Savage assigned "code word" for South Asians: "terrorist[s]"
On his radio program, Michael Savage read from a New York Times article about the arrest of 17 Canadian residents on charges that they were planning a terrorist attack, noting that one of the suspects is a "well-known and fiery figure ... in the Toronto area's South Asian community" and the imam of a mosque. Savage then declared: "Whenever you see the word 'South Asian,' substitute the word for 'terrorist,' or reference to 'terrorist.' " Savage then reclassified the word "imam," stating, "that's another code word for trouble-making bum who should have been thrown out of the country."
On the June 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Michael Savage read from a June 4 New York Times article about the arrest of 17 Canadian residents on charges that they were planning a terrorist attack. Savage noted that, according to the article, one of the suspects is a "well-known and fiery figure ... in the Toronto area's South Asian community" and the imam of a mosque. Savage then declared: "Whenever you see the word 'South Asian,' substitute the word for 'terrorist,' or reference to 'terrorist.' " Savage then reclassified the word "imam," stating, "that's another code word for trouble-making bum who should have been thrown out of the country."
As Media Matters for America has noted, Savage recently stated that based on an "ordinary Muslim" caller's views about the war in Iraq and fading phone signal, he must have been using a cell phone "made over there in a bomb factory in the Gaza Strip."
From the June 5 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: "Tarek Fatah, the communications director [laughter] of the Muslim Canadian Congress [laughter], a national group [laughter], said that Mr. Jamal, the oldest of the suspects, is a well-known and fiery figure" -- I love the phrase, fiery figure -- "in the Toronto area's South Asian community." Let me pause right here. Whenever you see the word "South Asian," substitute the word for "terrorist," or reference to "terrorist." That's the new code word, "South Asian community." And that he was the imam -- that's another code word for trouble-making bum who should have been thrown out of the country. Imam.
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Whenever I see the words "Michael Savage" I substitute the words for "ignorant closeted bigot."
Here's my entry:
BBS
And no, it isn't a vintage web abbreviation, it stands for "Bigoted Bile-spewing Scat-for-brains"
Kracker A$$ Kracker Kad? What we can throw around bigot, sexist, racist, etc, but a Kracker A$$ Kracker Kad cannot be called a Kracker A$$ Kracker Kad? So the labels that the dominant power structure assign are okay, but not the labels that out that dominant power structure. Yeah, well for whoever flagged my comment, you need to look in the mirror.
What do you mean "closeted"???!!!???
Ignorant Closeted Bigot= Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Brit Hume, Neil Covuto, . . .oh god, I haven't got enough time to write them all.
Are the defacto spokespeople for the conservative wing of the Republican party. What does that tell you?
John Gibson, Neil Boortz, Chris Matthews, Pat Buchanan and Michelle Malkin.
Thanks. Just trying to help.
Yeah...I am going to take people seriously who make such claims. And conservatives are supposed to be the hateful and intolerant ones?
Yep.
Bombing countries on a whim, screwing over the poor and elderly, hating homosexuals, wanting to genocide moslems, trying to force all women to be breeders without choice....nah, no hate and intolerance there.
So dangerous its scary. More listeners than O'Reilly.
Scary
Everything Michael Savage says is true. Name one thing he has said that isn't.
Even when he gives false information, is lying, or is being bigoted, he's still speaking the truth!!!
"Everything Michael Savage says is true. Name one thing he has said that isn't."
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His name isn't Michael Savage. It's Michael Weiner. And that's one thing he has said that isn't true.
He's just being sarcastic!
I do not think there is any question I am conservative but this man is a lunatic the vast majority of the time. His commentary is so far to the fringe and so absurdly illogical in many cases that he is an embarassment to conservatives. You may try to suggest otherwise, but he is NOT a typical conservative.
Savage is not a typical conservative.
Coulter is not a typical conservative.
Most of the infamous talking heads are not typical conservatives.
But by being quiet, typical conservatives give the impression that they are among their supporters. Before anyone goes ballistic, you'll probably respond "Well what about Michael Moore?, What about Al Franken?" They are very left leaning, very outspoken, and to the typical conservative, appear to be the spokesmen for their side. I've listened to both and read books by both. I don't seem to recall anything so hateful and full of venom from either of them. If they were as hateful as Savage, Coulter, and the like. I and most others on this site would disavow them in no uncertain terms. We on the left and those on the right, should police our own leaders and spokespeople. As soon as Mr. Moore, Mr. Franken, or anyone else on the left advocates poisoning a Supreme Court Justice, or goes off on a racist rant, I'll be the first to disown them.
...do any of the Boortz defenders want to come over here and tell me that Savage isn't a racist?
Michael Savage is an habitual lier. I'm not sure I have ever heard him NOT lie. What troubles me is that so many people take this absolute fool seriously. This guy is a complete train wreck and unfortunately I find his show amuzing ... and I love calling him up to mess with him. I wish more people would call his show and annoy him with facts and logic. He hates it ... and it's really fun.
..of doing just that. But I don't think I'd have the patience to listen to him.
Silence is golden.
let us be glad, because al-Zarqawi is dead!!!!!!!!!
Finally good news.
Zarqawi's death is irrelevant to the continued viability of the HOMEGROWN insurgency. Bush and Co. liked to portray Zarqawi as the leader of the insurgency to support their lie that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, which it is not. Foreign fighters account for around 5% of the insurgency.
Futhermore, Zarqawi is not really an Al-Qaeda operative, more of an independent contractor who shares a similar ideological aim as the group.
It has one box at the top reading, "Osama bin Laden." Then, underneath, are thousands of little boxes, all reading "Second-in-Command."
Whenever 2.0's poll numbers start to tank, they bring out another AQ number two (and, folks, it really is number two!) and kill him.