Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Citadel Broadcasting

It's a happy day whenever wingnuts suffer...and especially when their businesses suffer. That adage definitely holds true today with the news that notorious right-wing radio conglomerate Citadel Broadcasting will be filing for bankruptcy. Merry Christmas and Happy Bankrupt New Year, you Citadel clowns!

Citadel is expected to file in a deal supported by many lenders collectively owed $2 billion, known as a "prearranged" deal in bankruptcy parlance.

These lenders plan to swap a big portion of their debt for equity in a reorganized Citadel, effectively handing them control.

The deal would reduce Citadel's debt load to about $762.5 million, the people said. The company will need to solicit more creditor support in court to get its reorganization plan approved by a judge.

Citadel's board approved the filing in recent days.

Citadel Chief Executive Farid Suleman is likely to remain at the helm once the company emerges from Chapter 11 protection, people familiar with the situation said.

Citadel representatives didn't respond to requests for comment..

Citadel's fall is emblematic of the troubles ravaging radio broadcasters, which took on loads of debt during boom times and now face a harsh advertising climate.

Of course, the economy isn't the only reason these wingnut gasbag outlets are facing a harsh advertising climate. Just look at the concerted efforts by the netroots to deprive Glenn Beck of the advertising dollars that fuel his ongoing campaign of hate and bigotry: nearly 100 advertisers to date have elected not to align themselves with Beck's idiocy any longer.

Citadel, though, has been one of the leading purveyors of wingnut ideology for years. Hatemongers like KSFO's Melanie Morgan and syndicated fossil Don Imus have relied on Citadel to dish out their vomitous spew to the mouth-breathing masses. Now, while Citadel apparently will survive in a streamlined form, the days of whine and roses appear to be over.

And that's good news for Americans who value truth and abhor the kind of disgusting garbage that Citadel airs. So, congratulations to Citadel Broadcasting and its CEO, Farid Suleman -- there's a special holiday gift under your tree now, because today's Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!

Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Melanie Morgan and Citadel Broadcasting

Score one for the good guys. One of the most hateful, bilious, deranged voices on right-wing hate radio has been silenced ... at least on the airwaves.

Melanie Morgan — the conservative radio talk show host who chairs Move America Forward, the group which has led efforts to shame and boycott Berkeley for its anti-U.S. Marine Corps recruiting stand — has lost her job at KSFO 560 AM.

Morgan, 51, delivered her final broadcast there today after 14 years at the microphone, she says in a news release. KSFO owner Citadel Broadcasting decided not to renew her contract as part of the company’s announced across-the-board financial cost cutting.

“The ratings were terrific and I got to connect with a lot of passionate conservative casues, and I’m really grateful for that,” Morgan told me just now. “I don’t know what’s going to happen to the show, I don’t know what’s going to happen to KSFO.”

If you don't know who Morgan is, check out some of her "greatest hits," as covered here during the one-Vulcan crusade my blogfriend Spocko took on against KSFO a year ago. I won't recount them here, other than to say that over the years, she's recommended the assassination of prominent Democratic and progressive leaders on the air, and she deserves to rot somewhere just for that. Sure, she'll be bailed out by wingnut welfare, but at least she's lost one avenue to spew her vomitous hate.

Meanwhile, Morgan's departure due to "cost cutting" signals another delicious development, as Citadel Broadcasting, which owns KSFO and numerous stations in some 50 U.S. markets (but none in Florida), is tanking financially (PDF). They lost over a billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2007 "related to a continued deterioration in the radio marketplace and to a decline in [Citadel's] stock price during the three months ending December 31, 2007[,]" along with declining revenues in major markets like San Francisco (home of KSFO), Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. There is more analysis here and here, but the bottom line is that it ain't pretty for this purveyor of disgusting right-wing rhetoric.

So, to Melanie Morgan, that vile load of filth, and to Citadel, who burnished their piece-of-shit image a few months ago by bringing back that scumbag Don Imus to the airwaves, congratulations! Today's Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!

KSFO wankfest summary

Give the KSFO wankers credit for framing the issue for their listeners, but they are wrong, wrong, wrong on so many levels. This is not, nor has it ever been, a freedom of speech issue. I said it before and I'll say it again, slower this time:

1. No ... one ... is ... saying ... you ... can't ... broadcast ... your ... filth.

It is simply an issue of notifying your advertisers that they are supporting said filth. Period. If you can't figure that out, well, you're dumber than I thought (and that's saying something.)

2. Anonymity ... is ... irrelevant.

Admit it: you want people like Spocko and me to reveal our identities so you can target us, or better yet, get some of your more unbalanced listeners (that's like picking the dumbest Bush -- where do you start?) to do your dirty work. We won't be your monkeys. Besides, our identities aren't even relevant -- knowing who we are doesn't change one iota what you've spewed forth on your show, nor will it change the shit you throw around in the future. So get off the obsession with bloggers' identities and move on to the substance of your argument. (By the way, until proven otherwise, I still maintain that the KSFO wankers aren't using their real names, either ... it's quite common in broadcasting, as "everyone knows," right, "Lee?"

3. Your ... speech ... is ... hateful ... and ... violent.

I actually don't think we disagree on this point. You've all but admitted it throughout the three-hour wankfest this afternoon. The key difference is, liberals believe that advocating their death through execution, or painting a bulls-eye on the speaker of the House, crosses the line of acceptable broadcast speech, and you disagree.

It would be so simple if you just looked at it this way: you can say whatever you want on your radio station, and we can say whatever we want to your advertisers. What's wrong with that?

KSFO live-blog thread #2

4:43 EST: Lee says "if you don't like what we say, turn off the radio." Unfortunately, while I think Stark is hanging in there, he's a little out of his element. I applaud him for wading into the muck, however. I'd love a shot at this (being their monkey notwithstanding), but I can't get through on the phone.

And here comes Melanie playing the anonymity card again. Lee refers to a "grown man naming himself after a Star Trek character" - then he says the name Spocko, at 4:45. First time. Stark responds regarding pseudonyms used by Ben Franklin and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll bet anyone a dollar that "Lee Rodgers" and "Melanie Morgan" are not their real names. Dear Kettle: You are black. Love, Pot.

(By the way, they have a person on the show called "Officer Vic." Why did Mr. & Mrs. Vic name their son "Officer?" How strange ...)

Melanie: "I've had security people looking at this Spocko character, and they've told me I should be concerned that he might come after me." Oh fuck me with a stick. Seriously.

4:50 EST: They let Stark go on for a while, but then finally cut him off ... because, methinks, he was making too much sense.

4:55 EST: Caller says the hosts go overboard, even though he doesn't agree with 90% of what they say. Apparently they know him personally. Caller also says the other side is going too far as well.

5:03 EST: They're in a news and commercial break now ... time for me to catch my breath!

5:07 EST: Calling Spocko an "anonymous coward," Melanie says they have lost only one advertiser. Some pulled their ads, says Melanie, but after they were told the "context" of the purportedly offensive statements, they all came back on board except the one. (I presume the KSFO sales crew got on the phones hard for this.) She's not giving names of the advertisers ... "that's not the purpose here." HAHAHAHAHAHA!

This would be a good point, too, to mention that the advertising is not broadcast over the Internet feed, so I have no idea what ads are being run today.

5:13 EST: Brian Sussman: "Apologies have been made when necessary." Sounds a lot like "Mistakes were made," the classic passive-voice dodge by Drunky McStagger.

5:14 EST: Spocko is being called out for not permitting anonymous comments ... now all liberal bloggers are "phony hypocrites" for editing comments and such. (I should note that I neither forbid anonymous comments nor do I edit them -- in fact, I welcome them and respond in kind, as I did in the last thread.)

Caller says "lefties are on the fringe and don't have any power." Melanie responds that she can't understand that because "they have NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR ..." Oh, please.

Then, when they were going to "Dan in Denver," a purportedly liberal caller, they "went to the wrong caller," then he apparently "gave up." Riiiiiiiiiiight.

5:18 EST: Melanie's mother is a "left-wing liberal" and, as she said earlier, her father is (was?) a "card-carrying member of the ACLU." How in the world could they have spawned what they did?

5:25 EST: Crap. Life is interfering, so I'm on the phone with one ear and listening to KSFO with the other. Do I get bonus pay for this? ;)

5:28 EST: Cool! I just found myself linked on a right-wing mouth-breathing website! Sweet! I guess that makes me ... what did Michael Crook (how's that for an apt real name?!) say? Ah ... I'm one of Spocko's "butt-fucking blogging buddies!" Congratulate me! And congratulate Mr. Crook (sorry, can't say that without laughing) for his stunning rhetorical talent.

5:39 EST: Regrettably, I've had to be away from this for ten minutes because of a phone call -- frankly, I'm arguing with my Verizon provider about my service.

5:54 EST: Still on the phone with Verizon. I wouldn't do this now except they threatened to cut off my service -- long story, but it seems to be resolved.

5:58 EST: Lee says a "skank" dancing on tables is protected speech, whereas liberals contend that opposing viewpoints to theirs is not.

6:10 EST: Once again, I apologize for being pulled away for personal reasons during the last half-hour of the wankfest. I really would have loved to cover the whole thing but, based on the caller I heard when I returned to the show around 5:55, they had nothing but sycophantic idiots for callers the entire time. In other words ... I didn't miss much.

SUMMARY POSTED ABOVE IN NEXT THREAD.

KSFO live-blogging

Rather than continue to extend the last post with updates, I'll just liveblog the KSFO wankfest here. All audio links are available here as well as through the links themselves.

3:49 EST: Because Brian's kids are adopted and he worships at a predominately black church, he should be forgiven for calling Barack Obama a "halfrican." Oh, and he apologized. Well, good. Actually, I'm more concerned myself about the threats against public officials, not to mention all liberals ...

Callers (415-808-5600) are being welcomed, left or right. We shall see ...

3:55 EST: Here comes the attaching things to testicles statement ... it's okay, sez Lee, because the person in question has a lengthy rap sheet, and because he didn't mention race (the guy was black) and because it was taken out of context. "Put a bullet between his eyes because he's never going to be anything but a criminal," said Lee. Obviously, this has nothing to do with race, and Online Blogintegrity didn't make any reference to race! Goddamn, the misstatements are rampant!

Lee goes on to explain that since Fidel Castro has done worse to his people, that makes his words (advocating batteries connected to testicles and then blowing a guy's head off) acceptable. What a fucking idiot.

Now they're saying the remarks were taken out of context again -- right after they played the exact clip! How is it lifted out of context?! I'm astounded. I really am.

4:09 EST: Lee feels no compunction to be compassionate towards the "Muslim crazies" that have attacked America. You know what -- I agree. The problem is that he goes on to add his hatred of "anyone who supports them directly or indirectly," and I have no doubt that he means simply that anyone who is of the Islamic faith "supports [crazies] ... indirectly." In short, he's clearly painting all Muslims -- indeed, I believe, all people of color -- as supporters of terrorists.

4:12 EST: We're onto the "stomped to death" comment (they played even less "context" than in the link and than I included below) ... and Lee says no apology is forthcoming. Big surprise there.

Holy fuck!! The wankers at KSFO keep referring to the horrible people -- presumably "leftists" -- who attacked and beat members of a Yale University all-male choral ensemble in San Francisco on December 31. Lee Rodgers in particular has been railing about how the Yalies were attacked "for singing The Star-Spangled Banner."

But guess which side of the ideological fence the attackers really are on?

Members of the all-male singing group were taunted with anti-gay slurs after singing "The Star Stangled Banner."

"There were some words exchanged…some (members) were violently assaulted," Hammer said.

"The Yale kids rather than fight back -- cooled things down -- and left the party. That's when it got really ugly outside."

At least three members of the Baker's Dozen a cappella group were hurt. One member of the group suffered a broken jaw and another was left with a concussion.

"That's how vicious and serious this was," Hammer said. "You kick people in the head, you can kill someone."

Sharyar Aziz Jr., an 18-year-old Baker's Dozen member whose jaw was broken, said slurs were hurled at the group by their attackers.

"You're not welcome here," Aziz Jr. quoted one partygoer as saying. "He called a few members of the group, whether it was fag or homo, very, I would say, juvenile taunting."

Can any reasonable person conclude that "left-wingers" would be hurling anti-gay invective at these guys? Moreover, I wonder who might have instigated the attackers ... that is, what radio station do you think they're listening to? Hmmm .....

4:20 EST: Now they're attacking Spocko ... and they're saying "none of the talent ever said 'don't blog on this.' " Even if that's true, Spocko points out himself that KSFO administration are the ones responsible for shutting down his blog ... but the idea that the "talent" (and I use that term loosely) can avoid responsibility for it simply because it's a colleague who really made the call, well, that's specious at best ... really, it's downright absurd. It is, as we say in the law, "a distinction without a difference."

4:30 EST: Commercial break ... I think this Yale bit has legs ... I can't get through on the phone but I think I'll send an e-mail.

4:33 EST: Haven't had time for an e-mail just yet, but they're taking callers.

Mike from NY: "I'm behind you all the way."
Tim from Carlsbad (?): "You're giving this too much attention."
Richard from San Jose: "Parallels between anonymous bloggers and terrorists - they both are hiding and trying to cause trouble." Holy shit. They really believe this. Lee responds, "Leftist bloggers, thy name is cowardice." Brian adds, "If you are anonymous, you have no integrity."
Jean from San Jose: "Keep up the good work."

Melanie says, "It seems we're frontloading our calls, but we're not." Apparently Mike Stark is trying to get through on the phone. This should get interesting.

4:38 EST: KSFO is insinuating that Mike Stark is the "blogswarm organizer." I think they're conflating Stark with Spocko.

Here's the right-wing radio trick: they are grilling Stark about his "stalking" of George Allen and completely deflecting the attention. Unfortunately, Stark is falling right into the trap ...

Goddamn it. Stark sounds like he's reading a script with the questions. But he asks a good question about why they are against Rep. Ellison ... and Lee responds that his Islamic faith would be inseparable from his legislative duties, and he has a problem with that. He did not deny that he is racist.

New thread upstairs.

An open letter to Melanie Morgan

As the time for KSFO's Spockobash approaches (an event for which Melanie Morgan already has planted her minions for calling in), Spocko has asked me, via e-mail, to respond to Morgan's latest online rant. I'm happy to oblige.

First, I'll copy it (fair use, you right-wing gasbag!) for reference here, in its entirety.

Silencing conservatives on the airwaves

A final thought for this week is a personal one.

I've been the target, as have a number of other conservative talk-radio hosts, of an effort by liberal bloggers to get me fired for engaging in what these far-left activists are calling "hate speech."

The move by liberal activists to silence conservative radio hosts comes after the failure of the left-wing Air America radio network. Given that liberalism couldn't compete and win in the marketplace of ideas, liberals now want to silence conservative radio hosts.

One anonymous online blogger compiled audio clips edited to make it look like I was calling for the murder of Nancy Pelosi, when I did no such thing. (You can listen for yourself and understand how they are now trying to impugn my credibility by misrepresenting my words).

One blogger called for fining me and my station $325,000 for each "offense" so as to shut down our station. Another liberal blogger is lining up activists to do a drill to get Congress to pass a new Fairness Doctrine. Another blogger said they were going to work until they got me "off the air."

I've been on the air for 12 years at KSFO radio in San Francisco – one of the highest-rated talk-radio stations in the nation.

Every day for four hours I sit behind a radio microphone, fighting for a better America that promotes freedom, liberty, security, honesty and integrity. That calculates to be about 1,200 minutes every week. That's a total of more than 60,000 minutes each year for 12 years.

Over the course of all these years, I have of course said things I regretted, or worded things in a way I wished I hadn't. When that happens I've retracted the statement and made a public apology, such as I did concerning comments made about Sen. Barrack Obama. You should read my statement on this matter here.

Despite the efforts by liberal censors to silence me, I will never back away from what I believe in: a strong national defense, respect for the men and women of the United States military, a secure border and enforcement of our nation's immigration laws, lower taxes, less government regulation in our lives and in business, respect for the values of decency, honesty and morality.

Any efforts to silence me are just further proof of how desperate and pathetic liberals have become.

Okay. This is almost too easy.

Look, Ms. Morgan, first things first. I'll say it slowly and use short words, so you can understand.

No one is trying to silence you.

You have a right to spew forth your garbage all you want. It's called the Constitution, and despite Drunky McStagger's best efforts to make it irrelevant, it's still the law of the land. Your right to free speech is inviolate, just as mine or the Ku Klux Klan's or Spocko's is. The issue is merely one of notifying KSFO's advertisers as to the kind of vicious, hateful ranting they've been supporting. Sure, you may have lost some national accounts, but I'm sure Bill's Gun & Tackle Shop can pick up the slack, right? So let's forget all the bullshit about "silencing you."

Regarding what you said about Speaker Pelosi ... here are your exact words:

MORGAN: Oh. We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big, wide laughing eyes.

So you weren't threatening the Speaker there? Then what exactly did those words mean? You've been denying your threats, Ms. Morgan, but you haven't given even one alternative interpretation for that statement. Unless and until you do, the obvious interpretation -- that you were advocating attacks on Speaker Pelosi -- stands.

Okay, Ms. Morgan. Let's assume for the sake of argument that your Pelosi statement was completely innocuous. What about your threats against others, or the threats by your colleagues to which you obviously subscribed? For example:

ANN COULTER: I think it's agreed, all we have to determine is the method of execution [of liberals].
MORGAN: Yes, we can quibble about it.

MORGAN (referring to New York Times editors): Get 'em.
MALE CO-HOST: Yeah, yeah, as Peter Mulhern said earlier, "Prosecute!"
MORGAN: Yes! Hang 'em!
MALE CO-HOST: Don't make grumpy noises - do it!
MORGAN: Yeah!

MORGAN: One of [Cindy Sheehan's] groupies comes up to a Gold Star Mother -- a woman who lost her son in Iraq -- and said, "Did you lose a son in Iraq?" The mother said, "Yes." The groupie said, "Do you know how many women he raped and how many children he murdered before he died?" Yes. It is so reprehensible, it is beyond comment.
MALE HOST: Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is kind of thing -- I'm sorry, exception to the law, whoever did that should have been stomped to death, right there, just stomp their bleeping guts out.
MORGAN: I'm tellin' ya, I actually -- there is, um, video of this available, and audio as well, and I've gotta track -- I had it e-mailed to me, and I forgot to forward it to my office this morning. I'm gonna get that ...
MALE HOST: So we can find out who that person was.
MORGAN: Y-yeah. And we're gonna play and show, uh, the rest of America what kind of bleeping idiots are out there in this world who deserve nothing but our contempt, and of course Cindy Sheehan doesn't even condemn that kind of speech. She just wants her rights -- her free speech rights protected. It is just unbelievable.

So, don't bother with the denials. Your speech, and that of your colleagues, is utterly abhorrent and reprehensible. You advocate violence against those with whom you disagree time and time again, and you show not even a scintilla of human decency in spewing this garbage. Yes, again, you have the right to say it, but we have the right to notify your advertisers, too.

Believe me, Ms. Morgan, you do well enough impugning your own credibility than an army of liberal bloggers (I thought you'd like that imagery) could do in a hundred years.

I've got to stop now, so I can listen to your Spockobash. Good luck storming the castle. You'll need it.

P.S. That's "Barack," with one "r." Dumbass.

UPDATE (3:16 pm 1/12/07): KSFO's call-in number (good luck getting past the screeners) is 415-808-5600.

Also, here's a response, as I listen to their ridiculous, fact-free diatribe (Lee Whats-his-fuck just called Cindy Sheehan a "whore"), to their complaints about anonymity: first, what difference does the identity of the bloggers make? You said what you said! An anonymous messenger doesn't change the hate inherent in your statements.

Second, I worked in radio before I went to law school. I know many broadcasters use pseudonyms. Are you working under your real names? I rather doubt it ...

UPDATE (3:36 pm 1/12/07): So far the defense is pretty weak. According to Ms. Morgan, she didn't actually advocate the killing of New York Times editor Bill Keller. Rather, she said that if Keller were tried and convicted of treason, she would celebrate his execution (complete with frying sound effects). Oh, yeah, I see the difference - thanks for clearing that up. (I'm being sarcastic, Ms. Morgan, since you probably couldn't tell.)

UPDATE (3:42 pm 1/12/07): The "bulls-eye" comment defense was that it was "taken out of context," even though the link over at Online Blogintegrity was to the exact same clip that they played on KSFO! Lee Rodgers added (paraphrased), "Everyone knows that the term 'bulls-eye' is regularly used in political discourse, and everyone knows what it means," in a way that suggests it's a minor little metaphor. Uh huh ... that's exactly how she meant it.

UPDATE (10:09 am 1/13/07): In his open letter to Ms. Morgan, jurassicpork says it far more eloquently than I ... but beware the picture of my neighbor Mr. Ms. Coulter at the top of his post. It's nightmare-inducing.

Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Melanie Morgan and the fascists at KSFO

Have you been keeping up with the Spocko's Brain controversy? Short version: Spocko was offended by the messages of hate spewing forth from San Francisco radio station KSFO, and he decided to write to the station's advertisers to alert them to what they were supporting. When advertisers started cancelling their accounts, KSFO (an ABC/Disney station) fought back by strong-arming Spocko's ISP into shutting down his blog. Now, the San Francisco Chronicle has picked up the story, so for more details I'd refer you to their article yesterday.

Well, one of the worst offenders at KSFO, Melanie Morgan, responded yesterday, and it's obvious that she is utterly, irretrievably delusional.

There is a very, very serious story, folks, that we need to tell you about. We had hoped never to have this discussion on the air, that a crank with a keyboard would simply go away. But clearly, he has been joined by some very dangerous and frightening fringe-left groups in this country, and have tried to portray KSFO as a big corporate giant stomping on their rights to free speech, when in fact just the opposite is true. In the San Francisco Chronicle today, there's a big article about this, written by Joe Garafoli. The headline on page A2 is "Trying to Censor Blogger: Owner of conservative radio station KSFO demands liberal critic quit using audio clips."

Let me just sum this up for you. There is a liberal, left-wing kook by the name of Spocko's Brain, who is a Star Trek fan, and refuses to identify himself publicly and just cowers in anonymity. I think he's just a chicken bleep because he won't come forward with his own name. Of course, he attacks us as hate radio, as hatemongers, as spewers of violent rhetoric. Well, I have to tell you that what he has done is take a lot of our old comments from audio from our radio station, which is copyrighted. They're old, lacking in context, and in some cases just outright lies. He's put these audio cuts up on his little tiny website, and then he's contacted all of our advertisers and asked them to quit advertising with us and then, you know, keeps pushing these audio clips which are out of context, old, or in some cases just outright lies, as I said.

[...]

I'm not going to get into any more details about this, other than to say that tomorrow morn -- [Friday] at noon [Pacific time], we're going to do something we have never done before here at KSFO. We are going to bust out of our regular format, we are going to drop Dr. Laura programming at 12 noon tomorrow, and we are all going to go on live for three hours or however long it takes to answer all the questions. We are going to invite people to call us on the phones at 808-5600, we're going to invite the media to participate or watch -- either participate via our computer stream or to be involved by watching us here in the studio.

It's almost too easy to take apart Morgan's self-important rhetoric, and the commenters at Media Matters already have done so in fine fashion. The bottom line is, there's simply no defense for the hate speech that KSFO broadcasts. Morgan's attempt is simply pathetic: first, no one, least of all Spocko, claims that she and KSFO lack the right to spew the hate that they do; Spocko merely alerted advertisers to what they were saying, verbatim. Conversely, ABC/Disney's strongarm shutdown of Spocko's Brain is a restriction of free speech, for no other reason than they're WATBs. Second, regarding the clips themselves -- what "context" is necessary to interpret threats against Nancy Pelosi, calls to murder liberals, or any of the other incitements to violence that they've broadcast? And what the hell does Spocko's identity or anonymity have to do with the issue here? Morgan and her pals said what they said, and whether it's been disseminated by an anonymous blogger or by the Pope makes absolutely no difference.

Like so many other right-wing whackjobs, elected and otherwise, Morgan et al. whine about how they're the victims in all of this, but the facts, as always, clearly demonstrate otherwise. It might be worth listening at noon Pacific time (3:00 EST) today to see how KSFO defends itself, but I'm sure it's going to be nothing more than a massive circle-jerk for the hosts and their mouth-breathing, sycophantic followers. Don't expect any dissenting opinions to get past the call screeners ...

I'm proud of the liberal blogosphere and especially Spocko for taking a principled and eminently defensible stand here, and I'm honored to be on their team. Meanwhile, to Morgan and the other Hitler Youth at KSFO, congratulations - this Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!