Right-wing whiner Melanie Morgan: Liberal Bloggers are trying to get me fired!

[marmar]

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from Media Matters:


Morgan: "I've been the target ... of an effort by liberal bloggers to get me fired"
In her January 12 WorldNetDaily column, conservative radio host Melanie Morgan described herself as "the target ... of an effort by liberal bloggers to get me fired for engaging in what these far-left activists are calling 'hate speech.' " Morgan stated that this "move by liberal activists to silence conservative radio hosts comes after the failure of the left-wing Air America radio network." The column follows a brewing controversy involving a cease-and-desist letter apparently sent by ABC Inc. in response to Spocko, a San Francisco-based blogger who last year attempted to spotlight the extremist rhetoric common to Morgan and other hosts on KSFO, the ABC-owned Bay Area radio station that broadcasts her show. Spocko posted audio clips of some of their most inflammatory remarks on his weblog and highlighted these examples in letters to various KSFO advertisers. Media Matters for America has also posted several examples of Morgan's rhetoric, and included Morgan in a petition against "hate merchants" on the airwaves that has garnered more than 33,000 signatures to date.

In her January 12 column, Morgan suggested that these audio clips had been doctored to make her look bad. Referring to an example in which she said of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big, wide laughing eyes," Morgan claimed that an "anonymous blogger" had "edited" the clip "to make it look like I was calling for the murder of Nancy Pelosi." Media Matters documented Morgan's November 14, 2006, attack on Pelosi, providing both a full audio clip and transcript of the remarks.

Morgan did not address the numerous other examples highlighted by Spocko, including her statement that she "would have no problem" with New York Times executive editor Bill Keller "being sent to the gas chamber" if he "were tried and convicted of treason" and her suggestion that someone "dig ... up" late environmentalist Rachel Carson "and kill her all over again."

Also absent from Morgan's column was any mention of the basis for the current controversy surrounding KSFO and Spocko. Specifically, Morgan ignored the allegations that -- after several major sponsors reportedly pulled their advertisements from the station -- ABC issued a cease-and-desist letter to Spocko that ultimately led his Internet service provider to shut down his blog, as Media Matters documented.

During a special "no-holds-barred" January 12 program at noon PST, Morgan and her fellow KSFO hosts -- Lee Rodgers, Brian Sussman, and Officer Vic -- will supposedly "hit back against those people who are trying to silence us and take away our free speech rights, get us fired, thrown off the air, because they don't like what we have to say." During the January 11 broadcast of the KSFO Morning Show, Morgan announced the special program and invited "the public as well as the media as well as bloggers to participate in this," which she said would last "three hours or however long it takes to answer all the questions." As the blog Halfway There noted, however, Morgan sent an email to her supporters on January 11 imploring them to call in during the program and voice their support:

To respond to growing pressure from these ruthless liberal bloggers and political activists to silence us, we are going to do something unprecedented. We are opening up our airwaves, cancelling our normal programming and having an open forum where the public, news media, bloggers, critics and friends alike can call in and address any issues surrounding this matter.

I am asking you to call in and voice your support!

<...>

The media will be covering this event live, and I want to make sure you are invited to weigh in on this matter.

From Morgan's January 12 column:

I've been the target, as have a number of other conservative talk-radio hosts, of an effort by liberal bloggers to get me fired for engaging in what these far-left activists are calling "hate speech."

The move by liberal activists to silence conservative radio hosts comes after the failure of the left-wing Air America radio network. Given that liberalism couldn't compete and win in the marketplace of ideas, liberals now want to silence conservative radio hosts.

One anonymous online blogger compiled audio clips edited to make it look like I was calling for the murder of Nancy Pelosi, when I did no such thing. (You can listen for yourself and understand how they are now trying to impugn my credibility by misrepresenting my words). ....(more)

The rest is at: http://mediamatters.org/items/200701120010

[illinoisprogressive]

1. No. Mostly it's that everyone is tired of the stupid hate mongering.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Why are hatemongers

such big cry babies?

[Swamp Rat]

5. Wah wah wah! Shut down the librul bloggers!

They say means things about me! Silence them all! Only conservatives who work for powerful media corporations are allowed the say hateful things to others! :cry:

[tanyev]

11. They're the ones who bullied everyone around in elementary school,

but if anyone ever stood up to them, they ran crying to the teacher to tattletale.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. They're the kind

that get you so pissed that you finally tell them to 'go fuck themselves' and then you get in trouble for cursing them out.

[Jade Fox]

16. And their still using the same tactic....

They say hateful, inflammatory things, and then play the victim when people dare to object.

[nxylas]

3. Spot the contradiction

'ABC issued a cease-and-desist letter to Spocko that ultimately led his Internet service provider to shut down his blog, as Media Matters documented.'

'During a special "no-holds-barred" January 12 program at noon PST, Morgan and her fellow KSFO hosts -- Lee Rodgers, Brian Sussman, and Officer Vic -- will supposedly "hit back against those people who are trying to silence us and take away our free speech rights, get us fired, thrown off the air, because they don't like what we have to say.'

I guess some free speech rights are more important than others.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Call me crazy, but

If you talk about "putting a bullseye" on someone, that's pretty much a death threat.

And when it's a domestic political opponent, I'd have to agree that's it's pretty clearly hate speech.

If someone at Air America had said that about any Republican politician or leader, it would be front and center on her show for weeks.

[madrchsod]

6. she`s such a nice lady

OLBERMANN: "But our winner: San Francisco radio host Melanie Morgan. Not only has she suggested seriously that New York Times executive editor Bill Keller be jailed for treason, but now she tells the San Francisco Chronicle, quote: "If he were to be tried and convicted ... I would have no problem with him being sent to the gas chamber." Hey, somebody want to check Ms. Morgan for light bulbs? Melanie Morgan: today's "Worst Person in the World."

if she is so worried why does`t she just produce the original tapes?

[Lasher]

7. Hatemongering and plain lies, it's really all they have to say

I mean, if you were a Rush wannabe radio pundit, what else would you say to attract listeners? We're a bunch of bigots who long for the days when people of color knew their place? Junior lied us into the illegal invasion of Iraq? The economy sucks unless you're one of the richest 1 percent of Americans and that's the way we want it? Voters just rejected conservative ideologies by restoring Democrats to power in Congress? We want to gut Social Security and we're lying about its solvency to do it?

[billybob537]

8. Wow She figured that out

"we are trying to get you fired"
Now the BIG question can she figure out WHY?
Becouse you're a bigot hatemonger and a LIAR.

[11 Bravo]

9. I don't want her fired. I just want her locked in a hotel room with ...

Bill O'Reilly. Hope she likes falafel.

[nxylas]

23. Okay, I can't stand it any more

I've been hoping that someone will post something that allows me to figure the joke out for myself, but so far it hasn't happened, so I'm going to risk making a fool of myself and ask. Will someone PLEASE explain all these falafel references in relation to O'Lielly.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11272004.html

[nxylas]

25. Ewwww

Sorry I asked.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Progressive Talk In SF Failed? Uh What's KPFA & The Quake?

Oh and while we're at it, how about KGO...even though Disney owns that station, it's not only the home to folks like Bernie Ward and Ray Talifiero, it kicks KSFO's ass.

Gotta like how Morgan made the quick call on Friday...an old radio trick to flood the lines with your friends and make it impossible for your opponents to organize and counter. This lady is a wretched specimin that deserves all the scorn and scrutiny she's finally getting.

A reaction like this means KSFO is sweating some bullets. Spacko's campaign has gotten national attention and that includes national media buyers. It's bad enough that January is the worst month for radio advertising, but getting hit with all this bad PR isn't doing much good either.

Morgan surely relishes playing the martyr...but that game will go only so long until the Ad Execs and bean counters at the station revolt and that's when changes will happen. Meanwhile Morgan will move on to another hate operation and probably has fantasies of sitting on the set at Faux Noise.

Kudos to Spacko and the many others out there who are now confronting the hate radio asshats. I've long advocated what he's doing and you can see the results. Get the advertisers squeemish and watch the support for hate radio erode.

[La Coliniere]

12. Her comment about Rachel Carson

reflects such astounding ignorance that I find it impossible to take anything she says seriously. Let her continue to spew her ridiculous, hate filled notions. She'll eventually self implode.

[uberblonde]

14. Call the Wahhhh-mbulance!

"I'm being oppressed! Those liberals are picking on me!"

[kevinbgoode]

15. Typical con-artist con-servative blabber

If the intent was to hold an open discussion on the airwaves, she blew it by having to launch a campaign begging people to call in and make her side feel good.

Typical right-wing bullshitter - no moral foundation, no journalistic ethics, and no interest in political discussion beyond the typical namecalling and whiny-assed bully tactics. She should be fired for being an incompetent ideologue.

[B Calm]

17. Who is Melanie Morgan???? A nobody!

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. ....and that's a bad thing??????????????

Get lost, you whiny bitch.

[MiniMe]

19. Isn't she the idiot that left her Mic on when she went to the ladies room and trashed her sister?

[hfojvt]

20. the first amendment gives me a right to a radio show and a column?

Somebody get my agent. I demand to be put on the air.

[mntleo2]

21. Nobody Wants To Silence This Bitch

...we just do not think she deserves paid support. We are questioning why multi million dollar companies want to pay advertising dollars, which in essence pays her and her hate mongers.

About a month ago, Media Matters published a list of advertisers who were "black balling" Air America by refusing to buy air time. We are in essence asking why big companies don't do the same thing with Morgan and her wing nut crowd, who are far worse in their hate mongering, as Spocko pointed out merely by posting recordings of what they said. What Spocko posted made Mike Malloy look like Mr. Rogers!

As I wrote to ABC and Disney, a real American would die to make sure Morgan and her friends be able to say whatever they want to say. But we would never pay her to do it.

It is an irony to me that bloggers, particularly liberal bloggers, rose up in prominence partially in reaction to people like Morgan, who were hogging the airwaves with their hideous hate talk. The argument for the success of conservative talk was that liberal talk would not make it because listeners want conservative, not liberal talk. Supposedly it was just a fact according to the ratings. Yet it is not the listeners who pay any of them, it is the advertisers, as we are now seeing. It is the advertisers who are the ones who have the money and power to employ these people and when listeners react in horror to advertising that is paying for offensive talk, ohhhhh, now all of a sudden we are trying to "silence" right wing talk. When THEY are subjected to the very same situation that they have done for years to left wing talk by ignoring how some were being black balled by advertisers and now leftie bloggers are pointing that out in a way that is heard, oooooo, suddenly they are being silenced.

Welcome to our Reality, Butt heads!

My 2 cents

Cat In Seattle

[baby_mouse]

22. There is no "far-left" in the States

It's time to start calilng them on this crap, ask them to name any moderate lefts. They'll point out various "lefties" that have voted right, like Leiberman, call them on that, too.