Talk:Melanie Morgan

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[edit] IMPORTANT

You may strongly disagree with Melanie Morgan and find her commentary offensive, but please do NOT put the "Pauline Friedman" version back online. It was a vandal's spoof. Morgan has made a third urgent request to restore the correct version, which I have just done. I am not certain what the legal consequences could be if she really gets mad, but I am pretty sure it would be quite messy. --Tangerine5000 16:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Here is what she said on Friday 12/22:

To Whom It May Concern,

This is the third time I have addressed this problem with Wikipedia, and for the life of me I cannot understand why it keeps popping up on your website.

I am Melanie Morgan of KSFO in San Francisco, and vandals have repeatedly changed my profile to clearly portray false information.

Wikipedia has corrected it twice, and it has happened AGAIN.

ONE MORE TIME:

Melanie R. Morgan is my correct name. I am not Pauline Friedman, nor was I born in Beverly Hills. I was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1956, not 1948.

I have previously worked as a reporter, not an anchor for KGO-TV. My resume also includes several stints as a foreign correspondant for ABC Radio and Television, covering the bombing of the Marine Compound in Beirut in 1983, the live coverage of the return of American hostages from a hijacked airliner to Germany, and the uprising in Tianamen Square in China, as well as the earthquake that devastated Mexico City in 1988. I have won many awards for my 30 year career, including (most recently) the Associated Press Mark Twain award for special live programming from Iraq last year.(Voices of Soldiers, Truth Tour)

I have never called for the assassination of presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have never called for the assassination of anyone-- period. I was referring to a 'political bulls-eye' on Nancy Pelosi, after her inflammatory comments regarding the President of the United States, and ugly political discourse about Republicans in general. This is in reference to a book I am planning to co-author to expose Ms. Pelosi's extremely liberal, anti-American comments and the agenda she has set for the new Congress.

These repeated efforts to smear me on Wikipedia are disgusting, and demeans your credibility as a source of unbiased information.

Please correct (again) immediately.

Melanie Morgan, KSFO Radio, San Francisco

[edit] Her Conservative Politics

Or, maybe someone could mention how those who are trashing her reputation, without factual basis, are just to the left of Mao on the same political spectrum. It seems to me that defining the politics of those with whom one disagrees as "extremist," without providing examples of that extremism, is intellectually dishonest if the accuser fails to define their own politics in contrast, and in some kind of detail, so that the reader can decide for themselves who is what.

--annoyedman 19:48, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Or maybe you could stop trying to cover for her, and recognize that the article already provides examples of her extremism. Redxiv 08:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

What extremism? That's simply your subjective point of view. 76.21.45.13 22:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement by Melanie Morgan

This statement by Melanie Morgan was originally in the article space. I have placed it here.

I am dismayed to see that your left-wing bloggers are deliberately distorting the facts about my biography.

I am NOT Pauline Freidman, nor was I born in Beverly Hills, California, nor was I born in 1948.I have NEVER called for the assassination of Nancy Pelosi, or anyone else. Even the most cursory of Internet checks would reveal this information to be false.

I am Melanie R. Morgan, born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1956.

I am a talk-show host for KSFO Radio in San Francisco,Chairman of Move America Forward, a non-orofit 501(c)3 located in Sacramento, California. My on-air discussion of Nancy Pelosi was in context about her targeting the President of the United States and other Republicans with political hate speech. My response was that I am going to target Nancy Pelosi for an accurate representation of her TRUE political views, history, and Ms. Pelosi's political history in a BOOK that I am planning to write.

Please correct immediately.

Melanie Morgan

I have made the appropriate corrections to the article. I will seek to take action to mark this as an article of concern as regards biography of a Living Person. Capitalistroadster 19:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

The Right Honorable Ms. Morgan is apparently under the impression that this is a "blog." Like Frank Luntz, she's free to redefine words and phrases as they suit her. Thus her redefinition of "Hate speech," presented without examples. Can't wait to read the <capitals>BOOK</capitals>.

I put a synopsis of her defense of her "put a bullet through (Pelosi's) eyes" emanation into the article. The intrepid surfer can judge for him/herself.--HughGRex 01:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)