Just Another Day of Vicious Left-Wing Talk Radio Hits on Gingrich
On Thursday, December 1, several left-wing radio talkers viciously attacked Newt Gingrich, the GOP front-runner. There is a special toxicity level they reach when talking of the former House speaker.
Take Randi Rhodes, who mocked his appearance: "He always looks like a corpse that was pulled out of a lake! Every time I watch CSI and they pull somebody out of the lake, I think, hey, is that Newt? No, it's this week's murder victim. He's bloated and a massive mutiliated middle aged flesh curtain hanging!" Then take Mike Malloy, who compared Newt to an ax murderer and railed against his bad breath:
Gingrich, of course, is identified by the Washington Post as a man of ideas - oh yeah, he's got ideas. Uh -so do ax murderers, so do Dick Cheney, so did George Bush - but so what?
I've been railing on this piece of human waste for the past couple of nights now because I know Gingrich! You know- I - I spent enough time around this freak when he was a member of Congress from um the congressional district right next door to us and I've been to enough public functions in Atlanta over the past 20 years to have gotten, in a sense, to know what this smelly bastard is like. And he really is vile! I say smelly because he's got breath that would knock a buzzard off a crapwagon from 100 yards. He really is a bad man!
Malloy used to work for CNN, that alleged haven of civility and centrism. Thom Hartmann was more willing to slam the entire Republican field on Thursday on the issue of personal character:
Republicans really don't wanna be talking about character, 'cause when it comes to Mitt Romney, it raises questions of why did he tie his dog to the roof of his car...When you're talking about Newt Gingrich, it has to do with being a serial adulterer...When it comes to Herman Cain, it has to do with all of this stuff that's coming out. When it comes to Rick Santorum, strange things like bringing home a miscarriage and putting it on the mantel for the kids to look at. Strange character stuff in the Republican Party.
Hartmann was also an extremely cynical historical guesser, charging almost every recent president had extramarital affairs (Gerry Ford?): "Carter was probably also the only president in the 20th century who never had an [extramarital] affair...but, beyond that, he was the only president...who wasn't out killing people [in war], and I think that those are both dimensions of morality. "
After all this bile on liberal talk radio, it all came full circle on Thursday where anti-"Toxic Talk" Bill Press blamed all the incivility and meanness on -- well, Newt Gingrich:
REP. KEITH ELLISON (D): You know Barney Frank whose an astute observer of politics as anyone said that you know Newt Gingrich is probably responsible for the current level of vitriol and polarization we have.
PRESS: I think so! It started with him!
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Good to see
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:22am.
Good to see substantive discussion reigns supreme.
Randi F****** Rhodes is mocking Newt's appearance?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:32am.
Really? Randi "Face smashes into sidewalk" Rhodes, who had to take time off her show and rehabilitate her lies about how some right wingers didn't hit her but she assaulted the pavement with her chin--she's mocking Newt's appearance?
Hmmm. Yeah, that'll work.
I thought the left
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 8:58am.
I thought the left outlawed comments about people's weight as looksism. Randy will have to be sent to work in the fields as part of her reeducation and senaitivity training. Isn't it also strange that the first line of attack for libprogs is appearance since they can't win on substance/ideas.
Be nice now
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 8:00pm.
Randi can't help her crystal meth addiction.
I thought that was a picture
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 12:04am.
I thought that was a picture of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman...from one of those stupid shows from the 1970s....you all mean it's not?
Where
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:33am.
in hel does the media find these jerks, including Ellison? The media must run ads saying "only hateful idiots need apply, with no education, no common sense and above all, no respect and the worse you are, the more you get paid" It amazes me that they have any sponsers, and if so, who would buy their goods?
The media advertisement
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:44am.
Your right, they recruit the worst of the worst
Mike Malloy is clinically insane.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:39am.
.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Tailgunner.........with a
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:44am.
Tailgunner.........with a handle like that, I would STRONGLY urge you to keep your distance from Bawney 'the onus is the anus' Fwank!!!
My 'handle' has nothing to do with my sexual orientation.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 9:28pm.
(Whatever it may be.)
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
That was a joke!!! Aimed at
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:27pm.
That was a joke!!! Aimed at Bawney!!! I hope you didnt' take offense - and if you did, I'm really sorry!!! I get a little animated sometimes - as I'm sure some people would tell you.
'S alright.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 12:23pm.
None taken or intended.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Yeah, but if somebody had
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:43am.
Yeah, but if somebody had said (or did say) that Boy Barry looked like a cross between Alfred E. Newman and Curious George - with about the same IQ - they would be joining the ranks of the 8.6% (yeah, I really believe that!!!) unemployment lines!!!
Well Killa, if we eliminate those who exhaust
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:04am.
their benefits, we can get down to less than 9% unemployment. It seems that this "good news" is because the government eliminated 360K who've quit looking and have no benefits to draw any more, from the number of unemployed actually counted.
Killa, I saw Carlos Mencia, in a blurb for his"comedy" show.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:38am.
He actually said that Obama looked like Curious George. And, the audience just roared with laughter. Personally, I like the Alfred E Neuman comparison.
One thing that sets the GOP apart
Submitted by Ken James on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 1:10am.
is we not only let the left wing insult our candidates, we do a pretty good job of it ourselves. One thing about the Democrats, they do not write or talk bad about their side, no matter how bad the issue is. When something is wrong, they just shut up and don't talk about it. We are so noble and upright, that we feel compelled to bury our candidates in the hole the left dug for them.
Ellison/Press got one thing
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 1:55am.
right when they said,......"REP. KEITH ELLISON (D): You know Barney Frank whose an astute observer of politics as anyone said that you know Newt Gingrich is probably responsible for the current level of vitriol and polarization we have."
PRESS: I think so! It started with him!"
Yup, AFTER 40yrs. of DEMOCRAT rule, these twits had a temper tantrum after losing, that is still alive today...DEMOCRATS!
So, yes it DID start with him. These projecting haters never cease to amaze. The Projecter Party!!!!
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Randi Rhodes
Submitted by P.J. Gladnick on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 6:59am.
I feel I have a proprietary interest in Randi Rhodes. Back when she was on a low power Palm Beach County radio station, I wrote up a story about her. This was back when she was BEGGING her audience of a handful of Condo Commados to push for her to go national. I believe she used my story to swing her Air America deal...and the rest is history. So if Al Gore can claim he is the father of the internet I guess I could claim to be the father of Randi Rhodes national radio career.
Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters ---from the Buffetvad Gita
And aren't you embarrassed now, P.J.?
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 9:05am.
LOL
You might want to keep that one
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 9:19am.
to yourself. Oops...too late.
The prooblem with Rhodes
Submitted by pbthinker on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:25am.
She was on WJNO for a long time but finally they moved her to another station and put Hannity in her place.
The prooblem with Rhodes
Submitted by pbthinker on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:25am.
She was on WJNO for a long time but finally they moved her to another station and put Hannity in her place.
People who...
Submitted by BBallleaper on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 9:45am.
look they'd been fed hard candy with a slingshot shouldn't throw stones!
Let me get this straight...
Submitted by fatboy on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:19am.
Randi Rhodes is mocking someone else's appearance??!?! For crying out loud...she's the ugliest MAN I can think of. From the front, she looks like Henry Waxman from the back! In fact, she's so ugly...she can make a freight train take a dirt road!
Are you kidding me??? I mean, are you kidding me???
A little detour into standup comedy?
Submitted by KornKing on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:26am.
This maggotgagger thinks she should comment on how someone else looks?
I'll see your 'ugly man' and raise you...
Submitted by wizardjr on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 8:00pm.
try Rachael Madcow for a counter offer.
Take Randi Rhodes?
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:02am.
Seriously, Tim? Let me be clear, No thank you.
What Fatboy said about her and freight trains. She's got marks all over her, where someone touched her with a 10 foot pole.
Ah, Randi Rhodes, that
Submitted by cristo on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 12:06pm.
Ah, Randi Rhodes, that sensitive beauty queen, with a face for radio and a voice link the foreman on a fish market loading dock.
Let's get this straight.This not like the vitriol from the right
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 1:08pm.
Let's get this straight. This not like the vitriol from the right. Right?
In fact, the proof of the pudding is that although this goes on day in and night (thinking of Bill Maher and MSNBC, as well) there probably never has been, nor is there a likelihood that there will be a single actual news story, or TV spot, starting with one of these instances from the left.
Rather what we get, is the almost daily pieces about the hate and vitriol on the right.
Do they ever reference the vitriol from the left? Sure. Occasionally - not often - way down in a piece, or in a TV segment, you might get a, " . . some of this happens on the other side, as well." That's it. No examples. No rundown. No headlines.
Which reminds me, Bill Maher is past due for another of his op-eds in the Los Angeles Times, where he does nothing but blast Republicans for their hate nasty talk.
(;`/ gary
PS - Tim, technically - your examples are not the worst of the lot from those folks. I'd call it a slow day.
Has a big
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 6:16pm.
mouth and no Army (h/t Jer)
"He always looks like a
Submitted by Antisocial-ism on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 6:27pm.
"He always looks like a corpse that was pulled out of a lake! Every time I watch CSI and they pull somebody out of the lake, I think, hey, is that Newt?
She says that with that death rictus of a smile that she has.
She is an embarassment to the name Randi Rhodes. Thank God her last name is spelled Rhodes instead of Rhoads.
http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/RandyRhoadsBio.html
Gee, this broads FUGLY!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 7:36pm.
And shes complaining about someones appearance? Get thee to a nunnery, STAT!
Randi "Face-Plant" Rhodes
Submitted by wizardjr on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 7:59pm.
Yeah. Now there's a person whose opionion I'll be sure to follow.
After one to many head to curb contacts on her pub crawls her elevator isn't getting to the top floors.
WHINO Randi Rhodes
Submitted by Injest on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 12:31am.
She was on WJNO for a long time but finally they moved her to another station and put Hannity in her place.
Vote Republican - Then you'll only be called a racist one more time.
For some reason when I read WJNO and Randi Rhodes I”m seeing WHINO Randi Rhodes
WHINO radio and Randi Rhodes. Strange
And she looks like her hair
Submitted by USA4freedom on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 4:46am.
And she looks like her hair is done with a weed whacker and a plum-bob.
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