PBS’ NewsHour dumps right-wing talking head.

[CatWoman]

Responding to an onslaught of reader complaints about right-wing talk-radio host Melanie Morgan’s shrill appearance on May 8 edition of PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NewsHour executive producer Linda Winslow said today that Morgan would not be asked back to the show. “We can’t do much to eliminate rude guests from your television screen once the segment has begun,” said Winslow. “What we can do is guarantee you will never see that person on our program again.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/17/pbs-newshour-dumps-right-wing-talking-head/

[Supersedeas]

1. the rudeness guarantee

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

2. Good for PBS. I watched that with my jaw on the ground.

She kept screeching (the only word for it) that she represented the troops. Hello?. There's a vet who actually served.

Loved this post:

#6 Valiant,
you didnt watch the video did you? just a nother typical knee-jerk thoughtless neo-CON response… I assume you think we just hate her ‘freedomzzz’ too.

change the record kid, I’m sick of this song

Comment by hil — May 17, 2007 @ 5:33 pm

[file83]

23. "If we don't win in Iraq, we are going to lose America." - Melanie Morgan on PBS

I couldn't believe it either!

It's childish, unproductive, ignorant statements like that which should keep Melanie Morgan off this show for Adults.

She should stick with the kids network, FOX News.

[SteveM]

3. Actually, I'm glad everyone got to see her. (nt)

[ulysses]

4. wow - I caught some of that segment

Yeah, she's crazier than a shithouse rat. Good on PBS.

[gatorboy]

5. Woohoo!

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[NC_Nurse]

6. Excellent.

She is absolutely disgusting. I'm glad they aren't buying into her shit.

[TahitiNut]

7. Linda Winslow actually smeared BOTH sides

The NewsHour Responds

Last night the NewsHour attempted to help our viewers understand why the members of Congress are having so much difficulty arriving at a decision regarding the way forward in Iraq. We believe the intensity of the pressure being exerted on Democrats and Republicans by the "wings" of their respective parties is having an impact on those who are looking for some sort of compromise position. We decided to let representatives of those wings explain their positions, hoping they would participate in a dialogue with us and each other. As our guests demonstrated, however, that was a forlorn hope and the result was a lot of heat, but very little light.

Since neither guest was in the studio with Judy Woodruff, there wasn't much she could do to prevent them from interrupting one another, short of saying — as she did at least three times — "please let him/her finish his/her point". The NewsHour style is to ask pointed questions politely; we expect our guests to subscribe to the same rules. Since the program is produced live, we can't do much to eliminate rude guests from your television screen once the segment has begun; what we can do is guarantee you will never see that person on our program again.

Linda Winslow
Executive Producer
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Notice that Winslow portrays the rudeness as two-sided. "Neither guest," "interrupting one another," "let him/her finish his/her point," "our guests," and "rude guests" clearly implies a two-way shout-fest when, in fact, it was SOLELY Melanie Morgan doing the interrupting and name-calling. Jon Soltz could hardly achieve punctuation without Morgan interrupting with vitriol.

[blogslut]

9. Ahhh, but note the closer

"...what we can do is guarantee you will never see that person on our program again."

That was a special dig, just for Ms. Morgan. :)

[glitch]

22. How weaselly. They should never have invited her on, and they should apologize

publicly to Mr. Soltz for both the offending show and for this offensive response.

Thanks for catching TahitiNut. Looks like the assault on reason continues.

[callous taoboy]

8. I saw the segment. Ms. Morgan is one sick lady. I was floored

by how boorish and shrill she was. Jon Soltz, on the other hand, was polite, concise and handed her ashes to her in a paper bag.

I loved it, though. I thought she looked very much the ass. I've sent her a thank you card and encouraged her to continue being a ninny on tee vee any chance she gets.

[muntrv]

10. Draft Melanie Morgan if she's so pro war.

[CatWoman]

11. for those who missed the segment featuring the screeching banshee

here it is: http://mediamatters.org/items/200705100002

[immoderate]

14. Ahh, thank you, kind lady!

--IMM

[Judi Lynn]

15. Unbelievable! Thanks for sharing that link, CatWoman. n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. Thank you! I missed that show....notice how she interrupted Mr. Soltz when HE was respectful

and let her say what she had to say without interrupting her?:grr: That's been their modus operandi for YEARS (from Newt's playbook) NEVER LET A DEMOCRAT FINISH A THOUGHT! Interrupt, interrupt, interrupt. G-d was she obnoxious! I'm glad she's finished on that show!

[Parche]

28. Morgan

What a snarfy excuse for a human, she is......:hi:




OH MEOW

[calimary]

12. Aha! Reader complaints. An "ONSLAUGHT of reader complaints."

Do tell!

See what public pressure can do?

Next stop: CONGRESS. And IMPEACHMENT.

[immoderate]

13. Is there a video of this anywhere?

I think I'd like to see it. :shrug:

--IMM

[librechik]

16. Here it is

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june07/iraq_05-08.html

bad form...

[file83]

24. Melanie is so ignorant!!

Why would PBS have her on in the first place? She's very ignorant.

Thanks for posting the video!

[Breeze54]

17. Woot!! What an ass she is!!

Melanie Morgan - Talk Show Host & Nazi, Big Mouth, **nt




http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Melanie_Morgan">Melanie Morgan gained national notoriety in the summer of 2006 when she suggested that Bill Keller, an editor of the New York Times, be killed in a "gaschamber" for the crime of "treason" after the Times' reporting on US government spying on Americans.

Good!! I was in disbelief with her performance and I suspect she was the voice
at the Sept. '05 DC Peace March that was screaming at the marchers, from her
Gitmo decorated, fenced off corner of the street, screaming. "TRAITORS"!!

[Ilsa]

18. I posted about this segment on DU right after it happened. I couldn't

believe they wouldn't do something, either about Morgan or whomever invited her to be on the program. She was a nut.

[struggle4progress]

20. Why did the Newshour even invite "Our opponents to the gaschambers!" Melanie?

There was a time when everybody avoided wackos like that

[Madspirit]

21. k&r...n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

25. Isn't this the idiot who organized the "Truth Tour" of Right Wing Hate Radio Hosts to Iraq?

Strictly Green Zone...

It's her isn't it? Name seems familiar.

[Ratty]

26. Interesting. I saw the tail end of this interview

Happened just to catch the very end and my impression, without having seen Melanie Morgan's contribution, was that Jon Soltz was the slightly shrill one. I was kind of embarrassed for our side when I saw this. Man, seeing the whole thing, including nutcase Melanie--boy did I ever get the wrong impression!

[BornagainDUer]

27. Morgan wanted to "gaschamber" NYTimes editor.

Melanie Morgan gained national notoriety in the summer of 2006 when she suggested that Bill Keller, an editor of the New York Times, be killed in a "gaschamber" for the crime of "treason" after the Times' reporting on US government spying on Americans. <1>

Morgan works with the Russo Marsh & Rogers public relations firm which specializes in electing Republican candidates; with help from the Pentagon, ran "Truth Tours" to Iraq for right-wing US media personalities; and receives funding from Iraqi Kurds to run advertisements on American television stations thanking the United States for the war. Morgan is chairwoman of the Russo Marsh & Rogers-run pro-war lobby Move America Forward.

Morgan is a "frequent guest on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS, she has appeared on the BBC and in newspapers and broadcasts worldwide." She "also spearheaded the 'You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy!' tour and the campaign to recall" Governor Gray Davis. <2>

She is a columnist for WorldNetDaily, co-author with Catherine Moy of the book America Mourning (ISBN 1581825404), and is also a conservative radio talk personality at KSFO in San Francisco, California.



http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Melanie_Morgan

[noiretextatique]

29. all of the above begs this question

why was she invited in the first place?

"Morgan works with the Russo Marsh & Rogers public relations firm which specializes in electing Republican candidates; with help from the Pentagon, ran "Truth Tours" to Iraq for right-wing US media personalities; and receives funding from Iraqi Kurds to run advertisements on American television stations thanking the United States for the war. Morgan is chairwoman of the Russo Marsh & Rogers-run pro-war lobby Move America Forward."

:puke:

[BornagainDUer]

30. Ah yes, the PR firm syndrome. Interesting info there. Morgan has

a vested interest in keeping the war going.

I wonder how many of her friends or their kids have enlisted for a tour of duty?

[noiretextatique]

31. my guess: ZERO

like most hawk hypocrites, their children have better things to do than actually fight the war. they are probably being patriots by working on the PR campaign.