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On the June 6 edition of MSNBC s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann honored Lee Rodgers, co-host of KSFO s The Lee Rodgers s Countdown with Keith Olbermann: OLBERMANN: First, time for Countdown s latest list of nominees for Worst Person in the World: the bronze to Lee Rodgers, best known as the flunky for the infamous San Francisco right-wing water carrier Melanie Morgan. You want to know who the far right is next throwing under the bus? Simply identify whom Mr. Rodgers was talking about when he said, quote, "the woman has morphed into Madeleine Halfbright, and in those spike-heeled boots of hers, she looks like the hostess at an S&M parlor." Correct: Condoleezza Rice -- a right-wing host is trashing a right-wing secretary of State.

On the June 5 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO s The Lee Rodgers s "spike-heeled boots" make her look "like the hostess at an S s The Lee Rodgers t even think about it. BABBIN: Yeah, please. RODGERS: The woman has morphed into Madeline Halfbright and in those spike-heeled boots of hers, she looks like the hostess at an S t -- no. BABBIN: No, it s -- it s not even any of those things. The fact is she has kind of morphed into "Madeline the short" and the fact is that the best thing that we could do was -- would be to put pretty much everybody, other than a couple of my favorites, on the shelf out of the Bush administration. I keep telling you, the only way to win guys, Rumsfeld/Bolton in 08.

On the April 4 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO s Morning Show, while discussing the "rise" of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as a presidential candidate, co-host Melanie Morgan claimed, "You know, there s nobody more disturbed than [Rev.] Al Sharpton" over Obama s popularity. Morgan then referred to her July 6, 2006, appearance on Fox News Hannity t offer him watermelon." On the July 6, 2006, Hannity s offer of bread by saying: SHARPTON: [D]oes she speak for the mainstream Republican Party? You know, if some Christian right leader like [Rev.] Jerry Falwell wanted to fast, I would respect that. This is the way the right behaves. When people raise their commitment, their view, they re mocked by them. We re talking about people dying, and she s coming with props. Even [Hannity s Morning Show: MORGAN: You know, there s nobody more disturbed than Al Sharpton over the rise of Obama. OFFICER VIC (co-host Tom Benner): Yes. I was going to say, "Boy, has he been disenfranchised." MORGAN: Oh, yeah. RODGERS: Yeah, well, he s thinking, you know, Jesse Jackson has been fading away for the past several years -- no longer a factor. That Al was just waiting to jump in there and say, "I am the voice of black America," and I ll be damned if before he can even get up any real momentum, here comes Barack Obama. MORGAN: Yeah, you know, I don t think the Reverend Al Sharpton is temperamentally suited to become president of the United States. RODGERS: And you know. MORGAN: I only say that based on personal experience with him. Do you remember when he was on that rolling fast for peace with Cindy Sheehan, and Jane Fonda and the gang -- RODGERS: Oh yeah. MORGAN: -- and I went on television and offered him -- OFFICER VIC: Oh, that s right. MORGAN: -- as a compassionate conservative, a loaf of bread? He did not like that, Lee. I say that because he did not like that at all. RODGERS: Well, thank God you didn t offer him watermelon. [laughter] MORGAN: He didn t. Now, that would have made news I suspect. RODGERS: Oh, lord have mercy. From the July 6, 2006, broadcast of Fox News Hannity s what the party is. That s what they speak for." The prime minister of Iraq, [Nuri Kamal Al-] Maliki, said that there should be an investigation into the allegations of murder and rape by American soldiers -- that people were killed in cold blood. Is he speaking for the Democratic Party as well? MORGAN: Well, first, before I answer that question, let me just say one thing, Alan, to Reverend Sharpton. I know that he s been undertaking this hunger fast with Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon and all of the other Hollywood liberal types, so I just want him to know that I have brought him a gift tonight. Now, we conservatives do believe in peace through strength, so we are going to bomb Reverend Sharpton and the others with bread. We have the classic Wonder Bread and we have San Francisco sourdough bread. COLMES: I m glad you re only using bread if you re bombing them. SHARPTON: Well, I mean, does she speak for the mainstream Republican Party? You know, if some Christian right leader like Jerry Falwell wanted to fast, I would respect that. This is the way the right behaves. When people raise their commitment, their view, they re mocked by them. We re talking about people dying, and she s coming with props. Even Sean Hannity has more class than that. COLMES: By the way, Melanie, you didn t answer my question. [...] MORGAN: Hey, Reverend, I gave you some free bread, here, so let me talk for a moment, OK? I want to say something very important. The entire country has mixed emotions about Cindy Sheehan. Her popularity approval ratings are down in the 30s and low 20s. Regardless of what you think of her, let me say very clearly, what she said in that comment was slanderous about our American troops. She slandered -- HANNITY: Absolutely. MORGAN: And she slandered -- and -- COLMES: What you said about sending someone to a gas chamber was despicable, Melanie Morgan. MORGAN: Let me finish. Let me finish. COLMES: Unfortunately, we are just out of time. MORGAN: And she also slandered the memory of her son, Casey. Our troops are not murderers.