Morgan claimed she's "getting all the Media Matters emails" about Spocko controversy
On the January 12 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's Morning Show, co-hosts Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan continued to lash out over the controversy surrounding Spocko, a Bay Area-based blogger who last year attempted to spotlight the racist and violent rhetoric common to Morgan and other KSFO hosts. Rodgers referred to "crackpot-leftist-crazed bloggers" and "ass-kicking [sic] suck-ups" whose "opinion is utterly, absolutely meaningless to me." Moments later, Morgan said that she's "been getting all the Media Matters emails, you know, copies of their reporting on this whole situation." Later in the program, Rodgers called the Quran "bloodthirsty."
On the January 11 broadcast of the Morning Show, Morgan announced that KSFO would be pre-empting its regularly scheduled programming on January 12 to air a live special intended to "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." She explained that she and the other KSFO hosts targeted by Spocko -- Brian Sussman and Morgan's Morning Show co-hosts, Rodgers and Officer Vic -- would host the special program, which she said would last "three hours or however long it takes to answer all the questions." Morgan invited "the public as well as the media as well as bloggers to participate in this."
From the January 12 broadcast of KSFO's Morning Show:
RODGERS: About this hog wrestle we're putting on the radio this afternoon, dealing with these crackpot-leftist-crazed bloggers, I believe I am on record many times over on this program as saying frankly I don't give a damn what the political left thinks of me. I would assume if they didn't hate me that I had gone soft and soft in the head, and I don't care one bit more about their ass-kicking suck-ups and what passes for the so called mainstream media in the Bay Area. I don't care what they say, what they write, I just don't care. Their opinion is utterly, absolutely meaningless to me, and I think it's very illustrative that you have media people in this market who hate any expression of thought that is contrary to their own brain-dead liberalism, to such an extent that they will rely on cowardly accusations by cowardly bloggers who hide their own identity to use quotes that have been lifted totally out of context. And as I have said, I'm going to take part in this, this afternoon, but I think addressing these cretins is a little bit like getting into the proverbial peeing contest with a skunk.
But I will be back at noon for what I trust will be one of the great non-events -- but nevertheless perhaps entertaining events -- in radio. So they get their fellow losers to send us hate mail -- what the hell is new about that? We've been getting it for years. We get hate email all the time from left-wing crazies whose vocabulary and imagination are so limited it's mostly along the line of, "Well, you must like homosexual anal sex," you know, and, described a lot more graphically than that. And all of it suggests to me is that these creeps are really looking in the mirror when they're composing their little misspelled emails, and -- you know while they're sitting in a basement playing with themselves.
But nevertheless, there seems to be a consensus in the old static factory here that we ought to take them on head-on, just rip 'em to shreds, and put a little context around some of these Internet quotes they've been floating around -- anonymously, of course. The coward's ultimate hiding place -- anonymity. And if there are sponsors who listen to these idiots -- and I'm not sure there are despite what they say -- but if that's the case, I know who it would be. It would be some craven little time-buyers at an advertising agency someplace who have no guts whatsoever. But one thing sponsors oughta keep in mind: We have listeners who also spend money. As a matter of fact -- intense, in-depth demographic surveys have shown that the average income and disposable income of the KSFO listener is well above that of the average in the entire Bay Area market as they call it, nine-county Bay Area. And they can decide for themselves where to spend it, and I don't think very many of those people are going to want to spend their money with a bunch of ass-kissers for a handful of crazies who have a keyboard in a basement someplace cranking out their silly, little blogs. If they got any sense, they won't. They'll fire any time buyer who suggests such a thing. Well, anyway, that'll be at noon today.
MORGAN: Yeah, at noon until 3 o'clock this afternoon.
RODGERS: Or until we get sick of it.
MORGAN: Yes. And we will be taking on, we'll open up the phones to anybody, to the bloggers, to the critics. There will be media that will be participating via our computer stream. Anybody who wants to call in is more than welcome to, including the Star Trek nut who started this thing, whose name is Spocko.
RODGERS: Naming yourself after a Star Trek character, that is an indication of the mentality of this dope. But, anyway, we know there will be a concentrated campaign, left-wing crazies will call in and they'll start spewing the filth first thing, and yes we will censor them, because we have an FCC license to think about too. We can't have people coming on the radio saying some of the filth that they put in their emails, so we just hit the red button, and screw 'em, you know, that's they way that's going to work.
OFFICER VIC: Fascinating, Captain.
RODGERS: Yes, yes. God.
MORGAN: I know, but I have to tell you --
RODGERS: Naming yourself after a Star Trek character, talk about somebody living in fantasyland.
OFFICER VIC: Pointy ears, deal in logic, Captain.
MORGAN: I've been getting all of the Media Matters emails, you know, copies of their reporting on this whole situation, and also from the crazed stalker, Mike Stark, who actually did stalk Senator George Allen's (R-VA) campaign, who is doing the coordination of the, quote, "blogswarm" has -- is writing that poor Spocko, poor, poor, poor, Spocko, has been having a difficult time. He's not used to all the media attention.
OFFICER VIC: The crush of the corporate weight coming down on me. [crying noises]
RODGERS: Here's why I question -- did and do question -- the wisdom of us doing this this afternoon. Our audience doesn't get caught up -- they don't read all this crap. They don't trust for damn good reason the so-called mainstream media, the [San Francisco] Chronicle, and the TV stations, and so forth. They tune them out. They assume anything they see, hear, or read in the mainstream media is a flat bleeping lie anyway.
MORGAN: Yes, but it's a different day and age, it's a digital age right now, Lee, and --
RODGERS: But they don't read this stuff. The people who listen to us don't read this crap.
MORGAN: Our people are very involved on the Internet actually.
RODGERS: But they don't read this left-wing drivel stuff, and they assume that if it's on television or in the big papers in the Bay Area, it's probably a bleeping lie, so why bother?
MORGAN: Well, in this case, it is a lie, all of it. And we're going to set the record straight today.
OFFICER VIC: I think it's going to take about 20 minutes.
RODGERS: I think so too.
OFFICER VIC: And then Dr. Laura [Schlessinger] will be back on, and everything will be fine.
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RODGERS: You don't have to go through the whole history of the bloodthirsty Quran; you just look at some of the stuff they've been up to recently in the name of Allah. If you want to read it for yourself, and I strongly recommend it, go to FrontPage magazine on the Web, frontpagemag.com, and under columnist, just click on that and they got a whole list, I think they're alphabetical, anyway its Don Feder, F-E-D-E-R, and read up for yourself what these fun-loving, peace-loving people have been up to lately. And then you decide whether you think I'm going to apologize.
Rodgers referred to "crackpot-leftist-crazed bloggers" and "ass-kicking [sic] suck-ups" whose "opinion is utterly, absolutely meaningless to me." As if anyone who talks like this should be taken seriously, eh?
Regarding Morgan's referring to the left's "ass-kicking [sic"]:
is it a "sic", or is it more like a Freudian slip on her part? I would take comfort in knowing it's the latter.
she's devoting an awful lot of airtime to something that's "meaningless" to her, isn't she?
really funny
Morgan and company are making fools of themselves; they are the ones who are coming off a bizarre, not Spocko.
I love how they admit that their own listeners "don't read all this stuff."
That's quite a demographic they've got going there, especially in web-savvy San Francisco, where the entire area is wi-fi'd.
I completely agree. Kudos MMFA.
"...I believe I am on record many times over on this program as saying frankly I don't give a damn what the political left thinks of me. I would assume if they didn't hate me that I had gone soft and soft in the head, and I don't care one bit more about their ass-kicking suck-ups and what passes for the so called mainstream media in the Bay Area. I don't care what they say, what they write, I just don't care. Their opinion is utterly, absolutely meaningless to me, and I think it's very illustrative that you have media people in this market who hate any expression of thought that is contrary to their own brain-dead liberalism, to such an extent that they will rely on cowardly accusations by cowardly bloggers who hide their own identity to use quotes that have been lifted totally out of context. And as I have said, I'm going to take part in this, this afternoon, but I think addressing these cretins is a little bit like getting into the proverbial peeing contest with a skunk...[yada yada yada blah blah blah]
...[more childish name-calling and shrill whining]...
Well, anyway, that'll be at noon today."
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We get it. You don't care. You don't care so much you are scheduling time at noon to take calls on it and discuss the whole thing.
Does this guy even realize how ridiculous he sounds?
Did anyone hear this broadcast? Did Dr. Laura ever get a word in edgewise?
I'd love to hear some of that stuff! I think it's worthy of an MM 'special report.'
Open_Mind, if you had listened to the special show, you'd have heard Lee Rodgers say that he didn't want to do it, but station management put him and the other hosts up to it. Perhaps you can catch it on a streaming re-broadcast on the Web later.
If you really don't care about something, you don't spend that much time repetatively articulating the point.
He only needed to say it once to make his point if he really didn't care. I am sure the other co-hosts could pick up the slack of the conversation while Rodgers kicked up his shoes and read a comic book or whatever he is interested in.
"I think it's very illustrative that you have media people in this market who hate any expression of thought that is contrary to their own brain-dead liberalism"
projecting much?
"Naming yourself after a Star Trek character, that is an indication of the mentality of this dope." --Rodgers
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Actually the name of the character on Star Trek was Mr. Spock --not Spock"o". I am not even a Trekkie and I know that.
What does it say about Rodgers that he doesn't know something that easy? Could he be a moron?
Well, I am a Trekkie. "Spocko" is what Kirk called Spock during the episode "A Piece of the Action" - because it sounded more "gangster-y". The society of the planet they were on was based on 1930's-era gangsters. So, his handle is referring back to a specific Star Trek episode.
Secondly, do you "...get[ting] into the proverbial peeing contest with a skunk" *before* or *after* you "...slaughter a cow to get the butter..."
First of all. I don't have access to Spocko's website as I have stated, but does Spocko mention that is where his name comes from or are you one of those brilliant mind-reading conservatives I often hear so much about?
Secondly, is Rodgers point that "Spocko" is some sort of weird Trekkie dude? If Spocko is indeed a weirdo Trekkie, then how does Rodgers seemingly have to know about that obscure episode that apparently only weirdo Trekkies could even conceivably know about (no offense intended). A little self-incriminating isn't it?
Thirdly, I think I vaguely understand your second point, but it seems a bit too tortured a quote to make much sense. Maybe it just doesn't translate very well from Klingon.
:^)
rodgers is an idiot for dismissing blogger Spocko just because he *might* be a trekkie. not all trekkies are 35 year-old virgins living in their mother's basements.
second: "slaughter the cow to get the butter" is a stupid thing rush limbaugh said recently. he was ranting about government hand-outs and welfare being the reason american's are obese.
I should have been a bit more clear. I find it amusing when people mess up metaphors, cliches, and the like. So, I was comparing Rodgers statement "...getting into the proverbial peeing contest with a skunk." (which makes little sense) to Limbaugh's ""...slaughter a cow to get the butter..." statement (which also makes little sense).
And, I don't know for *sure* that's where Spocko got his psuedonym - that's just what makes the most sense to me. I suppose he could have just picked a random letter to put on the end because "Spock" was already taken at his ISP... *shrug* I like my version better, though. I liked that episode, so I like his pseudonym - it makes me smile.
I do have to agree with many others here, though - I am *astounded* at the depths of not caring Rodgers is displaying. I think he should maybe take out a full-page ad in the SF Chronicle to reiterate how much he simply DOESN'T CARE and DOESN'T PAY ATTENTION to all this "left-wing" stuff.
If you visit Spocko's website, you'll see he's definitely a Star Trek fan.
yes! slaughter the cow to get the butter, have a pissing contest with a skunk!
these conservobot fools are as eloquent as clams.
The criticism of Spocko for using a Star Trek character's name in his blogging is an ad hominem attack - in other words, Rodgers and Morgan can't dispute the content of Spocko's words, so they have to attack his name, as if having a more dignified handle gives you integrity. If that was the case, I could make a few points about "Bush".
Also, let's remember that Spocko, or anyone else for that matter, cannot take away Morgan's right to free speech - only the U.S. government could do that. Fact is, any employer you work for could fire you if you say something they don't agree with. That has nothing whatsoever to do with your right to free speech.
and what we think and say is so meaningless and unimportant, then why are these KSFO hacks paying so much attention to it? Hmmm. They seem a bit thin-skinned for people in the punditry racket.
Also, his hysterical rant would indicate to reasonable listeners (if he has any) that Rodgers' quotes were not taken out of context, as hate and anger seem to comprise his context.
Pay attention, Rusty! Rodgers said he "didn't care" like 50,000 times in 50,000 different ways. How on Earth could you or anyone get the impression he really does care? In fact, Rodgers apparently cares so little, he has decided to talk about Spocko all of the time and go to the trouble of devoting time slots to take phone calls from listeners and talk about how much he really, really, really "doesn't care" about what Spocko or other "kooky" liberals think.
If that doesn't adequately demonstrate how little he cares about this subject, you simply are reading between the lines or speculating wildly!
I'm a brain-dead left-wing crazy with a limited imagination who masturbates in his basement. (h/t Lee Rodgers)
You're doing it in your own basement, Rusty.
A lot of us have to do it in our mom's basement.
"Highfalutin"
I don't even have a basement. More misinformation from Lee Rodgers.
Morgan is a laugh riot and Media Matters hits one out of the park once again.
Morgan: "I don't care what [the left] says, what they write..."
If she didn't care (or if it wasn't having a detrimental effect on her), she wouldn't be spending all this time plus doing a three-hour special about it.
Reminds me of the right-wingers here that claim disinterest by saying "who cares?" yet spend considerable time rebutting Media Matters items.
we should flood her lines with our point of view. Make her talk to us directly on her show. Use overload to shut it down.
they won't be taking calls from any liberals that can speak in complete sentances. i promise you that.
tricks them every time if you start your sentances with "Ug."
... if you misspell "sentences".
Nitpicking over spelling is a bit ridiculous. It should be pretty obvious what he meant.
Is anyone going to call these dimwits on their bs? How in the world can three jabbering simpletons laughing at genocide and making electrocution noises be taken out of context?
These people are ridiculous.
They're caught dead to right and--as is typical of many Cons--they feverishly begin doing one of two things:
1) Lying 2) Name-calling
Morgan and her pals are the worst kind of vermin.
The best part about this is that you know they are on this site right now. Try to come up with ways to defend themselves.
Those potty mouthed right wingers are a hoot!
You said potty. Those wingers don't like being called names or referred to as porcelain devices. No dessert for you!
You don't have to go through the whole history of the bloodthirsty Quran; you just look at some of the stuff they've been up to recently in the name of Allah.
In other words, you judge the actions of a few as indicative of the whole. Well, I must admit, I do make that same mistake when it comes to right wing radio...oh, wait a second, no I don't. On a case by case basis, you are ALL lunatics seeped in slime pools of exaggerating, generalization, and hate speech. You seldom if ever rely on facts, and when you do you twist them into pretzels sprinkled with the bitter salt of lies. Your fan base is loyal because fanaticism breeds perverse fealty to demagoguery in all its poisonous guises.
Insulting the Quran and Islam is one thing. But this:
Naming yourself after a Star Trek character, that is an indication of the mentality of this dope.
Is inexcusable.
Sulu (staring at Melanie Morgan’s frightening visage on the view screen): “What is it, Captain?”
Kirk: “Your analysis, Mr. Spock.”
Spock: “Fascinating. Preliminary scans indicate that while the creature is sentient, it has less than two grams of active brain matter, and is comprised entirely of a primitive substance known in ancient Earth dialect as ‘right wing hate.’ ”
Kirk: “Fire all phasers, Mr. Sulu!”
I attributed the ST comment to Morgan when it was Rodgers who delivered the line.
However, Morgan did provide the setup, so my parody still stands.
And that should read "exaggeration" not "exaggerating".
MMFA: once and for all, PLEASE BRING BACK THE PREVIEW BUTTON!
McCoy: "Her brain is almost atrophied from lack of use."
Female Savage: "Brain and brain! What is brain?!"
If they didn't care SO much, what's the big deal? There are lots of things that I don't care about, and I don't pay attention to those things. Why don't they do the same? If they didn't care so much, they would maybe say a little blurb about it, and then move on. End of story. They are sad little creatures. Nobody is taking their freedom of speech away, as she states. Indeed, nobody is telling them that they shouldn't say what they say, and they are free to yell it from the mountainside, but if the corporations who sponsor your programs have a problem with what you're saying, and they pull money, then you're out of a job. Still doesn't stop you from saying what you want. It's just your bully pulpit has become smaller is all.
now has a donation button, if you haven't seen it: something about legal fees, in case ABC is dumb enough to go to court on the ridiculous threats about copyright infringement. EFF is assisting him.
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Scroll down, on the right!
You guys are a "hoot".
Best laughs I've had so far today. Really great commentary that shows just how stupid the far-right talking heads are. When they are called on their bigotry all they can do is rant, rave and threaten.
How could anyone even expect to have an intelligent debate with people like that. I can't wait for the outcome of their three hour 'special' that will prove them right and all those 'wacko' left wing crazies wrong.
Go Spocko! Thank you for monitoring the nastiness, you have my sympathy.
I think maybe I will spare the change to call during this 3 hour thing.
I just want to let them know, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry your so filled with hate that you can't even think or feel like normal human beings. I'm sorry you feel the need to lash out at a world you find so frightening.
But I might be cut off before I say "I'm sorry"
Melanie Morgan's Spocko claims are highly illogical.
I'm already into an hour of these d-list neocons and I can barely take their whining.
My favorite and seemingly endless complaint so far has been that their comments were edited. I've heard everything they've bothered to regurgitate online already.
Liars. Losers. Pathetic.
It's bad enough to be liars...
But they're WEENIES too!! How low can they go?
Rodgers says they're doing this broadcast for their ill-informed audience, saying: "Our audience...the people who listen to us don't read this crap." He should have stopped at: "The people who listen to us don't read." That would be a more accurate description.
Ms Morgan's station proudly states that they express "views and opinions you won't hear anywhere else". What utter nonsense.Of course you can hear it elswhere. This kind of de-humanizing rightwing poison can be wallowed in with Limbaugh,Coulter,Billo,Hannity,Savage and on and on and on and on.The point is-this c*nt isn't even ORIGINAL.This is all just so much self promoting jive,the state of the country or the world be damned. And it pretty much is.
Perhaps the episode where the nuts take over the assylum.
"It's LORD Garth..."
You crazy libs crack me up. How do you explain KSFO being in the TOP 10 CONSISTENTLY in the Bay Area, the liberal mecca???? Go hug a tree or something.
How do you explain KSFO being in the TOP 10 CONSISTENTLY in the Bay Area, the liberal mecca????
There are only nine radio stations in the Bay Area?
There are over 40...if you click on San Francisco, KSFO is number 5. But I'm sure the numbers are from all you liberals listening to the show so you can rant about it on your blogs :)
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Liberal like to read and dont listen to much AM. While cons prefer their books to have lots of pictures and listen to the radio to get their daily koolaid. Thats why then never know what they are talking about.
of a question I've been wanting to put out here.
As others have pointed out, the conservative posters love to counter the items about righty media lies or craziness by pointing out the ratings.
I'm wondering how ratings are figured for TV and radio these days. I remeber the Nielsen boxes and journals, but are ratings collected through cable now or are surveys used. I'm dead serious, I don't have any idea.
I just find it interesting that many people who would fall into the "liberal" category get their info from many different sources. I watch Fox quite a bit, listen to righty radio, for laughs and to see what sort of propaganda my co-workers will come armed with.Are people like me counted in the ratings? Since most conservative people are probably more likely to get their info frrom a single source, or from only conservative sources, does that skew the ratings?
Are you using the tired old argumentum ad populum logical phalacy again? Because apparently a lot of people listen to the station makes the content or message somehow more valid? By that specious logic the Mexican station in town must be more correct or valid than KSFO.
Are so stupid. How do you explain American Idol being in the top ten in ratings while Shakespear never gets the ratings. Obviously it must be much better than Hamlet and McBeth. Go tell a lie and start a war, thats what conservatives excel at
As Melanie and co. Hate Fest 07 proved, liberals are using their evil blogs to try and keep KSFO down. Which is why you post freely here with inane comments.
"keep KSFO and conservative speech down."
My bad. I was too busy hugging a tree to care.
I was really, really hoping that Spocko would take the KSFO hosts up on their invitation to call in during their 3-hour special show this afternoon, but he was a no-show. I may not agree with the things heard on KSFO, but at least the Lee Rodgers, Melanie Morgan and Brian Sussman don't hide behind alter-egos and false names. Where was Spocko today? Perhaps hiding behind Mike Stark and clutching the hem of Mike's skirt?
I doubt they woul even let him on the air if he tried to call. How do we know he hasn't?
... but I heard the show hosts mention him several times during the broadcast, inviting him to call in and spar with them. If you read Spocko's most recent blog entry, it looks as if he took a powder since some time on Wednesday, January 10. If he had tried to call, I feel certain they would have put him on the air immediately.
If he had called, I'm sure they would have shouted him down with a right-wing gang bang of lies, distortions, whining and filth.
You can't have any kind of meaningful dialogue with people such as this KSFO crowd.
"at least the Lee Rodgers, Melanie Morgan and Brian Sussman don't hide behind alter-egos and false names." --gumshoe
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I notice you didn't mention that Officer Vic fellah. Might have hurt your argument a little. Besides, how do we know that those are all their real names. Almost all of the radio personalities I know have "radio names" different from their real names. How do you know these are their real names anyway. Not that it has anything to do with the validity of Spocko's argument either. Just another pointless and apparently hypocritical ad-hominem attack from MelMorg &al.