the whiners on both sides to complain.  If they didn’t it wouldn’t be Monday.


Grampy’s “rapid response team” had prepared ads complaining about Biden, Bayh and Kaine.  The Randi Rhodes Show Rapid Response Team put together some videos of the Primaries too.


Have a gander!  Grandpa HATES Game Show Host Mitt Romney.  He’s too tall, young and RICH.  Remember Grandpy is a “kept man”.

A great response to the use of “primary campaign” rhetroric would be to use McCain and Romney getting into it.  They HATE EACH OTHER



Last Thursday: Romney On The Short List
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty too. And the wild card? David Petraeus?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/us/politics/22veep.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin


Will Romney Hurt Dem Hopes In The West
A Romney pick means lots of proactive Mormons....and that could tip the scales in Western states

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/25/MNDR12HM1O.DTL&type=politics


Yesterday those freaks at FOCUS ON THE FAMILY had some

Weather!  Do you remember that lunatic from Focus on the Family that was praying for rain to spoil Obama’s speech at Invesco?  Yeah well they got a massiv tornado and I got to watch!   Color me a Gon fan. 
http://www.examiner.com/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2008m8d24-Tornadoes-strike-Douglas-and-Elbert-county?comments=true#comments


And THE WING NUTS ARE ALL HERE!  I had to go to a briefing with some of them last night.  They’re all on their Talking Points. Even when you just say “hi”.  Creepy.




Homework for Monday, August 25, 2008