Wednesday, January 03, 2007

One man stands in front of the behemoth corporation KSFO/ABC radio/ Disney tanks

KSFO/ABC radio/ Disney in San Francisco support hate speech. Spocko carefully recorded bits of the hosts Morgan, Rogers, Benner and Sussman saying extremely ugly and hateful things. He then asked the corporate sponsors if they were aware their names were attached to such statements. He actually had advertisers pulling their support.

This activated the lawyers and all sorts of denials from the talk show hosts. Spocko's blog and all his audio clips are now gone. If you click on his site, you will see all his work is inaccessible, as the lawyers and the radio show want it to be.

Spocko:

"In mid-December I got confirmation that a major national advertiser, VISA, pulled their ads from the Melanie Morgan and Lee Rogers show, based on listening to audio clips I provided them. I also think that FedEx, AT&T and Kaiser are considering pulling their ads. Visa isn't the first advertiser who has left KSFO, multiple advertisers have left the station, especially from the Brian Sussman show. In July of this year when KSFO lost MasterCard as an advertiser someone from KSFO "outed" me on a counter-blog (which I won't link to). This same person has also threatened me with local and federal criminal action for using the audio (which I clearly used under the fair use portion of copyright law). And because they have suggested violence toward me (in addition to talking about suing me "for everything I have") I have chosen to remain anonymous.

As Thers has said, 95 percent of blog fights don't mean anything, but I think this one does since KSFO is using the full weight and force of an ABC/Disney lawyer and copyright law against a private citizen blogger. I dared to use the audio content in question for nonprofit educational purposes (I don't even have ads on my blog!), and thus under the protection of the Fair Use Doctrine set forth in Section 107 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C.§107."

and:

"When Keith Olbermann and Media Matters ran Melanie Morgan's comments about "putting the bull's-eye on" Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi, management did nothing. Morgan did a jokey non-apology where she never even mentioned she used the term bull's-eye.

I'm guessing Lee Rogers may have gotten a memo telling him to stop talking about burning people alive, torturing them and blowing their brains out, because on November 30th, he defiantly said to management and advertisers, "Nobody is gonna tell me what to talk about or not talk about or in what fashion on this radio program. It ain't gonna happen!"

ABC/Disney acted only when they lost revenue. Then they went after ME with a cease and desist letter.

Why me? I'm not the one saying journalists should be hanged, thieves should be tortured and killed, people should be burned alive, stomped to death or have their testicles cut off. I'm not the one saying that millions of Muslims should be killed on the presumption that they are extremists or just because they live in Indonesia. I'm not the one who says that lying is as natural as breathing to Egyptians and Arabs or demanding that a caller "Say Allah is a Whore" to prove he is not an Islamist. I'm simply documenting this speech and providing it to the people who are paying KSFO hosts on commercially supported broadcast radio."

Keith Olbermann's quote:

"But our winner, the ridiculous radio yacker Melanie Morgan (ph), having now twice suggested about Speaker elect Nancy Pelosi, quote, we‘ve got a bull‘s-eye painted on her big, wide, laughing eyes. Given how we‘ve all recently seen that some of the less rational members of the right wing echo chamber take things like that literally, perhaps Ms. Morgan should consider her culpability if Pelosi is attacked or again threatened by the right.

She also made another reference to Pelosi and plastic surgery. And trust me Ms. Morgan, the issue of personal appearance is not a battle you should want to join. Melanie Morgan, today‘s worst person in the world. "

Melanie Morgan's quote (with an audio clip that hasn't been taken down!):
"MORGAN: Oh. We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big, wide laughing eyes."

The blogosphere moves inevitably towards exposing the truth. You can't say stuff on the air, and then deny it. You can't indulge in hate speech and then demand we understand it's a 'joke'. You can't silence the listener who is astonished at your ugly demeanor, who then asks the corporate supporters if that's what they stand for. You can't say such things and not get a boycott, silent or public.

If KSFO/ABC radio/ Disney stand for the hate speech they spew, and I think the utterly false 9/11 movie shows that they do, then let them come forward and proclaim it. They should be proud of what they do. Then we can do what we want to do, as is our right.

Advertisers on KSFO/ABC radio/ Disney:

Agape Village Foster Family

American Diabetes Association

AT&T

BAAQMD

Benchmark Lending

Best Buy

BFS Retail & Commercial Operations LLC,
a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

Big O Tires (TBC Corp) via Sumitomo Corporation of America

BMW of North America LLC.

Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

Bright Smile

Cache Creek

California Teachers Association

Check 'n Go

Choice Hotels International

Cingular Wireless

Cyber Mesa Telecom

Dennys

Eastern Furniture

FedEx

Freecreditreport.com Experian

Frontier Airlines

HMS Capital

Home Depot

HoMedics Inc.

Humidex-Atlantic

In and out Hamburgers

Infineon Raceway at Sears Point

John M. Cummuta

Kaiser Permanente

Learning Annex Real Estate and Wealth Expo 1800-US ANNEX

Match.com (an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp )

Michigan Economic Development Corporation

Microsoft Dynamics

Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc.

Nestlé Purina PetCare Company

New York Life Insurance Company

OSH (part of Sears Holdings)

Outofbk.com (Automated Finance Corporation)

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Preparation H (Wyeth)

Pulte Homes, Inc.

Riviana Foods

Shreve and Company Jewelers

Sleeptrain

Sutter Health

Taylor Made Water Systems

The Jewelry Exchange -Goldenwest Diamond Corporation

Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc

Verizon

Visa Security Play (Visa U.S.A., Inc.)

Wheelworks

Window Broker

Zuffa, LLC. (parent of UFC : Ultimate Fighting Championship)

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