PBS’ NewsHour dumps crazy RW bitch Melanie Morgan

[kurth]

PBS’ NewsHour dumps right-wing talking head

Responding to an onslaught of reader complaints about right-wing talk-radio host Melanie Morgan’s shrill appearance on the 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/

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As Media Matters for America has noted, Morgan, referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said, "We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big, wide laughing eyes," and that "it's time to put the bull's-eye" on Pelosi. Morgan has also said that she "would have no problem" with New York Times executive editor Bill Keller "being sent to the gas chamber" if he "were to be tried and convicted of treason" for the paper's reporting of a Treasury Department program that monitors international financial transactions for terrorist activity. Morgan recently attacked Media Matters as "left-wing free speech Nazis" and likened Media Matters to the Virginia Tech gunman who killed 32 people before shooting himself to death...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705100002

[Berry Cool]

1. It's always nice to see a news outlet practice good judgment

and admit when it has made a mistake.

Hurray for PBS on this one.

[5X]

6. Way too little too late. Like employing limbaugh and then being surprised. n/t

[noiretextatique]

2. is there a school for rw psycho talking heads? eom

[TahitiNut]

3. It's called Liberty University.

:evilgrin:


:hug: :loveya: :pals:

[muntrv]

5. And Regent University. Pat Robertson's factory.

[donco6]

4. How long did it take to clean up THAT verbal vomit?

Jeebus.