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>
>With the conservative Fox News dominating the cable news
>ratings, channels like MSNBC and CNN are diving to the right
>in an effort to pick up viewers. It's a scary phenomenon --
>channels whose mandate used to be balanced and objective
>reporting are relying more and more on right-wing
>commentators.
>

Among these, few use rhetoric as hateful and violent as
MSNBC's recent hire, Michael Savage. Here are a few of his
most pungent quotes (dozens more follow at the end of this
message):

"We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to
encourage our warriors to kill the enemy," (San Francisco
Chronicle, 2/6/03)

Speaking about kids killed by guns, he said, "They're not
kids, they're ghetto slime... they're the same kids that are
in Sierra Leone toting AK47s." (Savage World, 5/15/00)

Savage's comments are atrocious. But the real problem is
that he's a trial balloon for MSNBC's rightward shift. If
viewers respond well to folks like Savage, we can expect
MSNBC to be little more than Fox News II.

Please take five minutes to call MSNBC and let them know --
speaking from the heart -- exactly how this kind of talk
makes you feel about the network. Explain that we'd like
them to be alternative to Fox News -- not another
right-wing clone.

You can reach MSNBC at:

(201) 583-5000

When you speak with a staff member, take a minute or two to
tell them who you are, what you're calling about, and why it
concerns or upsets you. If you watch MSNBC, you may want to
mention that as well. Remember that the people you'll be
talking to probably aren't personally responsible for putting
Savage on the air; polite and calm comments are always more
effective.

Then let us know you've made your call by going to:

http://www.moveon.org/mediacorps/msnbc.html

Let's ask MSNBC to take the high road and serve the public
interest, rather than pandering to racism and hatred. Thanks
for your participation. Reports on Savage by FAIR and the
Minority Media and Telecom Council follow.

Sincerely,
--Eli Pariser
International Campaigns Director
MoveOn.org
April 3, 2003

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FAIR ACTION ALERT:
GE, Microsoft Bring Bigotry to Life
Hate-talk host Michael Savage hired by MSNBC
http://www.fair.org/activism/msnbc-savage.html

February 12, 2003

The latest hire by the cable news network MSNBC-- co-owned by
General Electric/NBC and Microsoft-- is Michael Savage, a
radio talk show host noted for his unabashed bigotry. Savage
is scheduled to have his own weekly one-hour show on MSNBC
beginning in March.

Savage routinely refers to non-white countries as "turd world
nations" and charges that the U.S. "is being taken over by the
freaks, the cripples, the perverts and the mental defectives"
(San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00). In a recent broadcast
he justified ethnic slurs as a national security tool: "We
need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to
encourage our warriors to kill the enemy," he explained (San
Francisco Chronicle, 2/6/03).

"Turd world" immigrants are a frequent target of Savage's
anger: "You open the door to them, and the next thing you
know, they are defecating on your country and breeding out of
control" (Oregonian, 4/24/02).

At times Savage's arguments echo the conspiratorial
scapegoating of the white supremacist movement: "With the
[Latino] population that has emerged, since they breed like
rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority in
their own nation... The white people don't breed as often for
whatever reason. I guess many homosexuals are involved. That
is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality to cut
down on the white race" (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00).

Commenting on the "Million Mom March" in favor of gun control
(which he dubbed the "Million Dyke March"), he dismissed
organizers' reference to American children killed by guns
(5/15/00): "They're not kids, they're ghetto slime... they're
the same kids that are in Sierra Leone toting AK47s."

Misogyny and homophobia are staples of Savage's show as well
as racism. In his book Savage Nation, he argues that Sen.
Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and Sandra Day O'Connor have "feminized and homosexualized
much of America, to the point where the nation has become
passive, receptive and masochistic."

Discussing student volunteers distributing food to the
homeless in San Francisco, Savage declared that "the girls
from Branson [school] can go in and maybe get raped... because
they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the
thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a dumpster while
giving out a turkey sandwich" (San Francisco Bay Guardian,
9/20/00).

In announcing the hire, MSNBC president Erik Sorenson
described Savage as "brash, passionate and smart," and
promised that he would provide "compelling opinion and
analysis with an edge."

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>From the Minority Media and Telecom Council:

AN AGGREGATION OF WHITE SUPREMACY
IN THE PAPER TRAIL OF MICHAEL SAVAGE
http://www.mmtconline.org/

* On the day before Yom Kippur in 1999, Savage played tapes
of Adolf Hitler's speeches over German military music.

* Savage suggested that homeless people are "living rats" who
should be run off the streets and put in state hospitals.

* Referring to Asians as "little soy eaters" and Chinese
people "little devils," Savage called for dropping nuclear
weapons on China and said that Chinese-Americans should be put
in internment camps if they wouldn't sign loyalty oaths.

* Savage declared that "the next time you're in your backyard
grilling hot dogs, don't be surprised if your Korean neighbor
is actually grilling his dog. That's the way things are done
in Korea."

* Pronouncing Trent Lott's endorsement of Strom Thurmond's
1948 presidential candidacy "innocent comments," Savage
nonetheless labeled the members of the Congressional Black
Caucus who voiced opposition to the comments "a lynch mob" --
even though it was Thurmond's campaign that opposed
antilynching laws.

* Savage referred to the National Council of La Raza as "a
racist group," the Mexican American Legal Defense and
Education Fund (MALDEF) as "an Anti-American racist group,"
and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund as "an
antiwhite pressure group." He used the term "radical front
group" to attack the League of Women Voters and the
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

* Savage is reported to have said that the "liberal media"
was covering up the fact that James Byrd, the black Texan who
was murdered and then dragged behind a truck, was a coke
dealer and his murder was an attempted sale gone bad.

* Savage has characterized Mahatma Gandhi as a
"diaper-wearing moron" who was responsible for the 1947 split
between India and Pakistan (which Gandhi actually opposed).

* On CNN's "Talkback Live," Savage told Charles Barkley, who
was considering a bid for the Republican nomination for
Governor of Alabama, "You're a dumb basketball player. Go
dribble a ball. Go dribble a ball. You couldn't shine my
shoes, buster."

* Discussing the government's use of media during World War
II, Savage declared "we need racist stereotypes right now of
our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy."

* According to Savage, Muslims "created nothing in a thousand
years. They cut throats and blow things up....The women just
want to have mustaches and wear veils."

* Savage routinely refers to non-white countries as "turd
world nations," and declared that "[g]eese are like immigrants.
You open the door to them and the next thing you know, they
are defecating on your country and breeding out of control."

* Savage expressed this opinion of nonwhites: "as long as
[non-whites] are uncomfortable in a clean environment run by
'uptight' white people, there's going to be racism. But as
soon as America starts to look and stink like the Third
World, they'll feel more at home."

* Commenting on the May, 2000 "Million Mom March" in favor of
gun control (which he characterized as the "Million Dyke
March") he dismissed organizations' references to American
children killed by guns: "They're not kids, they're ghetto
slime...they're the same kids that are in Sierra Leone toting
AK47s."

* Savage expressed this opinion of Hispanic Americans: "with
the [Latino] population that has emerged, since they breed
like rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority
in their own nation...The white people don't breed as often
for whatever reason. I guess many homosexuals are involved.
That is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality to
cut down on the white race."

Sources: San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle,
Los Angeles Times, and Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR).

Keep this sick racist @#$% off the air.

🔗Chris Bailey <chris@...>

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