On the November 28 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show The Savage Nation, host Michael Savage compared reports that incoming Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) “won't swear to uphold the oath of office on the Bible, but on the Quran instead” to "[a] witch get[ting] elected" and saying “she's gonna only be sworn in with her hand over a pentagram.” Savage called Ellison's reported decision to be sworn in with a Quran “the tyranny of the psycho, whacked-out minority.”

It in unclear what Ellison was referring to when he said, as reported in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, that he would “take the oath of office in Washington on the Qur'an.” As the weblog Think Progress reported, “neither the Christian Bible, nor any other religious text, ha[s] ever been used in an official capacity during the ceremony,” although "[o]ccasionally, Members pose for symbolic photo-ops with their hand on a Bible." And Article VI of the Constitution states that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” Think Progress was responding to a November 28 Townhall.com column in which radio host Dennis Prager argued that Ellison “should not be allowed to” swear on the Quran “because the act undermines American civilization.”

From the November 28 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:

SAVAGE: Keith Ellison won't swear to uphold the oath of office on the Bible, but on the Quran instead. This is unbelievable to me. So what's next? A witch gets elected, and she says she's gonna only be sworn in with her hand over a pentagram? Where does this end? Tell me when this ends, the tyranny of the psycho, whacked-out minority. Tell me when it ends.