Randi Rhodes, No-Fly List, Seattle, Air America Radio

IT'S NO-FLY RANDI!

AAR Host Complains Of Hassle During Seattle Trip





Loose cannon libtalker Randi Rhodes claims she's been placed on the Transporation Security Agency's No- Fly List, according to her website. As a result, a weekend getaway apparently turned into a significant inconvenience when she was briefly blocked from boarding a flight.

The Air America Radio host claims the incident occurred during a trip to Seattle. At some point, she was able to "clear up" the "mistake", providing fodder for a tirade- laced return to the airwaves yesterday.

On Internet discussion boards, including the one at her own site, listeners and industry insiders speculated as to what would cause the "error".

From her fan site:

CONGRATS RANDI!

that just means they know you are paying attention... and *WE* are paying attention to *YOU*

i hope that doesnt stop ya from coming back to seattle. it was SO AMAZING LIFE CHANGINGLY awesome!!! meeting ya!!!

come back! come back!

but the thing about the hempfest kids... it isnt so much just the pot smokers... it is pretty much across the boards here. those stories made me laugh so much! you sounded like me when i first got here talking about the seattle kids...

but it doesnt take long to become one...

And this:

Having been on the no-fly list since the 90s, due to being a legal observer for ACT-UP/LA, this all seems part and parcel of the annexation of America from itself. Divide and conquer, limit and control.

The airlines are doubly screwed, poor things.

From Radio-Info.com:

She's telling the story now.

Labeled a "PR Hold".

"Maybe you have the same name as a terrorist."

An amazing screwup by the TSA.

And this:

Wouldn't it be a lot less trouble for her to just use her broom?

Of course, the BIG question is whether this was really a foul- up by the feds, or if they do consider Rhodes a bona fide threat to aviation security. Think your Radio Equalizer is joking?

Consider her past antics:


On-air anti- Bush hate skits and rhetoric considered so over the line in 2005 that the Secret Service felt compelled to investigate.


Bizarre public behavior, including crazed, disjointed performances on C-SPAN and CNN.


Increasingly- weird show monologues, including one that claimed Bush was happy to see people killed by Hurricane Katrina (because they were likely Democrats) and another that accused US Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito of being similar to a "hooker murderer".


Does this sound like a person you want sitting next to you on a plane? Or even on the subway (luckily, she has a car and driver in New York City, so you won't see her travelling with the common folk)?

Does Rhodes project a sense of stability in public? Not at all.

Whether Rhodes would engage in outright acts of terrorism seems unlikely, but could she quite easily turn into the next Catherine Mayo?

Without a doubt, the answer is yes!


UPDATE ON SPRINGER STORY: The Boston Globe reports today that Sam Seder has taken Jerry Springer's 9-noon Air America slot. But will that turn out to be correct? We hear that the fighting over Springer's show continues, with Jerry fighting hard to remain at the floundering network. It's quite a strange (and lengthy) Globe profile of Seder, by the way, we'll have more to say about it later today.

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