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Randi Rhodes Quitting Radio, Slams Ex-Colleagues Maddow, Franken on Way Out

By Jack Coleman | April 28, 2014, 7:14 AM EDT

The vast arid wasteland known as liberal radio is becoming even more barren. Loose-cannon lefty Randi Rhodes is pulling the plug on her show. News of Rhodes' impending departure came in a terse statement from Premiere Networks, which broadcasts her s ...

Updated: Premiere Reverses, Extends Contract | Leftist Radio Gabber Randi Rhodes Canceled by Premiere Networks

By Ken Shepherd | November 17, 2013, 11:33 PM EST

Updated (Nov. 17; 23:33 EST) Premiere Radio Networks had a change of heart, apparently. Congratulations, Randi. We're still listening (but not for the same reasons as your other nine fans). Premiere Networks is pulling the plug on Randi Rhodes's ...

Sharpton, Baldwin So Bad on MSNBC, Even Randi Rhodes Holds Her Nose

By Jack Coleman | November 12, 2013, 11:29 AM EST

Could it be, just maybe, that there's hope for Randi Rhodes yet? Rhodes finds herself high on the list of prominent left-wing radio hosts (mainly because it's a very short list), but her rants as often documented here make it difficult to take h ...

Boehner is a Weepy Unstable Drunk, Sneers Libtalker Randi Rhodes

By Jack Coleman | October 9, 2013, 6:11 AM EDT

How do you know you're winning an argument with a liberal? When she resorts to cheap shots and personal attacks. Come to think of it, that's how you know you're talking to one. Randi Rhodes, long known as one of the dimmer lights on the lef ...

GOP 'Didn't Want Any Emergency Response at All!' After Sandy, Randi Rhodes Rants

By Jack Coleman | September 17, 2013, 7:15 PM EDT

Combine derangement and deceit from a liberal radio talker and what you get is singularly repellent. Much like her lefty soulmate Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, Randi Rhodes is a huge fan of "infrastructure" spending. But while conservatives hear " ...

Liberal Radio Talker Claims Limbaugh Known to 'Very Few People'

By Jack Coleman | August 19, 2013, 11:28 PM EDT

You know liberals are running out of steam in criticizing Rush Limbaugh when they claim he's hardly known beyond hard-core conservatives-- seeing how there is no one who liberals obsess over more except the Benevolent One in the White House. Making t ...

Randi Rhodes: When Obama Talks Race, Right-wingers 'Want to Tear Him Limb from Limb'

By Tim Graham | August 9, 2013, 1:56 AM EDT

On her Wednesday show, left-wing radio host Randi Rhodes thought President Obama was far too weak and politician-like in his racial remarks on the Jay Leno show. Leno asked Obama to expand on his briefing-room race speech. Rhodes thought Obama only appear ...

O'Reilly More Likely Than Obama to Have 'Sex Slaves,' Randi Rhodes Rants

By Jack Coleman | May 29, 2013, 7:41 PM EDT

Hard to believe there are people who think along these lines, but that's left-wing radio for you. One of its ditziest inhabitants, the habitually juvenile Randi Rhodes, resents that she's far less talented and influential than Fox's Bill O& ...

Randi Rhodes: Republicans Are 'Meth Heads' Who Want to 'Tank Our Economy'

By Tim Graham | February 27, 2013, 11:20 AM EST

On her radio show Monday, liberal host Randi Rhodes had an extended rant against Republicans and their policy advice of tax reductions for job creators. “I mean, we're going crazy with this thing about corporations are more important than humans. Cor ...

The South Will Secede Over Guns! Randi Rhodes is Sure Of It!

By Jack Coleman | February 2, 2013, 10:47 PM EST

Wow, talk about being stuck in the '60s-- the 1860s. With all the certitude of an arrested adolescent, left-wing radio host Randi Rhodes is convinced the South will secede once again, this time over the Second Amendment. (audio clip after page break) ...

NFL Wouldn't Let Players Own Guns if Ed Schultz Ran the League

By Jack Coleman | December 4, 2012, 6:37 PM EST

You could see this one coming and hardly a surprise that it came from Ed Schultz. On his radio show yesterday, Schultz was talking with a caller about Kansas City Chiefs' linebacker Jovan Belcher killing his girlfriend and committing suicide over the ...

Republicans Clueless About Condom Use, Sighs Frustrated Libtalker Randi Rhodes

By Jack Coleman | November 23, 2012, 9:50 PM EST

Any volunteers willing to help this woman out? Anyone....? Liberal radio host Randi Rhodes cut loose this week with some pre-Thanksgiving venting about the vast ignorance of Republicans extending to condoms (audio clips after page break; h/t for audio, Br ...

Video: 'Radio Equalizer' Brian Maloney Discusses Left-wing Radio Hate on 'Hannity'

By Ken Shepherd | November 16, 2012, 5:37 PM EST

Our good friend Brian Maloney of the Radio Equalizer blog appeared on Wednesday's edition of Hannity to discuss left-wing radio hosts and their hateful rhetoric about conservatives. Even though their ratings are paltry compared to conservative talk r ...

Liberal Radio Hosts Cheer On Tough Questions From Reporters-- to Romney About Mourdock

By Tim Graham | November 4, 2012, 8:14 AM EST

While (national) reporters can't seem to ask President Obama a pointed question about Libya, on the Bill Press show on Friday, Press insisted the favorite Democrat story of the week (Richard Mourdock's pro-life comments on rape) has national rep ...

Liberal Radio Has the DNC Song Sheet: Romney Only Won Because He's a 'Pathological Liar'

By Tim Graham | October 6, 2012, 7:30 AM EDT

In case anyone is in doubt that Liberal Talk Radio-land can display the tendency to all hit the same talking points, many liberal hosts all hit the same post-debate theme on Thursday: Mitt Romney only won because he shamelessly lied his face off. (They fi ...