I don't hear her "beating up" people on "her side."
I've heard her chiding Biden for his inconsistency, I've heard her trounce callers when they contradict themselves and I've heard her pound folks who are Freeptards posing as Dems.
There is nothing wrong with pointing out such things, and I could see your point with any beef ya' got with Randi if you would only make the case. what are the beatings you've witnessed? How often do they occur? Please, give examples. You are going to have to convince me against my own observations.
I culled your points from what you posted. you write that there is one thing that irks you, which is that she is "jealous", and then you continue on to state that she is "beating up" some unidentified group of "comrades" and "callers". Comrades? hmm, okay. But that is two things, not one. and when you write that she is "all about" something you see as negative, it means that you see that negativity as being pervasive.
You wrote "Don't get me wrong I enjoy her show." Then you say it's a crappy show.
You believe she engages in backhanded attacks, and then, unknowingly or not, engage in backhandedness of your own.
And again I ask, what are the "right reasons" for agreeing with someone as you mentioned in post #11?
And this statement, "Instead of beating up people on her side she should concentrate on the people screwing up the country." leads me to wonder how often you listen in. 90% of the time She thrashes the living hell out of the screw-ups and criminals, the liars and the hypocrites, and she does it with the facts and in no uncertain terms.
She is brash, she is opinionated, I've occasionally heard her lose patience with callers who are unclear and dithering, I've winced a few times while listening to some calls.
However, I disagree that any of that, or that any blips of personal self-indulgence that she may engage in are making the show "crappy." Nor do I see any evidence that it is interfering with her unyielding steam-rolling of the Bush Administration and the wrong they do.
Your communication here overall reads more like a negative meme planted with contradictory qualifiers that are not supported by what you have written. I'm sure that's not what you intended, but if you had said from the start, "I enjoy Randi Rhodes' show, I just wish she would drop the occasional cracks about how she has been under-appreciated by AAR, and use that time to thrash the pukes", I would have gotten your point, even if you would have had a rather weak topic for a thread. And I would have been convinced. Such are the ways of communication.
Did you yourself once call in and have a bad experience?
Taking you at your word that you actually enjoy the show, I can only add what Teaser posted in another AAR thread; "The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good." :-)
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