Talking about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's “shutting down” of a private television station on the May 29 broadcast of his 630 KHOW-AM show, host Peter Boyles said, “This is precisely what the left wants. I don't care who they are, they want this. This is what this attack on talk radio is about; this is the nonsense that we see. Get 'em off the air. Get 'em off the air. Get 'em off the air.” Boyles later added, "[T]his is exactly what's happening in this country. Only in its, in its infant stages right now ... This is what the entire movement is about ... Kill the voice." Echoing comments he made on an earlier broadcast, Boyles further asserted, “This is what the speech Nazis want.”

As the Associated Press reported on May 29, "[T]housands protest[ed] a decision by President Hugo Chavez that forced a television station critical of his leftist government off the air" on May 28. The AP noted:

It was the largest of several protests that broke out across Caracas hours after Radio Caracas Television ceased broadcasting at midnight Sunday and was replaced with a new state-funded channel. Chavez had refused to renew RCTV's broadcast license, accusing it of “subversive” activities and of backing a 2002 coup against him.

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The new public channel, TVES, launched its transmissions early Monday with artists singing pro-Chavez music, then carried an exercise program and a talk show, interspersed with government ads proclaiming, “Now Venezuela belongs to everyone.”

As Colorado Media Matters noted, Boyles on his May 24 show responded to frequent guest Bob Cote's apparent reference to Colorado Media Matters by declaring, "[T]hey're the speech Nazis." Similarly, discussing the Don Imus controversy on Boyles' April 13 broadcast, right-wing activist David Horowitz claimed that liberals are “Stalinists” and “communists,” and asserted that “the left is a racist force” in the United States.

From the May 29 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show:

BOYLES: In the news, you see this big, open street fight right now in Caracas, Venezuela. César Cháv -- César Chávez, listen to me, I'm running ahead of myself. Hugo Chávez, the president, if you would, of Venezuela, shutting down the state's oldest private television station. It went off the air on Sunday night at midnight, and there's thousands of people in the street and apparently there's some bombs going off and some shooting taking place as we speak. This is precisely what the left wants. I don't care who they are, they want this. This is what this attack on talk radio is about; this is the nonsense that we see. Get 'em off the air. Get 'em off the air. Get 'em off the air. And apparently people are in the streets right now, fighting back.

Chávez -- and where, where have you heard this? -- says he is democratizing the airwaves by turning RCTV's signal over to public, to a public-service channel. The -- this is exactly what's happening in this country. Only in its, in its infant stages right now. This is precisely what's going on. This is what these people want. This is what the entire movement is about. Venezuela's oldest private television station went off the air at midnight on Sunday night. The signal has been turned over. Hugo Chávez's decision -- they were not going to renew the license of the channel and they were gonna turn the signal over to public service. That means government control. Inside the TV station, the people working there embraced and cried on the air and chanted “freedom” before the cameras mixing an emotional on-air goodbye, then they denounced Chávez's government. This anchor said, “We are living in an -- an injustice,” and they took him off the air. That's exactly what we see people wanting in this country. Kill the voice. The, that radio -- excuse me, that television station and a couple of other private channels broadcast opposition calls for a protest to overthrow Chávez. The, the people who had this state-financed channel Telstar said he quit his job as newsroom manager because he was disgusted everything was censored during Chávez's coup. Watch it happen here.

What do you think's going on in this country about radio and the rest of this stuff, that if -- it's exactly this thing. This is what the speech Nazis want. This is exactly what the left wants. You can't say anything on the air and if not, we will take it over. If you read Revolutions in the Third World, one of the first things -- and this was, this was then done -- the first thing that the revolutionary power did was seize the radio stations. This was, you know, obviously prior to television being more mainstreamed. But the first thing you did when you overthrew -- the first thing you did when you seized power was do what? Seize the radio stations to begin to broadcast. This is one of the few places in the world where there's -- the media is in private sector. Most countries in the world, the state owns and operates the radio stations. There have been some breakaways, but by and large it's stayed O and O. Newspapers are in private hands, but radio is held in the public sector, and this case in Venezuela should send chills down your spine. And what's even more interesting is the lack of people speaking against it. I suspect -- I'm, I'm, I'm sure I gonna get to hear Al Sharpton talk about this or Reverend Jackson, or I'm gonna hear the far left talk about this, that they, they silenced a television station. Is that gonna happen? This stuff is very frightening. Do not kid yourself.