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Ärende: Liberals show their true colors in wake of Katrina
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This is just one example of the kind of people, and the kind of things they are
saying.  Truly amazing.


IN KATRINA'S WAKE
Radio host urges poor to loot
Randi Rhodes advises Gulf Coast listeners

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Posted: September 3, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c) 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Air America's Randi Rhodes
In a broadcast yesterday, Air America radio talk radio host Randi Rhodes
repeatedly urged listeners in the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast to go out and
loot, insisting the poor should be allowed to steal goods at will.

The leftist host, who has sparked controversy in the past for advocating the
assassination of President Bush, said hurricane victims should avoid discount
centers such as Wal-Mart and focus their looting on higher-end stores in order
to get good quality products, according to Ned Rice, a contributor to National
Review Online's weblog "The Corner."


Rice wrote, "I'm not sure if Randi was joking or serious (although with her
it's always hard to be sure), but even in jest, should she be allowed to do
this on the air?"

In April, Rhodes aired a skit that warned Bush with gunfire, and in a broadcast
last year, she imitated the sound of gunfire while saying somebody ought to
take the president fishing and then shoot him.

As WorldNetDaily reported, Rhodes opened her show with an audio skit.

The announcer said: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't
safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you
ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of four gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you
little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."

Government sources took the skit "very seriously," though Air America denies
there's any federal probe taking place.

Rhodes has since apologized for the joke, saying it was a "stupid bit."

"If the bit was understood to be a threat against the president," Rhodes
explained, "I need to apologize to the president of the United States, and I
do. I also need to apologize to the Secret Service [which] has a very, very
serious job. If they had to take two seconds out of their day to look into me,
I apologize for that. ... But where is the apology when they threaten judges
from the Senate floor or from the House floor? Or where's the investigation
into [WND columnist] Ann Coulter's mouth? ...

"[My apology] is sincere. I feel bad that anybody would feel threatened by
comedy. That's one thing, but I also feel bad that it wasn't funny. And I also
feel bad that there could be a perception that I would be advocating violence
against anybody, let alone the president of the United States of America. It's
no secret that I think he's a terrible president, but I don't think that
anybody should have violence advocated against them in any way, shape or form
ever! ... That [skit] will never see the light of day again. It was bad."

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