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Michael Savage
* On the March 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio
show, The Savage Nation, Michael Savage stated that he "agree[d] 100
percent" with a caller who said: "I'm very concerned that the Jews are
now accepting gays as rabbis. And as a Catholic, I can tell you it
almost destroyed our church when we accepted gays as priests." The
caller added, "[T]hey were raping teenage boys, and if you allow them
to come into your churches, I'm sorry, your synagogues, I have no
reason to believe they're not going to do the same thing." Savage
responded: "The idea of a gay rabbi is an oxymoron. Think about it:
'Rabbi' means teacher. You cannot have a homosexual teacher teaching
boys how to be a Jew," adding, "I'm not going to mince words for fear
of offending homosexuals. They're everywhere, anyway, trying to tell
me what to say and what not to say and what to think. I know what's
right and what's wrong. And that's all there is to it."
* On the March 20 broadcast of his radio show, Savage discussed a
San Francisco Chronicle report detailing the murder of a transgender
woman whose body was found naked near a freeway outside San Francisco.
Savage read a sentence from the article stating that "it appeared the
victim had been in the process of becoming a woman," to which Savage
replied: "Yeah, process of becoming a woman -- psychopath. [She]
should have been in a back ward in a straitjacket for years, howling
on major medication." He went on to say, "And what's this sympathy,
constant sympathy for sexually confused people? Why should we have
constant sympathy for people who are freaks in every society?" adding,
"But you know what? You're never gonna make me respect the freak. I
don't want to respect the freak." Savage concluded: "The freak ought
to be glad that they're allowed to walk around without begging for
something. You know, I'm sick and tired of the whole country begging,
bending over backwards for the junkie, the freak, the pervert, the
illegal immigrant. All of them are better than everybody else. Sick.
Everything is upside down."
* On the March 16 broadcast of his radio show, Savage played audio
clips from Barbara Walters' interview with Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez, portions of which aired on the March 16 edition of ABC's Good
Morning America, and called her a "double-talking *****." Savage added:
"She's an empty mind-*****. She'd peddle anything for a ratings point."
Savage went on to call Walters a "mental prostitute" and said, "I
think that the woman is vermin. I think she's dirt."
* On the February 26 broadcast of his radio show, after playing an
audio clip of the beginning of singer Melissa Etheridge's acceptance
speech at the Academy Awards in which she thanked her wife and four
children, Savage said: "I don't like a woman married to a woman. It
makes me want to puke. ... I want to vomit when I hear it. I think
it's child abuse." Savage later similarly stated: "I want to puke when
I hear about a woman married to a woman raising children because,
frankly, I think that it's child abuse to do that to children without
their permission. What does a child know? Ask them when they're 16
whether they want to be raised by two lesbians or two men," adding:
"What are the two men doing behind the other wall? You think the
children don't hear it?"
* On the February 7 broadcast of his radio show, Savage claimed
that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "was chosen by George Bush as
part of an affirmative action program in order to make his Cabinet
look like America" and called her "a schoolmarm who has been pushed up
the ladder all of her life because of social engineering." Savage also
stated that President Bush's secretary of state "should have been a
man because he would have more respect in the Middle East than does a
woman to begin with."
* On the January 15 edition of his radio show, in a monologue
about Martin Luther King Day, Savage called "civil rights" a "con" and
asserted: "It's a racket that is used to exploit primarily
heterosexual, Christian, white males' birthright and steal from them
what is their birthright and give it to people who didn't qualify for
it." Savage then said, "Take a guess out of whose hide all of these
rights are coming. ... [T]here is only one group that is targeted, and
that group are white, heterosexual males." He added: "They are the new
witches being hunted by the illiberal left using the guise of civil
rights and fairness to women and whatnot."
* On the November 27, 2006, edition of his radio show, Savage
declared that in order to "save the United States," lawmakers should
institute "an outright ban on Muslim immigration" into the country.
Savage also recommended making "the construction of mosques illegal in
America, and the speaking of English only in the streets of the United
States the law."
* On the November 13, 2006, edition of his radio show, Savage
declared that "[t]he radical homosexual agenda will not stop until
religion is outlawed in this county," adding that gay people "threaten
your very survival." Savage also stated that homosexuals are "all not
nice decorators" and warned: "Gay marriage is just the tip of the
iceberg. They want full and total subjugation of this society to their
agenda."
* On the October 23, 2006, edition of his radio show, Savage said
of Ethiopians: "The people down there have flies around their eyes,"
adding, "I never went into an Ethiopian restaurant. The Ethiopians
come here to eat American food." Earlier in the broadcast, while
discussing Ramadan and the continued violence in Iraq, Savage
suggested that Islam is "a bloodthirsty religion that's practiced over
there by a bunch of throwbacks, and we're gonna to kill 'em." Savage
called for the United States to say: "That's it, we're leaving them;
we're killing them."
* On the September 21, 2006, edition of his radio show, Savage
claimed that the "average prostitute" is "more reliable and more
honest than most U.S. senators wearing a dress."
* On the September 12, 2006, edition of The Savage Nation, Savage
claimed that "we" were "told" that "before Barbara Boxer [D-CA]...
before Dianne Feinstein [D-CA] ... [and] before Hillary [Rodham]
Clinton [D-NY] became ... U.S. senator[s], that when women became
senators, we'd have a kinder, gentler Senate." Instead, Savage said,
the Senate has become "more vicious and more histrionic than ever,
specifically because women have been injected into" it.
* On the August 7, 2006, edition of his radio program, Savage
declared that CNN hosts Wolf Blitzer and Larry King "look like the
type that would have pushed Jewish children into the oven to stay
alive one more day to entertain the Nazis." Savage remarked that
Blitzer "will do the astonishing act of being the type that would
stick Jewish children into a gas chamber to stay alive another day.
He's probably the most despicable man in the media next to Larry King
.... a close runner-up." Savage opined: "The reason they curry favor
with the turbaned hoodlums is to gain access to the turbanned
hoodlums, domestic and foreign, for their news shows. They need more
turbanned hoodlums to build ratings."
* On the July 28, 2006, edition of his radio show, Savage
predicted Israel is "going to lose in Lebanon" unless it wins a
"devastating, catastrophic, overwhelming victory" in which "nothing is
left living in southern Lebanon, south of the Litani River." Later in
the program, Savage chastised the Israeli government for displaying a
"Holocaust mentality" by shying away from his proposed course for
victory, adding that Israel cannot continue to "live" unless it "frees
itself of the men who are acting as though they are still hiding in
the sewers of Warsaw" and "act[ing] like Holocaust Jews hiding in the
sewer."
* On the July 24, 2006, edition of radio program, Savage declared
that Blitzer is "the type who would have let children into the gas
chamber in order to stay alive an extra day." Savage accused Blitzer
of being "anti-Semitic ... anti-Jewish, and pro-Arab" because he
"doesn't want to appear too Jewish ... and too pro-Jewish."
* During the April 10, 2006, broadcast of his radio program,
Savage warned political leaders not to sympathize with illegal
immigrants, whom he described as "vermin." Savage stated: "If you take
to the streets with the vermin who are trying to dictate to us how we
should run America, even though they're not even entitled to vote or
be here, you're going to be thrown out of office." Savage added that
Americans are "craving leadership" because "[f]eminism is destroying
America. Homosexuality is destroying America. Weepy liberalism is
destroying America."
* On the May 21, 2004, Savage Nation, Savage expressed disdain for
a newspaper article about "what breeds of dogs came first" that did
not include that "the Asians still chew 'em [dogs] up."
* On his May 11 and May 12, 2004, radio shows, Savage called Arabs
"non-humans" and "racist, fascist bigots"; asserted that Americans
would like to "drop a nuclear weapon" on any Arab country; and that
"these people" in the Middle East "need to be forcibly converted to
Christianity" in order to "turn them into human beings."
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Harry
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