'Killing Rampage'

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 04:46 AM

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Apparently unable to learn from past mistakes, or just too unhinged to know better, Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes has aired another psychotic "parody" skit. This time, the faux ad, supposedly for Mitt Romney, says his supporters will commit mass killings if John McCain becomes the nominee.

Airing on Super Tuesday, the recorded bit marks the second time Rhodes has gone overboard in this way: in 2005, a similar clip depicted a Sopranos-style hit on President Bush.

But her latest stunt makes that one sound tame by comparison. Here's a transcript of the "ad", followed by a YouTube clip with the full audio:

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ANNOUNCER: The following is a paid advertisement from Republicans for Mitt Romney, or mass suicide. If John McCain is the Republican Presidential nominee, it will destroy the Republican Party. We’re Romney supporters and we know. Cause, if you vote for John McCain, we’re going to go on a killing rampage. Hey, better dead then moderate.”

REPUBLICAN CHARACTER VOICE: "Look, I for one don’t want to die in a hail of gun fire from crazed Mitt Romney supporters, but it’s better then nominating a man who opposed the Bush tax cuts. Hell, John McCain spent years in a North Vietnamese prison. A prison? That doesn’t make him a hero. That makes him an ex-con.”

ANNOUNCER: Exactly, and um, you know what men do in prison. You see if John McCain is President, he’ll make sodomy mandatory. Now, Mitt Romney, well, he believes all sex should be outlawed.

SECOND REPUBLICAN CHARACTER VOICE: As a true Republican, I’m prepared to poison my own children if John McCain is the nominee, but I do wish there was another way.”

ANNOUNCER: There is. If Mitt Romney is the nominee, he’ll give everyone a free new car, made by people in Michigan, with company-paid health care and pensions just like 1955. If John McCain is the nominee, well, we are going to kill everybody, then turn the guns on ourselves. So choose wisely this election day. This has been a paid ad for Republicans for Mitt Romney, or (gun cocking sound effect) mass suicide.

YouTube - Randi Rhodes Says Romney Supporters...

The kindler, gentler left...

Spencer Collins · #2 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 06:09 AM

Despicable..

lackluster · #3 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 11:15 AM

She is the Michael Savage of the left.

I don't particularly care for too many of the radio mouthpieces in general, though. I'd say the least objectionable to me are Ed Schultz and Bill O Reilly.

cnredd · #4 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by lackluster

She is the Michael Savage of the left.

I don't particularly care for too many of the radio mouthpieces in general, though. I'd say the least objectionable to me are Ed Schultz and Bill O Reilly.

I've always wondered why O'Reilly gets thrown into the mix with the far-more extreme pundits...

I consider him "Conservative lite" compared to Hannity, Coulter, Rush, and the like...

Idealogically Promiscuous · #5 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

I've always wondered why O'Reilly gets thrown into the mix with the far-more extreme pundits...

I consider him "Conservative lite" compared to Hannity, Coulter, Rush, and the like...

I just consider him entertaining and informative. I enjoy O'Reilly's Radio Factor, the Factor on television, and I have read 3 books by him.

As far as pundits go, he is probably the single most objective and balanced when he is actually "reporting". As for his commentary, if you don't like that you probably shouldn't be watching a pundit to start with.

lackluster · #6 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

I've always wondered why O'Reilly gets thrown into the mix with the far-more extreme pundits...

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I have a theory I call "punting distance". Now, I realize politics isn't so linear, but my football analogy goes that if one person is standing on the 10 yard line, anything beyond about mid field looks pretty much the same to them. They don't really distinguish a whole lot because they just lump everthing together as one. Now, folks playing closer to midfield, themselves, are able to see a lot more of the field, and so their range is much better. So is their ability to distinguish between points of view.

Just as there are right wingers who don't distinguish between the points of view of, say, Hillary and Noam chomsky, there are lefties who do the same at the other end. THese people are so polarized that instead of viewing the world in terms of issues, they view it in terms of labels, and so are blind to any nuance beyond their rigid need to have everything just so.

forester814 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 01:17 PM

You guys really found this offensive?
I have to admit I thought it was pretty funny.
Very dark, of course, but pretty funny.

(And this isn't about my position. They could make a similar ad about Hillary and the terrible things that would happen if Obama was the nominee... I would find it just as funny.)

saltwn · #8 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

'KILLING RAMPAGE'

YouTube - Randi Rhodes Says Romney Supporters Will Commit Mass Murder

The kindler, gentler left...

I thought Randy Rhodes was a wrestler.
But this satire is right on!
I've been listening to one radio pundit after another all week long talk about why we should not vote for John McCain! It's the entire agenda for any "conservative" talk show host. They put their own spin on it saying things like Ann or Rush shouldn't have said this or that, but they turn around and boink: This is the real reason you shouldn't vote for McCain...blah...blah, blah.
Who in the hell are these people working for?

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