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Melanie is no Rush. She may be an activist, but as on-air talent, she was weak at best. She simply wasn't very bright and things flew right over her head on an all-too frequent basis. I suppose it didn't help that Lee is getting too old. They are all too part-time. The ex-weatherman guy has to do Mondays. He comes off as a wannabe. The traffic dude always has to try to cover for them and he isn't a strong enough personality. There is no consistency on the morning show. KSFO is probably gearing up to try to establish a true, reliable morning program.

She may be an activist, but as on-air talent, she was weak at best

Melanie was a perfect "sidekick" for the real show host. Lee carried the show, but Lee has a predictable position and rant these days and as he has his fortune made he takes off one day eacy week. He will likely retire soon and the show will have to start over. (Since I already retired, I cannot throw stones, but it will be a while before the conservative movement finds new talent to compare with this trio.)

But with Melanie, the morning show gradually moved up until it took over first place in the SF Bay Area. (Imagine a conservative show being number one in that market and you will see how really good the show was.)

This is a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts and taken piecemeal the people each have drawbacks. It will not be as good a show without Mel. I have been listening on line since I left the Bay Area and hit the road. Trust me, there are very few conservative shows with the informational content and impact of Lee, Mel, and OV. And I am sad that ABC thinks they can do better. Much more likely a left wing "kill" signal went out when they realized they could punish Mel for her activist work.

She simply wasn't very bright and things flew right over her head on an all-too frequent basis.

You forgot the very shrill, irritating, fingernails-on-blackboard voice.

She was a hot little firecracker at one time though. Always had the story about how Ted Nugent pulled down her peasant blouse to get a gander at her jugs.

Then years later she told a story about another rock guy that *also* pulled down her peasant blouse to get a look at her jugs.

I started putting two and two together and wondered what she was doing prowling around braless in her peasant blouse… seemed awful “available” and “accommodating” to me.

Another weird thing – she has some younger kid named TJ or CJ or PJ or something. She used to talk about him all the time. He was probably 6 or 7 back then. But she also had a much older son – probably 19 or 20 at that time. I don’t know if he was from a previous marriage or was a doper or in prison or what, but she NEVER (or very rarely) even acknowledged that he exists.

Very interesting because she used to spend much time heaping praise on the younger kid but ignores the other. Whatever.

What happened to her murder-mystery she was “investigating,” I wonder…

"Melanie is no Rush. She may be an activist, but as on-air talent, she was weak at best. She simply wasn't very bright and things flew right over her head on an all-too frequent basis. I suppose it didn't help that Lee is getting too old. They are all too part-time. The ex-weatherman guy has to do Mondays. He comes off as a wannabe. The traffic dude always has to try to cover for them and he isn't a strong enough personality. There is no consistency on the morning show. KSFO is probably gearing up to try to establish a true, reliable morning program."

If you think that KSFO can do a better job than Lee+Melanie+Officer Vic then I'd like to hear who you'd have in mind?

KNEW gets crushed in the mornings by KSFO. And it's because these 3 have a chemistry that is unreplaceable.