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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 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 by MickD in reply to carlileb5935

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
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 by Easy to refute wingnuts in reply to MickD

Gentlemen! You can't fight here, this is the War Room!

Posted by eweston8542983

I'd kinda like these two to be in the "terrible" clutches of Socialism. They might not have any choice but to grow up. The Horror, The Horror!!!

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski

Yes, yes... Barack Obama is a socialist commie Marxist!  Try our right-wing fascism, it will make you feel better about yourself in the morning!

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski

And how does Officer Vic pull out those Nazi slogans so quickly?  Former gestapo?

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 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 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 by SFnomad in reply to ukobserver

Melanie Morgan?  Citadel Broadcasting went through some "cost cutting" and didn't renew her contract back last March, or something like that.  It happened right after she made those repulsive comments about Soros that he "cheerfully and willingly went to work for the Nazis."  KSFO made an on-air apology and retracted that and other comments Morgan made in her rant.  Was it because of the "cost cutting" or the Soros comments, who knows?

Posted by ukobserver in reply to SFnomad

Well looks like that old saying rings true, "give 'em enough rope............"

Posted by snoopy

Rest assured either NLT or his baby sister POV will show up and say something to the effect that they are just responding to issues so it's not some racist nazi commie screed. They think they are just sooo rosy and pink - like little angels!

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 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 by Easy to refute wingnuts in reply to snoopy

If the Dems ran Jesus, and He walked on water, the headlines on Fox News the next day would say, "Democrat Candidate Can't Swim!"

Posted by SDL

As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I just have this to say to Benner.

 F YOU

Posted by pbg

I used to live in Chicago, and the Robert Taylor homes were terrible places. But you know what they replacrd? Slums that would make you weep just to look at them. Housing that was simply beyond g*ddamn belief. Rats the size of chihuahuas crossing Pershing in the middle of the day.

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 by worrierking in reply to pbg

Hey, you know something people?

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 by MoonbatYouBet

If the most profitable industry in a region were forced to share its profits with the residents of that region what would you call it?

Posted by roundhouse in reply to MoonbatYouBet

The Green Bay Packers?

Posted by Easy to refute wingnuts in reply to MoonbatYouBet

A freakin' miracle.

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.