http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/the_savage_nation This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: The Savage Nation en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America 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/200807220003 Michael Savage recast July 16 comments he made about autism in order to claim that he was "take[n] out of context." Savage falsely suggested that his comments distinguished between "the truly autistic" and those he described on July 21 as "the misdiagnosed, the falsely diagnosed, and the outright fakers in the autism field." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807220003 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:09:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807210006 On his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage said of the organization he called "the homosexual mafia group <em>Media Matters</em>": "They're a fascist, homo-- goes out of their way to misquote me, take me out of context, and try to get me in trouble with people who love me. I stand by my words. <em>Media Mat</em>-- and that's it. And that's where I'm going to leave it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807210006 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:01:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807170005 On his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage claimed that autism is "[a] fraud, a racket. ... I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.' " http://mediamatters.org/items/200807170005 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:22:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807110007 Discussing the California wildfires, Michael Savage said: "The Smokeys that are running around with .45's on their hips, the mean-faced, clipped-haired, fat-hipped women, would consult a 75-page manual and have to call Denver and get an answer in seven weeks about what to do before the forest fire could even be stopped." He also said he "suspects that there are agents of Iran who have set these forest fires to a certain extent." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807110007 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:49:32 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010010 On his radio show, Michael Savage repeatedly referred to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Mussolini, at one point calling her "the Mussolini in a skirt." He later referred to her as "Nancy Pelosi Mussolini" and the "Mussolini-like woman of the day." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807010010 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:38:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270001 Following a shooting incident that occurred as French President Nicolas Sarkozy was preparing to depart Israel, Michael Savage claimed: "There is speculation that there was an attempt to kill [Israeli Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert because he has sold the country down the river, and he is selling the people to their death -- he is leading them to the gas chamber. He is a -- the equivalent of those who led the Jews into the gas chambers in World War II, according to many Israelis who see the handwriting on the wall." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270001 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:42:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806190010 While discussing the case of two students on trial on charges that they provided material aid to terrorists, Michael Savage told a caller, "If I ran this country, I'd hang the lawyer. I would try her for aiding and abetting terrorism -- I'd hang her and I'd hang every lawyer who went down to Guant&aacute;namo to defend those murderers." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806190010 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:04:32 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210001 On the day it was announced that Sen. Ted Kennedy had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage opened his show by interspersing audio of Kennedy singing "Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes" with clips of news reporters discussing Kennedy's diagnosis and audio from <em>Kindergarten Cop</em> in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's character says, "It's not a tumor." Later, Savage played the Dead Kennedys song "California &Uuml;ber Alles" after stating: "The poor guy's been suffering for years, you know? Unfairly he's been accused of alcoholism, but we see now that it was something much more deep-seated. And so, to cut this out in some respect for Ted Kennedy, here's a tune coming at you from the Dead Kennedys. Go ahead and play it, please." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210001 Wed, 21 May 2008 00:08:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805150009 Michael Savage stated that Rev. Rod Parsley, whom Sen. John McCain has reportedly referred to as "a spiritual guide," has made "some inflammatory statements of which I agree with 100 percent." Savage then played clips in which Parsley stated that "America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion [Islam] destroyed" and that supporters of same-sex marriage "are seeking to redefine marriage. In other words, they are intending to pervert God's original intention." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805150009 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:49:11 EST