I'm sorry, but Randi Rhodes is being a MAJOR *ITCH today!

[in_cog_ni_to]

She tells EVERY caller they don't know what's going on.

"What are you talking about?!!!"

"I am so tired of these people calling in here not knowing how the government works!"

"See what happens when you don't screen your calls? You get people like that!"

She's SCREAMING at every caller who calls in today! Man, oh, man.....she's in a really, really bitchy mood!

Anyone else listening? GEEZUS.

She was being uncharacteristically NICE to people for a long, long time. I wonder what happened? Her mood today.....:scared:

[robinlynne]

1. FISA put me in a pretty bad mood...

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. ME TOO, but she is being so condescending to EVERY caller today!

It's really rude of her.

I usually LOVE Randi Rhodes, but she's not a very nice person today.:(

[burythehatchet]

2. I stopped listening to her long ago

she's an incredibly bright person but she really thinks she is the ONLY one who knows the score. Makes me very uncomfortable the way she talks to callers.

[idgiehkt]

11. I didn't listen

but it's strange how Rush and O'Reilly etc are okay with people when they agree with them. Randi isn't okay with folks even then sometimes. I know she needs to educate but she can kind of exile herself from a liberal audience...this would be fine if she was a blogger or columnist, but as somoeone who interfaces with her audience in real time...she just doesn't handle it well sometimes.

[dweller]

4. been really nice to others

that have called in too.

she's off on a cruise starting tomorrow, maybe she needs the break.

dp

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. I must have missed those. All I've heard is rag, rag, rag on every caller.

GEEZUS...she just hung up on another caller!

[coco77]

6. She has been doing that for a few days now..

telling people that she doesn't know what they are talking about. The main thing that irritates me about her is when she talks over people or when a caller begins to tell her why they are calling and then she proceeds to tell them what they are calling about and never lets them finish their thought.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Today a man was telling her where he was calling from and she said, "yeah, yeah, yeah get on with it

She's so RUDE! She does talk over people all the time. Rarely does someone get to finish a sentence.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. I'd like to see Randi moderate calls on Washington Journal some morning.

Dumbass, rambling callers might get their thoughts together a little bit beforehand.

[LSparkle]

9. She NEEDS a vacation ... a real one, not just to Florida

Hopefully she'll come back a bit better able to deal with her audience. And we'll miss her enough to forgive her in any event.

[undeterred]

10. She reminds me of one of my male co-workers today.

I wanted to kick his ass. Maybe that's who he was listening to on his headphones.

[blues90]

12. I stopped listening

She is bright and smart and well read and up on the issues . However she is not weahtered enough and many times comes off as a know it all . Not everyone has the time or desire to learn how the entire political system works , if we did then we would all be politicians to put the time and energy to work as she does .

Politics is a game at best , just one enormous game .

If with all the efforts Cindy Sheehan has put forth she has learned this and has now the desire to run herself .

How are the people going to take this government back when we don't decide the choices of candidates , we only get the choose from the runners and if they are not what they appear to be then waht . As it is the huge corporations run this country , this should be our target and our starting point because with them in control we have little to fight with .

I don't care what others have to say , this is not the same country in many ways as it was 40 years ago , it is not the same world and you can't use the same stratagey to take it back , it's an entirely new ball game now .

[bbgrunt]

13. I think she is so conflicted about the FISA vote and trying

to garner support for the Dems at the same time, she has blown a circuit.

[Individualist]

18. That's what comes from trying to defend the indefensible

[calimary]

44. Hey, she's not alone by ANY means.

It's hard being a loyal, dedicated Dem these days. DAMNED hard. We worked like hell all year last year (and long before that, too) to get our Dems back into some semblance of power, and what did they do with it? Besides cave and cave and cave again? I'm damned conflicted, too. Sure doesn't make me feel motivated to donate any money anywhere, I'll tell you that. And I've told Democratic party solicitors that, too.

Yes, she was RAWTHER abrasive today. Really abrasive. Unnecessarily so, I thought. But I can understand how she might feel - and how the frustration and discouragement are probably REALLY getting to her. All of the same is certainly getting to me. I understand she's getting ready to take that Alaskan cruise vacation. Sounds like she needs it.

[snappyturtle]

14. I KNOW....I had to turn it off! I thought she had some good

callers who seemed delighted to have a chance to talk with her and present an idea or two and she chewed them up and spit them out! Glad she's going on vacation.

[regnaD kciN]

15. So how is today unlike every other day...?

:eyes:

I'll be honest -- I listen to the AAR affiliate (which also carries programming from the Jones Radio Network and Nova M) in Seattle most of the day, but I usually turn it off once 5:00 P.M. rolls around and it's Randi's turn -- and often turn it back on once her shift is done.

Occasionally, I will listen to a bit of her show and sometimes find it amusing, but most of the time I just find it wearying.

My mother is an old-time liberal living in San Diego. When one of their local stations announced they were going to switch their programming to AAR, she was initially excited -- but then the first programming she ran across was Randi Rhodes. She was so turned off by Randi's attitude that she not only wouldn't listen to the station again, but called them to protest the dropping of their previous, non-political local programming in favor of AAR.

[SeattleGirl]

16. It's the day before her vacation. She probably had short-timer's disease.

I wasn't able to listen to her today, but I noticed yesterday she seemed to be really impatient with her callers.

[Connie_Corleone]

17. I download her show. I usually FF the phone calls.

She can be so rude to the callers that I can't stand to listen. I'd rather listen to her rants instead.

[Berry Cool]

19. When I first started listening, I liked her a lot

but within the past few months or maybe more (I remember thinking this even back in April), she has become amazingly short-tempered and mean-spirited with her callers, it seems to me. There are times when she is asking them what the hell they're talking about, accusing them of being confusing and wrong and racist and who knows what else, and hanging up on them, and I'm going "What??" It's happened at times when I have understood what the caller was trying to say and not thought the person was being confusing or racist or stupid at all, and I can't figure out why she does.

She just seems to be so snappish sometimes, yelling at people to "get to the point" or saying "Yeah, yeah, come on, out with it" or whatever. I know she has time limits, but she's been really bad lately with this. And when she berates callers for not being educated enough and not knowing what they're talking about...well, I've heard her say an ignorant thing or two myself. She doesn't know everything, even when she acts like she does.

And OK, what's with this stuff she's repeated several times (without elaboration) that Keith Olbermann doesn't like her and that people have told her he's not a nice person? And why does she have to accuse him and his producers--not to mention other people with shows--of stealing all their topics and ideas from her? She's not the only fish in the sea. Lots of progressive voices are talking about the same topics she is.

I'd like to think she was just in impatient pre-vacation mode today, but I'm not sure, because I've heard her be like this with no vacation in sight. Her referring to her callers today as "retarded" was so disrespectful. I wonder sometimes if it isn't some sort of problem that goes beyond the temporary. The last time I heard someone react this strangely and irrationally to someone, it was a bipolar friend of mine (whose drug she was taking for an ailment was impairing the effect of the drug she was taking for the bipolar condition) berating her young son, who was drawing a picture of her. She was critiquing this dear little boy's attempt to draw a picture of his mom beyond all approriateness for a mother reacting to her child's artwork. That's how I've felt lately about how Randi treats her callers--out of all proportion to their alleged offense.

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[in_cog_ni_to]

22. She was AWFUL today! I was so put-off by the way she was treating all the callers. I felt so sorry

for them. It takes a lot of nerve to call a radio talk show. She should be more kind.:(

[AspenRose]

30. Apologizing to her callers wouldn't hurt, either.

Treating them with a little more grace. They're the reason why she is where she is. Guess she forgot that.

[Yupster]

40. May have to be on hold for

an hour or more just to get your point across and you get misunderstood and insulted. Not good.

[I Have A Dream]

37. "on the RAG"...

:eyes:

:(

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. I've often thought that when she says someone is confused or doesn't know what they're talking about

it's because SHE doesn't understand whatever it is they're saying, so she turns it around to make it look like the caller is the uninformed person when really, it's her that doesn't understand that particular issue. No one knows everything. Randi acts like she does. And, well, my S-I-L knows everything...just aske her!:eyes:

[AllieB]

29. Menopause maybe?

:shrug:

She's the right age.

[Individualist]

34. If I had behaved like that and tried to blame it on menopause,

people would have set me straight in a hurry!

[AllieB]

35. Yeah, but I think she was a difficult person to begin with

her hormones may have made her more tough to take.

[peaches2003]

36. Don't do that!

Please. Menopause gets used as an excuse for every woman between 35-55 with a bad personality. No, she just thinks she's smarter than dirt and has forgotten she needs listeners and callers or she'll be back to local south FL radio.

[AndreaCG]

23. So why is today any different than any other day?

I stopped listening a long time ago because she'd interrupt her callers, including the ones who agreed with her. Today sounds like just an extreme example of what she normally does, even if she had been a leopard trying to change its spots.

Her ranking on Keith Olbermann reminds me of how she'd put down Al Franken non-stop. With Franken it could be cause he had no prior radio experienc, even if AAR probably wouldn't have gone on the air without his involvement. With Keith, who has about 15 years of broadcast experience, it soundds more like sheer jealousy. I know he has admitted in the past to having an inappropriate temper and apologized for it, so I doubt he's as extreme as he used to be. But even if he is, pot calling kettle?

[Kool Kitty]

42. I agree with almost all of the previous posts

about her. Very rude, very condescending. I am putting my reply her because I have heard her yapping about Keith Oberman and I think part of her problem with him is that Rachel Maddow is on his show frequently. I remember her saying, more than one time, that "Rachel gets on his show all the time, what about me?" Most days, I listen to AAR or WBAI 'til three, then it's WBAI 'til six and then I turn back to hear Rachel Maddow.

[never_get_over_it]

24. I don't really listen to her that much anymore

she is WAY to sweet on herself - I did listen yesterday - and cracked up when she said she won some award and hated self promotion blah blah blah - Randi is THE MOST self absorbed progressive radio show host that I have heard. I know because I was raised by one of these people....just notice how many times she says I or me - she is also very condescending - she talks down to us when she explains things - ok boys and girls let me explain how such and such works - like we don't have an effing clue - I can't tell you the number of times I've yelled at her - oh geez Randi thanks for explaining how that works - I would have never understood it if you hadn't explain it to my sorry dumb ass - she even takes credit for Cindy Sheehan - oh Cindy was listening to my show - and decided to do what she did - and of course this may have been a contributing factor - but I seriously doubt that Randi is responsible for it - and to hear Randi's stories about the 2000 election you'd think she was the ONLY one in the universe to know that the Florid vote was effed up

She is just to stuck on herself for me......

[nini]

25. Randi is one of the smartest people around but she does get moody

and sometimes she's rude to callers who adore her and just want to talk about something. She forgets they are nervous because they're on the radio and may need a bit of patience.

[liberalEd]

26. Nobody makes them call

When you call Randi, you should expect to be quick and get to the point - and she may still yell at you. But then again, nobody holds a gun to your head and makes you call.

I love it when she screams at callers. Damn callers. :)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

27. I've listened to her a couple of times...

And I've always thought she acted like that. She always struck me as a bit of a know it all, and she's TERRIBLE on the air. I couldn't listen to her for longer than an hour either time.
Duckie

[bobbolink]

28. Why are you sorry? She can be really ugly, and I'm not sorry to say it.

I'm just sorry she's so ugly sometimes.

:hi:

[in_cog_ni_to]

39. Because I hate to say bad things about anyone on Progressive radio. I feel so fortunate to have AAR

and any Progressive voice speaking out against the thugs in the government.

She was REALLY, REALLY nasty today though.:( She needs an attitude adjustment, badly.

[bobbolink]

45. On the other hand, nothing will change AT ALL if we do the same things as the RW.

Protecting those who are "nasty" is the same as the RW.

We must ALL be accountable!

[renate]

31. my kids can't stand her

(Neither can I.)

I'll admit, the rest of the AAR programming doesn't hold them particularly rapt with attention, so we would probably listen to something else on the car radio anyway... but I don't think her show is appropriate for children or even young teenagers, not because of language or the topics but because she is so OBNOXIOUS. I'm proud that they realize that people who behave like she does aren't nice even if they're liberals.

[jazzjunkysue]

32. True, but she's also hitting all the major lessons of the summer on the

head.

If you want nice, try the 700 Club. Robertson is always smiling.

I don't call, because she's hard to hear on a phone, and you have to land your point in 4 seconds. But I listen because she keeps it all clear for me.

[peaches2003]

33. Smart, but not so smart

Randi is intelligent and certainly knows what is going on, but a lot of people do, too. She is her own worst enemy. I listen occasionally for a few minutes, but that is all I can take anymore. She is rude and abrasive and condescending and thinks way too much of herself. If she would stop talking over her callers and shut the hell up for 2 seconds she might understand what they are talking about. I don't know her ratings, but she is the least attractive person on AAR anymore and I am glad XM is carrying so little of the actual AAR programming now. I wish they'd drop her, too.

Speaking of AAR how is the new lineup going at night with the 'Air Americans'? I thought it was an awful idea and am so glad XM now has a Thom Hartmann rerun from that day and Mike Malloy on in the evenings.

[janx]

38. AAR needs to remember something Howard Dean repeated

over and over in 2004: You won't beat the Republicans by trying to be like them. Outrageous and controlling behavior is just that--outrageous and controlling. It doesn't matter where you stand in the political spectrum. A lack of respect is a lack of respect.

("Bounce Your Boobies" has never been one of my favorites either.)

[Pushed To The Left]

41. Does she read DemocraticUnderground?

It would probably be good for her to read the impression that her poor treatment of callers is having on listeners. I haven't heard her show in a while (I take my lunch break earlier to listen to Thom Hartmann!)but I do remember her being very cruel to her callers. She is very knowledgeable and entertaining, but I really wish she treated people better sometimes.

[Forkboy]

43. I spent a week visiting my mother who listens to her daily.

Randi drove me insane.Part of it is I just think talk radio is boring as shit,but she totally hit me wrong.It had the same edge and sound that I got when I was forced to listen to Rush or Howie Carr.Randi,unlike them,is right about what she talks about,but she has the personality of a fried lobster.

[B Calm]

46. She's going through menopause!