interview with Air America's Randi Rhodes

[wyldwolf]

the most experienced radio personality in Air America's lineup is Randi Rhodes, who for the past 10 years has been stinging conservatives and delighting liberals at WJNO-AM 1290 in West Palm Beach. Rhodes, a native New Yorker, talked with the St. Petersburg Times about the mistaken notion that liberals can't succeed on talk radio, the pleasure of humiliating Oliver North and the one thing about her hometown that she can't stand.

We asked Rhodes the origin of her purely political format:

Rhodes: When I got (to WJNO in 1994), O.J. (Simpson) had just started, and it was just a natural fit. My first day there, I showed up to work in a white Bronco with a police escort.

It was also an election year. I was a Democrat. Radio was still pretty conservative. I was expressing my point of view. I never really knew how the politics of AM went, then all of a sudden I found out that being a Democrat is an odd thing. I replaced G. Gordon Liddy. I inherited his audience, and they are real militant conservatives. I was on against Rush.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/29/Floridian/Talk_radio_s_other_vo.shtml

[oregonjen]

1. I'm excited to hear her starting tomorrow in Portland!