Did any of you parrots lying about Randi's "bit" actually hear it, or are you relying on what some fellow Bushcultist told you?
Randi Rhodes never "called for" the death of the President.
She compared him with Fredo Corleone, who was killed by his brother Michael in "The Godfather", her favorite movie.
Here's a transcript of what actually transpired:
Caller: One more question: Why don't the American people see that the entire
Bush Family are crooks?
Randi: Well that would--
C: Neil, Jeb, George Senior Iran Contra, and and and now Dopey
R: And what was involved.. what do they have in common? All of these things?
C: It's all money.
R: They all stole. They stole from banks. They stole from Pakistani banks;
they stole from American banks; they stole from small banks, big banks,
neighborhood banks. They stole from MY bank. My bank was uh this Savings and
Loan of Broward--
C: Yup
R: --and Jeb took care of that bank. Jeb actually bought a building that was
uh you know took a mortgage on the building of four million dollars and then
just you know said he couldnt pay the.. the the the uh the note you know the
mortgage and the bank totally went belly up and the tax payers had to bail
out that bank too. I mean--
C: They're theives; they're the Corleones and as you said--
R: They ARE the Corelones!
C: --and now we're down to Fredo.
R: Well I gotta find... Well right, we've got the Fredo of the family is the
President of the United States! So uh why doesnt his father take him, or his
brother, one of em, take him out for a little uh.. fishing
C: Yeah--
R: You know
C: --on a row boat
R: Yeah and let him say some Hail Marys
C: I'll bet Bush does have a little dingy
R: Yeah.. take him out and you know "Hail Mary, full of grace, God is with
you-" [Randi makes the sound of a blast] ... Works for me.
C: Absolutely, thank you--
R: Thank you... I don't think you can say that anymore. I really don't. You
will see. No Godfather references when it comes to the Bush family. Nope!
[ end transcript ]
The misquote that was so widely disseminated:
"Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw."
