On the January 18 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, while playing the song "Living on a Thin Line" by the Kinks, Michael Savage claimed that “there's no England now” because "[t]he soccer thug[s]" who defeated Hitler "[are] gone." Savage asserted: “The soccer thug has been beaten down by the lesbian/homosexual mafia in England.” Savage added: “The very men who could defend the lesbians and homosexuals have been beaten down by them in the West, all part of the gigantic global psychosis.”

As Media Matters for America has documented (here, here, here, and here), Savage frequently smears gays and lesbians, recently calling homosexuality “the dance of death” and regarding it as the “seminal issue of our time.”

From the January 18 edition of The Savage Nation:

SAVAGE: Yeah, play it again. No, there's no England now. Men in wing-tipped shoes with wing-tipped souls. The soccer thug who fought Hitler -- who beat Hitler to a pulp, they're gone. The soccer thug has been beaten down by the lesbian/homosexual mafia in England. The very men who could defend the lesbians and homosexuals have been beaten down by them in the West, all part of the gigantic global psychosis. Don't you dare say a word about anything, unless it goes through our filter. We know what's best for our country because we're better than you, we're cleaner than you, we're smarter than you, we have more money than you, we don't have nasty little -- ugly, dirty children like you, we're not filthy breeders like you. We're smart, we're smart. Go to break.