Randi is at it again re:Franken

[radiclib]

It's not the first time she's implied some kind of insider knowledge that Congressional Dems "hate" Al Franken, and so have been no help to him in getting seated. Tonight, she said that likewise the Republicans have no use for Coleman because he's a "womanizer" and a "scandal waiting to happen" and that Dems dislike Al for MANY OF THE SAME REASONS! Does anyone know anything about this? I mean, besides Randi, who has super-secret insider knowledge? I mean, :wtf:??

[sellitman]

1. I don't like that foul mouthed B

Never did, never will.

I was happy when she was shit canned.

[katandmoon]

4. Ditto. Listened to her old show on AA once and never again. Ugh.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

23. Exactly!!

I got through most of one show. As unpleasant as I thought she was, I kept listening because I couldn't believe anyone so rude, so insulting, so ill-mannered, so opinionated, so unlikeable could be a radio host.

Yet, she has a rabid following.

Well, so does Rush Limbaugh.

There's no accounting for taste, I guess...............

[dflprincess]

26. She was always implying that she knew something the rest of us mere mortals did not know

and it was always something she just could not "share".

I've listened to her a since she came back (and after Ron Kuby left the 2-5 slot) and immediately remembered why I stopped listening to her before. Even her "interview" with Randall Terry a couple days ago only amounted to a coupld egomaniacs trying to shout each other down. (Thom Hartmann does that so much better just gives the right wing tool enough rope to hang himself).

[rufus dog]

28. the sad part is..

she has some very good moments. I listened to her for awhile on AAR driving home on 04. At first she was bearable because the majority of the show was decent. There were days that were horrible. A few years ago, around the time she fell, it became completely unbearable.

[NV Whino]

2. I don't know what is or is not true about Franken womanizing, but

there really isn't much the Democrats could do in this instance.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

25. The OP asserted that she thinks Coleman

is the womanizer, not Al Franken.

Remember when Norm's eighty-something father was caught in a pizzeria parking lot in a car, having sex with some woman?

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Helps to read the OP, doesn't it?

LOL

[NV Whino]

33. Yeah it does.

This is from the OP. What do you make of it?
"that Dems dislike Al for MANY OF THE SAME REASONS!"

Granted, it doesn't say Franken is a womanizer, but within the context of the post, it implies it. And just for the record, I have seen no evidence that he is. Also just for the record, I disliked him as a talk show host... and I dislike Randi even more.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Randi is making shit up again.

She doesn't like Franken because of her experience with Air America Radio. While Coleman is known to be a womanizer, there has never been the slightest whiff of any such scandal regarding Franken. Here in MN we'd certainly have heard about it, since the Coleman campaign did its best to smear him any way they could during the campaign. But even Coleman didn't stoop as low as Randi.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

5. Randi is a goober when it come to Franken. She thought she

was all that and a bag of chips when it came to the debut of Air America. It just chapped her butt cheeks when all the hoopla and fame went to Franken. Her ego was running wild and it did not serve her well.

I specifically got XM Radio because of Air America and Al Franken. Yes, he was sometimes exasperating, some of the skits weren't funny, he often when for the funny with guests instead of the information they could share but over all, IMHO, he was hands down ten times better than Randi. Her knickers are still twisted to this day.

[undeterred]

6. My local Air America affiliate picked her up again.

They replaced Ron Reagan with her. I miss Ron Reagan. He treats people well.

[ddiver]

7. Is it happy hour all ready?

[dweller]

9. it's always 5 o'clock somewhere/sometime

:beer:


dp

[stevedeshazer]

8. Can you provide any specific information?

You may be pissed at Randi, but she's usually right.

Have you considered that she may be right, like she is 99% of the time?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I disagree. I stopped listening to her because she so often twisted facts.

With respect to Franken, her approach to him is clearly based on personal animosity arising from AAR disputes, since Al is a good solid Democrat and there's no rational reason for her constant attacks. And there has NEVER been even a hint that Franken has engaged in womanizing -- if there were even the slightest bit of gossip, the Coleman campaign, which was thoroughly sleazy, would have blasted it all over Minnesota. Even Coleman didn't make up the same kind of shit as Randi. She's disgraceful. Her ego is out of control.

[stevedeshazer]

14. You disagree with providing specific information?

Your post is just your opinion.

If Franken is guilty of womanizing, a very serious charge, do you have any specific information to back it up?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. He's NOT guilty of womanizing. That's the whole point.

Randi apparently suggested he was, and she's just making shit up. She has no information because there isn't any. And that's why I don't like her.

[myrna minx]

22. He just asked you to prove a negative against Randi's nasty gossip.

Oy.

:hi: TVO.

[myrna minx]

20. So we Minnesotans are suppose to prove a negative?

Her "specific information" is gossip. What is her proof other than "some people say"?

[Bluenorthwest]

34. She's the one hurling an accusation without offering any specific

information. Arch comments are not information. She's foisting her opinion, and coloring it with phony insider cache. That still does not make it anything but speculation.

[dflprincess]

27. Exactly

Franken did something back at AAR that pissed her off and she's just not going to get over it. If we want to start baseless rumors let's just guess that she made a pass at Al and he rebuffed her.

[radiclib]

13. Maybe her show is archived on her website

I'm just relaying what I heard her say. It's up to Randi to provide specific information if she's going to make reckless accusations on the air. In the case of Franken, she never has. She just drops nasty hints. I've always defended Randi, even while gritting my teeth occasionally. But this seems pretty low rent.

[Liberal In Texas]

17. I heard her say it too, and thought WTF?!

[myrna minx]

10. Randi has always talked smack about Franken--because she personally

detests him--so this is nothing new. I'd appreciate it if she wouldn't talk trash about my Senator, but she won't. Her prerogative. And it's mine not to listen to her. Our Minnesota process has been played out under the letter of the law. The Coleman camp just has no class and has dragged this out, knowing they have no shot, to keep the 60th member of the dem caucus to be seated. Al and Frannie are, from everything I understand, a very loving and solid couple. I didn't hear what Randi said, but if she's implying that Al's a womanizer, she's really off the mark and making herself look foolish.

[Cleita]

12. Hint.

The allegations she leveled at Coleman today are really about Franken. I wondered too for a long time, but I think Randi thinks that Franken has a girlfriend on the side. I know she always liked Franken's wife so all the dissing she has done I think come from there. Of course, I really don't know because I'm not her BFFE.

[wildflower]

18. Could it just come from the fact that Al is sometimes flirtatious on-air

or on-camera? Some talk hosts are just like that when they do interviews (like Stephanie Miller) and I don't think it means anything at all.

This is so distressing, because I really like both Randi and Al.

[Cleita]

19. She once said something about him being a really good kisser.

I have a feeling that maybe he likes to paw the girls a bit after a couple of drinks. Randi took umbrage most likely. I probably would too, except that I would really look at the circumstances and file it away as a crazy incident best forgotten.
On the other hand maybe she knows something concrete. I would hate to see his career ruined like what happened to John Edwards. Yeah I know we shouldn't accept that kind of behavior except that we might lose some competent leadership because of our puritanical ideals.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. The Coleman campaign dug as hard as it could for dirt to throw at Franken.

If anything like that had ever actually happened the Coleman campaign or its RNC supporters would have used it. But here in MN there has never been the slightest suggestion of any such misbehavior by Franken. That's why I can guarantee that Randi is making it up.

[Cleita]

24. I'm almost certain that whatever it is, it;'s in Randi's mind and it isn't true in fact

even if it's in her mind. She once said though in her old show that she could really give the Coleman campaign some information. Of course, we all jumped on her, asking her if she was crazy. All that would do is keep a Republican in that seat.

[JDPriestly]

15. Franken was a talk-show host. Randi is a talk-show host.

Randi has her charms, but she is extremely jealous of other talk-show hosts, extremely competitive, irrationally so, in my opinion.

[southshore]

29. No talent, full of crap.

Sometimes I think that the Repugs pay her to make us look bad.

[baldguy]

31. Anytime anyone posts a comment about Randi,

some irrational twit posts about how much they hate her because of some long-forgotten transgression she supposedly committed which offended the said twit's fragile sensibilities. (And most such criticism seems to consist of Karl Rove's talking points.)

Same thing happens with Olbermann, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan and several other powerful progressive voices voices - all of which America is better off with than without.

For fuck's sake! GIVE IT A REST! If you don't like it DON'T LISTEN TO IT! Most people here appreciate the contributions made by the few progressives the corporatocracy allows in the media.

[sellitman]

32. Twit?

This is an opinion board.

Not your personal opinion board.

You don't like it don't read it.

[baldguy]

35. Maybe I should have said "whiny irrational twit"?

[sutz12]

37. No, that would be a "WIT"

:)

[sellitman]

40. Cya

Have fun!

You made # 13 on the list.

Good work!

[baldguy]

42. I've got to warn you, sellitman.

LOOK OUT!!! RANDI WILL BE ON THE RADIO AGAIN TODAY!!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

[latebloomer]

39. You can't compare her with Olbermann, Moore or Sheehan

She is an insufferable egomaniac, and her show is unlistenable.

YMMV

[baldguy]

43. Then don't listen.

But you should respect the fact that MANY MORE people here listen to her & enjoy it.

[latebloomer]

44. I don't!

Enjoy away. :D

[kentuck]

36. When did DU throw Randi under the bus ??

I thought she was on our side?? Did she say something to offend someone? There was something that we disagreed with? What was it? It's going to be a lonely place if we keep that shit up.

[Sebastian Doyle]

38. Some never got over what she said during last year's primaries

No, it wasn't even the "fucking whore" part that pissed them off, but just the fact that she dared to speak of the mathematical reality that the race was really over sometime around the Wisconsin primary.

[BuyingThyme]

41. They don't know Al. I suspect he'll get along just fine once they get to know him.

[rvablue]

45. I personally don't care for Franken. His mien bothers me. But I want him seated and I trust him

to do a good job as a Democratic senator.

And, I think maybe Rhandi's personal dislike of Franken has polluted her political impression of him.

[GreenTea]

46. Franken will prove to be a very liberal & progressive senator-That's Paul Wellstones seat & deserves

nothing less. - Franken will make Randi eat her words - But Rhodes' ego will never allow her to admit it!!