Savage smeared Obama with false name, "Barack Madrassas Obama"
SUMMARY: Discussing an Associated Press article about presidential candidates and their first cars, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage referred falsely to Sen. Barack Obama as "Barack Madrassas Obama." As Media Matters for America has documented, the allegation that Obama was educated in a madrassa has been thoroughly disproved.
On the January 10 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Michael Savage referred falsely to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as "Senator Barack Madrassas Obama." Savage made the comment while discussing a December 10 Associated Press article headlined, "Presidential hopefuls and first cars" that "asked candidates to name their first cars" and also "look[ed] at some of their personal vehicles now." Savage said of Obama: "Illinois Senator Barack Madrassas Obama. His first car was his grandfather's Ford Granada. Now he owns a Chrysler 300C." As Media Matters for America noted, on the June 25, 2007, broadcast of The Savage Nation, Savage falsely claimed that Obama was "indoctrinated" by a "Muslim madrassa in Indonesia."
His comments on Obama followed remarks he made about the article's reference to cars owned by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and John Edwards. He then added: "What bad taste these people have."
"Madrassas" is not Obama's middle name. Media Matters has documented that the false allegation that Obama was educated in a madrassa has been disproved by CNN, the AP, and the Chicago Tribune. On January 23, 2007, CNN reported that "[a]llegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a 'madrassa' are not accurate." The AP reported on January 24, 2007, that the elementary school Obama attended as a child in Jakarta was "a public and secular institution that has been open to students of all faiths since before the White House hopeful attended in the late 1960s."
Talk Radio Network, which syndicates Savage's show, says that Savage is heard on more than 350 radio stations. The Savage Nation reaches more than 8 million listeners each week, according to Talkers Magazine, making it one of the most listened-to talk radio shows in the nation, behind only The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show.
From the January 10 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: Here's a puff piece from the Associated Press: "Presidential hopefuls and first cars." And so they went to all the candidates, and asked them to list their first cars and some of their personal vehicles. Now, when I read this to you, you'll see the puff piece written by the Associated Press, even a simple question like what was your first car can't be answered directly by Hillary Clinton. Even this she has to lie about or tell a little stupid story that you know is a lie.
Democrats. New York Senator Hillary Rotten Clinton: "She owned a 1963 Oldsmobile Cutlass with a battery she kept in her law school dorm on cold nights so the car would start when she needed it." Oh, get out the violin. That's like hearing that Al Gore lived in a trailer when he was young. "She now drives a Ford hybrid and Secret Service vehicles as former first lady." John Edwards, the shyster lawyer, started with a Plymouth Duster. Now owns a Ford Escape hybrid. Yeah, all right. Illinois Senator Barack Madrassas Obama. His first car was his grandfather's Ford Granada. Now he owns a Chrysler 300C. What bad taste these people have. New Mexico Governor Bill the Roadrunner Richardson: Secondhand Ford Mustang. Now he owns an official state vehicle and a Jeep Wrangler.
Walt Disney was once fired because he "had no imagination".
Democrats. New York Senator Hillary Rotten Clinton: "She owned a 1963 Oldsmobile Cutlass with a battery she kept in her law school dorm on cold nights so the car would start when she needed it." Oh, get out the violin. That's like hearing that Al Gore lived in a trailer when he was young."
And how do we know HRC is lying?
Savage says so that's how!
He was even able to get right wing boogieman Al Gore into it.
I believe we have an answer to the question "How dumb do you have to be to listen to Michael Savage"?
:-)
A religious bigot who panders to the slime that still are too stupid to shut him off.
He made his mark originally selling vitamin concotions, then found out that pandering to the lowest of the low (besides Hal Turner,) on the radio makes more money.
He is to radio talk shows the way Fred Phelps is to Christianity.
What pisses me off so much is these cheap low-life tactics these wingnuts continue using - day in and day out. The only redemption for it all is going to come this fall when they see how badly their trash-talking has turned off so many Republican voters and hurt their party to the point that they'll be jumping ship just to disavow themselves from the scum that has commandeered their party.
We like toying with the utterly stupid
We have much more tolerance than say Red State.
Comic relief?
In general, the caustic affects of sarcasm are greatly diluted when presented in such a witless manner.
I'm just sayin'...
From the sound of the rant it sounds like the booze will have you noddin' on your keyboard by the time I post this - But it's great to have another comedy writer onboard.
I guess that's a pretty good bet that no woman will ever read it ...
I am not sure about DEMOCRATS being the largest party, but then again they tend to appeal to the lowest common denominator, the common masses are easily fooled.
"made up middle names for Dems IS so delusional"-Solon
I think when referring to somethings in plural form you may want to refer to them as 'are' rather than "is". Take a look at Juliajanes post, a republican would be as easily ruffled.
I am sure that you CAN dismiss every single view non-liberal as a machination of the "hivemind" that seems to follow you around, but this does tend to get redundant. It may be a sign of paranoia, or just a lack of imagination.
Would you please supply the middle names of all of the candidates or do you just know this one?
Hell, a Republan won't even use his FIRST name. WILLARD,WILLARD, WILLARD ,WILLARD. SS, let us fix this travesty. Then we'll go to the underwear questions. You can sniff that one out on your own.
These frickin’ wingnut pundits would all be paralyzed and scratching their heads thinking, “WTF???”. Another backfire, back to the drawing board!
I'd go with Bush Lies.
He changes his name more than most people change their socks but he never alters his rant.
Well "bigot" is used so often in so in-specific a way it has lost meaning, kind of like "racist".
I have in no way defended Finfarin's ideology about race. I just found it amusing that you would continually urge him to give an opinion only to then claim that you don't want to hear his opinion. That type of action appears to me to be engaging in "being contrary just for the sake of it, not based on merit of argument". In any event, my original dispensation of you was unwarranted in terms of being personal. I apologize. Perhaps I am too old and grumpy. I just think there is alot of attacking of opposite opinions at this site through personal insults. I am just as guilty as others, but I tend to do so in response. That is why you received my rather engaging diatribe of you. You felt it necessary to pile on with Roundmouth and call me pigheaded. Did you expect a submissive agreement of your name calling? Surely not. Nevertheless I do apologize for my earlier attack, truly. But you know, I wonder why it is that others don't come to the same defense when people are called morons, idiots, and having no functioning brain cells, etc, for having the audicity to put forth a different vierwpoint. Maybe it's not being contrary but simply seeing things differently. Or maybe looking the other way when when someone is attacked personally because you agree with the attacker is nothing but self rightous indignation. Maybe....just maybe.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but I have and I suspect others have as well, but you offer nothing here but sheepish agreement interjected with pseudo-intellectual posturing. But, that is just my opinion. Maybe you are just a narcissistic angry woman, but that is a state of mind, there is hope for you.
That reply was for Roundmouth. He seems to love to ask others for facts to back up assertons unless of course he is the one making baseless arguments with ad hominem attacks. Then it's o.k. You know....the old "I don't have to adhere to the standards I expect from everyone else" argument. His speciality or seems to be.
Oh wait, no it wouldn't. Because IT DOES NOT MATTER.
If Barack Obama's middle name was "Bin Laden", Poppy Bush would have breakfast with him at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in DC, like he did with Osama Bin Laden's brother on 9/11 as the planes were crashing....
Savage is know for being very one sided when it comes to his arguements but whats the problem Obama simpy revealing his middle name? Savage simply thought it should be brought up, not to bring controversy but allow the citizens to know who they're voting for. I find it interesting that being in a post 9/11 country (similar to a Pearl Harbor) we all could care less that a runner for the presidency has a Muslim background. I like Baracks view on raising this country on its feet but I don't vote for people who walk away from the truth.
It's what passes for "intellectual banter" in narrow-minded right-wing circles. He's just copying Bob Grant's old schtick - just like Mark Levin, who also copies Bob Grant.
No new thinking - no new ideas - the hallmarks of conservatism....