What did I tell you? Now Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged.

What a shock. AFTER her co-hosts went on the air and described her suffering then blamed the rest of us in non-loony America for it, closer media scrutiny--and the lack of a police report--have caused Rhodes to retract her claim of being mugged. Now she says that she "just fell down".

Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.

Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night. Elliot, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy.

"Is this an attempt by the right-wing, hate machine to silence one of our own?" he asked on the air, according to Talking Radio, a blog. "Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? Are they trying to silence intimidate us?"

A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Cops from Manhattan's 17th Precinct called her attorney, who told them Rhodes was not a victim of a crime, the source said.

Rhodes' lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog. He said she's not sure what happened, and only knows that she fell down and is in a lot of pain. The lawyer said Rhodes expects to be back on the air Thursday. He stressed there is no indication she was targeted or that she was the victim of a "hate crime."

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Wow. I guess the idea of making up a phony hate crime just didn't seem like that good an idea when the police started coming around, did it Randi?

Can anyone else say "liar" and "totally discredited washed-up leftist?"

And the media source that I quoted in the previous story is already redacting Rhodes' claims of being attacked by conservatives or anyone else.