Randi Rhodes Attacked and Hospitalized

UPDATE 2: The official Air America statement notes that "the reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded."

UPDATE: There is still precious little information available about what happened, but Memeorandum has a thread going now. A story in the Miami Herald doesn't offer any more insight, either, although it does note she's now recovering at home. I'll update the post again if I can find any more info...

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The details are extremely sketchy, but it seems as though she was walking her dog when she was assaulted. Avedon reports what she heard on the John Elliot show:

[R]ight now I'm listening to John Elliot and he says Randi was attacked last night while she was walking her dog. She wasn't carrying a bag and was just in sweats, and she was beaten up pretty badly and had some teeth knocked out. Elliot is saying it sounds like it was neither a sexual assault nor a robbery and he suspects it was political. The way things are going, he could be right.

I would, of course, caution anyone to jump to any conclusions, good or bad, at this point. There are potentially a lot of reasons to withhold information that would speak definitively to a sexual assault or a robbery or political retribution, so what it sounds like at this point doesn't necessarily in any way reflect what it actually is.

Right now, I just want to wish Randi a speedy recovery.