There was some hyperbole in my use of the term "heave-ho", but I object to their taking her to task for something she said on her own time at an event not sponsored by AA. I don't think the incident had even received any news coverage or had been exploited by conservative talk hosts. Anyone aware of that happening?
At its inception, and for a few years afterwards, Air America was the beneficiary of mountains of free publicity, ususally in the form of the press regurgitating their press releases nearly verbatim and then slobbering over themselves to heap praise on the network that had (very) few ratings success. It was obvious the liberal mainstream media were doing their best to prop them up.
Then came the whole Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Fiasco, when it was determined that AAR executives defrauded a NYC local Boys and Girls club out of $800,000 that was rightfully theirs and used it to pay for operations that had been losing mega-money from the beginning. Then the media (especially the NY Times) put their blinders on firmly so they can could play the "See no Evil, Hear no Evil" card and do their best to not report it. The fraud was repulsive, the intentional cover-up by the media even more so.
Since then, as more rating failures in city after city began piling up, the media quietly moved on to other causes, as they determined no amount of free positive publicity could help this outfit.
But positive news of any kind out of this operation has been very hard to come by for the last few years, as they continue to lose more affiliates, ratings continue to tumble, and they get booted off even their own NYC flagship. They have consistently been reducing their personalities and operating budgets as many of their affiliates, including the LA affiliate, only use one or a few of their produced shows. Al Franken left the sinking ship, but only after fleecing them for millions for a morning show next to nobody listened to.
Also, this is not the first issue Randi has had lately. Remember the well-orchestrated mugging of her on a NYC street by some "conservative operative" several months back after she left a bar in the wee hours of the morning? No? my point exactly - it wasn't widely reported at all. That was because the "conservative operative" accusation never came close to being plausible, much less proven. So the Bad News Air America Black-out is in full-effect. This new Rhandi episode is no exception.
It really is too bad, as Rhandi is one of the best friends the conservative movement has. The more she is heard, the more people are repulsed by her and tune her ideas off as well as her radio stations. Conservatives need Rhandi back on the air and should be doing all that they can to get her back on as soon as possible.
