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Savage: "Bring in 10 million more from Africa. ... They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head"

January 31, 2008 2:03 pm ET
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SUMMARY: On The Savage Nation, a caller identified by Michael Savage as "Kojo" asked Savage: "[D]o you know how the AIDS got there [Africa]?" Savage responded: "It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend. If you study the science -- but I don't think you have the capacity to understand science, my dear friend Kojo." Later, Savage stated: "See, we don't live in Africa where people settle arguments with machetes. We live in a country where we settle it with arguments. Something you apparently don't know anything about. ... Couldn't use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that's what we got. There's multiculturalism for you. There's immigration for you. There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind."

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While discussing President Bush's AIDS spending proposal in the State of the Union address, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage responded to a caller's assertion that he "do[es]n't know anything about Africa" by launching a series of derogatory attacks on Africa and Africans.

On his January 29 broadcast, Savage challenged the caller's "stupid statement," stating, "Tell me what I don't know about the AIDS epidemic that you know." The caller, whom Savage identified as "Kojo," then asked: "How AIDS got there [Africa] -- do you know how the AIDS got there?" Apparently mocking the caller's accent, Savage responded: "I know how it got there, I know how it got there. It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend. If you study the science -- but I don't think you have the capacity to understand science, my dear friend Kojo."

The caller then said Savage had a "big old mouth," and Savage continued: "See, we don't live in Africa where people settle arguments with machetes. We live in a country where we settle it with arguments." After the call ended, Savage added:

Couldn't use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that's what we got. There's multiculturalism for you. There's immigration for you. There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

According to Talk Radio Network, which syndicates Savage's show, Savage is heard on more than 350 radio stations. Talkers Magazine has indicated that The Savage Nation reaches more than 8 million listeners each week, making it the third most listened-to talk radio show in the nation, behind only The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show.

From the January 29 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:

SAVAGE: Kojo is calling from Los Angeles; he disagrees with me. Kojo, go ahead, you're on The Savage Nation. Tell us why we in America should send $45 billion to Africa for AIDS.

KOJO: I don't care if they send the money or they don't send the money. You don't know anything about Africa. So you can't talk anything about --

SAVAGE: What do you mean I don't know anything about Africa? Well, what do you know about America?

KOJO: Let me finish --

SAVAGE: Well, no, I'm not gonna let you finish. You made a stupid statement. That's like saying I know nothing about Egypt because I don't live there. What kind of stupidity is that? We live in a global world. What do you mean I don't know anything about Africa? What's there to know that I don't know about the AIDS epidemic? Tell me what I don't know about the AIDS epidemic that you know.

KOJO: How AIDS got there -- do you know how the AIDS got there? You know how it got there?

SAVAGE [mocking Kojo's accent]: Yeah, I know how it got there, I know how it got there. It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend. If you study the science -- but I don't think you have the capacity to understand science, my dear friend Kojo.

KOJO: You have a big old mouth. You don't listen to nobody. You are criticizing African people, you are criticizing --

SAVAGE: Why don't you just shut up for a minute. You're telling me that you know more about my country than I do but I know nothing about your country. Who has the big mouth here, Kojo?

KOJO: You criticize the president, the candidate, everybody. Why don't you be a president of the United States, you stupid man --

SAVAGE: See, we don't live in Africa where people settle arguments with machetes. We live in a country where we settle it with arguments. Something you apparently don't know anything about.

[silence]

What's the matter, cat got your tongue, my friend, Kojo?

[sound of dial tone]

See, there you go. Couldn't use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that's what we got. There's multiculturalism for you. There's immigration for you. There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

We're not supposed to criticize the president because he wants to send $45 billion to that corrupt continent -- for AIDS, which is a behavioral disease. It can be controlled only by behavior, not by money. Oh, education has really worked for the AIDS epidemic in America. It's really stopped the homosexual community from interacting in their well-known manners.

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    • Author by Sueelldd (January 31, 2008 2:14 pm ET)
         

      Oh this Savage is so disgusting. Racism and homophbia live on the radio dial.

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      • Author by atheist (January 31, 2008 5:55 pm ET)
           
        This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to cry.  I am ashamed to live in a country where widespread racial hatred exists.  Savage has a huge audience, even Chris Matthews is a fan !  Very very very sad.
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        • Author by philib (February 01, 2008 8:40 am ET)
             

            Funny thing is, where is savage wrong in his assessment of what the caller asked about?? Explain where the rasism is.

             I think the cold hard facts are (in this instance) he is right. The clear evidence he is right is that you can't attack his message, so you attack the messenger. WHAT did he say that was rasist? The caller sounded more racist than savage, and none of you are saying anything about cugo. The caller asks about aids and savage tells him what science knows. Then mmfa inflects it's own opinion by saying savage was "mocking" the caller. The caller seems more upset with savage than savage is with him, yet the hatred is all on savage? Why is that?

             What would you have preferred him to say? That aids came from a government conspiricy? That way you can say; "see, I told you bush did something else bad!" ?

             I usually listen to Jerry Doyle at that time slot, but because of all of you, I think I'll start listening to savage. I figure, if you people don't like him, he must be correct in his assessment of the situation. Cause I have experienced what you ultra liberal hacks dish out when faced with facts! NONE of you, not one will argue with a calm head, each and every one of you attack the personality of whoever doesn't agree completely with your tweeked sense of morality. IMHO, you leftwing-nutcases are the worst racists we have in the US. You even hire a former KKK leader to be your spokesman. But you complain when savage gives a caller scientific fact. I thought you people were all for whatever science tells you. Oh, that's right, you hate independant thinking.

           

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          • Author by worrierking (February 01, 2008 9:15 am ET)
               
            Another science lecture from the guy who brought us "The 2 Rocks Theory".
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            • Author by philib (February 01, 2008 9:25 am ET)
                 
                 You're funny. I thought you liked using "facts" (as scientists see them). Oh, by the way, are any of my facts incorrect? Or, do facts simply get in the way of your diatribes?
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              • Author by worrierking (February 01, 2008 9:53 am ET)
                   

                Diatribe - A prolonged discourse.

                My thirteen word response might be the world's shortest diatribe. 

                Savage's science, which you defend, is wrong.

                He said that AIDS was originally  spread from one species to the next by "EATING" monkey meat. I've never heard that before.

                Typically the AIDS virus isn't spread through the digestive system. I doubt that the original monkey to human transmission started that way. It doesn't make sense. If AIDS spread mostly from eating something, then he might be able t o argue from a "scientific" stand point, rather than from his lunatic, homphobia.

                Dr. Weiner prides himself on being a scientist. He's out of his element in this case and he's using his homophobia to try to twist science to fit his agenda.

                 

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          • Author by T-Hone (February 01, 2008 10:10 am ET)
               
            Saying that Africans are machete-wielding maniacs who are incapable of reason isn't racist to you?  If that isn't racist, I don't know what is!
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            • Author by paleocon (February 01, 2008 11:09 am ET)
                 

              he was refering to a subject that he had discussed on several previous shows: 

              James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London.

              The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when "testing" suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade.   17 October 2007

               

              i'm not saying i agree with the 'testing' - just letting you know that  mm is giving you half of the story. 

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              • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:00 pm ET)
                   
                MM doesn't need to supply this part of the story.  It doesn't matter where Savage Weiner acquired his racist beliefs or what BS drives his hate speech.  The fact is, he's a racist.  This is far worse than Imus' remarks ... Imus portrayed a particular group of women as stupid sluts, Savage Weenie just denegrated an entire nation.  
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                • Author by olynav2493 (February 01, 2008 5:09 pm ET)
                     
                  No, Imus called a bunch of women "Nappy-headed hos", not stupid sluts. And, no, Savage didn't denigrate a nation, he denigrated a continent.
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              • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 4:09 pm ET)
                   

                >>i'm not saying i agree with the 'testing' - just letting you know that  mm is giving you half of the story.

                Another racist rears his ugly head. What the scientist is spouting is racism in one of its worst forms, claiming that one race is inferior and then pretending his science backs it up. If you really did not agree with this guy, you would not have posted his beliefs, and mentioned that MMFA  is only telling one half of the story. There is no other half to tell.  

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          • Author by roundhouse (February 01, 2008 12:24 pm ET)
               
            That's pretty downbeat and bitter, Phil. Weren't you just complaining on another thread that the letfies here are too sour while praising the righties for being optimistic?
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          • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:02 pm ET)
               
            OK Philib, you go ahead and start listening to Savage Weiner. I hope you spend your entire day listening to racist hate speech, and then I hope you get so angry at all of these people who are so inferior to you that you burst a major artery.
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            • Author by philib (February 02, 2008 9:55 am ET)
                 
               Thanks, atheist. I see your belief system works so well that you have no anger in you! I guess, 'love thy neighbor' isn't one of atheism's top priorities, huh? Perhaps, that is why 1% of the world believe in it.
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          • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 3:32 pm ET)
               

            What a joke. There is no level of racism you guys wont appologize for. As if saying bring ten million more from Africa they cant reason isnt racist. There is no reason to act as if such a statement deserves rational debate. Its pure racists drivel and hyperbolic ad hominem why should our answer be different? Its so dumb for you rightwingers to act like we have an obligation to rationally discuss whether or not people from Africa can reason. The screechmonkey of your choice is free to insult and denigrate with nothing but stupid rhetoric but WE must limit ourselves to discussing the merits of his lunatic ranting and insulting. Nice try at framing the lunacy as rational discourse, it isnt and doesnt deserve to be treated as if it were.

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            • Author by philib (February 02, 2008 10:14 am ET)
                 

                I'm afraid the joke is on you, solon. If you are going to complain about someone being hateful/denegrating/spiteful/racist/fearmongering/ ect.... then you can't 'be' what you complain about. Your entire statement is one long hate filled rant. It would be like a super-rich guy saying he hates super-rich guys because they are super-rich.

                But, it was fun trying to find the meanings to some of the words you used. I think you need spell check, either that or some of your words have weird meanings.

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    • Author by unitarianpatriot (January 31, 2008 2:19 pm ET)
         
      I haven't e-mailed the local stations lately that run this kind of garbage. For my past complaints about Limbaugh and Hannity I would get back the usual "these programs are very popular and we're in the business of providing what listeners want" responses. But the last two times I've complained about Savage's racist and homophobic bile I have received no response. I guess even the ratings-craven stations don't have a defense for the Savage stench. Still, I'm going to keep sending the transcripts and asking for their rationale for airing this filth. Disgusting. 
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (January 31, 2008 5:05 pm ET)
           

        I'm not even sure what he's talking about. The machete in the head line makes no sense anyway... 

        But it just goes to show...Obama supporters are naive to think that Hillary is the candidate with the PR problem. These same guys are just getting started with Obama. 

        So if you think that voting for Obama is the safer course with these people and their ilk, think again. 

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        • Author by atheist (January 31, 2008 5:57 pm ET)
             
          Maybe that explains why they've been easy on Obama so far, because they want him to win the Dem nomination because they think he'll be easier to take down than Hillary.  Obama is like Kerry, he hasn't experienced the full wrath of the neocons yet.
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          • Author by pearlene_scott1602 (January 31, 2008 6:37 pm ET)
               
            So Savage is talking about Junior's spending proposal, AIDS, Africa and SOMEHOW we get to Obama. Yeah right. PATHETIC
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            • Author by carlileb5935 (February 01, 2008 3:55 am ET)
                 

              It's the bigger issue of racism, which is at the heart of this problem with Savage.

              Pearlene, I have to admit-- your guy was good tonight at the debate. 

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              • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:08 pm ET)
                   
                Right.  The problem of racism, which of course affects Obama's bid.  I would hope that there are far fewer racist Democrats than Republicans, but I just don't know.  I'm shocked that Savage Weiner has as large an audience as he does, and I'm shocked that Chris Matthews says that he likes Weiner !  How many others like him ??  
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      • Author by olynav2493 (February 01, 2008 5:10 pm ET)
           
        Don't believe in free speech unless it agrees with you?
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      • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 8:11 pm ET)
           

        I haven't e-mailed the local stations lately that run this kind of garbage. For my past complaints about Limbaugh and Hannity I would get back the usual "these programs are very popular and we're in the business of providing what listeners want" responses.

        As others have by now probably mentioned in this huge discussion, your efforts are valued, but sending such comments to the station doesn't do any good if your goal is to affect a reasonable change in the programming.  Program managers and other station management simply count the number of times they see a host's name in a letter, email, or fax, and put that in the score column for that host.  They don't care WHY you listen, as long as you do.

        Instead, write the sponsors and politely quote what the host of a program they fund is saying.  That's working.  I think two weeks ago, four major sponsors dumped Savage after such comments were forwarded to them, and Geico was close to dumping Weiner too. 

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      • Author by thedailyphosdex (February 03, 2008 11:22 am ET)
           

        I think you're doing The Right Thing.

        Even better yet, you may want to keep the ears open for obviously racist language tending to the obscene or indecent. Forward such reports to the FCC posthaste, complete with the relevant transcripts/recordings and a brief, but polite, explanation as to why you believe the comments in question are obscene or indecent.

        Moving from the sublime to the ridiculous: IIBC, there are others of the Michael Savage stripe who are calling for the "evacuation" of the Afrikaner Peoples of South Africa and Namibia as "refugees***in fear of persecution" for being White Christians (as in Calvinist/Reformed) under a "Communist-influenced regime" in post-apartheid South Africa. Such claims, methinks, should be approached with suspicion, especially if there are appeals for funds being made by front organisations for obviously racist or white-supremacist movements behind these "evacuation" appeals, made more than likely in an emotionally-driven pandering to misguided "racial honour" reinforced by the likes of "the Fourteen Words" and acronyms like "ORION" (Our Race Is Our Nation).

        Too, the claims of "fear of persecution" may not be sincere or genuine; on the other hand, such claims may be carefully-scripted manipulation of the worst sort designed solely to trick or mislead immigration officials, backed, for the most part, by forged or otherwise dubious evidence.

        Such bears close watching.

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    • Author by Kyle_Broflovski (January 31, 2008 2:33 pm ET)
         

      I wonder at what point in his childhood was Weiner separated from his true family, the incestuous Fred Phelps cult?  How badly was he beaten by papa Fred as a child?  Clearly, there is some permanent damage.

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    • Author by JLyons (January 31, 2008 2:34 pm ET)
         
      I have written to my local Savage station WOR in NY and demanded he be taken off the air , I think at this point we need MMFA to help publish the list of advertisers this slimeball has and stop racism now.
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      • Author by pete592 (January 31, 2008 3:04 pm ET)
           
        There has been some success in getting this idiot's advertisers to stop giving him money.
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        • Author by tommy (January 31, 2008 3:09 pm ET)
             

          Savage is the ultimate victim, listen to him for 5 minutes and it's the entire corrupt, diseased ridden world against him and his ego.  His mouth will sink him eventually as he will become just too hot to handle for advertisers.  And he will blame San Francisco, or gays, or some other spear-carrying hate group out to destroy him.

          Listening to him for too long is like having a machete in your head.

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          • Author by mary59 (January 31, 2008 4:22 pm ET)
               
            Very good! Thanks, Tommy.
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          • Author by atheist (January 31, 2008 6:11 pm ET)
               

            His mouth will sink him eventually as he will become just too hot to handle for advertisers.

            I think the time is now. 

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          • Author by cpinva (January 31, 2008 11:27 pm ET)
               

            frankly, i'm not sure what the heck he's talking about either. must be a loss of context from audio to written.

            tommy, Dr. savage represents all the country's disaffected, those whose ego's are so bloated, that they assume the entire world's out to get them. all their life's failures and personal inadequacies are the result of this world-wide conspiracy. he merely articulates that for them, in a way that they are incapable of doing.

            he assures them that their failure to achieve isn't the result of their own ineptitude, or failure to avail themselves of opportunities presented, but of the wider effort to hold them down. joe sixpack, listening while he sits in his vomit and sweat stained recliner, wearing his tattered, rarely laundered wife-beater t shirt, and guzzling down his nightly case of red, white and blue beer, is comforted, knowing all his failures are of someone else's doing.

            that is savage's audience, and he plays them for the rubes they are, and always will be.

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          • Author by philib (February 01, 2008 9:14 am ET)
               

              I'm surprised at you, tommy. I thought you were the lone independant thinker in this site (who wasn't drummed out of town). I see you are simply a liberal who the other liberals call right wing so they can say they have a 'token right winger' on their site.

              Usually you ask 'why is this here'. Now, I've figured out that isn't because you are really curious, it's because you are told to say that, to keep some semblance of balance by posters. This is one thread where 'why is this here' should be used. There isn't any factually incorrect statements being made, no racial statements being made. But, there is a 'tone' in his voice that mmfa didn't like and used that as their driving theory. So, now we have leftwing nuts saying that the freedom of speech is no longer valid if you have the wrong 'tone in your voice' while speaking?? Will that be covered in the 'hate-speech' bill?  Is that what it's come down to? That our constitutional rights are now going to be determined by whether the "tone of my voice" is within the proper parameters that are decided by a group of left wing hacks?

               Thanks, tommy, for sticking up for American freedoms, for showing support for racist left wingers and for giving in to the real hatemongers of America.

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            • Author by snoopy (February 01, 2008 9:53 am ET)
                 
              I see our token racist has weighed in.
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            • Author by roundhouse (February 01, 2008 9:54 am ET)
                 
              Stop hyperventilating over tommy showing some common sense.
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            • Author by tommy (February 01, 2008 10:52 am ET)
                 

              Calm down Phil, Just because I think Savage is a whining egotistical shock jock hardly means I am a liberal.  He offers little else except his over inflated self importance while he rants and rails against those he doesn't like. He hates this group, or that group, yawn, it's all rather boring.  If you listen and like, that is your business.

              As for my not asking WITH?, I know why this is here - MMFA is not a fan, and this thread is here for that reason. 

              But if you think not being a liberal means I have to condone people like Savage, well, sorry to disappoint, I find him repulsive.  Whether or not he and I may share an opinion or two on an issue is irrelevant, he is in it for Michael Savage, and Michael Savage alone - I don't share that interest with him, he needs to look elsewhere. 

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              • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 8:19 pm ET)
                   

                I too wanna say:

                Thanks, tommy, for sticking up for American freedoms, for showing support for racist left wingers and for giving in to the real hatemongers of America.

                You liberal lovin' hatemonger!  We luvs ya!  =) 

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              • Author by philib (February 02, 2008 4:53 pm ET)
                   

                  Yeah, he does have a major ego problem. That doesn't exclude him from being correct every now and then.

                  Sorry for the mis-interpretation of your remarks.
                 

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            • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 3:35 pm ET)
                 
              So saying people from Africa cant reason isnt racial and is factually correct? Better call that dry cleaner and tell them to go easy on the starch for your hooded sheet. You seem to be having a bad reaction to something that may be it.
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              • Author by tommy (February 01, 2008 6:45 pm ET)
                   
                You crack me up!  I have missed you, where have you been O' Liberal One?
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                • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 9:07 pm ET)
                     
                  I have internet through the satelite. It snowed like crazy and knocked out one of their transmitters or relayers or whatever they are. Bit of a luddite here.
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      • Author by olynav2493 (February 01, 2008 5:15 pm ET)
           
        Dont agree with free speech - in this case, eh?
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (January 31, 2008 3:04 pm ET)
         

      SAVAGE: "...bring them in with a machete in their head."

      Is it just me or does Michael Savage seem to frequently display a tendency towards viloent imagery? I hope this guy doesn't own a gun...

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      • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 4:11 pm ET)
           
        He does, actually. {own a gun}
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        • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 4:55 pm ET)
             

          Fin,

          I am guessing you know the man, eh?  Do you two hang out and discuss racial impurities?

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      • Author by Clevenative (January 31, 2008 4:12 pm ET)
           

        I hope he does, as the percentages for him being involved in an incident would rise sharply. 

        I have never listened to his show – but if this is a sample of the kind of intelligent arguments he has with callers, I could understand how a machete might be a more appropriate defense. Apparently, he’s just another narrow-minded wingnut know-it-all who refuses to see the world as anything outside his little box.

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    • Author by megabot (January 31, 2008 3:06 pm ET)
         
      There's your "compassionate" "conservative".
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    • Author by dbeden4153 (January 31, 2008 3:06 pm ET)
         

      "It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend."

      Did anybody else find this absolutely ridiculous?  I mean, green monkey meat?  And it was spread by eating it?

      No my friend, the predominant theory is that either someone was bitten by an infected chimp, or someone in a butcher shop was cutting up an infected monkey and was cut/had a cut, which came into contact with the blood.  Of course, no one really knows, because the earliest known specimen is a 50 year old blood sample of an unknown man in Kinshasa.  And it's estimated that the virus jumped to humans as early as the 1940's.

      So obviously he doesn't know that much about Africa ;) 

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      • Author by Old_Benjamin (January 31, 2008 3:54 pm ET)
           
        I always have lent more creedence to the polio vaccine theory.
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      • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 4:16 pm ET)
           
        Debeden, Your reasoning is not too dissimilar from savage's, whether cut fingers or biting monkey, monkeys where involved when their body fluids contacted a human's. We really can not be 100% sure about the original event, so your accusation of savage's reasoning as "ridiculous" is false.
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        • Author by dbeden4153 (January 31, 2008 4:20 pm ET)
             
          Uhm, no, transmission by blood, and eating something (which I am assuming was at least cooked) is completely different.
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          • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 7:56 pm ET)
               
            Dbeden, You must understand that savage used the adjective "green" in front of "monkey meat" for a reason. He was indicating that it was uncooked, the word "green" is sometimes used interchangeably with raw.
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            • Author by mary59 (January 31, 2008 8:40 pm ET)
                 
              frankly, phinarphin, phony frickin freaks like savage fry and fume in far fetched farsical fear-mongering and frenetic falsifications.

              We're frue with 'em!
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            • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 8:21 pm ET)
                 
              Actually, "green" in relation to most meat would be in reference to rotten or spoiled.
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          • Author by carlileb5935 (January 31, 2008 5:12 pm ET)
               
            P.S I know Fin is not an Obama supporter-- but this kind of reasoning is typical of much of that crowd-- i.e., you can't say anything they don't want to hear. It's happened before.
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            • Author by Lynn (January 31, 2008 5:39 pm ET)
                 
              Carlile, you're not making any sense and you're just trolling for a fight with these completely off topic Obama references. Please grow up.
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              • Author by carlileb5935 (February 01, 2008 3:59 am ET)
                   
                The topic of  Savage revolves around the general topic of racism and the appeal of guys like this-- and their effect on votes
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                • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:10 pm ET)
                     
                  I need to support Carlile here because I understand his/her Obama references.  We have a problem with racism in the US, I think we all agree on that.  How many racists are there ?  How many Dem racists are there ?  What if Obama wins the Dem nomination, will racist Dems not vote for him ?  How does this hate speech, like that which Savage Weiner spews, affect voters ?
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                  • Author by olynav2493 (February 01, 2008 5:20 pm ET)
                       
                    So any democrat or republican who does not vote for obama is suspected of being a racist?  Well, let's just crown the guy, huh? Can't say anything bad about him. Can't NOT vote for him and keep your self-respect. Yeah, this is how to run a democracy.
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            • Author by pearlene_scott1602 (January 31, 2008 5:44 pm ET)
                 

              Jeez, the inane self-righteousness about these issues is appalling. Is this typical of Obama supporters? Just a question.....P.S I know Fin is not an Obama supporter-- but this kind of reasoning is typical of much of that crowd-- i.e., you can't say anything they don't want to hear. It's happened before.

              Caril, sorry but you are truly pathetic, truly. Fin thinks that blacks are inferior to whites, they should be happy for the privilege of living in white neighborhoods but some how YOU can equate Fin with Obama supporters. You have lost your freaking mind behind Hillary. Take a look in your own mirror, that nut you see is yourself.

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              • Author by snoopy (January 31, 2008 7:23 pm ET)
                   
                Lynn and Pearl, I think Carlisle was being sarcastic. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was making fun of fin.
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                • Author by pearlene_scott1602 (January 31, 2008 8:32 pm ET)
                     

                  P.S I know Fin is not an Obama supporter-- but this kind of reasoning is typical of much of that crowd-- i.e., you can't say anything they don't want to hear. It's happened before.

                  • - carlileb5935 / Thursday January 31, 2008

                  Snoopy, I don't think so.

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                • Author by carlileb5935 (February 01, 2008 4:02 am ET)
                     
                  I'm just making fun of all intransigence about racial issues, from either side. But you guys shouldn't entertain Fin-- he's just looking for a rise from you.
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          • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 7:50 pm ET)
               

            C,  I was responding to Dbedens statements indicating Savage's prognosis as "ridiculous" on AIDS when he had said much of the same thing. I actually myself have not ruled out the possibility of sexual contact, i really can not see where you get me calling anyone a racist. I am the one always labeled such, the other posters would attest.

            I am actually not an Obama supporter, Mitt's my man.

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            • Author by roundhouse (January 31, 2008 8:28 pm ET)
                 
              Willard Romney? The corporate lackey?

              Haven't you had enough corporate governance yet?
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              • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 9:08 pm ET)
                   
                A man who made his fortune in a corporation i find admirable, it is truly paranoid to think he would be a corporate "lackey" president. But i know that you think all of the worlds problems are because of corporations. 
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                • Author by roundhouse (January 31, 2008 9:18 pm ET)
                     
                  You know nothing about me.

                  I think corparations have a role to play in serving the greater good. I think guys like Willard will do nothing to curb the profit over people conservative corruption of the market place. I think he will do nothing to empower working people and I think he will continue subsidizing corporate America, expand harmful trade agreements and most importantly, he will stack the court with conservative zealots.
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                  • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 7:24 pm ET)
                       

                    Mitt Romney has turned around companies before and has been an extremely successful businessman, in the face of the recession and worsening of American economic position we need someone to turn around America which is in a sense a large, multifaceted corporation. I think that the economy is not in a position right now to facilitate greater spending on welfare and social programs, and this is one of the reasons that America will not elect a democrat.

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                    • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 8:25 pm ET)
                         
                      After the last seven years, I think we've seen enough of "CEO presidents" for a while.  I don't think we can take another one so soon.
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                    • Author by roundhouse (February 01, 2008 8:34 pm ET)
                         
                      Pishaw my friend. America is a democracy not a profit center. Our country operates from the bottom up, democracy style, not from the corporate style, Bush style, top down. Also, as Obama pointed out last night, Romney sure didn't get much of a return on his investment in Florida :-0

                      In light of the economic woes we face, I don't think any Republican is in any position to talk about fiscal responsibility. The simple fact is that investing in the commons, investing in infrastructure is the best way to boost the economy and uplift working people for the long term.
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    • Author by snoopy (January 31, 2008 3:08 pm ET)
         

      That's real bright, savage. Use a racial slander to end an argument and then tell your audience you won the battle.

      I'm not surprised if we get fin or st. racist having savage's back.

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      • Author by dbeden4153 (January 31, 2008 3:17 pm ET)
           

        I'm surprised Fin hasn't shown up yet to offer his "well, black people can't understand reason" BS.  

        I will say one thing about his racist rantings, and his segregationist stance.  The more we as people mix between races, the better for our species biologically as a whole.  Resistance to diseases goes up, people get more beautiful, and those sharp distinctions start to disappear.  Conversely, sticking close to home and intermarrying between genetically similar people produces the opposite effect.  

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        • Author by nerzog (January 31, 2008 3:26 pm ET)
             
          Excellent point. In my opinion, children of mixed race tend to be very beautiful. I once heard an anthropologist predict that the human race, at some point in the future, would be predominantly bronze-skinned with slightly Asian features. Sounds reasonable to me.
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          • Author by Lynn (January 31, 2008 5:46 pm ET)
               
            Nerz,Fin can't possibly be on the board today because your post and the one you responded to would have sent her in a tail spin. I'm sure she thinks you're race traitors that should to be drummed out of the Caucasian population.

             

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          • Author by carlileb5935 (February 01, 2008 4:16 am ET)
               

            I once heard an anthropologist predict that the human race, at some point in the future, would be predominantly bronze-skinned with slightly Asian features.
             

            Oh good, at least we won't be all Black! *

             

             

             

            * ( an obvious jk) 

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            • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:13 pm ET)
                 
              My pasty whiteness is endangered !  Though rare, it will never be revered.  >:-)
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              • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 3:50 pm ET)
                   
                Atheist I will make up your lack of pride in your ethnicity with my own great pride. I am truly sorry that you look at your uniqueness and feel disgusted; it truly must be hard to live with yourself. We should all be proud of what we are, and never lick the boots of another because of our contrasting ethnicities.
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                • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 9:10 pm ET)
                     
                  You should be embarassed by your racist BS and the way you embarass our entire species.
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          • Author by clams casino (January 31, 2008 8:32 pm ET)
               
            The flag function doesn't seem to be working right now, so I'll publicly flag you because this is possibly the most blatantly racist post I've ever seen in the comments section here. And that's really saying something.

            Can't we all just ignore this Finfarn idiot now?
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            • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 9:31 pm ET)
                 

              Clams you are a myopic bigot hostile to an open exchange and discussion of ideas. I suggest you take your antipathy somewhere else, we are not so self righteous to ignore those whose opinions you find wrong. If you do not like my opinions and do not believe them then refute them, dismissal is neither polite nor intellectually honest.

              You think that my comment is racist? well explain to me exactly WHERE is it racist? who was i being racist to, interracials? I will not deny what i see, not for you nor anyone.

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              • Author by clams casino (January 31, 2008 10:24 pm ET)
                   
                Yes, I'm bigoted against white supremacists. Brilliant. I should really be more tolerant of intolerance and more open-minded about close-mindedness. I should really learn to embrace hate and ignorance, because after all hate and ignorance are valid opinions that should be respected as much as any other opinion.
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                • Author by carlileb5935 (February 01, 2008 4:10 am ET)
                     

                  Personally, I don't want everyone to look the same. I don't see anything particularly racist in Fin's one remark here-- it may not be true, but it's not hateful, IMO.

                  I think it's just as bad to say mixed race  people are beautiful as to say the opposite. It's still generalizing. If Fin is distasteful then so is someone purveying the opposite view of race-beauty.

                  Kind of like approving of African American voters choosing Obama en masse, but condemning White voters for choosing Hillary and Edwards. What's bad for one is bad for another.

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                  • Author by clams casino (February 01, 2008 9:53 am ET)
                       
                    Not surprising that you would jump in to defend his racist comments. Not only did he say that he thought mixed race people were unattractive and weird looking, but he cited that as "one of the reasons" he dislikes them. That's the definition of racism.
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                    • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:26 pm ET)
                         

                      These particular comments of Finfarin were not racist.  Finfarin was saying that he/she thinks that in general the mix is unattractive, he/she wasn't saying that one particular side of the mix contributes to the unattractiveness.  I personally have seen some spectacular looking mixed race people, Halle Berry and Alicia Keys come to mind, I think the black-hispanic mix often looks amazingly beautiful (my beautiful husband is Puerto Rican and clearly a mix, of what we're not sure though !), so I don't agree with Finfarin.  But Finfarin's personal preferences should not be confused for racism.   We can't allow ourselves to be SO sensitive to an issue that we blame every statement we disagree with on it.  (I am not defending Finfarin's other posts.)

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                      • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 4:00 pm ET)
                           

                        Thank you Carlelib and Atheist, you are one of the few non hateful voices of reason here. I do realize you run a considerable risk of hate and accusations of "racist defending" from the other poster due to their hateful bigotry of people with my views. My personal preference in beauty is MY own, i do not want others to tell ME what to like and what to consider beautiful. You both make a very good point that saying interracials are unattractive is the same as they are more attractive, both views are equally biased.

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                      • Author by olynav2493 (February 01, 2008 5:34 pm ET)
                           
                        I can't believe you passed over THE best looking, most spectacular mixed-race (is that the proper term for you guys?) person EVER, speaking of course of barack hussein obama! Yes, Obama wins the beauty contest - and the presidency, according to polls taken today.  In this land of horrible RACISTS, a mixed-race nobody, arguably a racist himself, is preferred even over a tortured war hero!  Yes, we've come a long way and are about tp make HISTORY! The FIRST, well sorta the first, BLACK president!! Hallelujah. Life is gonna be GREAT.  As if to begin the celebration, the all-white florida (racist southerners?) jury just now said that wesley SNIPES, that's SNIPES is NOT guilty of tax fraud.  It's already gettin better. Now if only Danny Glover can get a cab whenever he wants, we'll all be HEALED BROTHERS!
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                      • Author by clams casino (February 01, 2008 8:06 pm ET)
                           
                        When did you turn into an apologist for racists, or have I not been paying attention? Finarfin is a self-proclaimed white supremacist who has repeatedly stated that he is opposed to the mixing of the races. He now says that mixed race people are weird looking and unattractive, and that's just one of the reasons why he dislikes them.

                        In what way is that NOT racist? He dislikes an entire race of people based in part on their appearance. Again, that is the very definition of racism.
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              • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 11:03 pm ET)
                   

                >>I will not deny what i see, not for you nor anyone.

                No, you won't. Which is how we know you are a blatant racist.  

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              • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:18 am ET)
                   
                Your self delusion is ludicrous. You basically said mixed race people are ugly. Tell that to Halle Berry. You are an idiot and a racist. Disgusting actually. Your white supremist BS disgusts me and you embarass me as a white person AND as a human being. Grow up.
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                • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 5:36 pm ET)
                     
                  i did not say ALL interracials are unattractive, I said that the everyday ones i see in in America, NOT CELEBRITIES! You could give an example of beauty in any race, the fact is that most interracials are just not generally that attractive.
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                  • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 8:57 pm ET)
                       

                    You could give an example of beauty in any race, the fact is that most interracials are just not generally that attractive.

                    Okay, any of you guys (atheist or calllwhatever) wanna defend THAT as not being racist? 

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                  • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 9:14 pm ET)
                       
                    And your evidence of this is WHAT? I mean besides your biased, bigoted view of things? The most beautiful baby I ever saw was in Louisiana. It was a mixed race baby with a white mother. I was just staring at the baby it was so captivating and the woman was looking at me with contempt. I saw that and told her I was sorry it was just such an astonishingly beautiful baby I couldnt help myself and she smiled and was proud. She obviously thought I was a racist like YOU and was going to make a cruel comment about her baby. You shame decent human beings everywhere.
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                    • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 10:44 pm ET)
                         

                      First of all Solon, i have to tell you that when one is a s fiercly dogmatic as many posters here are, the eye sees what the mind wants it too see.

                      Me personally, the most beutiful child i have seen is from a Nazi propaganda poster. <kidding> =J Actually it would have been when i was looking at some photographs of distant relatives, I was astonished and amazed at the utter beauty of this white blonde child.

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            • Author by Lynn (January 31, 2008 10:35 pm ET)
                 

              Hey Clams,

               

              I try to never engage FinFan directly it's too distasteful, but she does provide normal people with a peep into the rabid racist perspective that I believe is on the decline. It's interesting to see how political and social issues are filtered through the warped logic of a racist. Now racism is still alive and well in our country although the typical strains encountered these days are of a much more benign nature than the virulent strains displayed by poor FinFan and Savage. Theirs is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, they’re slowly becoming their own minority group. Now there may always be some little pockets of these people held up somewhere inbreeding but hopefully they will all go somewhere and stay the heck away from the rest of us. I agree with FinFan America is truly a generous country, much more generous than I am because if it were up to me we would do some kind of minimal screening to access  a prospective immigrant’s views on diversity. I would add a disclaimer to the application saying something like America is a very diversed country if you don’t like diversity that stay the hell where you are or find a country with a more homogenic population. We screen applicants for certain physical and mental illnesses we could certainly add Fin’s brand of craziness to the list as well. Hell we have enough domestic racist we shouldn’t be importing them too. Fin’s presence here is certainly a testament to the tolerance of the American people. America has given her the freedom to slam the intelligence, morals and cultural practices of all the native born Americans who don’t look like her immigrant family.  Now some might consider that immigrant family's behavior rude, crass, and ungracious but anyway God Bless America!

               

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              • Author by jeter2 (January 31, 2008 10:44 pm ET)
                   

                Lynn,

                Have I told you lately that you are one hell of a good writer. Loved your post.

                I've never interacted with Fin, though I read his posts. Or her posts. You keep calling Fin a her?

                Anyway well done.

                P.S. You left me a post on the Joe S. thread, I left you a reply. Hope you get a chance to read it.

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                • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 10:49 pm ET)
                     

                  Jeter,

                  Your namesake is interracial and does pretty well with the ladies.

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                  • Author by jeter2 (January 31, 2008 11:01 pm ET)
                       

                    Excellent example Fried!

                    I'm sure we could list dozens more, Hallee Berry & Mariah Carey come to mind. Both so hot! Guess Fin wouldn't find them attractive though;-)

                     

                     

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                    • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 11:07 pm ET)
                         

                      Jeter,

                      Fin truly is a disturbed individual.  I ranted a bit more down a few posts.

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                      • Author by jeter2 (January 31, 2008 11:23 pm ET)
                           
                        Just read it Fried, well done. But I don't think it will mean much to Fin. He's only into pure when it comes to race.
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                    • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 11:10 pm ET)
                         
                      Oh sure they are indeed attractive, but i speak of everyday interracials, not celebrities (nearly all of whom are somewhat attractive.) I do not look at celebrities to represent a population, i look at the normal people i am in contact with.
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                      • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 11:13 pm ET)
                           

                        Fin,

                        Do you repress your hatred of them or do you tell him how much they disgust you?  Do you tell the interracial couples in your life that you think that you think they are an abomination?

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                        • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 11:19 pm ET)
                             
                          "Hatred"??? now here you are mistaken, i am not at all a hateful person, I actually was taught to love all and so i do. certainly the fact that i think they are muddying their gene pool does instill in me a minimal antipathy but if i got to know a good person who is interracial (and i have on multiple occasions) my views really do not stand in the way of friendship.
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                          • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 11:25 pm ET)
                               

                            Fin,

                            You call two people of different races who find love an abomination.  That makes you a hateful person.  You classify races based on skin color, that is hateful.  You think your race is superior to other races.  That is hateful.  You said you dislike interracial children.  That is hateful. 

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                            • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 11:44 pm ET)
                                 

                              >>You think your race is superior to other races.

                              Did he really say this?  

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                              • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 11:54 pm ET)
                                   

                                Funnyman,

                                He wants the term "white supremacist" shouldn't be a bad thing.  I am not sure I could find the post though.  He says that different races have different median intelligences.  I am not sure which threads these are in though.

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                                • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 11:58 pm ET)
                                     

                                  Holly crap! What a total nut! And he has the nerve to say that he isn't a racist? 

                                  For the future, we should paste those quotes in a file on our computer, and each time Finfarin posts, simply paste them in. When he tries to troll, we should just post his quotes, and make the thread about his having to answer what he said.

                                  (I wonder if Farfarin isn't a troll in the truest sense of the word? Can anyone really believe such hate; and if they did, would they come on a liberal board and try to defend it? Is he just trying to get a rise out of us?) 

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                                  • Author by friedbergboy1422 (February 01, 2008 12:07 am ET)
                                       
                                    No clue, but I like the database idea.
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                                  • Author by clams casino (February 01, 2008 1:00 am ET)
                                       
                                    I think his "white supremacist" posts were deleted, because they don't turn up in a search anymore. In a nutshell, he was ranting about how whites were superior to other races in many aspects including median intelligence. And then he went off on a tangent about how the term "white supremacist" gets a bad rap, and that he felt a new term was needed. I believe he prefers "White Nationalist," as that's how he usually refers to himself. He's also mentioned slavery as a "viable" economic method, insists on referring to black people as "colourds" (his spelling) or "negroes," and has repeatedly written about his ideal of racially segregated society.

                                    Worrierking actually collected a bunch of Finarfin quotes, all from just one thread. Here are a couple of the worst:

                                    "The fact that i think africans are currently inferior in thair average levels of intellect does not make me a rascist, If it does by definition that the meaning of the word is itself twisted and much too vague.

                                    - FINARFIN / Thursday November 29, 2007 01:33:26 PM EST

                                    They sure do not want to speak like us, and in their aversion to speaking like a "white" they use some sort of twisted accent of the poor southerner and thus continue to degrade themselves. They (the majority) do not understand the privelige of living like civilized humans, they trash all in their sight and pollute our neighborhoods. The [african american] people seem to think that just because they worked hard in america's beginning they no longer need to work, thair historical labour quotas have been fulfilled. This is a self destructive mindset. We gave them the priviledge of equal education and they defecate upon this privaledge. they refuse to learn. take a look at the educational scores of the majority of African Americans, they perpetuate their ignorance of thair own ignorance. The majority of them have forgotten the struggle of thair forefathers for equality, and thus they forgoe the privaliges bestowed upon them. To be educated is to be "white" to a black man, and thus he will not learn. The afrikan amerikan's obsession with "whites" is crippleing them. by the way for those of you who will no doubt call me rascist, it might help that you look up the actual meaning of the word.

                                    - FINARFIN / Wednesday November 28, 2007 12:28:55 AM EST

                                    My heroes are certainly more likely to be white, seeing as all the greatness of civilization was primarily a 'white' accomplishment."

                                    Now can we ignore him?
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                            • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 6:04 pm ET)
                                 

                              People who "find love" with different races can do so all they want, i just don't love it whey have offspring.

                              "You classify races based on skin color, that is hateful."-F

                              Skin pigmentation is a charactaristic! Am i hateful if i say that Caucasian people are white? Your comment is logically flawed. So even if there was a diference amongst races, it would best be denied and ignored?

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                            • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 6:04 pm ET)
                                 

                              People who "find love" with different races can do so all they want, i just don't love it whey have offspring.

                              "You classify races based on skin color, that is hateful."-F

                              Skin pigmentation is a charactaristic! Am i hateful if i say that Caucasian people are white? Your comment is logically flawed. So even if there was a diference amongst races, it would best be denied and ignored?

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                              • Author by friedbergboy1422 (February 01, 2008 7:12 pm ET)
                                   

                                Fin,

                                I meant you classify people and who they are based on their race.  You don't mind if interracial people find love, you just don't want them to have kids, eh?  I stand by my points.

                                 

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                              • Author by friedbergboy1422 (February 01, 2008 7:12 pm ET)
                                   

                                Fin,

                                I meant you classify people and who they are based on their race.  You don't mind if interracial people find love, you just don't want them to have kids, eh?  I stand by my points.

                                 

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                            • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 6:04 pm ET)
                                 

                              People who "find love" with different races can do so all they want, i just don't love it whey have offspring.

                              "You classify races based on skin color, that is hateful."-F

                              Skin pigmentation is a charactaristic! Am i hateful if i say that Caucasian people are white? Your comment is logically flawed. So even if there was a diference amongst races, it would best be denied and ignored?

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                            • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 7:41 pm ET)
                                 

                              "You classify races based on skin color, that is hateful." F

                              Who doesnt! Am i wrong in classifying Caucasians as "white?" your comment is logically flawed, it is not hateful to classify races by their unique characteristics. I think that people can "find love" within another race as long as they want, i just dislike for them to have mixed children. Do you think that if there was a difference amongst races, it should be ignored and disclaimed even if true? I see that man really cannot be without some form of religion, yours just takes the form of a fierce dogma that blocks you to any evidence undermining it. As when Darwin first published his works and they where denied by the religious so is as fiercly denied the possibility of there being a difference in racial performance levels.

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                              • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 7:46 pm ET)
                                   
                                pardon the redundancy, i kept getting some sort of error so i did not think that my comments where posting. Can i flag these comments to remove them? ( the copies i mean)
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                          • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 11:51 pm ET)
                               

                            Finfarin:

                            >>I actually was taught to love all and so i do. certainly the fact that i think they are muddying their gene pool

                            What the F@* are you talking about? When any two people mate, they mix their gene pools. Do you think it is different when people of different color do so?  

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                            • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 7:56 pm ET)
                                 
                              Funnypants, the children of the people of different color who mix are dominated by the darker genes. This goes down to pigmentation, darker pigments are more dominant over lighter ones, and so it is with genetics.
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                          • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:21 am ET)
                               

                            Yes you are hateful, ignorant and basically disgusting with your racist nonsense.

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                          • Author by carlileb5935 (February 01, 2008 4:14 am ET)
                               
                            You know Fin, that gene pool you say they are "muddying" bears an awful similar resemblance to everyone else's. That's the fallacy in your thinking. There's not much of a difference.
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                      • Author by jeter2 (January 31, 2008 11:21 pm ET)
                           

                        Fin,

                        There are plenty of pure 100% Caucasions that aren't attractive, or are down right ugly, what's your explanation for that?

                        Our eldest son's best friend is Irish-Korean & he has to beat the ladies off with a stick. And he doesn't recide in Hollywood.

                        Face it Fin you're a bigot & a racist.

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                        • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 11:26 pm ET)
                             

                          Jeter,

                          Plus, your namesake isn't a celebrity so much for his looks as his ability.  His looks add to it though.

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                          • Author by jeter2 (January 31, 2008 11:34 pm ET)
                               

                            Exactly Fried.

                            Hey how did we forget Barack Obama? Another good looking dude eh?

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                        • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 7:53 pm ET)
                             

                          "There are plenty of pure 100% Caucasions that aren't attractive, or are down right ugly, what's your explanation for that?"

                          Once again you put words in my mouth. It is frustrating. Can you give me a quote in which i said that a pure Caucasian will ALWAYS be attractive? I daresay you will not find one, so stop fabricating presumed opinions.

                          I tend to separate people who are attractive and conversely those who are not as those with some positive eugenics and those with negative. yet intelligence and physical ability plays in as well, there are those who are extremely intelligent yet unattractive.

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          • Author by roundhouse (January 31, 2008 8:35 pm ET)
               
            So sad for you. And too bad for you too, because the younguns today think talk like that is hateful and ugly.
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          • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 10:59 pm ET)
               

            Fin,

            You are absolutely disgusting.  One of my best friends (a white guy and a top lawyer) married a woman who is half-Japanese and half-Columbian (she is a social worker with a wonderful heart.  They both have impeccable morals and fight for justice at every turn.  They have a BEAUTIFUL little girl.  She does not look strange and has a wonderful future ahead of her.  One of the best people I met in law school is bi-racial and one of the top students in our class.

            Ask women if they find Derek Jeter attractive.  Ask most men if they find Halle Berry attractive.  One of my best friends is half-Greek and half-Japanese and he is one of the top lawyers in Washington DC.  He married a blonde woman and they are doing wonderfully well.

            You don't like interracial children because they look strange?  I can only guess that you are model material, correct?  GIVE ME A BREAK!  You talk of variety, what could lead to more variety than a mixing of races?  I know you are a white supremacist and a bigot, but this post of yours is so far over the line you don't even see the line.

            You think people will be easier to control if they look the same?  Maybe, if people were more similar they would get along better and feel a common bond unlike people who want to separate themselves like you.

            You really think that losing unique looks are too high a price to pay for losing ethnic conflicts?  Tell that to the people of Sudan.

            Look, Fin, this is my wish for you.  If you end up having children, I hope you have a son or a daughter who finds a beautiful mate who does not share your race.  I hope your son or daughter is totally and completely in love and you are forced to choose between these ridiculous beliefs and your family.  I pray for your soul, Fin.

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          • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:13 am ET)
               
            Do you realize that your ignorant racist tripe makes you an embarassment to the entire human race?
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    • Author by Kaliman (January 31, 2008 3:22 pm ET)
         

      Yesterday, Savage once again called Media Matters a homosexual site somehow connected to CAIR and, by extension, to the terrorist group Hamas.  He vowed to expose the connection.  Anyone know what he's talking about? 

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      • Author by dbeden4153 (January 31, 2008 3:30 pm ET)
           

        Yes, we're all secretly from Syria, and our sole mission is to kill Michael Savage ;)

        (The wink means I'm kidding FBI, please don't take that as a serious threat) 

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        • Author by snoopy (January 31, 2008 4:43 pm ET)
             

          Methinks you will be Ok, the FBI is busy trying to find out who sent fake anthrax to all the scientology churches.

          FBI, if you're listening, I bet it wasn't the muslims...

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        • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 9:08 pm ET)
             

          I know you're not from Syria and here to kill Dr. Weiner.

          That said, how is the ission-may to ill-kay octor-day einer-day going? 

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      • Author by IRONY 101 (January 31, 2008 3:32 pm ET)
           
        Sorry, wish I had time to answer but I'm in the middle of redecorating the bomb making room. The track lighting looks super...
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      • Author by worrierking (January 31, 2008 5:43 pm ET)
           
        تعلمون خطتنا.
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        • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (February 01, 2008 2:08 am ET)
             
          How do you do that, King? Everything I try to paste from the character map comes up as the corresponding letters in whatever font this is in.
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          • Author by worrierking (February 01, 2008 7:56 am ET)
               
            I went to an online English to Arabic translation site.

            I entered something like "You're on to our plan" and translated from English to Arabic.

            I guess either the site or my computer has Arabic fonts so it displayed properly. Then I cut and pasted the Arabic into the response field and posted.

            I then went to check to see if it displayed properly and it came up as gibberish. I was using a Mac with Safari as my browser. I opened the page in Firefox and it displayed properly.

            Then I went to my PC and displayed the page, it also displayed correctly.
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        • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 9:09 pm ET)
             
          Dammit!  You made me spit diet pepsi all over the place!
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    • Author by Blueneck (January 31, 2008 3:30 pm ET)
         
      Green monkey meat? I thought it was green cheese? Oh wait--that's the moon. Excuse me I have to get back to writing my treatise on creation science and the Global Warming Hoax. Thanks for having our back Weiner.
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      • Author by dbeden4153 (January 31, 2008 3:41 pm ET)
           

        Here's a video for your research.

        Oh Mike Seaver...

         

         

         

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        • Author by robotchubby (January 31, 2008 5:27 pm ET)
             
          I guess Krik Cameron's playing of Mike Seaver as a dunderhead wasn't really a stretch for him.
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        • Author by robotchubby (January 31, 2008 5:28 pm ET)
             
          The video reminds me of a joke, the punchline being "the penis is shaped the way it is so your hand doesn't slip off the end!"
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    • Author by Chuck Adkins (January 31, 2008 3:31 pm ET)
         

      Yikes.... If Al Sharpton gets ahold of this and it takes off. He will be done, history, bu-bye....

      One can only hope.

       

       

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      • Author by jeter2 (January 31, 2008 3:42 pm ET)
           

        I agree, this one deserves Al Sharpton's attention.

        But unlike Imus, Bill Clinton & others that have gone on to Sharpton's radio program to explain their remarks don't expect Savage to do the same.

         

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        • Author by Clevenative (January 31, 2008 3:56 pm ET)
             
          Besides, what's there to explain?
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        • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:07 am ET)
             
          Imus (was out of a job0, Bill Clinton didn't have his own radio program. Why would Savage give Sharpton through the roof ratings for a day? Not only give him him ratings, but credibility. The man has a fake divinity degree, he deserves no respect. Freddy's Fashion Mart anyone?
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          • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:18 am ET)
               
            Yes, sure, John. Sharpton is not credible, but Savage is? And then you claim you are not a racist? Did you, oh, happen to read what Savage said? 
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            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:27 am ET)
                 
              "Sharpton is not credible, but Savage is?"

              On the most un-biased level, Savage has a PhD in epidemiology and nutritional science, that he earned. He also is a 4-time NYT best seller. Sharpton has been handed an honorary divinity degree.

              Oh, and at least Savage has never egged on a crowd to the point where that crowd murdered multiple people of another race. Freddy's Fashion Mart.
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              • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:31 am ET)
                   

                >>On the most un-biased level, Savage has a PhD in epidemiology and nutritional science, that he earned. He also is a 4-time NYT best seller. Sharpton has been handed an honorary divinity degree.

                Sorry, but this is total BS. I couldn't care less about Savage's education. Did you, oh, happen to read what Savage said? Or what he always says? And having best sellers means nothing; lots of right wing nut cases do. It means nothing.

                Just admit you are a racist, John. Savage said ugly, racist things, and you think that is okay.  

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                • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:46 am ET)
                     
                  Yeah buddy, ignore the facts about the two men. Hell, PhDs mean nothing. Honorary divinity degrees are much more prestigious.

                  Oh, and keep using the word "racist." I think you might make the book of world records for number of uses of it in 1 hour.
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                  • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:50 am ET)
                       

                    Yes, I will ignore the facts when they have no bearing on the case. Savage might be a better basketball player than Sharpton, too. Dos that mean Savage isn't a ranting lunatic? I think you need to re-read what Savage said.

                    And yes, you are a racist. Do you think I'm not going to point that out each time, just because you say I'm setting a record?  

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                    • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:54 am ET)
                         
                      I think your a racist.
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                      • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:54 am ET)
                           
                        Getting a little desperate, John? Are you the one defending Savage? I think you are. 
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                        • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:59 am ET)
                             
                          No, but anyone who listens to Savage all the time gets the full picture. You don't, thats fine. It must shock you to find out that Savage has fans of all races. You assume that because I agreed with Savage on one point that I must be white and must be racist. Assumptions can lead to unintended racism and hurtful stereotypes, so you should think before you assume things about people.
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                          • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 1:03 am ET)
                               

                            No, John. Savage made a completely lunatic, racist rant. (And you say that liberalism is a mental disorder?) I don't have to listen to him all the time to know he is a racist. (This isn't the first time he made such a rant.)

                            If you listen to him, and defend him, I can only conclude that you are a racist.  

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                            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 1:28 am ET)
                                 
                              Savage's rant here is based on the fact that Africa is 3rd world. The tribes there do still settle problems through violence, this is fact. America is better than that. America is superior to ANY 3rd world nation. It's not racist to make America out to be more superior than a 3rd world country.
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                              • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:32 am ET)
                                   
                                Its racist to say because they come from Africa they cant reason. Its also racist to appologize for such lunacy.
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                                • Author by mary59 (February 01, 2008 10:31 am ET)
                                     

                                  Thank you Solon. It's impossible to reason with people who listen to Savage and like what he says.  They defend the most ridiculous diatribes.

                                   

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                                • Author by What Happened to Gannon (February 01, 2008 10:35 am ET)
                                     
                                  It's sort of interesting seeing racists like John -NOT- defending Savage here.  ; )
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                              • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 9:14 pm ET)
                                   

                                The tribes there do still settle problems through violence, this is fact.

                                How'd we handle our imaginary differences with Iraq?  Slumber party? 

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                  • Author by Blueneck (February 01, 2008 4:08 am ET)
                       

                    Other great Ph.D.s and M.D.s persecuted for holding beliefs similar to Savage Weiner:

                    Dr. Josef Mengele; University of Munich (Ph.D. in Anthropology 1935); Frankfurt University (1938) Doctorate in medicine (M.D.)

                    Carl Clauberg professor of gynecology at the University of Königsberg

                    Fritz Fischer M.D. University of Hamburg (1938)

                    Dr. Hubertus Strughold M.D. (Göttingen 1922)

                    Dr. Eduard Wirths M.D. (University of Würzburg (1935)

                    You might be onto something John. Savage is beginning to sound like he is part of their intellectual and moral lineage. Poor Weiner--so misunderstood and so unjustly maligned. Life is just so cruel sometimes.

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          • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:28 am ET)
               
            The Weinerdog couldnt give ANYONE credibility. He doesnt have any, his show doesnt have any. The man in just nuts and that is like the opposite of credibility.
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      • Author by atheist (January 31, 2008 6:05 pm ET)
           

        Yikes.... If Al Sharpton gets ahold of this and it takes off. He will be done, history, bu-bye....

         

        Chuck, you just gave me a good idea to relieve some of my frustration.  I will  send this to Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita, she has a radio show with call-ins and I'm sure it will provoke outrage among her listeners.  Maybe Savage Weiner will finally be cooked !

        Someone should alert Jesse ...

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        • Author by atheist (January 31, 2008 6:32 pm ET)
             
          In addition to alerting Santita Jackson, I alerted the Detroit Chapter of the NAACP which had responded to Imus' remarks, just in case they were not aware of Savage's remarks.
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          • Author by john174541842 (January 31, 2008 6:58 pm ET)
               
            HAHA! Right, the almighty group CAIR can't even put a dent in Savage. Have fun notifying the fraudulent black racists with fake divinity degrees, they can't touch him.
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            • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 9:03 pm ET)
                 
              You are a ranting bigot, aren't you John? Why don't you just come out and admit it rather than try to cloak your arguments? 
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              • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:10 am ET)
                   
                wow, all the libs must be squating over the same campfire tonight. Everyone is a racist bigot tonight! Fin speculated about super viruses, and said that in his personal opinion multi-racial people are not attractive...HE MUST BE RACIST! haha. I think britney spears is a hideous wench....I must be racist against whites now.

                I pointed out that CAIR, Jackson, or Sharpton will never be able to take down Savage. This makes me a racist? Please, really, get a grip.
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                • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:16 am ET)
                     

                  Yes, John, you are a racist. You said about Savage: "Couldn't have been said better." And Savage had made an ugly, racist rant. So really, are you seriously going to argue that you are not a racist? 

                  And no, Fin wasn't talking about super viruses. Read more carefully. He was saying that mixing races would make us more suspectible; and that he thinks interracial couples produce ugly children; and that they are "muddying" their gene pool.

                  Like I said in my other post, John, just admit you are a racist. Really, stop all the silly pretense at reasoning.  

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                  • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:36 am ET)
                       
                    Like I said, britney spears is hideous. I must hate whites now.

                    Every time britney has a baby, she muddys the gene pool. I must hate whites more now.

                    I'm going to speculate that there is an outside chance that some super-viruses might rise, due to this being the first time in history that we have mass amounts of interracial children being born. Excuse me for hypothesizing, I must be a racist.

                    If I were actually a racist, I probably would go to lunch with the arab girl i work with. And I'm guessing that I wouldn't have voluntarily gone on vacation with my black friend. Additionally, many people/cultures in Africa are 3rd world. It's not racist to point out how the third world operates.
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                    • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:39 am ET)
                         

                      >>I'm going to speculate that there is an outside chance that some super-viruses might rise, due to this being the first time in history that we have mass amounts of interracial children being born. Excuse me for hypothesizing, I must be a racist.

                      Yes, and an idiot. You obviously know nothing about biology. But that is another reason for me to believe that right wing reactionaries have a "mental disorder." 

                      Please spare me the "I have a good friend who is black" schtick. The problem is that you are defending Savage, who has made incredibly racist remarks. In fact, you are saying that you yourself couldn't have said it better.  So, yes, you are a racist.

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                      • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:50 am ET)
                           
                        See my post below, but you are wrongly assuming that I agreed with the entire audio clip. I quoted one specific line that ONLY related to money, AIDS, and behavior. You have brought race into the picture and are accusing me of supporting everything that Savage said, which I never did.
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                        • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:53 am ET)
                             

                          Oh, boo hoo hoo! John has called me a moron and has said that liberas have a mental disorder, and now he wants to take the high road! Oh, did I take you out of context?

                          John, there is not agreeing with Savage after he went on his lunatic rant. You lose credibility after you do so. Yet, here you are *quoting* him, rather than denouncing him; so what can I conclude except that you are a racist?  

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                          • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:55 am ET)
                               
                            Actually, I know it now, you must be a racist. Your hate for Savage is pungent. You hate white men.
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                            • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:59 am ET)
                                 

                              Sure, John. If I denouce a racist like Savage, then I must be a racist. And if you defend him, you must not be!

                              And you called me a moron?  

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                      • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 10:37 pm ET)
                           

                        "Please spare me the "I have a good friend who is black" schtick. The problem is that you are defending Savage, who has made incredibly racist remarks.  So, yes, you are a racist." funnypants

                        Thank you John for fighting the fight of overwhelming odds, many jump on the bandwagon of hate and a very few use their minds unfouled. I salute you for defending the good name of Savage when few others will.

                        Funnypants, what is flawed in my theory that a racially intermixed world will make it easy for a powerful virus to wipe us out?

                        And about interracials, it is personal preference, you should not and i will not tell you what to like. Personally I am not as attracted to non-whites myself. personal preference. you may want to call this racist but please for once ignore this irrational reflex and think my comments through.

                        So this "i have a good friend that is black" shtick does not mean you are not racist? well I'll be damned, and here i was thinking racists hated black folks. Now according to this (apparently archaic) notion having black buddies would make one NOT racist. PLEASE explain to me how this could be, a racist with black friends? I could explain it, but you have denied my explanation;you where saying that "racists" MUST hate all black people.

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                    • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:36 am ET)
                         

                      I cant believe you tried the "some of my best friends ' defense. Savage made a clearly racist remark. YOU agreed. When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. You look racist from here. If you WERENT you would at the very least recognize the racism in the Wienerdogs lunatic rant. Instead you agreed with it. It really isnt that complicated.

                       

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                      • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 11:13 am ET)
                           
                        What really isn't complicated is to actually look at the single line I chose to quote and defend.  It has nothing that even relates to racism in any way in it.  Everyone seems to have trouble understanding that I am not supporting or talking about any other part of this rant.  Get it through your heads, please.
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                        • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 3:41 pm ET)
                             
                          And yet you ARE defending him WITHOUT mentioning the CLEARLY racist baloney he is spouting along with the ONE LINE YOU AGREE WITH. I guess you would be one of those people who would tell Mrs Lincoln, yes but except for that unfortunate shooting your husband in the head thing it was a really good play wasnt it?
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                          • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 3:59 pm ET)
                               
                            I have stated, in this thread, that I do not support and other portion of this audio clip, other than what I speciafically quoted.  Apparently you do not read my posts, or you cannot comprehend what "I do not support it" means.
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                            • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 4:23 pm ET)
                                 

                              Wow you are a liar! You state in this post:

                              >>I have stated, in this thread, that I do not support and other portion of this audio clip, other than what I speciafically quoted.

                              >>Savage's rant here is based on the fact that Africa is 3rd world. The tribes there do still settle problems through violence, this is fact. America is better than that. America is superior to ANY 3rd world nation. It's not racist to make America out to be more superior than a 3rd world country.

                              >>john174541842 / Friday February 1, 2008 1:28:01 AM EST

                              You are lying right through your teeth.

                              Yes, you are a huge bigot. Let's not forget how yesterday you connected Obamma to terrorism because of his middle name. You also implied that Obamma was corrupt because he came from Chicago; in other words, you smeared him because of an association. Yet here you are associating yourself not only with som reasonable things Savage said, but actually defending his lunacy.  

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                            • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 9:22 pm ET)
                                 
                              Unfortunatly thought it is painful I do read your posts. The backhanded admission that you dont support EVERYTHING he said was drug out of you. You criticised those calling the Weinerdog a racist. You said there was nothing racist in what he said. Let me remind you of the first rule of holes. It is time for you to stop digging. You arent fooling anyone.
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    • Author by pete592 (January 31, 2008 3:44 pm ET)
         

      The Savage Weiner continues to do his civic duty by projecting a positive, uplifting image of America to the rest of the world.  What a Patriot.

      </sarc> 

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    • Author by Clevenative (January 31, 2008 3:55 pm ET)
         

      His audience thinks that his rants, at the intellectual level of a 3rd grader, while demeaning and mocking the caller  - telling him to shut up without ever letting him have his say – is somehow worthy of their listening time?

      If I heard something like this on the radio just once – I’d never listen to that program again. It’s so sad to think there are at least 8 million morons in our midst who relish in having their homophobic racist ideals reinforced and stroked by the likes of Weiner – or any of the top 3 radio talk show host – on a near daily basis. It makes me ashamed to be an American.

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      • Author by IRONY 101 (January 31, 2008 4:01 pm ET)
           
        Sometimes I'm not too proud of being human...
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        • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 8:16 pm ET)
             
          there's medication for that.....
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          • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 9:20 pm ET)
               

            Finfarin wrote:

            >>Nearly all of the interracial folks i have seen are not at all attractive, rather i think interracials are LESS attractive. This is part of the reason why i dislike them, they have unattractive features as they are just plain strange.

            Is their medication for your lunacy?  

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            • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 9:42 pm ET)
                 
              this is a matter of personal preference in physical appearances, you want to control the tastes of others? You would fit very well in the former Soviet union.
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              • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 10:59 pm ET)
                   
                Oh, boo hoo hoo! Finfarin is being shown to be a racist! And if we point that out, then we are Soviets. Boo hoo hoo! 
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              • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 11:18 pm ET)
                   

                Fin,

                You want to control the BREEDING of others.  Which is worse?

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              • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:40 pm ET)
                   

                Finarfin, you certainly have a right to express your personal aesthetic preferences, but you can't expect everyone to agree with you.  I personally like recessive (aka "weak") chins while most people like pronounced (aka "strong") chins.  Should I suggest that recessive chin people not mix with pronounced chin people, to preserve this physical feature that I find so beautiful ?

                I'd be interested in seeing what you look like, and finding out just how "pure" you actually are.  We all came from Africa, you know.  We're all mixed to some degree.  I'm a Euro white but my father's ancestors are northern Euro and my mother's are eastern Euro ... they look totally different.  Should they have not married and had kids lest they taint the beauty of the world's inhabitants ? 

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                • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 11:01 pm ET)
                     

                  No Atheist, these genetic differences are too minute. Personally i would have to agree, a "strong jaw" is even sometimes intimidating, the recessive chinned usually have a lot more character in their faces and are so much more interesting to draw.

                  If you want know i myself am not genetically pure, And i do not require this among whites. few are indeed pure and in todays world this is hardly something one can demand. I am very proud of my eastern European heritage, and if you must know i am actually of mostly Italian appearance.

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        • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 11:31 am ET)
             

          Then kill yourself and save us the complaints.  Or move to Africa so people will have to feel bad for you and the conditions you live in over there.  Then, if they don't automatically feel bad for you, you can call them racist.

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          • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 1:42 pm ET)
               
            Do you think that everyone in Africa lives in a hut or something ?
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            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 2:46 pm ET)
                 
              Absolutely not, and that's the irony about this whole thread.  Blacks, Whites, and Arabs of various social classes all call Africa home.  But that doesn't stop MMFA from making the case that since Savage used the word "Africa" and then referred to the culture of some throw-back tribes, he must be racist.
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              • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 3:46 pm ET)
                   
                Sure that makes sense. If you are an idiot. He said bring ten million over from Africa. I as sure he MEANT to choose them from throwback tribes. He also said they cant reason. He IS a racist. So are you for twisting logic into pretzels to appologize for his racism. Funnmanpants is right just take the plunge and embrace your racism. You certainly arent fooling anyone.
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          • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 3:48 pm ET)
               
            You are really stupid. I Think you ought to take a pistol into the next room and do the right thing, saving US from your weak excuses for racism and yourself from further embarassment.
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (January 31, 2008 5:14 pm ET)
           
        I hope it's a paid internship!
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (January 31, 2008 4:11 pm ET)
         
      In any business, army, or religeon, yah got trenches, inhabited trenches, unhappily inhabited trenches. Keep the baby Faith!
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    • Author by guynoir9204855 (January 31, 2008 4:30 pm ET)
         
      I find Michael Savage extremely entertaining, even if I don't agree with all his views. His tenedency toward irony, hyperbole and emotion can certainly offend some. I'm always interested in hearing some opposing viewpoints
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    • Author by john174541842 (January 31, 2008 6:56 pm ET)
         
      Seems like everyone has missed the main point here, just because they want to call Savage names. He ended by pointing out:

      "because he wants to send $45 billion to that corrupt continent -- for AIDS, which is a behavioral disease. It can be controlled only by behavior, not by money."

      Couldn't have been said better.
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      • Author by worrierking (January 31, 2008 7:09 pm ET)
           
        Thank God we have compassionate people like you John.

        Do you know how many women in Africa have been infected with the HIV virus from their husbands? These are poor women, loyal to their husbands, whose behavior is not in question. Do you know how many innocent children carry the virus from birth, transmitted from those women?

        But you're right, screw 'em.
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        • Author by john174541842 (January 31, 2008 8:21 pm ET)
             
          "...infected with the HIV virus from their husbands?"

          And the husband got it from his behavior before he was married. The child that is born with it can thank the their father for screwing around. I can save us 45 billion with one suggestion: zip it up, its free and effective.
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          • Author by carlileb5935 (February 01, 2008 4:25 am ET)
               
            What kind of behavior causes you to get HIV from a transfusion?
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            • Author by olynav2493 (February 01, 2008 7:23 pm ET)
                 
              The kind of behaviour practiced by the blood donor that caused him/her to contract AIDS
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      • Author by Clevenative (January 31, 2008 8:02 pm ET)
           

        JOHN: I don’t think anyone missed his “main point” – but what you missed is the idiocy of it.

        “Corrupt continent”? Glass houses?

        “Behavioral disease”? What contagious disease isn’t “behavioral”?  I suppose we should stop funding the care and research of lung cancer since it’s mostly caused by the “behavior” of smokers?

        This aid from the U.S. is long overdue. Who knows how many lives could have been saved if it had come sooner?

        What bothers me is how you could support him on this “point”. Your selfishness and lack of compassion are discouraging.

        The Weiner’s isolationist attitude is out of step with 21st century. If he wants to live in isolation and a place to feel comfortable with not having to deal with the problems of the rest of the world - I’m sure he’s made enough money selling his hate and bigotry to allow him to buy his own little island in the South Pacific. I’d celebrate the day, and help start the movement to deport the rest of his followers to join him in his utopian paradise.

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        • Author by john174541842 (January 31, 2008 8:40 pm ET)
             
          "I suppose we should stop funding the care and research of lung cancer since it’s mostly caused by the “behavior” of smokers?" - No, and this kind of response is a perfect example of how MMFA has taken Savage out of context and influenced your opinion. Before Savage took callers on this topic, he analyzed the entire chain of corruption that occurs with the lobbyists and greedy African leaders. He displayed how large portions of the money does not even make it to the right places that will administer aid. MMFA purposely does not include that because by just cutting into this segment, they can make Savage look like something he isn't.

          "What bothers me is how you could support him on this “point”. Your selfishness and lack of compassion are discouraging." - What bothers me is that you trust government bureaucrats/lobbyists/African leaders to manage your tax money. Lack of compassion? America is the most charitable and giving country to ever exist. Put some trust in the American people...we will donate our own money to important causes, we DO NOT need Washington donating for us.
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          • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 8:58 pm ET)
               

            >>since it’s mostly caused by the “behavior” of smokers?" - No, and this kind of response is a perfect example of how MMFA has taken Savage out of context

            Sure, John. How is it possible to take a such racial, raving lunancy out of context? Just admit you are a bigot. Stop trying to hide behind excuses. Just come out and say it.  

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          • Author by roundhouse (January 31, 2008 9:07 pm ET)
               
            "MMFA purposely does not include that because by just cutting into this segment, they can make Savage look like something he isn't."

            So? Savage undermines his argument with hate speech. I would argue he only makes salient points so he can manipulate sensible people, like yourself, into buying his hateful rage. He's a salesman, he gets his customer in an agreeable mood and then convinces them to say yes to something they don't need.

            "we will donate our own money to important causes, we DO NOT need Washington donating for us."

            Why not? Not to disparage charitable giving but the dirty secret is that our government, the goevernment of we the people, is efficient and can wield more influence than most any organization.

            We are Washington, it's our government. We own it.
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            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:20 am ET)
                 
              hahaha. yeah, we own it. By the time Bush is done, we will have had 20 years of Bush-Clinton ruling us. If Hillary wins, tack on a possible 8 more. Then Jeb Bush can run, and be president for 8 years. Now we are up to 36 years of Bush-Clinton Oligarchy.

              Faith in bureaucrats, now thats good stuff. Rack up another reason for liberalism being a mental disorder.
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              • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:25 am ET)
                   

                >>Rack up another reason for liberalism being a mental disorder.

                I think you, as the racist, has the mental disorder.  

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                • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:40 am ET)
                     
                  haha. you are a piece of work.
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                  • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:43 am ET)
                       

                    Ha  ha ha, aren't I? 

                    Ha ha ha! 

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                    • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 1:19 am ET)
                         
                      I'd like to re-phrase my statement. It was wrong to aim it at "liberals."

                      Anyone who has faith in bureaucrats has a mental disorder.
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                      • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 4:29 pm ET)
                           

                        >>I'd like to re-phrase my statement. It was wrong to aim it at "liberals."

                        You see what happens when you resort to name calling, John? You see how it backfires? Oh, but it sounded so good when Ann Coulter said it! And Savage can put down people so easily with his hate, how come it doesn't work on a blog, you might ask? You see, hate jocks like Savage, who any reasonable person should detest, can yell over their opponents and cut off their mics. That shows the whole weakness in their reasoning (if you want to even call it that). You see, in an exchange like this, insults don't go very far.  

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                  • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:42 am ET)
                       
                    And YOU are a comlete and utter moron.
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                    • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 11:07 am ET)
                         
                      I knew you'd break first.  Remember a while back, we had a heated argument, and at the end of it we argreed that we would keep things civil, and end the name calling of each other?  Well, I don't think I've spoken to you on here since then, but you sure did break the ice, with zero provocation from me.
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                      • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 3:58 pm ET)
                           
                        Oh baloney. What was that about liberals and their mental disorders? Did you tell another poster to kill himself? Didnt you just call funnymanpants a piece of work simply because he is taking you apart with logical posts? Keep trying to define YOUR insults as not being insults. You are either keeping to the facts of an argument or you are making ad hominem attacks. You HAVENT been keeping to the merits of an argument here.
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                        • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 4:04 pm ET)
                             
                          I told you that we would speak with civility on here, nobody else.  Funnyman attacked me with names first, and like you always say...If you can throw it, you need to be able to catch it.  Additionally, your post fell right under my re-phrasing of my mental disorder statement, so it no longer singled out liberals and fell over anyone who puts too much faith in bureaucracy.
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                          • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 4:37 pm ET)
                               

                            Sure, John. You want to be civil and you state that liberals have mental disorder. And you are defending Savage, who besides going on a racist tirade, is one of the most uncivil people I can think of.

                            Care to explain how you claim that you don't support Savage's ranting, and then you posted this:

                            >>Savage's rant here is based on the fact that Africa is 3rd world. The tribes there do still settle problems through violence, this is fact. America is better than that. America is superior to ANY 3rd world nation. It's not racist to make America out to be more superior than a 3rd world country.

                            >>john174541842 / Friday February 1, 2008 1:28:01 AM EST

                             

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                          • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 9:30 pm ET)
                               
                            Actually it came right under the post where you told him he was a real piece of work. Either you are making points or you are making ad hominem attacks. You were dishing it out. Now you are whining about it coming back your way. I think racist appologists have mental disorders. I believe in government so you are still attacking in mass not making any points. When you start tossing the mud it comes back your way. I dont care one way or another. Dish and catch or talk about the issues. Its all the same to me. It was just stupid though to talk to ME about cracking AFTER you put up the post about liberals and mental disorders which we all know is a Weinerdog hivemind meme.
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              • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 1:41 am ET)
                   
                I keep trying to tell you incredibly ignorant morons. The thing is you are far too STUPID to recognize higher brain function so it just APPEARS like a mental disorder. Its actually a mental HIGHER order. Thats ok, we all know Weinerdog worshippers are WAAAY to stupid to understand, well, pretty much anything. Keep showing your ignorance though it is amusing.
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              • Author by roundhouse (February 01, 2008 10:27 am ET)
                   
                Whatever, John.

                I have faith in the Constitution. Why don't you?
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                • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 11:10 am ET)
                     
                  That's funny, because numerous people on here have told me that the constitution has been trampled on, tossed out, and urinated on by Bush.  Now, if you have so much faith in it's ability to govern our government, why was it so easy for georgy to ignore it?  And if it was that easy for georgy, it certainly will be just as easy for future presidents.
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                  • Author by roundhouse (February 01, 2008 12:06 pm ET)
                       
                    Have I made that argument to you? No.

                    I think Bush has mocked the Constitution and has broken the law. It's been easy for him to do so primarily because of a few scurrilous Democrats have impeded the push to investigate this administration for their crimes. They will have to answer for thier lack of spine next election. That's not to say that they will cast out of office, but they will have a Progressive majority and an involved electorate to deal with.

                    You also assume the next President will be willing to skirt our system of checks and balances. That's cynical at best.

                    But to your point that government is not good at allocating humanitarian aide, I would have to say that government is good when run by people who respect it, it's that simple.

                    The private sector does certain things well but I don't want private organizations distributing conditional services any more than I want government distributing Twinkies.
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          • Author by Clevenative (January 31, 2008 9:25 pm ET)
               

            Regardless of what came before the part of the show that MMFA quotes in this story – Savage still said what he said – and I still stand by the lunacy of his statements.

            He was basically rehashing his antiquated homophobic attitude to AIDS – diminishing it as being a “behavioral problem”- which is as ludicrous as my lung cancer analogy. As far as his corruption concerns – can you name me one government assistance program that has been immune to this phenomenon?  It’s not just the machete wielding Africans who are corrupt, Weiner and friends – try talking to the folks in New Orleans and the gulf coast.

            I can almost go along with the second part of your argument. If Savage wanted to argue against government assistance to foreign lands, I’m sure he’d have plenty of support – Republicans and Democrats. But throwing in his illogical rant about AIDS and the inexcusable racist treatment given to a caller, who was only trying to voice an opinion from the other side, crossed the line - and only shows how despicable this guy is.

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            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 3:00 pm ET)
                 

              Oh yeah, the caller really had a strong opposing view point: "You don't know anything about Africa."

              I've never heard such a strong position before.

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              • Author by Clevenative (February 01, 2008 4:10 pm ET)
                   
                You never heard the caller's position because that was the only line the caller got in before Weiner started his rant. He didn't allow the caller to explain his position - but rather told him to "shut up". I guess you just don't have any respect for people with foreign accents either - or you wouldn't be defending Savage.
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        • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 8:57 pm ET)
             

          "What contagious disease isn’t “behavioral”?  I suppose we should stop funding the care and research of lung cancer since it’s mostly caused by the “behavior” of smokers?"-vantine

          Contagious diseases that are not "behavioral"? why there is a long list, TB being a big one down to the flu. Of course you could relate a certain behavior to these diseases but no one behavior covers all possibility. Lung cancer is not contagious. While AIDS is highly behavioral, i can live in America and be sure i will not get the virus if i abstain from certain behaviors.

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          • Author by Clevenative (January 31, 2008 9:52 pm ET)
               

            If I behave in such a way that I put myelf in contact with someone with TB or the flu - it is my behavior that caused me to get the disease. Perhaps if the person hadn't "behaved" in a certain way (i.e. they sneezed) - I wouldn't have got the disease, and it is their behavior that cause the transmission.

            If you want to say certain contageous diseases are primarilly sexually transmitted, them just say it. Is there something unnatural about sex? However even diseases that are primarilly transmiltted by sexual behavior - ARE also transmitted by other means.

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          • Author by Clevenative (January 31, 2008 10:07 pm ET)
               

            What "certain behaviors" are you so sure will prevent you from getting HIV? Are you going to be completely celibate? This is about the closest "guarantee" there is - but still not 100%.

            Always use a condom when you have sex? A little more risky than celibacy. No condom, but sex with only your spouse? I wonder how many people have been infected with HIV because they "trusted" that there partner was being faithful?

            Individuals like you are the most likely to actually develop AIDS after being infected by HIV because they are the most unlikely to be tested for HIV - and don't even know they have been infected until one of the oportunistic diseases associated with AIDS is manifested. By that time it is usually too late to hold the virus at bay. And if you think I am making up worse case scenerios to scare you, I am not. I speak from personal experience and have lost a close friend this way.

            There really aren't many guarantees in life - and you should quit kidding yourself about your false perception of immunity from HIV.

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            • Author by friedbergboy1422 (January 31, 2008 11:02 pm ET)
                 

              Hey Cleve,

              Are you doin better?

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              • Author by Clevenative (February 01, 2008 7:29 am ET)
                   
                Yes, can't you tell? :) I ride the rollercoaster - it's nice being at the crest of a hill - Thank You.
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      • Author by funnymanpants (January 31, 2008 8:54 pm ET)
           

        >>Couldn't have been said better.

        Savage said: 

        >>See, there you go. Couldn't use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that's what we got. There's multiculturalism for you. There's immigration for you. There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

        No, John, you couldn't have. Why don't you just admit your middle name is "bigot?" 

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        • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:43 am ET)
             
          Hey, moron, I referred only to the portion I quoted in my post when I said that savage couldn't have said it better. Thats the whole reason I quoted it. Thanks for trying to make it look like I agreed with other things Savage said, but you failed, and you are a complete fool for making a post like that.
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          • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:47 am ET)
               

            >>Hey, moron

            Hey moron! If you really think that anything Savage could say on the topic was worth repeating, after he made his lunatic rant, then you are a .. a (hold on, let me get the right word..oh I got it) moron.

            And you are a racist. If you weren't a racist, the only thing you would have posted here is disgust at Savage. Instead you are are doing the opposite. I guess you have some type of "mental disorder." 

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            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 12:53 am ET)
                 
              You are really an interesting fella. I think I could write a post that says "I don't think global warming is caused by humans" and you would probably call me racist against the human race.
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              • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:57 am ET)
                   

                >>think I could write a post that says "I don't think global warming is caused by humans"

                Yes, John, given your lack of understanding of biology, you probably would post something that stupid.

                But no, I am not calling you a racist because I disagree with you. I am calling you a racist because  you are defending Savage, who made extremely racist comments? See the difference?  

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                • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 1:35 am ET)
                     
                  Nope. I only defend the single line I quoted, but I can't seem to get you to realize that, so here it is:

                  "because he wants to send $45 billion to that corrupt continent -- for AIDS, which is a behavioral disease. It can be controlled only by behavior, not by money."

                  Those words have nothing to do with any specific race, and apply to the AIDS problem everywhere in the world. It doesn't matter what your personal thoughts about Savage are, they should not have to enter a conversation about the above quoted line. I'm certainly no racist for supporting that single, very specific line.
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                  • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 5:17 am ET)
                       
                    I have yet to see any condemnation from you of the Weinerdogs racist drivel. No you come in with support. You come in telling us how RIGHT the Weinerdog is and fail to mention his basic insanity.  You just arent fooling anyone.
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                    • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 11:20 am ET)
                         

                      Yes, I believe that single line is correct, and it has nothing to do with race.  Our friend "funnyman" is the one who started accusing me of racism for supporting that single line.  I mean, there are left-wing politicians that I despise, but on rare occasion they do say something credible and true.  I believe that no person is wrong 100% of the time, its just impossible to do. 

                      With all your talk of higher brain function, I can't see why you and others seemingly do not have the ability to separate a single quotation and talk about what it means.

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                      • Author by solon (February 01, 2008 3:53 pm ET)
                           

                        You have done more than that. You have criticised people accusing Savage of racism. Also you DIDNT distance yourself FROM the racism. You didnt say well I have to admit its pretty racist to act like everyone in Africa carries around machetes and saying they cant reason but I agree with this line. You came in defending Savage without such distancing that leaves you open to criticism for appolgizing for a clearly racist rant. When Jesse Jackson made his hymietown comment I criticised him directly I didnt say well he couldnt have said it better THEN claimed I was only talking about some other part of his speech. Its weak.

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                        • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 4:14 pm ET)
                             

                          When I chose not to comment on the majority of this audio clip, I didn't expect people to attack me for being racist for not condemning it.  I didnt know I was required to say the magic words, otherwise I'd be considered racist.  I was labeled racist because I didn't talk about something or offer an opinion on it.  Usually you need to hear somone's opinion on something before you can label him a racist.  I'm sorry I won't repeat after you just to prove my point, but funnyman was quick to label and slow to think about it.

                           In the future, I will remember that when I try to have a conversation about money and AIDS, I'm making myself out to be racist because I failed to kiss the behinds of black people before I talked about it.

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                          • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 4:45 pm ET)
                               

                            >>When I chose not to comment on the majority of this audio clip, I didn't expect people to attack me for being racist for not condemning it

                            But, you do defend Savage:

                            >>I have stated, in this thread, that I do not support and other portion of this audio clip, other than what I speciafically quoted.

                            >>Savage's rant here is based on the fact that Africa is 3rd world. The tribes there do still settle problems through violence, this is fact. America is better than that. America is superior to ANY 3rd world nation. It's not racist to make America out to be more superior than a 3rd world country.

                            >>john174541842 / Friday February 1, 2008 1:28:01 AM EST

                            And in another post, far from denouncing Savage's rant, you said his words were taken out of context.

                            So not only are you a racist, but a liar on top of it. 

                             

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                            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 6:42 pm ET)
                                 
                              I'm so sick of explaining the context of this (I actually listen to the entire show, so I understand it), nothing gets through your thick skulls. You sickos think everyone in the world is equal. Well, I'm glad you think you are equal to the Al Queda members who just used two women with downs syndrome as involuntary suicide bombers. Have fun being equal, you SICKOS. And guess what, I agree with every word Savage says. Although I tried to talk about a non-controversial part of his speech, you hateful people had to go down the racism road, which is so pathetic. If you think I am racist for not denouncing who you want me to denounce, thats not my problem, it's yours. Have fun trying to implement your communist tactics on others, I'm out.
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                              • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 9:28 pm ET)
                                   

                                And guess what, I agree with every word Savage says.

                                And that pretty much sums it up! 

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                              • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 11:31 pm ET)
                                   

                                John no matter how many times you attempt to explain yourself twill all be in vain, once the blindness of accusation sets in it shan't be removed.

                                 "I'm making myself out to be racist because I failed to kiss the behinds of black people before I talked about it."-J.

                                I agree that certainly one should never kiss the boots of another ethnicity, something i see often in America. So often i see liberals kissing the slippers of the mooslim. So often whenever speaking of blacks, acquaintances go into a 5minute pre-spiel about they are absolutely NOT racist. I can see Limbaugh's point with the "magic negro" thing, liberals are waiting for a black candidate to outpour their guilt. i for one will bow my head for no one on such grounds, I am proud of my white heritage, and am sorry for those of you who are not, it must be terrible to live with such self-loathing.

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                  • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 4:49 pm ET)
                       

                    Sorry, John, but you are lying: 

                    >>Nope. I only defend the single line I quoted, but I can't seem to get you to realize that, so here it is:

                    But here is what you said previously:

                    >>I have stated, in this thread, that I do not support and other portion of this audio clip, other than what I speciafically quoted.

                    >>Savage's rant here is based on the fact that Africa is 3rd world. The tribes there do still settle problems through violence, this is fact. America is better than that. America is superior to ANY 3rd world nation. It's not racist to make America out to be more superior than a 3rd world country.

                    >>john174541842 / Friday February 1, 2008 1:28:01 AM EST

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                • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 11:48 am ET)
                     

                  "Yes, John, given your lack of understanding of biology, you probably would post something that stupid."

                  Global Warming has to do with Climatology, Geology, and various other natural/environmental sciences.  Biology is a LIFE science.  But maybe you jsut got your life sciences and environmental sciences mixed up.  No big deal.

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                  • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 4:46 pm ET)
                       

                    >>Global Warming has to do with Climatology, Geology, and various other natural/environmental sciences.  Biology is a LIFE science.  But maybe you jsut got your life sciences and environmental sciences mixed up.  No big deal.

                    Read more carefully, John. Where did I make the claim that you said I did?  

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                    • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 6:25 pm ET)
                         
                      When you said this: "Yes, John, given your lack of understanding of biology, you probably would post something that stupid."

                      Clearly, one does not need to understand biology to understand global warming. Global Warming relies on other areas of science.
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                      • Author by Blueneck (February 01, 2008 8:49 pm ET)
                           

                        Dukes, J. S., & Mooney, H. A. (1999). Does global change increase the success of biological invaders? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 14(4), 135-139.

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    • Author by interestingobserver (January 31, 2008 8:58 pm ET)
         
      The heart of the problem of the lack of cessation of the spread of AIDS iin Africa is a systematic lack of information made available to African people most at risk--that is a structural problem, reflective of the institutional incapacity of many African nations to launch the necessary education campaigns necessary to prevent the spread of the disease.  So it is not merely behavioral as Savage asserts.  However it is unclear how 45 billion is going to relieve, or even begin to relieve the problem--the figure seems astoundingly low, given the scope of the problem.  What is needed is a systematic overhaul of many African regimes coupled with efforts on the part of major pharmaceuticals to relieve their patent rights for Africa.  1/2 of these steps is not going to cut it.  Both must be done.     
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    • Author by interestingobserver (January 31, 2008 9:05 pm ET)
         
      Oh and I forgot to mention: Savage has a good reason to be mad at AIDS.  After all, it did cause him to lose his TV show :)
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      • Author by worrierking (February 01, 2008 8:03 am ET)
           
        AIDS didn't cause Dr. Weiner to lose his TV show.

        He lost his TV show because of his homophobic rant.
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    • Author by zamfir273114 (January 31, 2008 9:05 pm ET)
         
      Savage has gone overboard. I don't think anybody in the media is this bad.
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    • Author by ejb6434 (January 31, 2008 9:57 pm ET)
         

      i am always reminded of streicher the notorious jew baiter in the third reich.

      i know "savage" is jewish but i'm referring to his absolutely white-hot hatred directed towards "liberals".  i just find it incomprehensible that anyone can say what he says in a public forum. i'm very sure if he used "jew" or "african americans" in place of "liberals" or "jihadist" he'd be doing sports at 3:00 a.m. on radio wino. what hatred! 

       

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    • Author by captfoster2 (January 31, 2008 10:28 pm ET)
         

      Whoa..... Imus got fired, via advertiser distress, for saying Nappy Headed Ho's.......

      And Savage is still on the air....... after this little gem?

      Are you fricken kidding me!!

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      • Author by finarfin (January 31, 2008 11:15 pm ET)
           
        Imus' firing was on weak grounds as we can see, he is back after a succesful lawsuit.
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        • Author by funnymanpants (February 01, 2008 12:26 am ET)
             

          >>Imus' firing was on weak grounds as we can see, he is back after a succesful lawsuit.

          I would like to see a link to this. I just did a search, and could only find that Imus lawsuit was still pending; not that he won it.  

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          • Author by atheist (February 01, 2008 5:52 pm ET)
               
            At least Imus apologized.  I can't imagine Savage Weenie doing that even if his job were on the line.
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          • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 9:34 pm ET)
               

            Imus isn't "back".  He's got a new program with a smaller reach.

            He also has eaten crow and might actually understand that what he said was hurtful.  He said  "[I hope I].never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret ... that they accepted my apology." He also pledges to use his new show to discuss race relations.

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          • Author by bittermarv (February 01, 2008 9:35 pm ET)
               

            Imus isn't "back".  He's got a new program with a smaller reach.

            He also has eaten crow and might actually understand that what he said was hurtful.  He said  "[I hope I].never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret ... that they accepted my apology." He also pledges to use his new show to discuss race relations.

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          • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 11:37 pm ET)
               
            Pardon me, i was misinformed. i beleive that he will win the lawsuit, they do have a weak case against him. Yet he is back, on mediamatters and on radio. "back to discuss race relations"? This just makes me laugh, there is really only so much one can say about the subject.
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    • Author by doug108 (January 31, 2008 10:57 pm ET)
         
      Holy crap. That was one of the most mind-bendingly hateful, ignorant, and stupid things I've ever heard. It was pornographic. He'll just do what he wants, right in front of you.
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    • Author by miamflaphil5546 (February 01, 2008 2:14 am ET)
         

      He said not long ago very nasty stuff about muslims

      hollybook,theo Vanggoh was killed in Europe

      for a lot less insulting to their faith.

      Perhaps savage went too far now.

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    • Author by fastfeat (February 01, 2008 10:13 am ET)
         
       If only we were civilized enough to use machetes. The NRAmerican way is to use AK-47s and other assault weapons...
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    • Author by worrierking (February 01, 2008 10:24 am ET)
         

      Here's one monkey that'll never get eaten.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnIntk9hLnE

      Whiplash is one badass monkey. 

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    • Author by lindro (February 01, 2008 12:50 pm ET)
         
      The best explanation of the origin of the AIDS virus was from a batch of Hepatitis C and Polio vaccines grown in monkey kidney cells that were injected into the native populations living in the Congo area. The monkeys were AIDS carriers but had a natural immunity which did not translate into the human vaccines.

      Africa has long been a testing ground for the pharmaceutical corporations, many of them with HQ right here in the good old USA.

      Savage is a rabid racist who has to take the crown as most vicious propagandist on the air waves.
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    • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 1:42 pm ET)
         
      To put a final touch on this whole thing, various cultures from around the world are not equal.  Australian culture is not equal to Mexican culture.  American culture is not equal to African culture.  German culture is not equal to Iranian culture.  Certain cultures are superior to other cultures, its just a fact of life.  Everyone cannot enjoy the same high standards of life and benefits of an advanced society.  It's not racist to point that out, it is simply an observation of the current state of the world.
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      • Author by August Heat (February 01, 2008 2:01 pm ET)
           

        What's so advanced about our society, technology?  Does our war on drugs make us advanced.  How about our war on the middle class?  Even better, are we advanced because of our well thought out civil war in the Middle East?  You supremacist are a joke, white and black.  Fools, we all bleed the same blood!  Morons, whites are just as violent as blacks are just as violent as Egyptians are just as violent as Romans are just as violent . . . Violence is part of human nature and history, and poverty often accentuates this feature.  White's and Africans enslaved other men, Whites and Africans waged war on one another.  Savage said Africans settle things with machetes.  Okay, Americans settle things by attacking countries and dictators that didn't attack them, ie Saddam Hussein.  John, Finarfin and all you other Savage apologist, don't live in the real world.  Very soon your world will be invaded by a progressive generation and your species will have a beautiful spot in a museum next to the Velociraptor. 

        One race- human.

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        • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 2:30 pm ET)
             

          "Very soon your world will be invaded by a progressive generation and your species will have a beautiful spot in a museum next to the Velociraptor." - HAHA.  Once time I got laughed off the stage for making a comment like this about how conservatives will be the saving force in America.  Either way, a comment like this is purely speculative and very laughable.  America is a free country, for those of us with conservative thoughts and those of us with progressive thoughts.  The country will delve into civil war before either one of our ideologies are completely erased. 

          Additionally, if you cant see that the America is superior to Venzuela, where they shut down opposing view points, or perhaps Iran, where they hang gays, stone people to death, chop heads off, allow honor killings, and throw people off cliffs; then I have nothing to say to you.

          That "one race - human" crap makes me sick as well.  Are you even aware that with that statement, you just put yourself on the same level as a murderous Islamic jihadist?  You just put yourself in the same pool as Hitler.  Sorry man, some people are sub-human.  Cultures that allow people to be thrown off cliffs in the name of "justice" are inferior to America.

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          • Author by August Heat (February 01, 2008 2:34 pm ET)
               
            John, you're an idiot.  Conservatives are tolerable.  You are not a conservative.  What you are is a small percentage of a dying population.  You can't survive in the America we live in.  Hispanics are coming in from the south, immigrants are coming in through New York and Florida and a woman and black man are running for president.  As I said, conservatives I can stomach.  I like McCain.  You my friend are a dying breed in this country. 
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            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 3:20 pm ET)
                 

              "Hispanics are coming in from the south" - No, Illegal invaders are coming from the South because our government fails to protect America's Sovereignty, and hangs benefits out there for them.

              "immigrants are coming in through New York and Florida" - If they are coming here legally, that is good, and is how America was built.  Let's keep responsible immigration going!

              "and a woman and black man are running for president." - Ok, if you were aware of history, you would know that this is not ground-breaking.  Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president back in 1872.  Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to run back in 1972.  So, did I miss something?  Because nobody has elected obama or clinton to office yet, and right now, their campaigns are not groundbreaking for America.

               "As I said, conservatives I can stomach.  I like McCain." - The majority of conservatives do not like like him, since he has proven himself to be quite the liberally-inclined individual.  He is pulling much less support in right now than back in 2000 when he was crushed by bush.  McCain would be the best "republican" the left ever had to put up with.

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              • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 3:52 pm ET)
                   

                Oh, and if i'm "not a conservative" (how did you get the mind reading powers to determine what I am?), please fill me in on a few other members of "my kind," besides Savage, I'm curious.

                I also find it funny that a minute ago you were preaching about how all humans are one race...but now you refer to me and others as a "tribe" or special "kind" that will be extinct.  You cant even hold your own views straight.

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          • Author by August Heat (February 01, 2008 2:53 pm ET)
               
            Furthermore, every country has its problems.  Our public education system isn't the greatest.  The amount of people who die from gun violence isn't the greatest.  Have you seen the amount of people in Texas who have been released from prison due to DNA testing?  Notice who the overwhelming majority of these people are?  This along with a host of other facts disproves your superiority claim.  And again, you listen to scientist with an agenda about IQ and racial dominance if you want, when you die, and you will die, you will be judged by the same maker.  If you don't believe in God, more power to you, but there is one race of man.  Your tribe is slowly but surely clinging to an outdated, extinct reality and it warms my heart to know that one day you will have to accept change or move to another country.  Have a great weekend.
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            • Author by john174541842 (February 01, 2008 3:25 pm ET)
                 

              "when you die, and you will die" - I was hoping the progressives could keep pushing testing on human embryos so doctors could build me new body parts, and I could live forever.  You see, progressive policies will keep conservatives around forever!

               America first, always, no exceptions.

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              • Author by August Heat (February 01, 2008 10:38 pm ET)
                   
                And you are in tune with the majority of conservatives, eh Johnny boy?  Let me explain to you what I mean by tribe.  Your inbred way of thinking is dying out, whether you like it or not.  People coming from other countries do not share your views of America.  People migrating from other lands are both caucasian and people of color.  "Send them over with machetes in their heads" is not something someone who appreciates diversity would defend.  And you wish you were conservative.  Unfortunately, your views are closer to a Nazis.  That's what I meant by tribe. Please don't get me confused, I don't believe in superiority of any race.  You believe in nothing and so you fall for anything.  Keep listening to Savage, he'll keep you in tuned with reality. 
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        • Author by finarfin (February 01, 2008 11:48 pm ET)
             

          "whites are just as violent as blacks are just as violent as Egyptians are just as violent as Romans are just as violent . . . Violence is part of human nature and history" AH

          Tell that to Solon Augustheat, he seems to think that because whites lived through so much more "internecine violence" they became so proficient at killing they where able to dominate the rest of the world for a time. I agree with john that not all races are equal, we all bleed the same blood but besides being a poetic statement it means nothing in the cold hard world of reason.

          If one race is superior to another then  you have the member of that superior race a supremacist, whether they like it or not. Am i a humano-supremacist if i say humans are superior to other animals? Another reason why supremacist should be removed of its negative connotation, there are situations where it can be a fact of existence.

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    • Author by dazedandconfused26 (February 01, 2008 2:16 pm ET)
         

      So yeah... I'm white, my wife happens to be black and in a few months I'll be the proud father of a bi-racial baby. So by Savage's logic I guess my child will be half socially retarded? Help me out here I'm confused.

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    • Author by dazedandconfused26 (February 01, 2008 3:42 pm ET)
         

      "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. . . ."

       

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