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Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 07:45 PM by monmouth
This was on the second page of Jose Lambiet's column. To read the many comments go to www.pbpost.com... Also note on his site that Rush has a blonde stalker named Melanie...sigh.
Radio’s Randi Rhodes is off-the-air, AGAIN!
Posted by Jose Lambiet | Catfights, Media, Splitsville | Wednesday 18 February 2009 10:45 am Print This Post
randiChances are, it’s going to be a while until left-tipping West Palm Beach radio talker Randi Rhodes, who’s has been off the air for more than two weeks, returns behind the mike.
A nasty spill or violent attack by a crazed conservative?
Nope
Her mouth got the best of her?
Not this time.
Rhodes, who’s been heard here for more than a decade afternoons on WJNO-AM 1290, tells Page2Live that three separate lawyers told her she should quit working for syndicator Nova M.
So she walked.
“There were so many breaches of my contract it’s not even funny,” Rhodes said when asked if the company’s failure to pay for her libel insurance kept her off the air. “I’ll probably sue them. I should never have gone there.”
Even if Rhodes show originated from the JNO studios here, it was owned for the past 10 months by Arizona-based syndicator Nova M.
So happens Nova M filed for bankruptcy Tuesday.
“Oh sure, they’re dismantling that company so they don’t have to pay me, and they’ll start another one this week,” Rhodes said.
A man who answered the phone at Nova M’s headquarters would just say: “Randi Rhodes is no longer affiliated with the company.”
Nova M honchos aren’t returning calls. But a lawsuit filed by a company exec in Phoenix claims that working conditions at Nova included fights between owners, the husband-and-wife Shelly and Anita Drobny. In one instance, according to the lawsuit, a firing by Shelly was reversed on the same day by the wife.
Until Tuesday, Rhodes and Anita Drobny were going at it on their respective websites, both pointing the finger at the other without explaining what happened.
When asked if her liberal rantings got her in trouble, Rhodes said: “You’d think they knew what I did at (the liberal network) Air America.”
Rhodes moved to Nova M after she quit (or was canned from, depending whom you talk to) her sweet gig at Air America in April 2008. Her stay there wasn’t without controversy. Shortly before she was gone, Rhodes caused an uproar for calling the then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a “whore.” She also made news in 2007 when she was seriously injured in a fall on a Manhattan sidewalk. Some said she had one too many. Others that she was attacked by a conservative. Rhodes never explained what happened.
She worked for JNO before flying to coop to Air America. She wouldn’t rule out returning there in the near future but said she received many calls from prospective employers.
“Big stations, small stations, they’re all calling,” Rhodes said. “I don’t know how long it’ll take, but I’m trying to get back on as soon as possible. It feels too weird not to be on the air in West Palm.”
For the time being, Rhodes is being replaced by , of all people,
Fox’s mouth, conservative Sean Hannity.
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