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KSFO's Rodgers suggested Obama is a socialist, co-host Benner offered up Holocaust allusion
On the September 3 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, Rogers said of Takeru Kobayashi, six-time winner of theNathan'sFamous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, New York, "Just eat, eat,eat, and you gainno weight. Oh, there is no justice. Godneeds to take a hand in this." Co-host Tom Benner, known as "Officer Vic," agreed andadded: "Even things out.Wait, that's socialism, I'm sorry. Forget it." Rodgers replied, "Well,you're right, you'reright. Well, under Barack Obama, then, it'll probably bedone." Hecontinued: "Oh, lordy. Bring us your tired, yourpoor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. ... Free of the stifling stupidity of liberalism, which disguises slavery as benevolence. That's -- that's theprogram for the Obama campaign, by the way." Benner replied: "Arbeit macht frei." Rodgers then said, "Yeah. Make more ofthem dependent on thegovernment."
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Posted by DAWUSS
What do Hot Dog Eating Contests have to with Barack Obama??? I'm just not getting it.
Then again there's a lot coming from conservatives that I just don't get these days...
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 5:54:29 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by carlileb5935
What are these words we're hearing all of a sudden, like "socialist" and "anarchist?"
This is traditional nutcase language. What next, an expose on the dangers of fluoridated water?
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 5:58:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by MickD in reply to carlileb5935
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 7:27:17 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by tbone
The words from a poem emblazoned at our most revered symbol of LIBERTY are now code words from liberals seeking to impose slavery?
Lee Rodgers, why do you hate America?
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 6:23:36 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to tbone
The words from a poem emblazoned at our most revered symbol of LIBERTY are now code words from liberals seeking to impose slavery?
TBone, I think when you're far enough to the extreme right, it's hard to tell the difference between the Statue of Liberty and a Nazi Concentration camp.
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 10:58:14 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by ukobserver
OFFICER VIC: Arbeit macht frei.
Looks like Godwin's law strikes again.
What happened to Rogers co-host? You know, the woman who looked like Stffler's mom?
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 6:31:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by snoopy
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 7:23:38 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by BlagoBoy in reply to snoopy
SNOOPY: We're all still waiting for you to show up -- just ONCE -- with ANYTHING of substance to add to an a discussion or argument. Or is that "above your pay grade?"
About the only thing I have to add is that Obama is indeed a Socialist. He's further left than any nominee in history. And why do you guys object to this so much? All of your rhetoric and opinions on display on this site make it clear that you think Socialism is GOOD and we should have more of it in America.
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 7:48:04 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by snoopy in reply to BlagoBoy
We could run Jesus and you thugs would call him the most far left socialist. But again, oh gutless wonder, got anything called a fact to post?
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 7:54:06 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted Thursday September 4, 2008 8:34:01 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by SDL
As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I just have this to say to Benner.
F YOU
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 7:55:57 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pbg
But of course Rogers only saw them from the highway. And blames the misery on government dependence.
There are times I hate sharing an ethnicity with these people.
It's not a new feeling.
Posted Wednesday September 3, 2008 8:13:15 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by worrierking in reply to pbg
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white
- Frank Zappa (Trouble Every Day)
Posted Thursday September 4, 2008 7:41:18 AM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by proudconservative
He is!! Be proud, don't slink away from it! Embrace it instead of complaining when the truth is known!
He sought the endorsement of the CDSA when he ran for the the first time. The CDSA Chicago Democratic Solialists of Amerika.
He spent more time as an executive serving on boards with Bill Ayers of the Weatherman fame. The same Bill Ayers that hosted his kickoff party for his first campaign.
He was mentored by an avowed leftist/communist, Frank Marshall Davis, while living in Hawaii.
Again, don't run from this, be proud and convince Americans of the benefits of leftism.
Posted Friday September 5, 2008 3:55:43 PM EDT / Flag this comment