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Melanie Morgan

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Her story was made into a TV movie called "High Stakes- The Melanie Morgan Story" and she served on the California Council for Problem Gambling Advisory Board. But we can't talk about this?
 
"Her story was made into a TV movie called "High Stakes- The Melanie Morgan Story" and she served on the California Council for Problem Gambling Advisory Board. But we can't talk about this?"

Since you started this this thread, mred, I have to ask - is this a rhetorical question>

Who said you couldn't talk about it As far as I know, Melanie is upfront about her former addiction and talked about it a lot. If anybody objected to discussing it, it may have been because they didn't think it was fair to use it for the purposes of character assassination.
 
People are talking about the air america people who had problems or Limpbaughand his pills. WHAT ABOUT THE Ed Schultz bar confrontation? That was talked about on this wedsite? If something is true, then how is it an attack on one's character? She got royalties on the movie didn't she?
 
"People are talking about the air america people who had problems or Limpbaughand his pills. WHAT ABOUT THE Ed Schultz bar confrontation? That was talked about on this wedsite? If something is true, then how is it an attack on one's character? She got royalties on the movie didn't she?"

OK - fair enough. When you started the thread, you didn't connect it to Randi Rhodes, Ed Shultz or anybody else - so I didn't get any connection, just assumed you were bringing Morgan up out of the blue.

These are all public people - I think it's reasonable to bring up their past - in context.
 
Maybe the reason is because its OLD NEWS. She has never ducked the situation nor has she tried to hide her addiction. If something new has arisen then thats another story.
 
Morgan is yet another flawed person who tries to tell everyone else the right way to live their lives.

Most of us don't have to royally screw up and hit bottom to discover the proper way to live/behave.
 
Here's a link to Joe Garofoli's excellent extreme close-up of Melanie Morgan, which appeared in the October 8, 2006, edition of the Chronicle Sunday magazine:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/CMGDBL4VPH1.DTL
or http://tinyurl.com/zgkfq

It's an outstanding perspective of her life, career, addiction, recovery and transformation ... and how she isn't necessarily the darling of everyone on the right side of the aisle.

I'll say this: unless she already has a signed contract and is just taking some time off, I'm surprised that no other station (or network) hasn't pounced on her yet.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Here's a link to Joe Garofoli's excellent extreme close-up of Melanie Morgan, which appeared in the October 8, 2006, edition of the Chronicle Sunday magazine:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/CMGDBL4VPH1.DTL
or http://tinyurl.com/zgkfq

It's an outstanding perspective of her life, career, addiction, recovery and transformation ... and how she isn't necessarily the darling of everyone on the right side of the aisle.

I'll say this: unless she already has a signed contract and is just taking some time off, I'm surprised that no other station (or network) hasn't pounced on her yet.
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At the end of the day, she's just another loud-mouth, self-righteous bag of right wing hot air. A legend in her own mind but nowhere else.
 
indydood said:
At the end of the day, she's just another loud-mouth, self-righteous bag of right wing hot air. A legend in her own mind but nowhere else.
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If you programmed a radio station and you wanted it to be in the top 3 in morning drive, would you hire her? In the end it's entertainment; radio is not real life.
 
Well if this thread is about baggage or a personalities past, let's not forget Gary Radnich's back alley encounter with the transvestite. Oh...we shouldn't talk about that.
 
SFSAC said:
Well if this thread is about baggage or a personalities past, let's not forget Gary Radnich's back alley encounter with the transvestite. Oh...we shouldn't talk about that.
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There are reasons why we move here (or stay here if born here), and most of them end up being variations on freedom to be what you want to be. Remember that former SF mayor Willie Brown, then 69, got a 24-year old secretary pregnant. His wife of 40 years remarked, "Oh that Willie; he's always up to something." And for the most part it didn't matter to anyone. If Radnich did have some pleasure in an alley I at least hope it was a pleasant alley like Claude Lane rather than a seedy one like Natoma.
 
DavidKaye said:
indydood said:
At the end of the day, she's just another loud-mouth, self-righteous bag of right wing hot air. A legend in her own mind but nowhere else.
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If you programmed a radio station and you wanted it to be in the top 3 in morning drive, would you hire her? In the end it's entertainment; radio is not real life.
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The problems with shows like hers is they position the material as if it's "real life". When you do the whole "terrorists want to kill your kids", that's not the local theatre group entertaining us. It's fear-mongering hate speech.
 
She is a master of self-promotion and attention getting which is why she is valuable to any station that brings her on. She finds a way to get her name in the paper and on TV.

As a talk show host, I think Lee Rodgers made her better than she could be on her own. My advice to her is to find a great sidekick--but finding partners as smart as Lee is difficult. Especially these days.
 
"As a talk show host, I think Lee Rodgers made her better than she could be on her own. My advice to her is to find a great sidekick--but finding partners as smart as Lee is difficult."

An excellent point. I haven't heard the KSFO show in a few years. I listened regularly a few years ago when they were fighting the California Air Resources Board, and the MTBE gasoline additive. Turns out they were right. Though my politics are diametrically opposed to theirs, Rodgers - in my opinion - was one of the most verbally adept and articulate hosts out there. And funny, too when he wanted to be. Melanie was definitely the junior partner in that team.
 
yep...I listened to Lee Rodgers as well...didn't agree with a lot of what he said, but sure enjoyed his on air work.
 
Face facts, she's just no good. I'm speaking from a performance standpoint and not politics. She'd constantly slur her words while she spoke, always managing to pick a syllable from one of the next words in her sentence and apply it to her current word. For all her positives, that's one glaring negative.

Besides, you don't think being married to the GM had anything to do with her getting in the business in the first place do you? (not to mention being previously married to ANOTHER GM!).
 
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