"Fanning the Flames" - San Francisco Chronicle COVER STORY on Conservative Figure, Melanie Morgan

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Joe Garofoli

[Impeach98]

Fanning the Flames
Melanie Morgan's swing from liberal to right-
wing radio shouter may not have happened
overnight, but it's permanent -- and profitable

Morgan at the mike from which she led the charge to recall Gov. Davis and rails against Spare the Air Day in the KSFO studios. Chronicle photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez

lighter side of Morgan: playing with Rufus, a golden retriever/chow mix from the SFSPCA as Tracy Pore tells listeners that he's up for adoption. Chronicle photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez

Joe Garofoli
Sunday, October 8, 2006

In the predawn darkness shortly after 5 a.m., Melanie Morgan begins her daily conservative talk show by mocking the news that this would be another Spare the Air Day in the Bay Area -- an ozone-heavy summer day when transportation officials ask commuters to avoid driving or other pollution-creating activities. To many Bay Area residents, a Spare the Air request is an apolitical fact of life.

Not to Morgan's listeners.

...

"Oh, you mean, Scare the Air Day?" Morgan roars in mock horror to her substitute co-host Officer Vic, who is neither a police officer nor named Vic. "Be scared of the air, everybody! Oh, come on. Get out your biggest SUV and drive it a lot. Fire up that leaf blower."

If you're kissing this off as the rantings of a couple of "hate radio" wingnuts, be advised that your family and friends may be listening. "The Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Program" is the fourth-highest-rated morning show in the supposedly liberals-only San Francisco market. Has been for years; sometimes it's been higher.

[BenLurkin]

How does mocking the enviro-kooks equate to "hate radio"?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Hot Talk 560 KSFO... Home of the Savage Nation originally...

So, who is on the afternoon drive slot since Savage is no longer on 560 AM?

[MNJohnnie]

Let us see. Adrianna Huffington went from Right wing Senate candidate to leftist moon bat and she is their greatest heroine Just another example of the Democrat Party's Cult of Hyprocise

[Impeach98]

It's now Sean Hannity.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"...Fire up that leaf blower."

LOLOL! I like her already, and have never heard of her. I gotta tune-in sometime.

[tubebender]

MM ping...

[Impeach98]

How does mocking the enviro-kooks equate to "hate radio"?

Because anyone to the right of John Walker Lindh is evil in the eyes of the San Francisco Chronicle.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

So, they have a Sean Hannity program that is not live radio... I hate that recorded programming...

Live radio is where it is at... with the flaming leftist KGO right across the hall it is a stupid marketing strategy... (The only thing KGO has that is any good is Dr. Bill Wattenberg...)

Savage was at his best when he was live and local... Lee and Melanie are good because they are live and local on KSFO... KGO has nothing but boredom during drive hour programming...

[Uncle Hal]

The main photo of her has her dressed like a 16 year old slut. Otherwise the article was about what you would expect from the ultra liberal Chronicle. At least they had an article on her.

[aquila48]

Bump for Melanie - keep giving 'em hell!

[1FreeAmerican]

She is wearing jeans and a t-shirt, with some nice looking high heels.
Apparently you haven't seen any 16 year old sluts lately.

[Impeach98]

"At least they had an article on her."

This was my view. I was glad to see that at least there was a cover story on a conservative in the most liberal metropolitan area in the nation.

I wasn't too crazy about the article itself in the way it was presented, but I think that's the whole point - the Chronicle would never write a sympathetic piece about a conservative, let alone a cover story.

Obviously they are perplexed how a conservative movement could be being waged right in their back yard, and they are disgusted by said fact. The displeasure Melanie must cause the reporters/editors at the Chronicle makes me smile, because I believe their statist, socialist, political correctness conformity (you can only say and believe what WE tell you), government-controlling, tax dollar-confiscating ways are E V I L.

[Impeach98]

Better still... around her neck in that t-shirt photograph is her USA-Freedom dogtag.

[yooling]

I listened to Savage when he was "The General" way back when he was worth listening to. His show took a dump when he went national and left KSFO. I can only listen to him for 2 minutes now before I change the station.

Speaking of Bay Area talk, does anyone listen to Jerry Doyle. He's gone off his rocker this past week and a half with the constant attacks on Speaker Hastert. He, also is becoming unlistenable.IMHO

[RobbyS]

She mocks their hypocritical approach to environmental issues. They know that the radical enviromental causes they support would, if applied, destroy the lifestyle they enjoy as much as others.

[bootless]

Mel is a long-time Freeper, too. She was at the Fresno lunch a few years ago that was covered on C-SPAN.

[FixedandDilated]

Are you talking about that photo above with Morgan wearing the white pants and green top?!! Or the one at the link with her wearing jeans? None of those photos look at all "sluttish." Maybe 16-year olds dress differently in your area than they do here.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

I'm making it a point to find her and tune-in, b.

[oyez]

Anything unpopular to left is "hate". In that respect truth becomes "hate".

[Drango]

I've canceled my Chronicle subscription many years ago. It's nice that they hired fellow FReeper, Cinnamon Stillwell and write an article about Melanie. I'm still not gonna buy that leftist rag.

[concretebob]

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting this Lady last year at the Troop Rally in DC.
She came out to Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday night, and pretty much ran things all weekend.
She is as beautiful in person as she looks.

[RWGuy]

The Chronicle would never treat a conservative fairly, but at least they acknowledge that Melanie Morgan exists and has led some of the great crusades -- supporting our troops, recalling Gray Davis and spoofing global warming.

The Editor of the Sunday Magazine, where the article appears, has a preface in which she says that her father was a Socialist Party member and then swung to the right of Ronald Reagan. He says that "even my dad was rational and centric compared to KSFO radio host Melanie Morgan. Media reporter Joe Garofoli capturues this defiant right-wing shouter graciously."

The left just can't be fair. Not in their blood apparently.

[concretebob]

This link will take you to pictures of the Rally on 23 September 2005.
Scroll down for a photo of Mel.

[ElkGroveDan]

This reporter sure is a piece of work isn't he?

[ElkGroveDan]

Adrianna Huffington went from Right wing Senate candidate to leftist moon bat

Do you mean Arianna Huffington who's gay RINO husband ran for US Senate? There never was any right-wing anything in that mix, I can assure you.

[MNJohnnie]

Do you mean Arianna Huffington who's gay RINO husband ran for US Senate? There never was any right-wing anything in that mix, I can assure you

Ah thank you for the correction. So that why she use to be all over TV supposedly on OUR, she has simply come out of her closet when hubby came out of his. :-)

[Drango]

???? Yeah, I don't understand (or see)the picture Uncle Hal is referencing. In all the pictures I see online, including the bluejeans in the door way, she seems dressed rather normal to me.

[Impeach98]

Ohhhh now I put 2+2 together. That's your blog (andisworld). I love that blog!!

[Impeach98]

she has simply come out of her closet when hubby came out of his. :-)

Yep! Well put.

[Graymatter]

The main photo of her has her dressed like a 16 year old slut.

Hah! You made me go and look! Yes, it is a lamppost pose, and the torn jeans are very sixteenish (and stale IMO). Ultra high heels and torn jeans do look trashy. So yes, I have to agree with you, she is dressed like a 16-year-old slut.

But the article indicates that her husband is a liberal, so...

[Drango]

So yes, I have to agree with you, she is dressed like a 16-year-old slut.

I guess some on FR would only be happy if she was made to wear a burka.

[concretebob]

NO, Thats Andi's blog.
Mine is Here

and here

[concretebob]

Although I was the subject of her blog, on one occasion.

Here
Scroll down to the entry for the 21st.

[Navy Patriot]

I won't buy it either, but I lifted a SFC Magazine from a paper today, after seeing Mel on the cover. I'd e-mail it to you but the mag is too wide for my scanner.

[Impeach98]

Well, I understand that there is a difference of opinions on the picture of Melanie. For those who don't like the look, this is the previous photograph the San Francisco Chronicle took of Melanie Morgan:

Personally, I think she looks good in both pictures. Melanie looks good all the time in my opinion.

[Navy Patriot]

Get a life, It ain't about what she wears.

[Syncro]

You guys have been Punked! LOL

I think she had an inkling that the photographer was from the Chronicle. She baited the liberals that read that rag (and the two of you also...collateral damage?) with that pose and you went for it.

To associate the word "slut" with Melanie Morgan would be the same as associating the word hero with John Kerry or patriot with Jane Fonda...way off base.

Oh and ahh, graymatter (got graymatter? ;>) ...her husband doesn't pick out her clothes...

Try this one guys:

A hooker with a pink feather boa?

[budman_2001]

Start it up!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Savage was my favorite afternoon commute entertainment from San Jose to Carmel...

I trust very little about Bay Area politics, even so-called "conservatives" there are suspicious to me...

I moved to Southern Oregon and am also leery of RINO infiltrators, viewing them as interlopers from the left trying to subvert any real conservatism...

The only way the Left can win is to destroy the Republican Party from within. They have lost the public argument and cannot win on the issues, they have to have despotic judges do it for them OR they have to undermine conservatives in the Republican primary.

Savage does nail the RINOs good... (JulieAnnie is a Trojan Horse of the Left)

[goldstategop]

Interesting story. Her parents were Democrats and her mother and her husband are liberals. You don't find many conservatives in the bastion of liberalism, California's Bay Area. Melanie Morgan is unusual in quite a few ways - and she's great!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Ouderkirk]

SHe has a column that appears fridays on WorldNetDaily.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Hubba, hubba, baby! Crank it up!

[bootless]

Cool. I like Officer Vic - he's a long-time radio voice and comedian, and I was pleased to find that he's got conservative credentials, too. He also plays his Silvertone electric guitar during the show from time to time.

[bootless]

Cinnamon was on Lee & Mel's show a week or so ago, and is just a breath of fresh air. I really like her, and especially liked her SFGate column about her conversion as a 9/11 Conservative.

[bootless]

Hey, maybe her dog bit 'em.

I have jeans so comfortable that I'm reluctant to given them up if they tear at the knee (that's an honest tear from lots of work, as opposed to just under the butt).

[butternut_squash_bisque]

KWEL, b. I'm tuning-in to MM's show, tomorrow, b. Thanks for the reinforcement.

[Drango]

She rocks. I've had the pleasure of standing shoulder to shoulder with Cinnamon during counter FReeps in SF, while long haired, druged-up, maggot infested, anti-American hippies spit on us. Good times:-)

[Graymatter]

Get a life, It ain't about what she wears.

I didn't publish that picture. Or dress her that morning. Who stands around in their own home in 4-inch heels? If it ain't about what she wears, why did the 50-year-old woman---um, the conservative thinker dress and pose like a 16-year-old slut?

[Lakeshark]

Spot on comments.

Wish the clothing police would look at what she does for the troops.........

Heck my wife looks good too, doesn't make her a slut.