Female Liberal Talk-Radio Hosts Side with Ed Schultz Rant, Against Laura Ingraham
On Thursday, liberal talk-radio hosts Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller each protested the one-week suspension of MSNBC host Ed Schultz for calling Laura Ingraham a “talk slut” on his radio show. Miller said of the S-word: “So, I wear it proudly. Some right women are soooo sensitive!”
It’s understandable Randi Rhodes might think this isn’t offensive. She was suspened by Air America for yelling that Hillary Clinton was a “big f—ing whore” in 2008. But she was really upset at the Schultz apology and suspension, insisting Schultz had used the word on her, too, and neither found it offensive:
RHODES: So, they suspend him for saying that on his radio show - the MSNBC show suspends him. Now, I don't know if he's been suspended for his comments or for moonlighting! I have no idea what's going on there!
But I will tell you that the right wing does not do this to their hosts, they just don't! They let them say anything and they do! They call the President every name -- you're talking about the President of the United States of America! They call him every name in the book, everything! They say he hates white people! They say everything about this president! They say everything about people like me, they call me a Nazi, they call me uh Randi Bin Laden. They’ve questioned my patriotism personally, they have questioned my love of country...these people who have had absolutely no experience loving their country, I mean, loving the country! They, uh, they've never really loved!
And, you know, it's so interesting to me that the left media is always suspending their hosts! You know... it's the weirdest thing in the world! And like I said, in 2004, Ed called me Randi slut...I don't know what that is, and maybe I'm thinking he just gets excited calling women sluts! So I guess the message would have been, if I were his manager, uh, you know a lot of sluts would charge extra for that, be careful.
You know, I don't know what his deal is, I don't know why he plays like that, but he does, he's always been, you know, kind of in nasty - um, he went on a tirade in 2007 that was so unbelievable and I got on the air uh, you know after that, and people were calling me going did you hear what he said about you did you hear...and, you know, I have my response....we went back and found it...I said, you know, when all this happened and I was the target, what was it that I said exactly, what was it that I you know - how did I react to - because you know they demanded his head on a platter! You know, they wanted him to be fired!
Then Rhodes played an archived response of her comments, explaining her position:
RHODES: I never asked for anybody to be fired or suspended...I didn't need an apology, I just figured you know this is the business I have chosen! You know - and the right wing just goes absolutely bat crap crazy...I want his head on a platter...I want him fired...I want him suspended....I want...why do they do that and how come people on my side actually acquiesce?
Then Rhodes re-played audio clip of Schultz's apology, while ranting: "You never thought it was severe and neither did I!...No, I think when you said it to me, it was the lowest of low, but I didn't really care! And I still don't care what people call me! How can you be in this business and care about what people say about you! Uh - yes, he was supposed to have been a friendly, but uh how could you care? How could you really go on every day? How could care? This business just blows me! I gotta say!"
Rhodes kept complaining about conservatives: “The right wing, you know, talk show hosts can say anything including almost the F word - and they'll stand by them! You know, they'll just stand by them and say that's who he is, that's what he does!”
In a discussion with political consultant Karl Frisch of Bullfight Strategies, Miller complained Laura Ingraham was "snarky" with Ed Schultz in her reaction -- as if Miller is never, ever snarky? -- and this "slut" talk was just part of the everyday hurly-burly in Talk Radio Land:
KARL FRISCH: Right wing radio though is replete with every host under the sun saying these types of things every single day. So, whether there about you, whether there about the First Lady, whether there about the President whether there about generally speaking women. I mean Rush Limbaugh has said something sexist, I'm guessing on every show that he's ever broadcast in his entire career.
STEPHANIE MILLER: I'm just saying at the bottom we're human beings. I mean she (Ingraham) makes fun of me on her radio show; I make fun of her on mine. You know, it's just at some point you go oh give me a break that everybody's suddenly so sensitive.
FRISCH: Yeah I think the right wing must play victim and if Ed had not done what he did, they would have used this as a perfect opportunity.
PS: On her website, Ingraham published a letter an 18-year-old fan sent to Schultz:
Dear Ed Schultz,
You're comments made towards Ms. Laura Ingraham, a highly intelligent, successful, and respectable woman, were not only highly offensive to Ms. Ingraham, but also myself. As an 18 year FEMALE, the word slut is tossed around daily by teenagers...and, as it looks from your face on your website, you, Mr. Schultz, are no teenager. I am not condoning this word used by young adults, and even in some cases younger than this, but you as a 57 year old man, takes this word use to another extreme. You should not be making these remarks about someone who, although you may not deem this possible, is your equal. You're behavior is disgusting and your not showing any regret is obscene. You are a pitiful excuse of a man to be able to put down a woman the way that you TRIED to. Reagan drank that beer in 1983. Laura was at Dartmouth. I doubt you read the Dartmouth Review on-line since Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet. What are the chances of you remembering a comment made from Ms. Ingraham over a quarter century ago? I find this hard to believe, Mr. Schultz. Laura Ingraham is a remarkable person and a wonderful mother. She is also a brilliant and gifted writer. The size of her audience is MANY times that of yours. She graduated from Dartmouth and Virginia School of Law, while you cheated on your first wife with the second and barely made it out of Minnesota State Moorehead...You have some serious guts! You shall always be known for these outbursts - which are usually idiotic and highly insulting to the target of your anger.
With all due respect,
Michele L.
Age 18
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Comments
Of course they sound like 2 idiots
Submitted by Texndoc on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:39am.
Because the double-standard/hypocrisy reeks.
Rhodes: "They call the President every name -- you're talking about the President of the United States of America! "
Miller: ".....everybody's suddenly so sensitive."
What is there to say. Idiots. If Rush Limbaugh called Miller a "slut" on the air, it would be her career pinnacle and she'd make her living purely off it, on a daily basis. From show to show, radio to TV. "The previously unheard of Stephanie Miller, who Limbaugh called a slut!" would be how she would be introduced on every show.
Michele's letter
Submitted by kinijane on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:18am.
Well said and well done, gracious as a southern belle, I don't like the word "sl t. either.
They call him every name in
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:38am.
They call him every name in the book, everything!
Really??? Some examples, please???
What insulting name has the president been called- a socialist?
If Randi doesn't object to being called a slut, it's because she has no respect for herself, and her standards and level of class are as low as Schultz's.
Yea, Randi, it's time women got over being insulted at being called sluts.
How do you feel about blacks being insulted at being called nigger? Is it time they got over that too, and quit being so sensitive? After all, it's uses with "affection" in rap......
PS I saw an article earlier this AM where the word slut was actuall sl*t....is that another word that we are not permitted to even write now?
"If Randi doesn't object to
Submitted by MikeB on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:46am.
"If Randi doesn't object to being called a slut, it's because she has no respect for herself, and her standards and level of class are as low as Schultz's."
BINGO!
Also, she may actually be acknowledging what she truly is. Considering her alcoholism and binge drinking, she may indeed be slovenly and/or immoral or dissolute. She certainly is indifferent to ethical restraints. I wouldn't doubt she is also indifferent to moral restraints. She is certainly given to improper conduct (filing a police report that she was mugged when her injuries occurred because she was falling down drunk), why wouldn't she be given to immoral conduct, too?
Affectionate
Submitted by circusstorm on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:43am.
This is how liberal households speak to each other! It is just a term of endearment for progressive's... If mom won't give you $5 to go to out with your freinds, than you call her an f*#king slut! I am sure Shultz, Miller and Rhodes all honed their skills on their mothers ...
sad,.. but true,..
Submitted by Mark81150 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:06am.
I was the "bad" guy for grabbing my 16 year old nephew by the shoulder, and putting him against the wall a few inches above the floor,.. because he called his mother, my sister in law,.. an F'ing b*tch for just asking him to clean his room... She thought I was over reacting too... I'm a generation older than my wife and her sisters,..
and I know what men where allowed to say and do, and still be considered men.
I never struck the boy, just whispered a reminder of how I'd respond if I ever heard him talk to ANY woman in his, our family like that again. He pee'd himself,.. literally,. there are times I almost weep for the younger generations...boys, teens often physically threaten women, I'll kick her.....
My attitude is the same as John Wayne's, you're either a man, or you are not. Certain things are over the line, and it's the job of other men, to let them know what's completely unacceptable, even when it goes where the squeamish are afraid.
Schultz never did a thing I found manly, till he threw himself on his sword in his apology, I doubt it was sincere, but we'll see, redemption is always possible.
It's the way younger people have destroyed the line of respect men were taught from birth, was due to females.... you love em, protect them, even die for them,... but you do not disrespect them for being female.
Bingo!!!!
Submitted by Joe W. on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:39am.
Very well stated, Mark. I would guess we were the same approximate age. I'm 62. I'll never forget the morning at breakfast, when I was in high school and my older brother was complaining to our Mother about how his eggs were cooked wrong. When he said to Mom, "shut up", I had to duck quickly to avoid the slap that came across the breakfast bar as our father knocked him off the bar stool. It was a lesson I have never forgotten.......*****Thank you to our heroic men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our liberty. Without their sacrifice, we would not be posting on this blog today......****
Stephanie Miller + Randi Rhodes
Submitted by Texndoc on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:41am.
Stephanie Miller + Randi Rhodes = Joan Walsh
I just figured out the math. Has that genius been heard from? Well, I guess not because it's not directly Obama related but if Obama called a staffer a "slut!", Walsh would be on TV defending it, I PROMISE.
Miller said of the S-word:
Submitted by DaBird on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:45am.
Miller said of the S-word: “So, I wear it proudly. Some right women are soooo sensitive!"
Using this logic, Don Imus should not have been punished for his comments about black woman. Miller thinks they should "wear it proudly" or quit being so sensitive. But the Left were sure screaming from the hill tops about the insensitive and vile comments from Imus.
Of course the hypocrites on the Left will try to deflect by saying that that comparison doesn't work because racism is different. But any normal thinking person knows there is no difference between racism and sexism. People have no choice if they are born male or female, black or white.
These two women don't seem to
Submitted by kareling on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:48am.
These two women don't seem to realize that it wasn't Laura or any other "rightwinger" who demanded Ed's suspension. This is the kind of knee-jerk, hysterical, baseless, foam-at-the-mouth raving that decreed mere hours after the Tucson shootings that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party were somehow to blame.
"Yeah I think the right wing
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:23am.
"Yeah I think the right wing must play victim"
Yeah, well, shouldn't the liberals swoop down to help a "victim", - a class they have patented as political clients? What a laughable accusation. As Noel would say, the unintentional irony is "delicious".
Chris, these people are
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:15am.
Chris, these people are immune to irony.
And they've become parodies of themselves.
mb,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:23am.
Even when the world is insane as it is, I just can't believe that anyone, even most liberals, take these two addlepated morons seriously. I no longer get angry at their spewed absurdities that are reported here. They are lightweights and comic relief.
Randi Bin Laden said:
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:21am.
They’ve questioned my patriotism personally, they have questioned my love of country...these people who have had absolutely no experience loving their country, I mean, loving the country! They, uh, they've never really loved!
I don't question it. I'm convinced that she does hate America and is wracked with guilt over every historical aspect of it that doesn't include socialism and homosexuality being forced on the public, by the federal government.
As to her definition of "loving their country, I mean, loving the country!" I'm not sure what she means, but just in case it follows her usual "thinking", then no. I have never stuck my wee wee into a hole in the USA.
This proves two things:
Submitted by johnsonl on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:32am.
1. Liberal women aren't pro women, they're pro liberal. NOW is a perfect example.
2. Liberals are complete hypocrites.
So they're not insulted
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:45am.
at the idea of being called sluts. And?...
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
I find..
Submitted by packman on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 9:49am.
both Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller very offfensive...
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
These two point out the importance of good parenting.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:12am.
Perhaps with good parenting these two would have turned out much differently. Maybe they wouldn't think that calling women sluts is Ok, or that murdering babies is Ok, or taking my money and giving it to other people is Ok.
Of course they might have had good parents. Every once in awhile, no matter how good the parenting a child just turns out bad.
progressive sluts
Submitted by scarletandgold on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 11:00am.
rhodes wears that label proudly..im sure she does...but at her old age im sure the one nite stand pickins are getting less and less...im sure shes down to the the crack addicts...im surprised shes not doing promos for the next slut walk..the difference between laura and left wing sluts is that laura is a real american woman...sluts are everywhere..lol...............thats why rhodes doesnt fit in with normal americans...what a dark sad and im sure very smelly life...eeeeeeeeeeeew
Insults
Submitted by alvin on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 12:41pm.
It was a few years ago, but on his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Rush Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, "Did you know there's a White House dog?" Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time.
Plagiarize much?
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 3:02pm.
From Mother Jones:
Not only are you a plagiarizer, you are a willing fool for the Left. One Leftist makes this story up and the rest of you dutifully spread it like cow manure in a hippie commune.
Where's your proof?
Hank Mud's
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 3:02pm.
reincarnation.
I don't know, Rad,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 4:38pm.
if it is indeed Hank Mudd, it got awfully short winded. The original Hank would have gone on for at least 4 paragraphs, in stilted, outmoded language only it understood.
Considering the leftist made this up
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 3:14pm.
Along with a host of other lies, what does that say about them? Of course to the drones, the lies justify the means
Peek A Boo, I See You Alvin
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:04pm.
You've left another dropping in this thread.
C'mon, alvin. I'm waiting for your proof.
Is Alvin avoiding the thread
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 2:29am.
Is Alvin avoiding the thread now?
For good reason.
Stop posting propaganda or document your points, alvin.
Since it doesn't bother Rhodes...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 2:55pm.
Let me just say she is a fat, stupid, f-ing bitch.
Since it doesn't bother Rhodes...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 2:55pm.
Let me just say she is a fat, stupid, f-ing bitch.
"They say he hates white people!"
Submitted by panzerakc on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 6:36pm.
If memory serves me correctly, didn't the words "typical white person" come out of Obama's own mouth? And wasn't he talking about his own grandmother when he said it?
Can you just imagine the furor that would have ensued if the words "typical black person" had been spoken by George W. Bush about anybody?
talk show comments
Submitted by alvin on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 7:44pm.
Limbaugh on Dede Scozzafava - Nov 9,2009:
LIMBAUGH: Scozzafava has screwed every RINO in the country -- we can say that she's guilty of widespread bestiality
Ah Limbaugh - too big to fail
Now thats funny
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 7:51pm.
And true, so whats the problem?
You got audio?
alvin, being a chipmunk, would know---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 7:53pm.
about bestiality.
Widespread or otherwise.
MD
Ah well,
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 8:44pm.
Guess nobody bothered taping it either?
Ummm Biach,
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:37pm.
"she was really upset at the Schultz apology and suspension, insisting Schultz had used the word on her, too, and neither found it offensive".
No reason to get upset because it's obviously true in your case. No offensive for telling it like it is, right?
Examine who is on your side Ed.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 12:44am.
With Rhodes and Miller on your side, you've got to know you're doing something wrong.
That's one thing that I am confused about with the liberal community. Why don't they look around and examine the quality and credibility of the people on the liberal side and take some pause for thought. If all my admirers were say, prison inmates and ex-cons, I believe that I'd take some time out for some serious introspection and investigate my premises. No such thing seems to exist for them. Curious, ain't it? -bidn-
Didn't Randi Rhodes ...
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 1:01am.
Once falsely claim she had been mugged? Something about being falling down drunk in 2007?