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Media Matters reports that during the April 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, conservative talk show host Michael Savage warned political leaders not to sympathize with illegal immigrants, whom he described as "vermin." Savage stated:
"If you take to the streets with the vermin who are trying to dictate to us how we should run America, even though they're not even entitled to vote or be here, you're going to be thrown out of office."
Savage added that Americans are "craving leadership" because "[f]eminism is destroying America. Homosexuality is destroying America. Weepy liberalism is destroying America."
8 Comments:
Sounds like ol' michael has the right last name! I wonder how *his* immigrant ancestors were treated when they first came here? The conundrum of the republicans is that they want the cheap labor of the immigrants, but they dont want all those brown people becoming citizens; if only they could exploit them by day at work and send them back home over the border at night. What's a poor neocon to do?! Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at
4/12/2006 12:26 PM
Hmmm...I'm more concerned about those governments (not only in the middle east) who are anti-American, and the junk that comes with them.
Case in point...Ollanta Humala, who just got the most votes in Peru's first rounds of presidential voting. According (sadly) to the New York Times:
"LIMA, Peru, April 9 — Ollanta Humala, a former military officer and fierce nationalist, received the most votes in the presidential election on Sunday, edging out a pro-globalization candidate, a former president and 17 other candidates by pledging to guide Peru away from Washington-backed market reforms....
"If Mr. Humala triumphs in a second round, Peru would join a continentwide political shift in which populist candidates have won office by proposing a break with the economic policies long advocated by the United States in Latin America. Mr. Humala, whose first name means the "warrior who sees all," has openly expressed his admiration for Venezuela's populist president, Hugo Chávez, who in turn has praised Mr. Humala....
"His father founded an ultranationalist movement, etnocacerismo, that celebrates the superiority of the Indian race over those Peruvians descended from the Spanish. His mother has called for gays to be shot and a brother, Antauro, led a rebellion against the government last year...."
posted by Anonymous, at
4/12/2006 12:42 PM
The reactionary bitchiness of Michael Savage (and other conservative pundits) is destroying America.
Blood From Machines San Diego, CA
posted by Anonymous, at
4/12/2006 1:42 PM
Savvage is too stupid and arrogant, like the Bushler, to understand that it's people like him who are destorying America. He's also the one fostering hate, and misleading people with his poision.
If he would look at the numbers of those immigrants, illigeals, Aliens (whatever word you want to use) through out our country, he should be able to see that those MILLIONS didn't just get here Yesterday!
Every one of those elected officials sat on their asses and did nothing about the situation and NOW the uproar.
So now the only possible solution is to let those who want to stay sign up for citizenship and grant them that chance. Others who don't sign up must be sent back to Mexico. That should be the responsibility of the Social Workers, Agencies, who sign them up for benefits, and also the responsibility of employers who want to take them under their wing and hire them. Let them work for the money they get hired for and once they become citizens raise their pay or fire them and let them get another job getting a decent wage.
posted by Anonymous, at
4/12/2006 2:51 PM
Meanwhile, how bad is it for the democrats right now?
So rather than offering any tangible explanations with his remarks, he ventures off on a tirade about someone's sexuality or feminism or liberalism...yea that tells me all I need to know...some bigots simply can't see the forest for the trees. They love to lump people collectively into groups to attack because they cannot sustain their arguments in a reasoned, one-on-one debate...what a loser!
