By Bruce B. Brugmann
The good news today is that Randi Rhodes, the talk show host who was suspended by Air America radio network for calling Hillary Clinton A “Big F*cking Whore” at a Green960 radio event on March 22 in San Francisco, is going back on the air today (Monday) from 4 to 7 p.m. on Green960 radio.
Congratulations to John Scott, program director of Green960, for taking her back on Green960. Says Scott, “This has been a fight worth fighting. I’m thrilled we cuold be the lead station in the country to get her back.”
And congratulations to Nova M Radio Network for hiring Rhodes. Says Nova M CEO John Manzo in a press statement, “I just can’t stop smiling. Randi is simply the biggest and the best.”
Says Randi, “With Manzo at the helm of Nova M, I am truly going to work for the best of the best. He is radio elite..and I am too (laughs). I’m home. I’m home. I’m home.”
Nova M, according to the Green 960 website, “is in the business of building a progressive talk radio network with the original founders of Air America Radio.”
Welcome back, Randi. I wish you were broadcasting out of San Francisco, to give your show the San Francisco character the old Will and Willie show had, but I am damn glad to see you back. Keep on giving us lots of Randi shock and awe. (By shock and awe, I mean the intelligent and hard-nosed research she does to illuminate her radio riffs, such as the riff she did on the Naomi Klein thesis that it was shock and awe in Iraq that laid the groundwork for the U.S. privatization of Iraq. Every Randi Rhodes show has some shock and awe nuggets.)
Since Randi is a favorite of mine, and since she is an important and influential radio talk show host, I am going to lay out the details on her case as reported on the Green960 radio website. B3
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