Media Monitor: The Expletives Edition

Rhodes hits, ahem, the road: Randy Rhodes is no longer with Air America Radio, but there are conflicting stories about why. On an AAR-funded trip to San Francisco a few weeks back, Rhodes called Hillary Clinton a “fucking whore” in a stand-up act. According to the liberal radio network, Rhodes was suspended and later left after refusing to apologize. But last night she told Larry King that the network’s new owners used the case as a way to break its apparently iron-clad contract with her. Rhodes’ temporary replacement: Richard Belzer.

Lacey’s language: Via Romenesko comes video from a Society for Professional Journalists awards banquet in Arizona in which Michael Lacey (co-owner of the alternative weekly chain of which City Pages is a part) used the n-word to describe a friend. But he doesn’t stop there: after throwing in a few other choice cusswords, he went on to honor said friend, the late Pulitzer winner Tom Fitzpatrick, by telling about that one time Fitzpatrick’s wife got so drunk she fell off her chair. Now that’s alternative!

“Go Fox yourself.” After the jump watch video of a fake Rupert Murdoch waxing irate over an issue of the Wall Street Journal (which he now owns). Although, you’ve got to wonder how the real Murdoch feels about The Daily Show’s scathingly hilarious mockumentary of the rise and fall of his Fox News Channel.

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