JABbering Stooge

Okay. I jumped the gun a bit on the Randi Rhodes "mugging" story. My bad. (This is something you’ll never see from a serial liar like Michelle MalKKKin, wingnuts. Pay attention. It’s called responsible blogging. You might want to look into it sometime.)

Something else you won’t see from the MalKKKinites: evidence of reading comprehension skills. Consider the following from my original post on the subject, when I believed (past tense, wingnuts!) that a mugging had taken place:

It’s too early to tell if this was just an ordinary mugging, or a politically-motivated assault. However, in light of the above, and given the right’s history of violence, repeated death threats and stalking aginst people they don’t like, I would not be surprised in the least if this was caused by someone from the Unhinged Wingnut Brigade in an effort to shut her up.

In other words, going on the information I had at the time (which later turned out to be erroneous), I STILL HEDGED ON WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS A DELIBERATE ASSAULT OR A RANDOM MUGGING. I also said that IF (there’s that key word again!) it was a deliberate assault, you could narrow it down to people who held a certain ideology, BASED ON the hateful, violence-inducing rhetoric that the right has been spewing non-stop for the last twenty years (like, oh, say, Ann Coulter referring to the 2004 DNC as the "Spawn of Satan" convention, Ann Coulter saying that the "best" way to "talk" to a liberal is to hit him/her in the head with a baseball bat, that sorta thing…), but especially within the last week. In other words, I was using evidence-based reasoning that happened to be predicated on a faulty premise. My bad.

Yet somehow, that was transformed into the claim that I accused Malkin herself of personally laying a finger on Rhodes, like some perverse game of "Telephone."

Also, a key fact that Malkin (conveniently) ignores is that Right Blogistan hasn’t been angelic in regard to the initial reportage, either: conservatives trolling on liberal blogs also bought into the story, if for no other reason than to rhetorically kick an outspoken liberal female while she was down. Take a gander at these geniuses:

The beating will probably improve her looks.
Hope the dog was OK. Please post something on the DOG!!

- Anonymous

Making a crack about her looks and caring more about the dog than her. Classy-with-a-K.

Please stop calling her a dog! It’s disrespectful to Simon. She is a bitch, there is a difference. I hope Simon is OK.

- Anonymous

Because conservatives only argue on the merits and never resort to ad hominems. 

Yeah, it must have been a right wing whacko, because nobody gets mugged in NYC, right? Wow, you moonbats are really off the deep end. I really don’t think it was one of the couple dozen listeners of Air America, but it could be someone that Rhodes owes money to, like her meth dealer.

- Anonymous

Geez. A liberal gets injured, and all of a sudden, they’re a druggie? Does blaming the victim ever get old on the right?

Dear Randi,
It’s called Karma, get used to it. Remeber a couple of years ago when you went on the airwaves and hoped for the death of President Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld?
Well honey, karma is a funny thing.

Just A Grunt, Michelle Malkin commenter

Apparently not.

Next up, Vodkapundit joins the "dogpile on the librul host" orgy:

I know this is hardly the time for cruel honesty, immediately after a brutal assault. But when you work for Air America, muggers are going to pretty much assume that you walk around unarmed.

Meanwhile, RightWingDuck at IMAO "jokingly" supports random acts of violence against liberals - in the vein of Ann Coulter "jokingly" wishing Tim McVeigh had blown up the New York Times building:

At the risk of sounding controversial, I have to say that I fully support the person or persons who mugged Liberal talk host Randi Rhodes. I know it may not be a popular choice to make, but I believe I’m making it for all the right reasons.

Violence against liberals = high comedy. Who knew? 

Oy. I feel ill already. And I haven’t even started receiving death threats yet.

Still not liberal.

Word is that she had several teeth knocked out. The attack took place near her apartment while she was walking her dog, Simon. And since she wasn’t wearing a purse or any jewelry - just some jogging clothes and her house keys - it makes me think that, as John Elliot put it, “this does not appear […] to be a standard grab the money and run mugging.”

It’s too early to tell if this was just an ordinary mugging, or a politically-motivated assault. However, in light of the above, and given the right’s history of violence, repeated death threats and stalking aginst people they don’t like, I would not be surprised in the least if this was caused by someone from the Unhinged Wingnut Brigade in an effort to shut her up.

Hey Stalkin’ Malkin, care to tell us something about this?