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Skriven 2007-04-21 00:32:00 av ROSS SAUER
Ärende: Melanie Morgan
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The right-wingers whine about why I call WorldNetDaily, "WingNutDaily."
Well, just look at this right-wing radio talk show host, who is so far 
on the right she falls off the keyboard on to her head. Repeatedly.

KSFO's Morgan: Media Matters like Virginia Tech gunman

Summary: 

In an April 20 column for WorldNetDaily.com, Melanie Morgan, co-host of 
San Francisco radio station KSFO's Lee Rodgers & Melanie Morgan Program, 
compared Media Matters for America to the Virginia Tech gunman who 
killed 32 people before shooting himself to death. Morgan wrote: "Like 
that mentally unbalanced and angry gunman at Virginia Tech, they'll 
methodically march through the domiciles of the conservative movement, 
targeting the movement's leaders for career elimination -- until and 
unless we stand up and fight back against their campaign of mayhem 
against conservative leaders and causes." Morgan also attacked Media 
Matters as "left-wing free speech Nazis." 

Morgan wrote: "I have lived on the other side of the gun barrel pointed 
by Media Matters for America for the better part of three years, and I 
know what it feels like when a bunch of crackpots with keyboards pull 
the trigger, backed by millions upon millions of dollars in funding from 
George Soros." She added: "The transcripts and audio files of my 
comments have been excerpted, misrepresented and reconfigured to take 
statements out of context, reprinted with lies and distortions, and then 
disseminated to other liberal media outlets with fierce resolve." Morgan 
offered no evidence to support these accusations. Moreover, Media 
Matters has never received money from progressive philanthropist George 
Soros.

Morgan has smeared Soros in the past, agreeing with co-host Lee Rodgers' 
assertion that Soros "apparently very cheerfully and willingly went to 
work for the Nazis" as a young boy, and adding that Soros did so to 
"further his own career." KSFO's program director announced in a 
subsequent show that Rodgers' and Morgan's comments about Soros "are not 
accurate, and KSFO regrets that they were broadcast." Morgan also has 
announced that "[w]e've got a bull's-eye painted on [House Speaker Nancy 
Pelosi's] big, wide laughing eyes."

From Morgan's April 20 WorldNetDaily.com column: 

Media Matters was founded with the support and funding from key Democrat 
operatives, including John Podesta, former chief of staff to President 
Bill Clinton. The group has documented ties to far-left organizations 
such as MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress -- both of which 
have been funded by far-left billionaire George Soros.

I have lived on the other side of the gun barrel pointed by Media 
Matters for America for the better part of three years, and I know what 
it feels like when a bunch of crackpots with keyboards pull the trigger, 
backed by millions upon millions of dollars in funding from George 
Soros. 

I co-host "The Lee Rodgers & Melanie Morgan Show," a conservative 
news/talk program on KSFO 560 AM in San Francisco, every weekday morning 
for four hours. Liberals are disgusted that our conservative program is 
one of the most-listened to radio programs in the notoriously liberal 
San Francisco Bay Area. We've endured several vicious campaigns waged 
against us by liberal activists with the backing of Media Matters for 
America, as they worked ruthlessly to have us silenced. 

Several times these left-wing free speech Nazis have almost succeeded. 

The transcripts and audio files of my comments have been excerpted, 
misrepresented and reconfigured to take statements out of context, 
reprinted with lies and distortions, and then disseminated to other 
liberal media outlets with fierce resolve. 

The Democratic Party wants to silence us, and they use Media Matters of 
America to wage a war against us replete with character assassination, 
personal threats, lawsuits and efforts to have us fired or suspended. 

I can live with being targeted by these "vile, despicable ankle-biters," 
as Bill O'Reilly calls Media Matters. In an odd way, the attacks against 
me have energized me to fight even harder for the conservative causes I 
believe in. One of those causes includes the right to bear arms, a right 
that had been denied to the students and professors at Virginia Tech 
University [sic] who were unable to defend themselves from a deranged 
murderer who took no notice of the school's status as a "Gun Free Zone." 

But make no mistake -- the campaign by Media Matters of America [sic] 
against Don Imus is part of their way to send a message to conservatives 
on the airwaves and in print: "We're comin' to get you. We got Imus. And 
we'll get you, too." It is a chilling threat to our free speech rights 
in this country. 

Now, with their current crusade in support of the gun control lobby, 
Media Matters is targeting our Second Amendment rights as well. 

Like that mentally unbalanced and angry gunman at Virginia Tech, they'll 
methodically march through the domiciles of the conservative movement, 
targeting the movement's leaders for career elimination -- until and 
unless we stand up and fight back against their campaign of mayhem 
against conservative leaders and causes. 

© 2007 Media Matters 

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