Posted on 01/10/2007 12:28:25 PM PST by Impeach98
For the past several days, liberal bloggers have been engineering a "Blogswarm." They are getting hundreds of liberal bloggers to participate in a drill where they are getting advertisers to pull advertising off of conservative radio station KSFO. Mike Stark, who harrassed Senator George Allen during Campaign 2006 is involved in leading the effort.
The charge by the liberal bloggers? That KSFO talkers including pro-troop leader Melanie Morgan engage in "Hate Speech." They're deliberately distorting comments by Morgan (she responded to comments by liberals who targeted the Republicans for defeat in Congress by saying that she and her cohorts could play that game and paint a target on Nancy Pelosi's wide laughing eyes. They now accuse her of making a death threat against Pelosi???!! ( Source: Melanie Morgan on Fox News )
They're now getting the mainstream media to pick this up and carry the water, as they wish to take this issue and replicate it in markets across the country. 2 CBS affiliates today, 2 newspapers, over 500 blogs, and they are pushing their hardest to make this bigger and bigger. Media Matters is leading the charge.
The message: NO CORPORATE SPONSORS FOR CONSERVATIVE TALK.
On their blogs they point out that political momentum is on their side and they can now push for Congress to restore the Fairness Doctorine in broadcasting.
You can read their blogs - they are trying to take Melanie Morgan and her conservative compatriots at KSFO off the air. And next stop will be your local conservative radio talkers. Melanie Morgan won the Associated Press's Mark Twain Journalism Award for Best Special Program when she broadcast live interviews with the troops in Iraq. If they can manage to take her out, then no conservative talker is safe from this intimidation campaign.
* Here is their YouTube presentation attacking the "hate speech" (be sure to give it a 1 rating and leave a comment):
YouTube Video Attacks Conservative Talkers
* Here is their YouTube presentation smearing Ann Coulter and Melanie Morgan. ((be sure to give it a 1 rating and leave a comment):
Melanie and Ann Mocked for Comments on Bill Keller of New York Times
(Melanie and Ann said that the disclosure of top secret classified documents to undermine the war effort was grounds for treason. And anyone who was found guilty of treason should receive the specified penalty (which is up to death). And they both explained that they would support such a penalty for someone such as Bill Keller of the New York Times who REPEATEDLY undermined the war effort, knowingly and deliberately, by publishing classfied documents on terrorist wiretapping and terrorist finance tracking.)
* Here are the Blogs leading the charge against Melanie and KSFO:
* Google Listing of Liberal Blogs Attacking Conservative Talkers
* Tailrank Listing of Liberal Blogs Pushing This
Well...they get a little bit of power..now they want the whole USA to bow to their whims.
George Soros told the Dems that he OWNS them...so it seems.
Yep, good point. Since the marketplace rejected Air America, they have to come up with the strategy of not letting the marketplace have access to conservative talk.
BINGO!!
If ABC caves over Melanie Morgan, what is to stop the libs going after Hannity and Levin next?
It won't stop them...
But, I am thinking that Sean Hannity probably has enough money by now..that he could do like Rush..and have his own setup...and take Mark with him.
You know...a syndicated thing...
We do need to watch the House proceedings though re: the Fairness Doctrine.
We also need to wonder what they have in store for Free Republic....
Thanks for the tip.
Give them credit for one thing. While what they are doing is VILE, and their stated goal of undermining the war on terrorism is ANTI-AMERICAN, they have nonetheless wisened up to Free Market policies about advertising and corporations. They recognize that they can kill a number of conservative talk radio hosts by making it politically unacceptable for advertisers to be on such shows. And they will use the liberal Mainstream Media to start repeating the story over and over again so that no advertising rep. would ever have the "cajones" to advertise on a conservative station.
ping
Support for Melanie bump.
Keep it up Mel! You will prevail, as always !
I think if loyal listeners put on a huge show of support for Melanie it can counter this smear effectively. It might even improve the ratings for the show and encourage advertisers to support her even more (there will be more money in it for advertisers with all the new, juicy "controversy" boosting Melanie's ratings).
By the way, thanks for pointing out the ad. As vicious as it was, I did enjoy hearing Melanie converse with Ann. Two babes are better than one, three babes are better than two, four babes are...(and the rule continues to build on itself!).
I think if loyal listeners put on a huge show of support for Melanie it can counter this smear effectively. It might even improve the ratings for the show and encourage advertisers to support her even more (there will be more money in it for advertisers with all the new, juicy "controversy" boosting Melanie's ratings).
By the way, thanks for pointing out the ad. As vicious as it was, I did enjoy hearing Melanie converse with Ann. Two babes are better than one, three babes are better than two, four babes are...(and the rule continues to build on itself!).
Really? KSFO is also the official Raider Nation station. Even though they had a losing season, why wouldn't they want to advertise to Raiders fans?
-PJ
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Wonderful posting devolve! Haven't seen Ann in awhile!
You make a relevant point, but I suggest you try looking at it from a different angle. By the time these guys are done, don't you think that they will have made a run at getting the Oakland Raiders to pull off of KSFO too!?!
Gosh I do despise the liberal media. Thank you for your good post, even though it depressed me a bit. I'll turn the depression into action, though!
"Free Speech" is only free for the liberal types in our modern, PC World now...
The rest of us pay a price for standing up for our beliefs..
No Non-DNC approved speech must be tolerated.
SEIG HEIL!!
ABORTION UBER ALLES!!!
Also, since KSFO and KGO are both owned by the same company, ABC makes money whether the audience tunes into one or the other. They would make more money if both stations stay as is than if one were shut down.
Morgan is only on from 5:00am to 9:00am, and I bet most don't tune in until at least 7:00am unless they're fighting the morning commute. The rest of the day is syndicated, except for the 6:00PM-8:00PM slot.
Finally, the weekend is less strident, with the garden show and Bob O'Donnell and computers in the morning on Saturday. Then there is Rabbi Lapin, David Gold, and Barbara Simpson. The station is nowhere near the "hate talk" that these protesters are making it out to be.
-PJ
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