The shows are meant to be humorous and fun-filled and a lot of joking goes on. Occasionally, someone gets hot over some controversy and says something intemperate; so what? Brian Sussman has apologized a couple of times for being "overly harsh" on Islam, but the truth is, he is way too lenient of that false and evil religion, believing as some do, that Islam has "been hijacked" by an extremist minority. In reality, the extremism is a central part of Islam and the foundation of the whole religion.
Some leftard with a blog called "Spocko's Brain" has been attacking KSFO conservative talk radio in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. He has been misrepresenting things said on the talk show and sending them, out of context or in some cases, distorted beyond all reality, to the station's sponsors. He asks the sponsors to discontinue their advertising on KSFO.
Local liberal television station Channel Five out of San Francisco joined the fight on the side of the leftards this week as they too weighed in on KSFO, quoting things out of context and especially disparaging their former weather man, Brian Sussman, who has a show of his own on KSFO in the evenings. Channel Five claimed that advertisers were leaving KSFO "in droves." It was a baldfaced lie.
Channel Five never called any of the KSFO pundits to ask them about the charges nor did they offer any chance to respond. In other words, it was a liberal hit piece on conservative radio with no pretense of fairness.
Yesterday KSFO rebutted Channel Five in a special three hour broadcast. You can listen to it at this link.
The blog Newsbusters also weighed in on the side of KSFO. Alas, Michelle Malkin's blog took the side of the leftards, but it wasn't Michelle who was writing -- she's in Iraq. It was a guest blogger who calls himself See-Dubya of the (supposedly) conservative blog, Junkyard Dog, filling in for Michelle while she's away. But with See-Dubya, you don't need enemies with friends like him.
See-Dubya claims that Lee Rodgers should apologize for a largely satirical rant in which he advocates, jokingly, that a criminal with over 200 arrests should be attached to a car battery, testicles first. See-Dubya, in an orgy of moral exhibitionism, states:
As I understand the controversy, it's the single legitimate peg all theDon't take any bets, See-Dubya. Both supporters and sponsors will stick with KSFO, in spite of you and your pal Spocko. As someone who actually listens to the show daily and who actually knows what he's talking about, Lee Rodgers should NOT apologize for satirical remarks. The gross over-sensitivity that political correctness has foisted on society has for too long oppressed free expression and resulted in rigorous self-censorship of anyone who speaks to the public. Personally, I'm sick of it. If Lee apologizes now he will have to apologize over and over or become another bland purveyor of the status quo. I say, hell no. Lee, don't you dare apologize.
rest of this trumped-up stuff hangs on. While the sinistropheric poop-storm
is typically overwrought and more than a little dishonest, KSFO ought to
come up with an apology for that remark. Although at 54 minutes
into the audio stream linked above, they say anyone expecting an apology is
"gonna have a loooong wait". I doubt their sponsors and supporters will be
willing to wait that long.
As for you, See-Dubya, censorship of conservative radio is only the first step in the Left's plans to suppress conservative thought. Blogs are next, and plans are already under way to shut us all up. The definition of a liberal is someone who will not take his own side in a fight, and right now that definition seems to fit you nicely. Stand by your own tribe.
I do hope Michelle Malkin shows better judgment in who she appoints to blog in her place the next time she's absent.
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