KSFO's Rodgers suggested Obama is a socialist, co-host Benner offered up Holocaust allusion
On the September 3 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, Rogers said of Takeru Kobayashi, six-time winner of the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, New York, "Just eat, eat, eat, and you gain no weight. Oh, there is no justice. God needs to take a hand in this." Co-host Tom Benner, known as "Officer Vic," agreed and added: "Even things out. Wait, that's socialism, I'm sorry. Forget it." Rodgers replied, "Well, you're right, you're right. Well, under Barack Obama, then, it'll probably be done." He continued: "Oh, lordy. Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. ... Free of the stifling stupidity of liberalism, which disguises slavery as benevolence. That's -- that's the program for the Obama campaign, by the way." Benner replied: "Arbeit macht frei." Rodgers then said, "Yeah. Make more of them dependent on the government."
The German phrase "arbeit macht frei" translates to "work makes one free" and was written on the gate at the entrance to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.
From the September 3 broadcast of KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show:
RODGERS: These people who get involved in these competitive eating contests, I guess -- and the guy who wins a lot of them is this little Asian guy, Chinese-American [sic], I believe, and he is a regular winner of that, like the --
OFFICER VIC: The hot dog one.
RODGERS: The hot dog eating contest, the one that --
OFFICER VIC: Nathan's, I think, does it.
RODGERS: Nathan's, exactly, on Coney Island in New York. But, well, I'm thinking -- I'm thinking retirement job for us one of these years, OV. We will just go in that field of competitive eating.
OFFICER VIC: Competitive eating, uh-huh.
RODGERS: And that little guy who wins that Nathan's thing most years, I don't know if he did this year, but he's up against these 300-pound guys and you figure this is going to be no competition. They've got room in there for, you know, a barrel of whatever. And he out-eats them and never puts on a pound.
OFFICER VIC: No.
RODGERS: For which we really hate him.
OFFICER VIC: [laughs] That's just not right.
RODGERS: Just eat, eat, eat, and you gain no weight. Oh, there is no justice. God needs to take a hand in this.
OFFICER VIC: Even things out. Wait, that's socialism, I'm sorry. Forget it.
RODGERS: Well, you're right, you're right. Well, under Barack Obama, then, it'll probably be done.
OFFICER VIC: Yes.
RODGERS: Oh, lordy. Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.
OFFICER VIC: Your ill at heart.
RODGERS: Free of the stifling stupidity of liberalism, which disguises slavery as benevolence. That's -- that's the domestic program for the Barack Obama campaign, by the way.
OFFICER VIC: Arbeit macht frei.
RODGERS: Yeah. Make more of them dependent on the government. I used to live in Chicago, along the Dan Ryan Expressway, south of downtown Chicago. These rows and rows of government housing, and if anybody ever needed an object lesson in what social programs created to make people more dependent on the government lead to -- what was it, the Taylor Homes, I think, was one of them -- just miles and miles that looked like federal prisons, people lived in there, you know, subsidized, cheap rent, blah-blah-blah. And they were controlled by gangsters. And the Democrat do-gooders of the Daley machine who have run Chicago for years only wanted one thing from these people. They'd round them up like cattle on Election Day to vote. And then, you go back, and you go back to your drugs, and stay drunk all day, and get your welfare check and all stuff, and leave us alone.
What do Hot Dog Eating Contests have to with Barack Obama??? I'm just not getting it.
Then again there's a lot coming from conservatives that I just don't get these days...
What are these words we're hearing all of a sudden, like "socialist" and "anarchist?"
This is traditional nutcase language. What next, an expose on the dangers of fluoridated water?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
The words from a poem emblazoned at our most revered symbol of LIBERTY are now code words from liberals seeking to impose slavery?
Lee Rodgers, why do you hate America?
The words from a poem emblazoned at our most revered symbol of LIBERTY are now code words from liberals seeking to impose slavery?
TBone, I think when you're far enough to the extreme right, it's hard to tell the difference between the Statue of Liberty and a Nazi Concentration camp.
OFFICER VIC: Arbeit macht frei.
Looks like Godwin's law strikes again.
What happened to Rogers co-host? You know, the woman who looked like Stffler's mom?
SNOOPY: We're all still waiting for you to show up -- just ONCE -- with ANYTHING of substance to add to an a discussion or argument. Or is that "above your pay grade?"
About the only thing I have to add is that Obama is indeed a Socialist. He's further left than any nominee in history. And why do you guys object to this so much? All of your rhetoric and opinions on display on this site make it clear that you think Socialism is GOOD and we should have more of it in America.
We could run Jesus and you thugs would call him the most far left socialist. But again, oh gutless wonder, got anything called a fact to post?
As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I just have this to say to Benner.
F YOU
But of course Rogers only saw them from the highway. And blames the misery on government dependence.
There are times I hate sharing an ethnicity with these people.
It's not a new feeling.
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white
- Frank Zappa (Trouble Every Day)
He is!! Be proud, don't slink away from it! Embrace it instead of complaining when the truth is known!
He sought the endorsement of the CDSA when he ran for the the first time. The CDSA Chicago Democratic Solialists of Amerika.
He spent more time as an executive serving on boards with Bill Ayers of the Weatherman fame. The same Bill Ayers that hosted his kickoff party for his first campaign.
He was mentored by an avowed leftist/communist, Frank Marshall Davis, while living in Hawaii.
Again, don't run from this, be proud and convince Americans of the benefits of leftism.