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Elliot has since apologized:

"I shouldn't have speculated based on hearsay that Randi Rhodes had been mugged and that it may have been an attack from a right-wing hate machine," the statement said. "I apologize for jumping to conclusions."

It still makes gives one pause to think that this was Elliot's first reaction.

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It makes one pause, becuase the guy is an idiot, or you think that because he assumed it was the vast "right wing conspiracy" you think it validates the point that republicans are evil?