Liberal radio talker Randi Rhodes was back on the air yesterday, and she kicked off her show by saying she doesn’t know how her face got smashed Sunday afternoon outside a bar near her Murray Hill apartment.
“I was watching football in an Irish pub,” Rhodes told listeners. “I went out to smoke a cigarette, and the next thing I knew I was down on the cement, face down, bleeding.”
Fellow Air America host Jon Elliot said on Monday that Rhodes had been mugged at the corner of Park Avenue and East 39th Street, and reportedly wondered if it was “an attempt by the right-wing hate machine to silence one of our own.”
But on the radio yesterday, Rhodes repeated the story given out by her lawyer earlier in the week – that she didn’t know what happened.
“I don’t know if someone hit me from behind, or if I fainted because I hadn’t eaten all day,” Rhodes said.
“My fall wasn’t broken by my hand, but by my face and a steel grate on the concrete,” she said.
“I don’t know how or why the story grew to me being brutally beaten or attacked.” Rhodes did not file a police report.