On the October 20 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage asserted that “when you're dealing with Arabs, there are no friends. They're old rug traders going back a thousand years in that part of the world.” He then added: “Right now, one side is your friend; the other side is your enemy. The next day, they're both stabbing you in the back and picking your pockets.”

As Media Matters for America has extensively documented, Savage has previously described Arabs as “non-humans” and “racist, fascist bigots”; advocated “kill[ing] 100 million” Muslims; and claimed that there is no difference between “radical Islam and the rest of Islam over there.”

According to Talkers magazine, The Savage Nation is played on over 300 radio stations and reaches more than eight million listeners each week, making it the third most-listened to radio talk show in the nation behind only The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show.

From the October 20 edition of The Savage Nation:

SAVAGE: But when it comes to the war, they [the Bush administration] mismanaged this thing, not from the war perspective, but from the pacification -- they've gone too mild, and they thought that the people are our friends, but what they don't know is when you're dealing with Arabs, there are no friends. They're old rug traders going back a thousand years in that part of the world. Right now, one side is your friend; the other side is your enemy. The next day, they're both stabbing you in the back and picking your pockets. But I guess they don't teach you that at Yale. They teach you that all cultures have something to offer the world.