Randi Rhodes Suspended For Calling Hillary A "Big F*cking Whore"

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  • Skitch Patterson
    Skitch Patterson Posts: 642
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    It was a private audience, I can't believe she is being censored and punished for a non televised closed audience.


    i agree... with roland?



    ill take it a step further.... it seemed to me like she was using the term in the "attention" or "media" context, not the "loves a lot of cock" context.... and really shouldnt be in trouble at all.
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Skitch Patterson wrote:
    i agree... with roland?



    ill take it a step further.... it seemed to me like she was using the term in the "attention" or "media" context, not the "loves a lot of cock" context.... and really shouldnt be in trouble at all.

    Ahh....media whore v.s. the "other" type. Just look at Hillary.....who can argue?!? :D
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  • mookie_in_eugene
    mookie_in_eugene Posts: 1,090
    She at least does a great job of pointing people to right places for information. Such as, always saying how important it is to read the NY times or various reports about the government. Luckily she'll be back on the radio next week.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Is she anything like Lisa Lampanelli?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwsQu8f7Z7I

    The Carrot Top zing?....hysterical..
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  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Is she anything like Lisa Lampanelli?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwsQu8f7Z7I

    The Carrot Top zing?....hysterical..

    I LOVE Lisa Lampanelli. She takes no prisoners. An equal-opportunity offender. My kinda gal. :D
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  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA20iPAwVgs

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  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    slightofjeff wrote:
    People really have no concept of the constitutional meaning of "freedom of speech."

    yes, freedom of speech has it's time and place.

    wait...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

    oops, nope, I guess it's pretty clear.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    yes, freedom of speech has it's time and place.

    wait...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

    oops, nope, I guess it's pretty clear.


    Just like I'm not free to come to your house and start calling Obama a nuclear power cock sucker...you can't say whatever you want to in a place of business.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    another casualty of Operation Chaos! hilarious.
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    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Just like I'm not free to come to your house and start calling Obama a nuclear power cock sucker...you can't say whatever you want to in a place of business.

    yes, you can. Freedoms a bitch ain't it? Don't worry, they're going away..fast!
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    yes, you can. Freedoms a bitch ain't it? Don't worry, they're going away..fast!


    I like freedom as much as the next but if you own a property or business, the owners control what is allowed to happen on said property.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I like freedom as much as the next but if you own a property or business, the owners control what is allowed to happen on said property.

    not if the "next guy" is George w..

    I put these numbnuts in the same catagory as the geniuses who hired Stephen Colbert to MC the press dinner and then got all upset when he rolled all over Bush. Do they not watch his show? Same thing with RR rhodes. they hired/invited her to speak and then were suprised when she said what she basically said what she says everyday on her show.

    I think we do agree on one thing

    sometimes rights come with consequences, and that's whats so fucking cool about them.

    also, not sure if you've heard, but she wasn't unemployed long.

    http://www.novamradio.com/

    you go girl!
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    not if the "next guy" is George w..

    I put these numbnuts in the same catagory as the geniuses who hired Stephen Colbert to MC the press dinner and then got all upset when he rolled all over Bush. Do they not watch his show? Same thing with RR rhodes. they hired/invited her to speak and then were suprised when she said what she basically said what she says everyday on her show.

    I think we do agree on one thing

    sometimes rights come with consequences, and that's whats so fucking cool about them.

    also, not sure if you've heard, but she wasn't unemployed long.

    http://www.novamradio.com/

    you go girl!


    They hired her to speak but that is not all encompassing. It doesn't mean they would let her say whatever she pleased. You know this. It isn't a freedom of speech issue, as far as the constitution meaning goes, anyway. Perhaps they expected a higher standard of class and intellect from their employees...who knows? It was their call not mine.

    You agree with her on Hilary so you're supporting Randi with this. I don't care what she says about Hilary, though she absolutely disgusts me when she rails on Nader....so it doesn't bother me to see her take this hit, I can be honest about it. Most of you crying about her freedom of speech being abused probably thought Imus deserved to be canned. It bugs me when it's only the people we agree with who deserve the right to say whatever they please. I'm trying to be objective. If I wanted the public to rely on my radio show for a quality program with high standards that I could be proud to run...I would not put up with my employees resorting to petty insults and name calling to make their points.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    yes, freedom of speech has it's time and place.

    wait...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

    oops, nope, I guess it's pretty clear.


    so i could be as obnoxious as i want in a restaurant and let's say i'm yelling out racial slurs or calling my waitress a cunt...are you saying it's unconstitutional for them to ask me to leave?

    or let's say i'm a waiter and i'm hired b/c the restaurant owner hired me b/c he thought i was funny...what if i told a racially motivated joke and another table heard me...you're saying it's unconstitutional for them to fire me over it?

    or let's say i'm a waiter and in the kkk...would it be unconstitutional for them to fire me if i told my tables kkk talking points? what if i yelled hitler was right? would it be unconstitutional for them to fire me?

    of course not!
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    They hired her to speak but that is not all encompassing. It doesn't mean they would let her say whatever she pleased.

    How do you know. Please post a link to her contract.
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    You know this.

    do I?
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    It isn't a freedom of speech issue, as far as the constitution meaning goes, anyway.

    yes, it is.

    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Perhaps they expected a higher standard of class and intellect from their employees...who knows? It was their call not mine.

    exactly, so you can't really say with authority. You can only pretend to do so.
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    You agree with her on Hilary so you're supporting Randi with this.

    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    she absolutely disgusts me when she rails on Nader....

    Even though he is an arrogant dick.
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    so it doesn't bother me to see her take this hit, I can be honest about it. Most of you crying about her freedom of speech being abused probably thought Imus deserved to be canned.

    No he didn't. Same issue. They say more hateful things on Faux News.
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    It bugs me when it's only the people we agree with who deserve the right to say whatever they please. I'm trying to be objective.

    you are not succeding.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    How do you know. Please post a link to her contract.

    I know because they suspended her. I figured that was a pretty good tip off that they didn't like what she said.

    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    do I?

    You should.
    http://www.rbs2.com/freespch.htm

    Overview of Law
    The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes freedom of speech in the USA. There are several major limitations on this freedom:

    1. Only the government is prohibited from restricting speech. Private corporations are free to censor speech of their employees.
    2. Freedom of speech is not absolute, even when government regulation or law is concerned. For example, freedom of speech does not give one the right to commit perjury. See the beginning of my essay on infotorts for more examples.
    3. Since 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court has retreated from protecting freedom of speech even for government employees, as explained in my separate essay.


    Fundamentally, an at-will employee in the USA can be terminated at any time, and for any reason – or no reason at all – and the courts will not intervene to protect the ex-employee from allegedly unfair treatment by the employer. Courts have repeatedly recognized that "any reason" includes a "morally wrong" or "morally reprehensible" reason. I have briefly discussed the history of at-will employment in the USA and criticism of this doctrine in a separate essay.

    The combination of:

    1. no legal protection for freedom of speech of employees of for-profit and non-profit corporations and other non-governmental employers, and
    2. the freedom of employers to terminate employment at any time, for any reason

    means that employees in private industry have no legal rights to freedom of speech.

    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    yes, it is.

    see above


    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    exactly, so you can't really say with authority. You can only pretend to do so.

    Well again, it doesn't take a nobel prize winner to figure they had problems with what she said based on their reaction to it.




    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    Even though he is an arrogant dick.

    :rolleyes:

    How so?

    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    No he didn't. Same issue. They say more hateful things on Faux News.

    And Faux news apparently has no problems with what's being said on their programs based on their inaction of doing anything about it.

    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    you are not succeding.


    And how am I not being objective here?
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    El_Kabong wrote:
    so i could be as obnoxious as i want in a restaurant and let's say i'm yelling out racial slurs or calling my waitress a cunt...are you saying it's unconstitutional for them to ask me to leave?

    no. but it would be your right to say so.
    El_Kabong wrote:
    or let's say i'm a waiter and i'm hired b/c the restaurant owner hired me b/c he thought i was funny...what if i told a racially motivated joke and another table heard me...you're saying it's unconstitutional for them to fire me over it?

    that's for a (hopefully not Bush appointed) judge to decide really, but basically no
    El_Kabong wrote:
    or let's say i'm a waiter and in the kkk...would it be unconstitutional for them to fire me if i told my tables kkk talking points? what if i yelled hitler was right? would it be unconstitutional for them to fire me?

    no, but it's your right to say so even if you are putting your job on the line. Of course if when they hire you they know you are in the kkk why would they be suprised?
    El_Kabong wrote:
    of course not!

    I've never said otherwise. I have said over and over again that rights can come at a cost. nobody's relly addressed that.

    holy shit, I must really be out of line now because the liberals on the board are attacking me.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    stupidcorporatewhore wrote:
    no. but it would be your right to say so.



    that's for a (hopefully not Bush appointed) judge to decide really, but basically no



    no, but it's your right to say so even if you are putting your job on the line. Of course if when they hire you they know you are in the kkk why would they be suprised?



    I've never said otherwise. I have said over and over again that rights can come at a cost. nobody's relly addressed that.

    holy shit, I must really be out of line now because the liberals on the board are attacking me.

    No one is attacking you. It's pretty much common knowledge that the first amendment doesn't cover private property or business. The owner has the final say on what is allowed to be said on their property. I posted you a link.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    It's pretty much common knowledge that the first amendment doesn't cover private property or business. The owner has the final say on what is allowed to be said on their property.

    as it should be.

    I suppose I just should have said that I am GRAVLEY dissapointed in Air America radio. My view of them is they welcome all opinions praise or criticism, passive or harsh.

    I will now exercise my right as a consumer and consider not listening and boycott the few sponsors they do have.

    apparently my money speaks louder than free speech

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