It’s been a tough year for Randi Rhodes. First, she wasn’t the victim of a fascist right-wing attack which probably would have gotten her a book deal, and now, insult to injury, she winds up getting fired by Air America for calling former hero-of-the-left-turned-reactionary-demon Hillary an “f–ing whore” during the least funny stand up routine ever.

On the bright side, maybe she’ll get that book deal now. Dissent is, after all, patriotic and should be rewarded.

The best part of this, however, is Rhodes former writer Barry Crimmins who in the midst of much bashing of Air America (“an allegedly progressive talk show network”) and Hillary (“the perfect tool of the patriarchal war machine”), explains, “something no one is talking about is that she said this in San Francisco where many sex workers are unionized and she used ‘whore’ as a pejorative.”

Which I suppose means the left-wing’s latest position is, Don’t call Hillary a whore…it might insult prostitutes.