{"id":7030,"date":"2006-04-03T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2006-04-03T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T13:42:45","slug":"randi-rhodes-shows-em-how-its-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/randi-rhodes-shows-em-how-its-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Randi Rhodes shows ’em how it’s done"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed CNN’s Larry King show on Friday night, Air America’s [tag]Randi Rhodes[\/tag] had a bit of an on-air confrontation<\/a> with conservative talk-show host [tag]Martha Zoller[\/tag]. It wasn’t terribly heated, but it’s worth noting anyway because it highlighted the kind of altercation — and liberal response — I’d like to see more of.<\/p>\n

Zoller: The point is that this election is going to be about ideas. And if Republicans don’t get it together…<\/p>\n

Rhodes: This election, Martha, is going to be about five years of your party having the majority and doing absolutely nothing for the middle class, except trying to…<\/p>\n

Zoller: … Let’s not forget September 11th.<\/p>\n

Rhodes: I’m sitting in New York, Martha, don’t throw this around, because I’m a half a mile from where it happened. You know, people here in New York, it’s funny, September 11th happened here. You invoke it all the time and we’re liberals, go figure. You’ve got five years. You’ve had 12 years of having a majority in the House. And then you took the Senate. Now you’ve got all three branches of government.<\/p>\n

Zoller: But getting back to the question Larry asked…<\/p>\n

Rhodes: … Failed policies.<\/p>\n

King: I’ve got to get a break.<\/p>\n

Zoller: Getting back to the question that Larry asked.<\/p>\n

Rhodes: People are not going well in this country, Martha. That’s the problem, the problem is that it’s not working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, was that so hard? I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t watch much TV news, so maybe these kinds of smackdowns are more common than they seem, but Rhodes’ responses struck me as the kind of thing that should be sent around to libs everywhere before they go on the next cable news talking-head show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed CNN’s Larry King show on Friday night, Air America’s [tag]Randi Rhodes[\/tag] had a bit of an on-air confrontation with conservative talk-show host [tag]Martha Zoller[\/tag]. It wasn’t terribly heated, but it’s worth noting anyway because it highlighted the kind of altercation — and liberal response — I’d like to see more of. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}