People in these markets need to start filing complaints with the FCC. If they will not fine them, make them explain why a women's nipple is obscene, but calling for the murder of a publisher is okay.

Remember, some old southern lynchings used to have "trials" as well. This is hate speech that needs to be dealt with.

I filed a complaint with the FCC. This is hate speech and shouldn't be tolerated. I recommend all of you do the same. The form is here: http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cib/fcc475B.cfm

Are we expected to be outraged that an organ of the Disney empire is spouting a kind of politics that makes decent people puke? What part of that shouldn't I expect? And isn't the difference between outlets like KSFO and the mainstream media fairly slender in any case; that is to say, more a difference of degree than of substance or philosophy?

Just wondering, were these pro-life death threats?

Way to go, all of you who have alerted the advertisers of this abusive rhetoric! I grew up listening to KSFO (not by choice...) but am now out of radio range. Probably just as well, for my blood pressure.

Except, I remember listening to classics (e.g. Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Waller, Abbot & Costello, the Lone Ranger). Sounds like they've gone down the sceptic system.

Please note: all this 'traitor' rhetoric is a convenient distraction from the recent House Department computer breakins, which were clearly caused by Administrative incompetence and negligence. You can be sure that the resulting security compromises from this poorly covered news event have much more serious than those from the NYT talking about a monitoring scheme which has been generally well-known by terrorists for years.

(note: "Administration" above means the President and Vice President. Meaning: if being responsible for security leaks makes one a traitor, then Bush and Cheney are traitors.)

Inciting panic is the classic exception to freedom of speech. You know, shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Inciting violence is likewise a classic exception.

Conservatives have this little problem, playing by the rules.

The purpose of freedom of speech is to provide a forum for honest debate about real issues. The end goal should be to solve problems. Conservatives obviously cannot tolerate such an approach, because they know that on a level playing field, they lose.

Incidentally -- I've always kinda liked Johnny Depp, but I just wish he would get off the boat to make a ruckus about nonsense like this. (as star in the latest Di$ney moneyraker) I bet if he did, someone would listen. Just a random thought.

Neal's right and I'd like to add one point: Let's start consuming and buying products from those companies that advertise in Salon, on Air America, on Ed Schultz's show (among many others). Our next computer will very likely come from one such advertiser. We're also focusing on supporting "Blue" companies and those that the Human Rights Campaign find treat their employees well and respect diversity.

Melanie Morgan is a pig and she should be slaughtered, gutted, skinned alive! Just kdding, let's all file complaints with the FCC.

With Ann Coulter's name on it. You bring the camcorder we'll put it on the 'net.

How do we get people to read again? To get their news and information from other sources than Fox or shock radio. When close to 30% of our population gets all of their news from Fox, it indicates we are a society in trouble. My parents watch and listen to Fox and Limbaugh, after 5 days in their house I understood how you could loose all perspective of any other reality but what is presented by these hatemongers. Actually I was shocked by the level of hate and the constant barrage of it on Fox. My greatest fear is that these media outlets tell their viewers/listeners not to read, basically just passively consume their product. I believe enough in the importance of reading and analyzing the news that I pay out of my own pocket for 22 copies of The New York Times daily , so my kids at school read and discuss what is happening in the world. This article has given me the inspiration to add one more subscription a day to the Times, for my parents. Maybe that's what we all need to do, give people things to read, to jump start their thinking processes and break the strong hold of Fox/et al.

start contacting the FCC and the advertisers for such stations as well as their owners

OK, I'm officially feeling inspired. I will be writing those who advertise on my local right-wing loon programs (Rush, Hannity, Savage, & Ingraham here in Jacksonville). I'd never heard of that Sussman creep and cannot imagine that he was not even REPRIMANDED after that spew.

Thanks, Joe Conason and Spocko. To quote my good friend Sean Hannity, "You're a great American!"

This petulant, insignificant person, whomever she is, has the right to say whatever the hell she feels like, short of an outright call to mob violence. Despite the ironic and self-refuting claims to the contrary, she is a member of the press and enjoys the same rights that the Times does.

All she has done is voice an opinion- a dunderheaded, stupid, asinine one, true, but an opinion nonetheless. Opinions, as my sometimes crass (but uncommonly wise) late father noted often, are like assholes; everybody has one.

The real remedy here is not complaining to the government, but 1) not to complain about idiots like her so loudly, as it gives her too much credibility; 2) don't support her advertisers; and 3) KEEP TELLING THE TRUTH about Iraq, about the war criminals in Washington, about the slow erosion of civil liberties, about everything this administration does in the name of "security."

But don't go to the FCC. When the tables are turned- and they will be again, because they never truly stop turning- they will just use the same tactics against progressives.

It would be more helpful if those of you who had filed an FCC complaint had given the following information about the KSFO program in question. I suspect a lot of people may have gone to the FCC site, discovered they didn't have all the required data and just left the site without filing a complaint. If you've already been through the process, share what you know about how to do it so that those you are encouraging to do the same thing, will actually follow through on it.

Here's the data you'll need:

Date of Program: June 27, 29 and 30th, 2006

Time: 5:00AM - 9:00AM

Network: ABC/Disney

Station: KFSO AM

City: Whatever city you're in. They have webcast.

Name of Program: The Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Program

Complaint: (This is what I wrote. I edited and paraphrased what Joe said in his column about the broadcast and added some of my own commentary.)

COMPLAINT:

On June 27, following a news item about Bush's denunciation of the NYTimes story on the SWIFT bank consortium's tracking of terrorist funds, Morgan said, "Get 'em! Yes, hang 'em! Yeah!"

Two days later on June 29, Rodgers, upset with the Associated Press for reporting that antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and others had begun a hunger strike, said "Why don't you dopes at the Associated Press do the world a favor? Commit mass suicide!"

"Oh, Lee!" tittered Morgan.

On June 30th, Rodgers utters these words, "God Almighty. The day will come ... The day will come when unpleasant things are going to happen to a bunch of stupid liberals. It's going to be amusing to watch, it's going to be very amusing to watch."

Calling for the death of publishers with whom one disagrees with over the public airwaves is hate speech. It adds nothing of value to the political discourse and serves only to inflame and corrupt rational public debate. This is simply hatemongering speech and is no more protected under the 1st Amendment than is yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre that is not on fire.

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Here's the FCC link again:

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cib/fcc475BConf.cfm