It was widely believed until recently that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudia Arabia and his Kingdom Holding had a 5-7 percent share of Rupert Murdoch’s “News Corp” which owns Fox News. Dr. Paul L. Williams of the “Last Crusade” now reports that Kingdom Holding’s portion may be as high as 25 percent.
The first development was the news that Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, invested $70 million in the Rotana Group, an enterprise owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah. The Rotana Group operates a host of TV channels throughout the Middle East and is a leading producer of Arabic movies.
Next came Mr. Murdoch’s decision to make Abu Dhabi, the headquarters of the News Corporation’s global media operations in the Middle East.
On Monday, the Fox Business Network announced that it will dispatch a full-time correspondent to the Middle East in order to inform Americans of the unique business opportunities in such places as Syria, a country that provides shelter for Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah and support the insurgents in Iraq.
In the wake of this announcement, Fox news commentators – – including Glenn Beck, Charles Krauthammer, A.B. Stoddard and Bill Kristol condemned Geert Wilders, a well-respected Dutch dignitary and critic of radical Islam, as a “fascist” and a “demagogue.”
Mr. Krauthammer said that the Mr. Wilders, who is the leading candidate for Prime Minister in The Netherlands, doesn’t know the difference between Islam and Islamism, a distinction known only to Mr. Krauthammer.
While Mr. Beck labeled Mr. Wilders as a “fascist,” Ms. Stoddard expressed her agreement with Krauthammer and added that “if people like this (Mr. Wilders)) are elected to lead Holland it will suffer the consequences.
What caused this denunciation?
Mr. Wilders produced a short documentary on Islam in Holland called “Fitna” in which he argued that “there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam’” and that the Prophet Muhammad would “. . . in these days be hunted down as a terrorist.”
Only last year, Mr. Wilders was a popular guest on Fox News. Bill O’Reilly formally welcomed him to America and criticized Britain for banning him entry to the “hallowed isle.”
In the past, the former member of the Dutch National Parliament was a frequent guest on Fox News. Last February, Bill O’Reilly welcomed Mr. Wilders to America, while condemning a scared Britain for banning him entrance to the country.
Other news about the parent company of Fox News began to surface, including reports that Kingdom Holding owns at least 7% of the News Corporation and has become the second largest shareholder in the Murdoch conglomerate. Some speculate that the actual shares controlled by Kingdom Holding through a hedge fund may exceed 25%.
Kingdom Holding is owned by Prince Talal, who is called “the Arabian Warren Buffet.”
Listed by Forbes as the world’s 22nd richest person, Prince Talal also owns substantial shares of Time Warner, Apple, eBay, Disney, and Citibank.
For charities, he gives millions to Hamas and other pro-Palestinian organizations.
Critics say that Prince Talal’s sizeable investment in the News Corporation accounts for Fox News programs critical of Israel, including a series of special reports in which Carl Cameron and Brit Hume alleged that Israel gathered information about the attacks of 9/11 and failed to warn the American people.
Walid Shoebat, a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who converted to Christianity, charges that Fox New now prohibits critics of Islam and Islamic terror from appearing on its broadcasts.
“He himself (Prince bin Talal) said, ‘I just had to make a phone call to [tell them to] stop using the word Muslim’ regarding the rioting in France,” Mr. Shoebad notes. “Bill O’Reilly says to Ibrahim Hooper, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), that he is an upstanding citizen. Since when was the head of CAIR an upstanding citizen?”
Mr. Shoebat adds that viewers will no longer be seeing any so-called “Islamophobes” on Fox.
“Today, I’m not invited at Fox News. Neither is Robert Spencer or Brigitte Gabriel,” he laments. “But Ibrahim Hooper is invited to speak at Fox News. It used to be that experts on terrorism who are critical of the Islamic views [were] able to get a voice on Fox News. Those days are gone.”
Mr. Shoebat says that instead of airing those critical views of Islam, Fox News now legitimizes Hooper, the spokesman for CAIR, a group which he maintains is a front for Islamic terrorists.
March 9, 2010 5:03 p.m. (PST)
Continuing the worrisome thread about the stewardship of our free speech through our conservative media outlets is this announcement from Rupert Murdoch/News Corp (owner of Fox News):
Breitbart.com:
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday that the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi is to become the headquarters of his global media empire in the Middle East.Addressing some 400 delegates at the opening of the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Murdoch said his corporation had started out as a small Australian firm to become a US-based international company that employs 64,000 people.
“I have every confidence that Arab companies can do the same and more. I also believe that Abu Dhabi can lead the way.”
Murdoch said News Corp would headquarter its Middle Eastern global online advertising operations in Abu Dhabi, and move a number of satellite television channels to the capital of the United Arab Emirates from Hong Kong.
“We will (also) establish a production office here for one of our documentary film-making companies,” he said.
“When we look to the future, News Corporation is betting on the creative potential of the more than 335 million people who make up the Arab world,” he added.
Organised by the Abu Dhabi government, the three-day summit is expected to address the potential of the emerging media markets in the Middle East, India and China.
Mohammed Khalaf al-Mazruei, who heads the Abu Dhabi Media Company, told delegates that “the Middle East is experiencing radical change,” and that its media should “accompany this revolution.”
News Corp has already established strong links with the region, last month agreeing to invest 70 million dollars in the Rotana Group, which is controlled by Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, after buying a 9.0 percent stake in the firm.
Alwaleed’s Kingdom holding company also owns around 7.0 percent of News Corp’s class B common stock.
Dear Readers:
“Liberty Loses a Voice” was published February 28, 2010 on American Thinker.com.
And my Fedora-wearing blogger buddy Robert Stacy McCain, “The Other McCain” wrote it up for American Spectator.
Melanie Morgan carried it on her blog, and WBIR,
India Times, Big Soccer, and Marin Conservatives,Dallas Morning News,
Lucianne.com, New Media Blog…and more..
Many good wishes from around the country to Lee and Melanie.
“Liberty Loses a Voice” originally published on February 28, 2010 on UNCOVERAGE.net
By Jane Jamison
On Thursday, February 18, one minute before the conclusion of his four-hour morning radio show on KSFO in San Francisco, conservative talk show host Lee Rodgers was fired. Rodgers was under contract until July, but it didn’t matter. Rodgers wasn’t allowed to gracefully say good-bye to his listeners. The next day, KSFO evening host Brian Sussman had taken over the morning job. Rodgers’ 40-plus years of radio broadcasting career, is over, at least for now.
While it may sound like just another cupboard-clearing in the cut-throat broadcasting business, the undignified jettisoning of Lee Rodgers is troubling on many levels.
KSFO is a prickle in the liberal paw of the San Francisco bay area. It is a highly-rated conservative news/talk format which has been proudly dealing the left fits, with Rodgers at the morning-drive helm, for decades. Rodgers’ curmudgeonly mix of small-government, strong Israel, pro-military, anti-jihad, tax-cutting missives, and his interviews with conservative authors, columnists and newsmakers are not meaningfully available on any other station in this liberal California market.
Rodgers’ demise was heralded about a year ago, when his co-anchor Melanie Morgan, was abruptly fired in much the same fashion as Rodgers. The morning radio partners are credited with initiating the statewide investigations into the use of cancer-causing MTBE gasoline additive, which leached into the state’s groundwater after it was trumpeted by liberal environmentalists as a way to reduce air pollution. Rodgers and Morgan also launched the statewide petition drive to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. Ms. Morgan was a pro-military, anti-radical Islam activist who flew more than once to the troops in Iraq and personally confronted anti-military activists at protests in the Bay area. Both hosts were under constant barrage by liberal bloggers. KSFO’s advertisers were pressured to withdraw.
Liberty lost important voices when Morgan and Rodgers were fired.
By eliminating the two morning hosts, and shifting another host to the morning job, KSFO is increasing its on-air “syndicated” programming. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and John Batchelor are certainly talented, informative talk show hosts with huge nationwide followings. But losing local announcers who served their local community so admirably is a humiliating blow to a market the size of San Francisco. It is a loss of community identity.
The increased use of “syndicated” hosts nationwide has caused many local broadcasting jobs to be lost. No exact figures are available.
What is most worrisome for the conservative movement is the more sinister reason behind the KSFO firings: It appears the station ownership, Citadel Broadcasting, led by CEO Farid Suleiman, is “bowing” to complaints from liberal activists and Muslim sympathizers. Rodgers would rant about “Moos”-lims on his show, and frequently mentioned that the Council on American Islamic Relations was complaining about his views. He hinted at this in a blog posting on Melanie Morgan’s website this week after his termination:
“I WILL tell you, in all candor, that thanks to Mr. Suleiman’s Citadel management, I could no longer proudly say that the company had never told me what to say or what not to say. There was an obvious cave-in to some ultra-left and pro-Muslim groups, making it unlikely that I would have ever renewed my contract with the company, anyway.”
Citadel Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late December last year, a bizarre, final financial drain-spin for what was once the third-largest radio conglomerate in the country. The company had market capitalization of $2 billion in 2004 and has plummeted to only $12 million. Farid Suleiman’s reign has been controversial, for his exorbitant salary and bonus in the face of declining revenues due to his decisions. He also inexplicably began spelling his name “Suleman” in recent years.
Born in Tanzania, educated in England, much of Suleiman’s early years or current interests are cloaked. Election campaign records show he donated to Republican John McCain in the last presidential election, but has donated heavily to Democrats, John Kerrey, Charles Schumer and Christopher Dodd, in the past.
Among the many properties Citadel owns is WABC, New York, which is the home base for the syndicated shows of Hannity, Limbaugh and others. As Citadel gradually removes major market talents such as Rodgers, in favor of syndicated programming, Mr. Suleman forces his broadcast properties to rely more and more on the “mother ship” of syndicators for their daily programming. The Citadel bankruptcy continues, so the full extent of program changes or deletions may not yet be fully realized.
There has been much criticism and speculation on what Suleiman’s corporate “mission” can possibly be, since it appears to be so self-destructive. Conservative voices in major broadcast markets are being silenced by this Islamic executive of a major broadcast radio network. It may be helpful to look what is happening in another large media group.
World Net Daily has reported extensively that the second largest ownership stake of Fox Broadcasting’s parent,“News Corp” is held by a Saudi Muslim activist, billionaire Prince Al-waleed bin Talal, who has ties to terrorist groups.
Dr. Laurie Roth, News With Views:
“Prince Ahwaleed (sic) has been buying his anti Semitic and Muslim way right into American life. Let us review just how generous he is in a moment. He purchased a 5.6% stake in News Corp. in 2005, second from the top now. He manipulated Islamic study departments into place by giving $20 million each to Georgetown and Harvard Universities.
Ahwaleed is a man who gave $500,000 to CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, and then there is the mother load of $27 million in 2002 to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Naturally, he called them ‘martyrs.”
Roth notes that representatives of CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) are being given frequent, unopposed access to Fox news shows since Talal’s purchase of News Corp stock. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case involving funding of the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group, yet is portrayed as a legitimite, credible entity on Fox News.
Dr. Roth reports, Talal himself is transparent about his attempts to control America with opinion:
“Arabs should focus more on penetrating U.S. public opinion as a means to influencing decision making” rather than boycotting U.S. products…….Arab news stated “Arab countries can influence U.S. decision making if they unite through economic interest, not political…..We have to be logical and understand that the U.S. administration is subject to U.S. public opinion.”
Read between the lines. More to come on the “freedom”of our airwaves. Hopefully, Rodgers and Morgan will not be silenced for long. We need them.
Lee Rodgers, Melanie Morgan, formerly of KSFO San Francisco
By Dr. Paul L. Williams TheLastCrusade.org
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Lynne Ross
What a shame!
Col Holtzinger
they HAD to go. Nazi Pelosi is running for re-election. She and Nobama’s minion cannot have these people on the air, pointing out the truth or her re-election bid will fail. The truth he spoke would cause those Californians, already unhappy about their dwindling bank accounts and jobs, over the edge and knock Nazi Pelosi from serving the Commies and her Islamist president.
Bob Gilkerson
We lost our local conservative here too. Don’t really know the circumstances. Can’t speculate.
Dawnellen Pappalardo
This is just the beginning,to silence us.
Bob Lucas
that is to bad,…..i used to listen to Lee, when he was at K.G.O. news talk radio,…..
Thank you for writing such an excellent article about Lee. You’ve obviously done your homework.
Susan Rodgers
Not only have local hosts Lee and Melanie have been fired but also Micheal Savage (twice first KSFO then 910 AM) Brian Sussman is no friend of the Muslims and a great champion against the global warming nuts. If he is fired then conspiracy becomes reality
Thank you for this good article. We DO NEED them!!! How can we stop “alien forces” such as these,from silencing our views?
–thanks again for this article–keep it up!!!!
SarahSue San Francisco
I set my radio alarm clock for 5:00AM (an hour earlier than necessary) so I could stay in bed and listen to Lee Rodgers who would make me laugh out loud. I have been a Rush Ditto Head for 20 years and Lee Rodgers ranks right up there with El Rushbo in terms of brains, wit and perfect delivery. KSFO has lost a loyal morning listener. I hope we get to hear from Lee again via another venue.
This is the perfect opportunity for 50,0000 Watt 860 KTRB to become something. They’ve already picked up Savage, now they need Lee & Mel and they’re on their way to success. Let’s hope it happens.
Thank you all for writing! Big Dan, that is very interesting about the format change. I miss the combination of Lee and Melanie very much.
JJ
Dear Susan, please don’t be too selfish with “our” Lee, you two deserve your leisure time together, however if you could just see fit to share him with us on the air for a little while longer, we would be oh so grateful. Lee deserves a national forum, he was always superior to Savage and the top dawg at KSFO. He was my favorite on KGO and his shows with Duane Garrett were over the top hilarious. I missed him desperately when he took his “Seattle Sabbatical”, and sincerely hope that, this too, will merely be another “sabattical” leading up to bigger and better things. He has more talent than the majority of the top talk show hosts on air today, and that includes Rush, Hannity, Beck…etc. Please help convince him his work is not done yet, “educating the heathen”.
Posted by: Galen Hoover
Mar 02, 04:43 AM
Regarding the Saudi prince (one of many attacking us by using our freedoms against us); haven’t wars been fought over less? I am not advocating war. I just want to point out how attitudes have so drastically changed. Those changes will be the end of the Founder’s Great Experiment.
Posted by: gussy
Mar 02, 06:43 AM
Just think – if we didn’t have to buy so much oil from these friends of our (Saudi princes) they wouldn’t be so fabulously rich and able to buy themselves into whatever. And what the heck is Fox News allowing someone like that to buy any of it? I don’t get it. But then, I’m just a stupid conservative. Duh.
Posted by: Mark Roth
Mar 02, 06:54 AM
The saudi prince who owns a chunk of Fox News’ parent company is also the person who offered the ten million dollar check returned by New York’s mayor Giuliani following the attack of 9/11 in New York.
By the way his name is correctly spelled “All Wallet.”
As in most cases, follow the money.
Posted by: E. Goldstein
Mar 02, 07:18 AM
Just as a note, Harvard refused to establish a chair on western civilization when the money was offered a few years ago. In fact they returned the gift. What Islamists will do is trivial next to what Progressives are doing and have done. Islam and Progressives use the same tool, propaganda. Our media and schools teach new speak and our leaders and bureaucrats use double think. Orwell was a text book for the left and they have been at it for years.
Posted by: paul vincent zecchino
Mar 02, 07:39 AM
Here’s to Morgan and Rodgers getting another airshift. They’ve long and bravely exposed statist-thug scams which masquerade as ‘saving our environment’ such as the MBTE poison gag.
In 1992 I was rising to top of the talk show heap in Providence, Rhode Island. Most the audience believed I walked on water, the rest wanted desperately to hold my head beneath it for thirty minutes or so, to make sure they finished the job. But they all were listening.
Until the same three leftist termites who can’t bear viewpoints which differ from theirs and who hate the Bill of Rights, called the station five hundred times each, using different voices and names, demandin my ouster.
I was out. And the phones, according to all who worked at the station remained lit for days with nonstop calls from listeners demanding my reinstatement.
It was devastating, but in time one realizes our world is dominated by weak, vain, little men the ilk of that station owner – whose station shortly went permanently off the air – and soros and his gutless connivers.
A fine gentleman and friend of liberty, Albert E. Grady, Esq. of Brockton, MA, shortly hired me at his station, WDIS, in Norfolk, MA, at which I enjoyed talking with listeners until moving to Florida.
The gutless worm weaklings of san fran freako who did this to Rodgers and Morgan may not presently realize it what with all their squalling, mewling, and puking, but the slave chains they hear rattling in distance are their own.
Posted by: stormywthr
Mar 02, 07:54 AM
Selling out to the enemy. All wallet is wrong. Boycotting is very effective. That includes Fox.
Posted by: Becky
Mar 02, 08:09 AM
I wonder if Frank Beckman, WJR, in Detroit is a little nervous. He’s also a local conservative, is flexible in doing sports, and been around a long time locally. He does interview a broad spectrum of guests, mostly respectful and restrained, sometimes combative.
WJR is also a Citadel owned outfit.
Posted by: roadmaster
Mar 02, 08:22 AM
As a recovering trucker, I never missed tuning into Morgan and Rogers when I was in their broadcast area. They are talented so I have no doubt they’ll find work elsewhere. Too bad for KSFO – as they’ve squandered a virtual gold mine.
Once, while inching my way down I-880 in Oakland, I was listening to Michael Savage, when he was still the local afternoon drive guy. Playing with the audience, Savage asked everyone listening and agreeing with him to turn on their lights. I watched in my mirrors as half the cars and trucks behind he turned on their headlights. Then Savage called for a little toot on the horn, which prompted lots of honking.
As cars passed me in my slow lane, lights on, I could see them smiling and laughing, as I was. It was amazing to me that so many drivers in the Bay Area listened to Savage, as he was and is pretty radical and off the wall, diametrically opposed to that population in general, or so you would think.
These people must stay in the closet on election day, seeing as how they keep electing Nasty Pelosi and other liberal nitwits. Or maybe those in their right minds are simply outnumbered by morons.
If they’re smart they’d bail out on CA and especially the San Fran area, before it disintegrates completely under the weight of their collective, self-inflicted idiocy.
Posted by: SMS
Mar 02, 08:39 AM
While living in the SF Bay Area , I made it a constant habit to listen to Lee and Melanie. They both had other jobs at other stations before teaming up at KSFO sometime in the 90′s and creating an excellent format that featured commentary on local, state-wide and national issues like no other I have ever heard.
I left California in 2003 and one of the few things I missed after that was tuning in to their 5AM – 9AM show. Now, that, too, is gone. As a result, California is becoming less and less interesting every day.
Posted by: mitty
Mar 02, 08:46 AM
sounds like the “cairness” doctrine is being implemented…
Posted by: stormywthr
Mar 02, 09:20 AM
Orwells 1984 is here to stay. Even Levin will be silent on this.
Posted by: Matthew Quigley
Mar 02, 09:31 AM
My question is whether something can or cannot be done to prevent what are effectively enemy agents from owning American communication facilities?
Knowing that muslimes own a good chunk of many communications corporations certainly explains their silence on issues such as honor killings and persecution of Christians in mohammedan countries.
Posted by: VHG
Mar 02, 09:49 AM
You see, if we drilled here and produced it here, these “princes” would neither have the money or the influence. But the left supports strangulation of a free press by any and all means. Now, if these “princes” can do that to a talk show host, what can they do to the banking system here that they are so heavily invested in? Hmmm I wonder? “Follow the money” would wake so many people up though too late!
Posted by: willyTfats
Mar 02, 10:08 AM
“Other than the fact that he was born in Tanzania (are we sure?) and educated in England(where are those transcripts???), details of Suleiman/Suleman’s early years or current interests are omitted in bibliographies.”
This sounds eerily familiar. Has he written a couple of autobiographies?
These idiots who run businesses, who are willing to get rid of the cash cow, must have “other” forms of income, in order to pull off this type of coup. As is mentioned, follow the money. And then make the decision to stop indirectly supporting it. Again, we must fight this, even if we have to stoop to the tactics of the enemy. Nice guys WILL finish last.
Posted by: atilla
Mar 02, 11:12 AM
the more persecution there is of conservatives, the stronger the group will grow. it is the refining process that will lead to a stronger America. hold fast, do not give up.
Posted by: CSM Occupied Northern VA
Mar 02, 11:16 AM
I grew up in the SF area. In fact, Lee Rodgers when he was with KGO actually got me hooked on talk radio. He used to follow a Pinko moring host named Ron Owens. Rodgers would pick and choose the issues he’d discuss in the afternoon–usually destroying the arguements of the morning pinko.
He is a great talent and it is because of him I listen to the Citadel stable of Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin today.
I am sure Rodgers will emerge in another market, just as Melanie Morgan is now on in the morning with John McCaslin in DC.
I hate CAIR’s undue influence on media, but talk radio is also a cut throat business; just ask Chris Plante, the morning host at WMAL in Washington. Citadel tried to drop him and put Joe Scarborough’s syndicated cup-of-warmed-over-liberalism on in his place. Thankfully, that was a complete ratings disaster and Plante is back on at WMAL.
Posted by: gillyo
Mar 02, 11:59 AM
I don’t doubt that there might have been nefarious reasons behind the firing of Melanie Morgan and Lee Rodgers. However, as a long-time KSFO listener who remembers Lee Rodgers from the old days I would also believe another reason. The fact is that the show wasn’t very good. Melanie and Lee were always on their high horse about something and although I usually agreed with them the way they carried on didn’t make for good radio. Lee came across as a real curmudgeon who I felt was “phoning it in” literally and figuratively. Melanie was becoming shrill and uninteresting. I always had the feeling listening to them that they’d rather be doing something else.
KSFO does have some great local programming on the weekends, Barbara Simpson at 4:00 on Saturday and Sunday is probably the best local show around.
I’m not sure what their ratings were, but I don’t know anyone who ‘s been listening to them on a regular basis for the last few years. Most of us listen to Armstrong & Getty, who are more conservative than not, and a lot more entertaining. They can get on my nerves sometimes, but they have interesting guests and some great laughs. Frankly, if you have to go to work in Berkeley everyday, (like my poor husband), you need to start off the day with a few chuckles.
It’s true that KSFO is mostly syndicated programming now, but I’d rather listen to the quality hosts they have, (Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, etc) then listen to local programming that isn’t very good. The fact is that it’s difficult to be a conservative radio host from San Francisco without become a raving lunatic, it’s what happens to intelligent common sense people living in a lefty loony bin. Michael Savage is the perfect example of the kind of conservative talk show host that comes out of San Francisco.
Posted by: Pogue
Mar 02, 01:39 PM
That’s OK. They can buy up Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, Lifetime, and anything else they want. And as they run them into the ground, challengers will rise from the internet, cable, Sirius/XM, and elsewhere. You can’t silence Americans by buying up their channels, they’ll just make new ones. The Left owns 99% of the media in America and Conservatives still manage to get the truth out somehow.
The interesting part will be watching the racists figure out which half of the media to hate-the evil zionist-controlled media or the evil islamist-controlled media… (j/k)
Posted by: Hugh J. Peightreeuht
Mar 02, 01:53 PM
The writing is on the wall.
Bow down to the Saudis or they’ll turn the spigots off.
Drill here, drill now and turn FOX off.
Posted by: FelliniFan
Mar 02, 02:01 PM
Lee Rodgers was a very cutting edge, rapier witted voice of independent conservatism. He researched extensively and was often better informed than his guests who were interviewed on the air. The guy was anti-big government without regard to political party. Melanie Morgan’s feminine viewpoint complemented Lee’s irascible personality perfectly. Lee discovered “traffic reporter,” Officer Vic who is an very funny, accomplished impersonator doing a great Reagan, Bush, Obama, or just about anyone else in the news. Rodgers converted rather hum-drum business reporter Doug McQuillen into another persona known as Big Buck. Lee was very conservative, but what distinguished him from the Hannitys, Levins, and so many others was his superb use of humor.
Highlighting the insanity of day to day events with well timed jokes, making us laugh despite our plight, are what elevated Lee and Melanie above the run of the mill conservative radio broadcasters.
KSFO San Francisco was a nothing station, struggling to provide a conservative voice in the Ultra-PC liberal San Francisco before the arrival of Lee Rodgers. They are missed in the Bay Area and by internet listeners. Consider their demise a victory for Radical Islam and the Left.
Posted by: Rob Donica
Mar 02, 03:36 PM
Melanie nationally syndicated radio morning news show of Washington D.C.
Lee Rodgers has long been a favorite of mine.
I had no idea that Fox News Corp had ownership by the saudi royal family, that truly is a shame, and a shame that it is legal. If they want to influence our opinions, then, figure out how to get time warner to broadcast al-jazeerah. Don’t sneak in the back door, although, that is exactly what true evil does, it never comes in openly, in comes in with arms wide with a smile on it’s face. Sends a shiver down my back.
Posted by: CJohnson
Mar 02, 04:01 PM
Mr.Rodgers should take the example set by Tammy Bruce and “go commando”. It is in conservative talk radios best interest to stream live and post a podcast, and it is commercial free so far. Maybe Mr. Rodgers can knock that station down by hammering them with alternate media. It has worked with newspapers. Mr Rodgers, you could be EVERYONES neighbor on WWW.
sean| 3.2.10 @ 11:17AM
I live in the Bay Area and while I can’t say I enjoyed Lee Rodgers’ commentary, I hate the idea that he lost his job because the Muslims are unhappy with his statements. I think it’s very ironic that a Muslim would own a radio station in the United States, given the Islamic aversion to freedom of speech, except of course, their own.
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David Jack Smith| 3.2.10 @ 11:43AM
Having listened to Lee Rodgers for the past 8 years, I can confidentally state that I never heard him rant against “Mooslims,” in the tenor that phrase may convey.
He made on-point critiques on murderous Islam based on a particular news story that day. He attacked the politically correct insanity he feels are leading to an inevitable major attack on US soil by said Islamo-fascists.
He also made devestating fact-based criticisms on the astro-turf created CAIR organization.
He is one of the most well-informed purveyors of opinion working in all media.
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ron hyman| 3.2.10 @ 2:42PM
I have listened to Rodgers for the better part of the past 25 years.
For me, it brings morning radio to a halt.
No one can replace his rant, intellect, critical accuracy and astute accurate observations of the current political climate……yes I did agree with him 99% of the time.
If this is due to downsizing or to political pressure by Citadel……or Suleiman…….then, we have MUCH to be concerned about………
Fairness Doctrine be dammed.
He will be sorely missed……..
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maverick muse| 3.2.10 @ 4:44PM
Sean: “I think it’s very ironic that a Muslim would own a radio station in the United States, given the Islamic aversion to freedom of speech, except of course, their own.”
No irony. You realized the pragmatic reason a Muslim owns a media station, to halt the release of opposition from his property’s airwaves.
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maverick muse| 3.2.10 @ 4:47PM
Robert Stacy McCain
As you know but failed to mention, Michael Savage has been fighting CAIR’s assault on free speech longer than any other media figure.
“Borders. Language. Culture.”
Evelyn Pineiro
Beck did say that NOW there are cameras in every office…Just more confirmation that all media has sold out and is controlled.
Megan Cromwell
-rolling eyes- Evelyn: The “cameras in every office” refers to Beck’s new endeavor: “Insider Extreme”.
Jane: I’d like to see sources of the statements…
Still Sugar
This is spooky..
Timothy Coney
Good Post…Reposting…Thank You…
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