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Would someone please provide me with the job description of “Party Chair”? I am confused as to the actual responsibilities of the job. I was under the impression the job was basically to recruit, oversee, and promote the candidates and overall ambitions of the political party.

No offense to Kevin Knuth, but when would he find the time do such things? It would seem his focus of late is more like that of a reporter for the “National Enquirer”.

Tim Zank

From Left In Aboite:Monday, January 08, 2007
Vulcan versus Mouse

While perusing one of my favorite blogs this evening, Blognonymous, I read a post by Kvatch regarding Spocko’s Brain. I’ve seen the editor of this weblog, Spocko, in the comments sections of many blogs but hadn’t gotten around to visiting his site. Perhaps now I never will. . .

Spocko’s blog is (was?) one of several fine San Francisco Bay Area blogs, a few of which can be found in my blogroll. It seems that Mr.Spock was offended by the angry rhetoric of several right-wing radio personalities on the local ABC-affiliated talk-radio station, KSFO 560 AM. I assume it is comparable to our own local pukefunnel here in Fort Wayne, although from what I’ve read this evening, it sounds far worse. . .To quote Kvatch, KSFO “has some of the most offensive on-air personalities in the Bay Area–a little like Limbaugh only half as articulate and twice as offensive”.

UH-OH……I SMELL CENSORSHIP COMING…..

Rather than call in and complain to the station (pointless), Spocko decided to hit ‘em where it would hurt them the most. He made mp3 recordings of the vulgarities spewed by these personalities on air, as well as audio of these same personalities doing commercials for sponsors, often right after they’d finished saying the aforementioned vulgarities! He then not only blogged about this, including the audio he had snagged, but contacted major sponsors of the shows on which the attrocities had aired, including Netflix, Mastercard, and Bank of America, to alert them to how their brands were being presented.

UH-OH….SOUNDS LIKE BLACKMAIL TO ME……

Many of these sponsors pulled their advertising from KSFO. . .little guy makes a difference! Hoorah! But, sadly, the story does not end on that happy note. . .KSFO’s parent company Disney/ABC, after losing these sponsors, demanded that Spocko pull the audio clips he had posted on his blog, even though they were posted under the guidelines of “fair use”. When Spocko refused, they complained to his his ISP, 1&1, who caved in to them and cancelled his service.

UH-OH…SHIT STIRRING BACKFIRES….THEY JUST DID TO SPOCKO WHAT SPOCKO DID TO THEM! WOW, THAT SUCKS EH?

Spocko is staying in communication with everyone via this site. You can read the full details of his story there, and I encourage you to do so. In addition, a support blog has been set up on his behalf: Kiss Off KSFO. Here is a sample of one of the letters that Spocko sent out to advertisers:

SOME OF THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS PALE IN COMPARISON TO OUR LOCAL LEFTIES DESCRIPTIONS OF REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES AND OFFICE HOLDERS.

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

*Editor’s note: Spocko has found a new home and is now included in my blogroll here!

I REPRINTED THE ENTIRE POST OF JOHN’S HERE (SO HE COULDN’T SAY I TOOK ANYTHING OUT OF CONTEXT) WITH MY COMMENTS, AS HE DOESN’T LIKE ME POSTING ON HIS BLOG. SEE, I HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS THAN HE DOES AND AS WE ARE ALL AWARE (JUST LIKE HIS NEW BEST FRIEND SPOCKO) JOHN DOESN’T LIKE OPINIONS THAT DIFFER FROM HIS. OK, LET’S RECAP….IF YOU’RE A TOLERANT LIBERAL DEMOCRAT THAT BELIEVES IN FREEDOM OF SPEECH, YOU BLACKMAIL THE SPONSORS OF YOUR ADVERSARIES, TO SILENCE THEM, THEN CRY FOUL WHEN THE VERY SAME SPONSORS DO IT TO YOU. NOW THAT MY FRIENDS IS IRONY!!!!!!!!!!YOU GUYS JUST FREAKIN’ KILL ME….

POSTED BY TIM ZANK

Oh c’mon, who didn’t see this comin?

Lawyers of deposed Iraqi leader say they will sue Iraqi government at International Court of Justice over abuses by executioners during and after execution

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349346,00.html

I guess it doesn’t matter in what country you attend law school, it appears that “frivolous lawsuits 101″ is mandatory.

sheesh

tim zank

Let me start by saying I don’t give a flying f*@k if anybody that is in a position of power now used to toke, snort, or drink kegs ’til they were dry. What a lot of us did in our “party days” simply wouldn’t work now that we have grown up and we probably wouldn’t be thrilled to re-live those days via the media.
What disturbs me is the total lack of fairness on the part of the media, and the blatant double standard.
Obama gets a pass from the press and the democratic party, (and rightly so, as I said I don’t care what he did when he was a kid) while GW to this day, 6 years later still has bloggers and reporters and democrats refer to him as a drunk, or a cokehead or worse.
The lack of respect for the office can be attributed primarily to lousy parenting, and an unrepentent and unrelenting press corps. Even if you hate someone personally, you should still have enough “character” to respect the office (ask a cop or a soldier, they’ll explain it).

This obvious lack of character (or morals if you will) makes for a strong comraderie amongst far left liberals but doesn’t bode well for the real democrats, the ones with a conscience. The ones who still respect our country, our political system and our way of life. They are falling by the political wayside, pushed out by the loudest shouters and the nastiest bloggers. I hope a few of them can hang on!

tim zank

Courtesy of Little Green Footballs

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Are you freakishly obsessed with the daily casualty count in Iraq? Do you find yourself disappointed when a day or two goes by and no American soldiers die? Have you ever been at a cocktail party and said, “How can we be so damn jovial when George Bush is responsible for a death toll in Iraq that is approaching one-tenth the total of British dead in the Second Boer War?”

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need the new Associated Press Pocket Iraq Casualty Counter! Now the information you need to make bizarre, extraneous points about the Iraqi War is at your fingertips, 24 hours a day! The Pocket Casualty Counter uses satellite technology to wirelessly provide instant updates on casualties, as they happen. And the Pocket Casualty Counter links the death toll with a historical database to provide you with the factual ammunition you need to battle those crazy neo-cons, on the go! So you’ll be able to say, “I hate to be the one to tell you this, but George Bush has now murdered 10 times the number of people who are eaten alive in an average decade by the Spotted Siberian Tiger.” Imagine the look of shock on their Christian fundamentalist faces!

That my friends, is freakin’ hilarious!

Posted By Tim Zank

Now, no matter what your political persuasion, right, left, or middle of the road, it ought to be a prerequisite to approach some subjects with intellectual honesty so as to be taken seriously in a political discussion.

This is a glaring example of how to manipulate questionable material, so as to sway the mindless masses to your way of thinking.

You begin with a hot button topic like global warming. Left In Aboite hit upon a story by The Independent UK (tabloid) about a small island sinking into the ocean, the author claiming an obvious result of global warming. Now, no matter the reporting source is a left leaning UK publication with a readership of under 250,000. The credentials of the paper/source matter not to the liberal left, it could be scrawled on a cocktail napkin for all they care. It only matters that SOMEBODY is agreeing with them in print. It also doesn’t matter that the information is based upon a study by a group of researchers from Jadavpur University in Calcutta India and not corroborated by anyone else….like…in the rest of the world……anywhere….

Google “Lohachara Island” and thousands of stories appear (73,900 all the same). The first 9 pages are 90 blogs and threads, not one newspaper of significance. And every damn one of them quotes the exact same story from The Independent. If it’s in print, especially more than once, it must be true, right? On a whim, I searched The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune, because surely a story of this earth shattering (bad pun) magnitude would be covered by the MSM. Ah, to no avail. If those three didn’t find this story credible enough to run with, one really has to wonder, doesn’t one?

My point is, this crap happens everyday. You get a half-ass story on an emotional topic written by a hack with an agenda and copied all over the world wide web by more hacks with an agenda and it becomes a legitimate story for those that need desperately to believe in a cause.

No common sense required, just ANYBODY to agree with you in print……..

posted by tim zank

Just in case you had any doubts about conspiracy theory nutjobs, take a look the quote from Left of Center in the Highway of Life regarding Pearl Harbor:

LOC’s Quote of the Day
“It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Now read the two comments about the quote:

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azgoddess said…
oh ok

they were supposed to let us know what they were planning??

like our tactics in war are any better…geeze

December 07, 2006 12:46 PM

Bartleby said…
AZ makes an excellent point. When they do it, it’s a horrible “sneak attack;” when we do it, it’s launching Operation Infinite Justice Iraqi Freedom Desert Storm using the element of surprise.

FDR put ‘em up to it; and both he and St. Winston Churchill were tickled pink when it happened. May they both rot in hell.

December 07, 2006 7:27 PM

I would have responded to these insane comments on Mr. Rouse’s blog but he most likely would not have posted my comments. He prefers to have discussions with those of like mind (or rather lack thereof) on his blog.

At any rate, comments like these give us an insight to the paranoid liberal mind and agenda. AZ goddess implies we are as bad or worse than our enemies. Once again, blame America while you live here and enjoy it’s freedoms. Typical.

I’m especially taken aback by Bartleby’s suggestion FDR and Churchill were in on Pearl Harbor. That’s not just a different view of politics, that’s a clear case of not enough blood getting to the brain. It absolutely baffles me how people like this expect to be taken seriously on any subject. It’s one thing to disagree with your government, but to believe they are responsible for attacks on ourselves is just plain freakin’ stoopid.

timzank