The Randi Rhodes ‘Mugging’: What Have We Learned?

Posted on October 17, 2007

“What Have We Learned?”

This is a question my son likes to ask after seeing the universe reward stupidity in the usual way. For example, he said it after a particularly gruesome episode of “Scarred” featuring a skateboarder who slit his scrotum open on a metal spur while trying to grind down a railing.

Sadly, in the fever swamps of the American Left, I predict that nothing at all will be learned from yesterday’s slapstick of irresponsible accusations and childlike conspiracy rumor-mongering over the Randi Rhodes “mugging”. Maybe a few will recoil from their own Pavlovian spasms, but most will put the ridiculous incident out of mind as quickly as possible, and lurch on ’til the next time.

Shawn Macomber at The American Spectator explores the hysteria on the Left in reaction to Ms. Rhodes’ pratfall:

The answer for many was a resounding, “Yes!” Over at Rhodes’ official messageboard, more than a few suspected a “Nazi Brownshirt” attack. “If you’ve watched The Sopranos you know how easy (and cheap) it is to buy that kind of hit,” one intoned darkly. “IF this was a political hit from Blackwater or whoever, there is going to be the wrath of G-d on the perpetrators,” another added. The proprietor of TalkingRadio wailed, “These whack jobs appear determined to whatever it takes to silence the opposing point of view.” And a visitor to Think Progress, the blog of the Center For American Progress — a self-declared “nonpartisan organization” paradoxically fighting against the “Radical Right-Wing Agenda” — posited Rhodes was “probably beaten up by some nutball in the Mallkin [sic] Mongoloid [sic] Mafia…that’s the type of viscous [sic] rabid people they are.”

Maybe the shrinks were onto something with this “projection” dealie.

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One Response to “The Randi Rhodes ‘Mugging’: What Have We Learned?”

Dimsdale on October 19th, 2007 12:02 pm

The level of paranoia on the left is palpable and kind of slimy. “Nazi brownshirts?” “Blackwater?” and best of all, the “Malkin Mongoloid Mafia?”

Just the presumption that anyone even listens to Rhodes or cares about her ill informed opinions is bad enough, but to think that anyone would waste resources on trying to “hit” her is laughably preposterous. Seriously, if she had an audience like Rush (impossible) and had one iota of influence over an organization like Blackwater or these mysterious Nazis that the libs see everywhere, would they simply stop at knocking her drunken carcass over?

Anyone concerned with “silencing the opposing point of view” will be listening to Rush anyway, Media Matters and Henry Waxman included!!