On the November 20 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage asserted that a racist "tirade" delivered at a Hollywood comedy club by actor Michael Richards, best known for playing Cosmo Kramer on the TV show Seinfeld, represents “what the subtext of liberalism really is.” He added: “Under the surface, if you got them in a room alone, I guarantee you they'd say this same kind of hateful things about Catholics and about Jews and about straights and about soldiers.” Savage then likened Richards' outburst to Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) "botched joke" at a campaign rally on October 30 in Pasadena, California: “Kerry did it in an albeit high-class way, but John Kerry did the same thing, in my opinion.”

As Media Matters for America has documented (here, here, and here), Savage, a self-identified “independent conservative,” has repeatedly said “hateful thing[s]” about minorities, immigrants, and various ethnic groups, recently ridiculing Ethiopians by claiming they “have flies around their eyes” and calling for “immigrants” to return to “the fetid societies ... they ran from.”

From the November 20 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:

SAVAGE: You're listening to the character Kramer from Seinfeld in a tirade at a comedy club Friday night that set off a shockwave across America. This is not a Mel Gibson situation. It's -- I don't think he can use Mel's defense that it was the liquor talking. This is, to me, from the gut.

This is an interesting story, but this is what the subtext of liberalism really is. Under the surface, if you got them in a room alone, I guarantee you they'd say the same kind of hateful things about Catholics and about Jews and about straights and about soldiers.

Kerry gave us a smaller version of it, by the way. Kerry did it in an albeit high-class way, but John Kerry did the same thing, in my opinion.