http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/michael_savage This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Michael Savage en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130012 Michael Savage baselessly accused Sen. Barack Obama of running a "corrupt campaign," suggested that white liberals "hate white people," repeated the discredited charge that Obama "won't produce his birth certificate," and asserted "Kenya is going to move to America" if Obama wins the election. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130012 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:49:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810060015 Michael Savage again falsely claimed that Rep. Barney Frank "ran a house of ill-repute for male prostitutes out of his apartment in Washington." In fact, the House ethics committee determined in 1990 that Frank "did not have either prior or concomitant knowledge of prostitution activities involving third parties alleged to have taken place in his apartment." Also, after noting that Beau Biden, son of Sen. Joe Biden, would be serving in Iraq as a prosecutor in the National Guard, Savage said, "[T]hey're going to see if they can burn any of the military men over there, and they'll use Biden's son to see if they can put them in jail. ... What would you expect from a Democrat going to Iraq?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200810060015 Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:29:45 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030006 On his radio show, Michael Savage said: "[Y]ou may say, 'Why should we care about homosexuals trying to destroy families through the mock marriage that they perform in order to mock God, the church, the family, children, the fetus, the DNA of the human species? Why should we care about it while we have a financial meltdown?' Because the spiritual side of the downturn on Wall Street is directly related to the moral downturn in the United States of America." http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030006 Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:55:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809300018 Michael Savage said of Rep. Barney Frank's role in proposed federal financial bailout legislation: "Barney Frank should be in the gallows for this. Barney Frank should be in jail for doing this." http://mediamatters.org/items/200809300018 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:24:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809300015 Discussing the Folsom Street Fair, a leather-themed adult-entertainment event in San Francisco, Michael Savage declared: "This country today is far beyond the excesses of the Weimar Republic that led to Adolf Hitler. God forbid that should ever happen here. But the German people, who were not all Nazis prior to Hitler's arrival on the scene, were shocked by the degenerates of Berlin. They were sickened by the perverts, sickened by the artistes, they were sickened by the leather fetishists, they were sickened by the degeneracy, and they couldn't handle it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200809300015 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:43:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809290012 On his radio show, Michael Savage said, "I grew up with parents who went through the Depression. And I went through a sort of depression in my own life as a result of liberal social activism. They imposed affirmative action on me and stole my very birthright simply because I was white." http://mediamatters.org/items/200809290012 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:26:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809180003 On <em>The Savage Nation</em>, discussing a caller's statement that "Muslim fundamentalists" are "walk[ing] around Northern Virginia as if they own the place," Michael Savage asked, "Why would a nation that is as evolved as America, and as liberal as America is socially, want to bring in throwbacks who are living in the 15th century?" He also asked: "What is the societal benefit of bringing in throwbacks, some of whom are no doubt terrorists, and some of whom are gonna produce children who will become terrorists?" <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200809180003 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:59:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100028 Conservative talk radio hosts have recently seized on comments Sen. Barack Obama made on ABC's <em>This Week</em> in order to suggest that the comments prove Obama is really a Muslim, not a Christian. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100028 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:15 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808260019 On his radio show, Michael Savage said, "The Democrat [sic] Party is the minority party. ... Obama is a minority, a half minority at least. The membership is made up largely of minority blocs, the Hispanic caucus and the gay caucus -- caucuses that are all against the white person." Savage also claimed: "Now, the white women generally are not as hard-nosed about things as the white male, and so many white women don't even understand that they're being duped, and they vote for a Democrat, not knowing that they're digging their own grave." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808260019 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:04:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808180003 Michael Savage claimed that "America is being overrun by an invasion force from Mexico that'll soon take over the country." After noting a news report stating that immigration, higher birth rates among immigrants, and an aging white population are responsible in part for America's changing demographics, Savage stated: "And you think the gang-banger with baggy pants is going to pay for your retirement, you liberal fools? You think that they're going to pay for your housing in a senior citizens center? You psychotic liberals don't even know you're digging your own grave and throwing lime in there. All that's missing is the worm from the tequila bottle to go with it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808180003 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:05:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808050009 Discussing the Italian government's decision to deploy soldiers on city streets to combat violent crime allegedly committed by illegal immigrants, Michael Savage said: "So they've done there what we need to do here. We need to get our troops out of Iraq and put them on the streets of America to protect us from the scourge of illegal immigrants who are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America while the liberal psychos are telling us they come here to work." Savage added: "[Y]ou turn on the cable news, they're covering again a missing child. Not a missing country but a missing child. ... We hear about the rape of a woman, but not about the rape of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is crying, she's been raped and disheveled -- raped and disheveled by illegal aliens." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808050009 Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:16:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807300007 Referring to <em>Media Matters' </em>documentation of comments in which he called autism "[a] fraud, a racket," Michael Savage said: "They're very happy that they were able to use the poor parents of autistic children to attack me when I in fact have been more supportive of the most vulnerable children in our population than anybody else in the history of radio. That's correct, me, Michael Savage." Savage went on to falsely claim that his comments about autism were taken of context, stating: "So what they did was they took a sound bite out of context and they used the poor parents of autistic children to attack me. That's very clever." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807300007 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:51:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807250004 Talk Radio Network, which syndicates Michael Savage's radio show, posted on a website a statement asserting that Savage's July 16 comments about autism had been taken "out of context" and purporting to provide "true context" for Savage's "views." The website -- savageonautism.com -- features "20 audio clips of Michael Savage's comments on Autism," which the accompanying statement describes as "a representative sampling of Dr. Savage's views, as well as the applicable issues, in true context." In fact, all 20 of those audio clips are from the July 21 and 22 broadcasts of Savage's show, during which Savage misrepresented his July 16 remarks; they are not "context" for the July 16 remarks. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807250004 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:43:38 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807230006 In a rebroadcast of <em>The Savage Nation</em> that aired on the program July 9, portions of which were previously included in a YouTube clip posted on June 30, Michael Savage acknowledged having called autism "a phony disease." The rebroadcast undermines his claim that when he characterized autism as "[a] fraud, a racket" on July 16, Savage was drawing a distinction between the "truly autistic" and those who have been misdiagnosed. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807230006 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:25:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807220010 A WorldNetDaily article reporting on the controversy over Michael Savage's July 16 remarks about autism stated that Savage "told WND that Media Matters itself is as much a part of the story as autism," adding: "Acting like the HIV virus, he said, 'they invade the body politic and mimic the defense cells until they poison the entire organism.' " http://mediamatters.org/items/200807220010 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:33:19 EST