Morgan blasts Media Matters "cretins"
On January 29, KSFO Morning Show conservative radio host Melanie Morgan called Media Matters for America a "left-wing crackpot organization" and said "you can count on the fact that the cretins over at Media Matters ... will be taping us."
Media Matters has documented multiple examples of smears and falsehoods by Morgan and others on KSFO's Morning Show. Most recently, on January 23, Morgan repeated the discredited smear that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended a madrassa and added a new, equally baseless accusation that the story came from the campaign of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC).
From the January 29 edition of KSFO's Morning Show:
MORGAN: Oh, my goodness, we have so much to talk about this morning. I just want to remind everybody that since the combination this morning is Brian Sussman, myself, and Officer Vic, you can count on the fact that the cretins over at Media Matters and some of the other Vulcan spotters will be taping us and replaying -- if you miss anything this morning, the good news is that you'll be able to go to the left-wing crackpot organization called MediaMatters.org and find anything that we say completely out of context.
So, just, you know, don't worry about things. If you have to, you know, run off to school or to work and you want a replay, or you want a transcript, we'll all be there, I'm certain, this morning, so -- just thought I'd let you know.
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Hmm? Maybe a little wishful thinking?
You got it...
Morgan is a low-level hack. The 'controversy' (such as it was) is over. They liked the attention and now are trying to stoke the fire. Lame. The old question pops up... who's this benefiting?
Exactly. Morgan probably benefitted from the recent MMFA exposure.
Publicity, as anyone will tell you, negative or positive, is far better than indifference.
Strange, when I looked up "Cretin", there's a picture of Melanie Morgan... :-0
Seriously, Melanie, if you don't want to be held accountable (a word missing from the Right Wing Lexicon for the last six years) for the words you say, then don't say them.
"Accountability"? "Uniter, not divider"? "Cut and run"? Liberal media myths. No one on the right wing ever uttered those words. Well, if they were honest they wouldn't.
And don't forget "activist judges".
Alternatively, keep spouting off, and when you (you being Ms. Morgan) complain about Media Matters, say the name Media Matters clearly and often.
Don't forget Bildo, Rush, Hannity et al. They all belong in the "cretin" hall of shame. Their pictures would all be there.
I love the way she plugs this site and gives the exact site. Perhaps, we can hope at least one, of her listeners will come over here and start reading it and then say "no s----" "I'll be d----" "I didn't know that". and then he'll tell his friends. and then they'll tell their friends. ad nauseum ad infinitim. and pretty soon, the whole population of the U.S. will realize that for the last 6 years they've been listening to garbage and being lied to, and the right wing media will be no longer.
they are here, but don't be surprised if they don't change their minds. It's now a well proven fact that the more conservative you are, the more likely you are to prefer being told what to do and say.
Things have changed?
In MY day, cretins were unable to operate complex machinery, let alone generate transcripts. Perhaps a second round of "crackpot" would violate the hate-speech code, even though a far more suitable insult? Or rely on old standbys such as "hippie", "liberal", "pinko", "commie" to fulfill the quota?
CONLEYTGWINN,
Just for the sake of accuracy, I believe the complete phrase was: "Hippie, liberal, pinko, commie, bedwetters."
Yes, you are right! My bad - I was just winging it from memory, should have checked source!
Thanks!
Don't forget "baby eaters" - it hasn't been popular in the past, but now that Senator Clinton is runnning.
I have never, in almost 3 years of daily reading, ever seen anyone quoted on MMFA without full context. In fact, ALL of the prominent liberal blogs link to official transcripts whenever possible; otherwise they provide a full transcript of the conversation in question, either in the story itself, or as a link.
Always.
Say whatever you want about MMFA, but you absolutely cannot play the "out of context" card here and expect to be taken seriously.
Morgan is a liar, and that's all there is to it. The context is always there and it doesn't help your case at all, Melanie. And that's what pisses you off.
"Morgan is a liar, and that's all there is to it." Typical MMFA condescension.
I don't find anything compelling about your point of view on events of the day. I don't think any public discourse by you could stand the public scrutiny you give Melanie Morgan.
I doubt you could go out and build a talk radio audience and compete in the marketplace like Melanie Morgan has.
I'm sorry, what is your point? Did you read his comment, or just the part you didn't like?
"I doubt you could go out and build a talk radio audience and compete in the marketplace like Melanie Morgan has."
Join the real world, Cleveland... there are enough nut cases in America to start their own country. People who happen to listen religiously to the likes of Michael Savage, Melanie Morgan, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and others, and believe every word that comes out of their lying mouths as if it was gospel truth. Please spare me the remarks about Melanie Morgan's so-called "audience"... So what if Melanie Morgan has cornered the lunatic fringe in her area. Melanie Morgan is a shrill, not very bright, nut job who probably couldn't spell "cretin" if her life depended on it.
It is really challenging to have a serious argument with someone who took their screen name from a quasi-sexual act in which one partner defecates on the other partner's chest, then spreads the feces around with his or her buttocks.
Wow, val. That is an excruciating image. One that I will never forget when reading the comments of the esteemed Mr. SteamRoller. Is a Manheim Steam Roller a related act? I suspect it would be since Rush is always plugging them.
Don't explain your jokes, Val.
He's talking about the boat, right?
...Right? :-(
Heh. My guess is that it's Lee Rodgers, a long time Bay Area talk radio host, who brings in the listeners. There's also the question of how she got her job in the first place.
You got that right, DEEZNUTS. She IS a liar. A few weeks ago, when this skeevoza did her special show that was "dedicated" to the "campaign" against her, I e-mailed in (I have dialup) and called her to task about the "halfrican" comments, the death threat her lackey Rodgers made against Rachel Carson and a little jab at her saying that is she was on in South Florida, Neil Rogers would KILL her in the ratings (just like he does to Oxy-Boy Rush). She reads my e-mail and prefaces it by saying how I "hate (her) guts". She only reads the part about Rachel Carson and Rodgers comes in and says that he was just kidding (like Ann Coulter was, right?) but that Rachel Carson killed people by getting DDT banned and she is a murderer in her own way. Naturally, they just cherry-picked.
If Morgan is reading this; IF YOU WERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, NEIL ROGERS WOULD KILL YOU IN THE RATINGS! GO AHEAD AND SAY HOW I HATE YOUR CUTS! I NEED THE PUBLICITY!
(Sorry..I lost it for a minute)
3 years of daily reading? Oh my God...
What's your solution to the problem of bigots and hatemongers on conservative radio?
We've already established long ago our solution. Let people know what these people really are saying and then try to get as many people as possible to avoid listening or inform the sponsers of the rhetoric that these people espouse.
Don't show up trying to rabble rouse and then take the high road by saying "Where's your solution?" Especially if you aren't going to put forth one of your own.
When you pick out some mistakes by a radio host, then commence to call them a liar, this does not win you any converts.
Using the terms "bigot" and "hatemonger" to describe conservative talk shows is not accurate. It is more a reflection of how you view the world.
"... Let people know what these people REALLY are saying..."
People can figure things out for themselves. We don't need a secular liberal priesthood to interrpret.
"... get as many people as possible to avoid listening or inform the sponsers..."
I find this a bit odious and a negative approach, but I guess you have some people to fund this activity. My point was that you need some liberal talk shows people can turn to as an alternative.
No we dont. Different venues appeal to different kinds of people it appears liberals are not attracted to talk radio. The type of conservative that only wants to get his propaganda parrot talking points and be told what to think are and they arent liberals. Since MMFA usually links to the transcripts they ARE showing what these rabid hatemongers are saying. THAT is what makes them mad. Hatemonger is an accurate description of someone like Savage who advocates killing one hundred million Muslims or Coulter who advocates murdering a Supreme Court Justice, or assasinating President Clinton beating liberals with baseball bats and dropping daisy cutters at random in the middle east. Apparantly hatemongers attract an audience. So did Hitlers speeches. So does Spongebob. My opinion is the spongebob crowd is much the intellectually superior
An outright lie. There is a lot of substantive discourse here. There are a lot of insults, usually the response is comensurate to the post. That is why YOU usually get insults as that is all your cheap baseless assertions and mischaracterizations deserve. Raise the level of your game if you have what it takes and you will see substance. Keep shovelling the manure and you will get frustration, you arent earning anything more.
I'm confused. Part of me thinks Morgan's criticism is correct. If not simply because she should know.
What an idiot!
So the vulcan crackpots replay what they record out of context for those who missed the show to go back and hear? I'd love to ask her if she's claiming the recordings are false or if it's our lying ears that are to blame?
I can literally feel her listeners brain cells pop in the air...
Three points, from FAR downtown!
The reality is, and I think this point is particularly satisfying, that the faux dialogue between the O'Reillys and the Morgans, and mediamatters, is an indication of just how problematic this website is for these 'people.' They cannot CANNOT stand the fact that they are now being called on every mistake or lie they make, and I think that's an indication mediamatters is on top of the ball.
So, congratulations, and keep up the hard, mind-numbing work it must be, to listen to this garbage day in day out. High five.
Interesting comment- Is this another Malkin rave? Hillary's temper?
Pleaze.
No one but no one could ever match Darth Cheney himself....
He's a legend in his own mind.
Ooops- Savagerocks, I meant MORGAN.
All the cretins are blending together for me now in one loud screech.
That is except for Cheney's heavy breathing rage.
"Join the real world, Cleveland... there are enough nut cases in America to start their own country."
I thought that we were already referred to condescendingly as "Jesusland"?
"Jesusland"?
I never said that, but I will ask you this:
1. Do you believe the Bible's depiction of creation is factually, historically and scientifically correct? Should it be taught in schools?
2. Do you believe that evolution is not only false but that it is satanically inspired?
3.Do you believe that man roamed the earth with dinosaurs? That donosaurs did not live millions of years ago because the earth is only a few thousand years old? Should that be taught in school?
4. Do you believe that America should be governed according to the teachings of the bible? Do you believe it is the obligation of Christians to make that happen?
Just a few innocent questions that I'm sure, as a Christian, you would be proud to answer...
Savage--where in the hell is Sen. Clinton mentioned in this subject? You confuse and entertain me enough with your posts but changing the subject is not proper.
Signed, A Crack-Pot Cretin....P.S. Melanie is right, quoting someone's exact words is not the proper way to do business. Shame on MediaMatters for this therrible manner of conducting business. Please adhere to Fox News truisms and become more like those honest people.
Keep it up David and all your staff. I have a difficult time figuring just which bunch of right wing folks take the prize for dishonesty. They all seem capable of instigating hate but will take no responsibility for it. They all seem to attack others in very underhanded ways, and when confronted, they all end up responding by saying the same old, same old. But frankly, their mantra is getting old and it is so easy to catch on to their lies. They also have no guts to take it. They dish out hatefulness but when confronted with their made up crap, their system is to attack the messenger. Soooo, again keep it up David and crew. The country is sorely in need of truth-tellers like your group. You can sort of gauge your success by the venom these folks spew!!!
It is pretty obvious how much the truth irritates these people.
I'd like to join in the optimism of earlier posters who think Morgan's fans might come here and figure things out. I hope it happens with enough who are still functioning above the neck, but I don't know if I have that sort of faith iin the real fans of these people, the ones who really want to be told what to think.
Maybe enough will catch on that elections won't be close enough to rig, but as we all have seen from some of the right wing posters here, the truth just makes them fight harder for the lie.
"Morgan's fans might come here and figure things out."
Why would they want to come here, HBL? We are at a distinct disadvantage... Unlike Morgan, we don't have anyone here at MMFA (that I am aware of, at least) who looks like a former stripper. But wait... if we are a bunch of cretins here at MMFA why don't we like a dumb, sassy wench who looks like a middle-age stripper? God, this getting entirely too nuanced...
"... a dumb, sassy wench who looks like a middle-age stripper?"
Pretty generous, Irony. I think she could have been a middle aged stripper during the Nixon years.
Or is 90 the new 40? ;0D
"...she could have been a middle aged stripper during the Nixon years."
Or to borrow a Rodney Dangerfield line... I'll bet she was hot before there was electricity. I know this reduces to the discussion to a low lever but I just can't help saying this... Melanie Morgan honestly reminds me of a middle-age, former lap dancer. Someone who would look perfectly at home sitting at the end of a bar, heavy cleavage showing, puffing on a Marlboro Menthol Light, waiting for a man in a suit with a nice bank account to come her way. Either I have an overly active imagination or I can spot'em a mile off. ;>)
I find the liberalism here pretty venomous, MAR. It seems the anger here is greater than necessary.
Just Feel Lucky, CS
Just be thankful we're not bringing up the botched plastic surgery on her mouth again.
Liberalism is venomous? How so? We've had nothing but conservative politics for the past 6 years and look where the nation is...
How does it get any worse? Please explain that one.
I don't think liberalism in general is venomous. I think the discussion here is angrier than the situation warrants.
"I find the liberalism here pretty venomous,"
Cleveland, this is nothing... You should hear what we say when the right wingers aren't around. I've often wondered, though, what right wingers say in private, among themselves... like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Melanie Morgan and Michael Savage. But I'm sure they must be much nicer in private... such as when Rush Limbaugh works at the local homeless shelter which I'm sure he must do in his spare time.
Considering a number of them have drug problems, marital disputes and issues regarding their own sexuality, they're no different than <oh, should I say it?> Hollywood?
Seriously, I bet the drown themselves every night in some Jack Daniels so they can sleep better at night.
I wonder why these right-wingers can never provide an actual example of something that Media Matters has taken out of context.
Clarification...
What I think they mean is not that their actual words are taken out of context... they mean that their context was taken out of context. Their context is an artificially-created, bizarro reality that bears no resemblance to what is actually happening in life. They hate it when you apply what they say to actual reality... it makes them look foolish. And they think it's unfair taht not everyone buys into their bizarro reality.
Does this witch have a large audience nationally?
AFAIK, she's in San Francisco only.
How nice to get a shout-out. Maybe she can give the URL next time.
Why would Melanie Morgan be mad at Media Matters taping her? It's not like she's going to say anything stupid that would make her advertisers want to pull from her program. Right?
Geez. Isn't the goal of being on radio to be heard by as many people? Why is she bothered by being taped? If she's bothered about being taped, don't be on the radio, or don't say stupid things.
You have a point, tman. What's the saying, "I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right"?
I think she is accusing you of using 'audioshop' when replicating her comments. You probably failed to include the 5 second fair and balanced disclaimer before her 1 hour rant.
Hey Mel, its pretty hard to take "we've got a bullseye painted on her [Nancy Pelosi] wide, laughing eyes" out of context . . .
I guess if you can't attract enough listeners to a radio show of your own (Hellllllloooooo.....AiiiiirrAmeeeericaaaaaa.....) the next best thing is to tape shows that people listen to and bash them. I congratulate MMFA for "thinking outside the box."
As time goes by she's begining to sound more and more incontinent.If I were her I would be feeling considerably embarassed.
There's a laugh - MelUMnie Morgan calling someone else a credtin...just don't ask her to spell it.
Again with the "out of context" claim. What about rightwing talk radio is SO context sensitive that ANY quote sans the hour before and after it is impossible to interpret? She called MMFA a "left-wing crackpot organization". There is no context in which that statement magically becomes anything but an insult.
I'm beginning to think Melanie Morgan doesn't know the meaning of the word "context".