The boycott of Rush Limbaugh is actually doing well

Despite what his crisis management team is saying. Attacking Sandra Fluke pissed off some died in the wool Republicans who have never before been involved in a cause.

I guess I'm going to have to go see Thor

He was my favorite comic book hero anyway...

Council Of Conservative Citizens Calls For Boycott OfThor Over Black Actor

Boycott Arizona.

Don't give them any of your money.

Update: Murder is totally predictable:

Arizona militia recruiting veterans with ‘kill records’ to patrol border.

And they will probably be Americans:

Arizona congressman Grijalva's offices to close because of death threats

Boycott Valero and Tesoro gas stations

In 2006, California passed The Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), making our state number one in the world in legislating real reductions in the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

Now Valero Energy -- a Texas-based oil company -- has already spent half a million dollars to fund a deceptive initiative that would destroy AB 32, California's landmark clean energy and air pollution law.

Together Valero and another Texas-based oil company, Tesoro, are projected to spend millions of dollars to gather signatures for a November ballot initiative that would kill AB 32 and new clean energy development.

Don't let Texas oil barons mess with California's climate change law!

Every dollar spent at a Valero or Tesoro gas stations is another dollar Texas oil barons can use to buy this election.

Sign the pledge.

Let Mickey show what Disney really stands for!

The wonderful graphics are Nezua's (via Jesus' General)

Spocko dusts himself off

And continues the fight:
".....Bottom line: Right now It is SAFE for advertisers to be on violent AM hate radio. That needs to change. There are NO consequences to the HOST (The Union protects them from the new FEC fines, good for the Unions!), there are no consequences to the station: This needs to change. The Christian Right has been doing this to radio for years. John A at Americablog used the same tactics FOR the gay community against companies like Ford. His work was also an inspiration. Behavior can change.

Hate Radio does better with "controversial topics" and they get better ratings, which leads to higher ad rates. They hide behind "free speech!" like the bullies they are.
I think that Hannity and Rush are more subtle and frankly more dangerous, and Media Matters, Al Franken and others have been dealing with the dangerous the present, but third and second tier hosts are more apt to slip up and therefore when their hatred, racial bias or violence toward others come out we can shine the light on them to their advertisers who DO care about what they say.

I've learned a lot in this fight and one thing that we can do is help replicate this for our causes. I haven't told many of you about the DEEP PR anti smear work I did against Melanie Morgan to protect Jimmy Carter from her "Censure Carter" campaign in Atlanta, but that is a story for another boring blog post.

LLAP,
Spocko"

Introduction to Blog Swarming 101 by Spocko.

Spocko has activated a nest of angry bloggers, but first, watch this wonderfully educational YouTube of the KSFO hosts in full blovation. (Updated)

Interrobang has the video up as well.

Tom Legg.

Watertiger.

Boing Boing.

Firedoglake.

Pushing Rope.

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Walled-in Pond.

Daily Kos.

glcq.

Echidne.

Mustang Bobby.

Deacon Barry.

Attaturk.

Along with these.

And try goggling Spocko.

Spocko speaks

to the San Francisco Chronicle. Something to watch for!

Remembering what KSFO said about Rachel Carson

about wanting to dig her up to kill her again? (Since Disney/ABC/KSFO shut down Spocko's site because he was using what was said on their own radio show against them, here is the cached Spocko link.)

Update:
Media Post Publications mentions Spocko's fight.

Update: King Marketing.

Don't forget that Disney/ ABC were behind the defamatory 9/11 film

The 9/11 film is quietly being sold in the orginial form after the 'modifications' were made for tv.
This wonderful flyer was made in response:



Citadel now owns 43% of ABC. You remember Citadel?

Here is the attack dog that guides Disney nowadays, which explains a great deal why Disney has become a bloated, arrogant, manipulative corporation, nothing like the 'happiest place on earth' at all.

Juan Cole notes Spocko's fight

Juan Cole:
"Hate Radio and a Disney SLAPP

Daily Kos has the saga of one person's campaign against hate radio.

Spocko's problem, that he was posting audio files and has been threatened with a suit by Disney, is easily solved, it seems to me. He should just type up 600-word excerpts of each file and post them instead. The posting of audio clips might or might not be fair use. The posting of 600 words from a work is already defined as such by the courts.

The excerpts can also be included in letters to the advertisers. From the sound of it, 600 words a program would be damning enough."

YouTube would go out of business if this were true. I think Spocko got into trouble when he began talking to the advertisers. When you get between lawyers and money......

Update: Interrobang has the info too.

Update: Bouphonia as well.

Update: Thers.

Update: 1/5 Tom Legg.

Disney/ABC/KSFO and advertisers support these statements of hate

Brian Sussman tells caller to say 'Allah is a whore'

KSFO caller suggests bombing Syrian mosques

Brian Sussman wants military weapons in his home

Brian Sussman says he doesn't have to tolerate Islam

Brian Sussman says we should cut off detainee fingers and penises

Melanie Morgan and Ann Coulter say liberals should be executed

Coulter and Morgan say Bill Keller should be executed - sound effects by Officer Vic

Brian Sussman says Islam is a false religion

[More clips]

Officer Vic wants to send a hit team after photojournalists

More laughter about Bill Keller in the electric chair

Honky talk-show host is offended because Sen. Obama is a 'halfrican'

Paint a bullseye on Rep. Nancy Pelosi?

More bullseye talk about Rep. Pelosi

Morgan accuses SF Chronicle of 'blacking up' Richard Pombo Btw, Melanie - how did Pombo do in that election?

KSFO crew says 'dig up Rachel Carson and kill her again'

Coulter says 'at least they hit some UN peacekeepers'

Morgan says 'hang the NY Times editors'

KSFO crew wants to kill liberals

KFSO crew says 'liberal tree should be pruned'

KSFO crew says liberals should be 'stomped to death'

More on what Disney/ ABC/ KSFO and their advertisers support

From El Gato Negro, Spocko:
"

This is a copy of the letter I sent to advertisers on November 15, of course all the audio links are now inactive. But the clips they link to are attached. (The sound files weel be posted up next- E.G.N.)

Wendy Clark,VP-advertising, AT&T

Dear Ms. Clark:

Thanks to radio hosts from KSFO your brand is being associated with torturing and killing people. Would your marketing people be happy to hear your commercial ran after Lee Rogers said this about a black man in Lincoln , Nebraska ?

"Now you start with the Sear's Diehard the battery cables connected to his testi*les and you entertain him with that for awhile and then you blow his bleeping head off."

(Audio link 2:30 total for context. Comment at 2:03 )


You should know the person calling for the execution and torture of the black man in that clip READS THE AT&T commercials on the air. Right now on KSFO Lee Rogers is THE VOICE of AT&T to the SF Bay area. (Audio Link from 11/16/2006 )

Sadly, calling for the death and torture of individuals and groups of people is a regular occurrence on KSFO 560 AM, owned by ABC Radio Disney.

Another example: immediately after the 6 am ABC Radio news on October 27th:

Lee Rogers: I say they catch the person, tie 'em to a post and burn 'em. Set 'em on fire.

"Officer Vic": Yeah.

Lee Rogers: Let 'em know what it feels like.

Melanie Morgan: Hog tie 'em first. That would be good.

Next, Lee Rogers talks about a protester at a Cindy Sheehan event:

"Whoever did that should have been stomped to death right there. Just stomp their bleeping guts out."
(Audio link 4 minutes total).

Within three minutes they called for someone to be burned alive and a protester to be stomped to death. If you dismissed the first clip as a "joke", note that in this clip they were clearly not joking

Melanie Morgan famously called for Bill Keller of the New York Times (and nine editors from other papers) to be hanged. (Audio link)

On Nov. 14th Melanie Morgan said this about Nancy Pelosi:

"We've got a bulls-eye painted on her big laughing eyes." (Audio)
Also note that Morgan reads the Cingular Wireless commercials on KSFO.

Of course political speech is protected, but I believe the FBI and the FCC frown on targeting elected officials for death or inciting violence toward leaders of any political party.

Because of how ads are purchased, your ad placement agency probably didn't know that Tom Brenner (the "comic relief" called Officer Vic) regularly mocks advertiser's products. Listen as he:

* calls Chevrolet's product "shi**y" (link)
* suggests an anti-virus product is part of a protection racket (link)
* pretends a cold pill is really a suppository (link)

The odds are your product will be mocked. If they don't respect a big client like Chevrolet, will they respect your brand?

And it's not simply calls for killing specific people or mocking products, the radio hosts at KSFO proudly talk about their anti-Muslim views. Based on my research, your business has rules about discrimination against people of other religions, so what message are you sending when your employees or customers hear your advertisements right after Brian Sussman demands of a caller:

"Say Allah is a Wh*re!" (audio)

Or when Lee Rogers says,

"Indonesia is really just another enemy Muslim nation. ... You keep screwing around with stuff like this we are going to kill a bunch of you. Millions of you." (audio)

Maybe you haven't heard any complaints. Would KSFO management let you know about complaints? Doubtful. Morgan's husband, Jack Swanson, is KSFO's operations manager. The president of KSFO, Mickey Luckoff, started the station format and has a history of defending hosts like Michael Savage until he was forced to fire him.

I understand you can't listen to all the shows you advertise on, no one can. You rely on the accurate representation of the sales reps and the show description. But you don’t need to take my word, listen to the programs. You probably won't have to listen long to hear something that offends or disgusts you. If you wish to hear the complete context on any clip or the audio during a date your ad ran contact me I have an educational archive of audio clips, I've listed a few below.

I want to emphasize that if you withdrawal your ads you aren't limiting their free speech, just removing your paid support of it. Some other company without the values you describe on the AT&T website can support them. You can choose to advertise elsewhere. This is really about YOU. Do YOU want to be associated with these comments? Do you want your company and brand to be associated with these comments?

I urge you to discontinue advertising on KSFO during the shows hosted by Melanie Morgan, Lee Rogers, Tom Brenner and Brian Sussman.

If you want to contact KSFO here is a link to their website. If you wish to express your displeasure to their parent company contact Zenia Mucha, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, The Walt Disney Company PHONE: (818) 560-5300 CA, (212) 456-7255 NY or email Heather Rim, Vice President, Communications, ABC, Inc. heather.rim@abc.com.

Sincerely,


P.S. I would appreciate hearing your final determination in this matter.

Corporate Issues
Michael Coe,

Corporate Citizenship
Eric Hausken

Human Resources

Karen Jennings, senior executive vice president of human resources"

Here are the actual audioclips of this ugliness.

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)