Savage on the "progressive movement": "the brownshirts of today ...
 
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:53:03 -0400



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<p><b>Savage on the "progressive movement": "the brownshirts of today ... the
same rabble that brought Hitler to power" </b></p>
<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140008?src=item200706140008">http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140008</a></p>

<p>On the June 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio
program, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/michaelsavage?src=item200706140008">Michael
Savage</a> compared the "progressive movement" to the
Nazi storm troopers who
aided Adolf Hitler&#39;s rise to power, saying, "[T]hey are the
brownshirts of today." Savage added: "[M]ake no mistake about it,
it&#39;s the same rabble that brought Hitler to power, and we have them today
-- and they&#39;re all on the left."</p>

<p>Savage made his comments during his criticism of C-SPAN for
its coverage of the 2007 New Media Seminar held June 8-9 in New York. Savage, who <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706140008&http://newsblaze.com/story/20070328082543nnnn.np/newsblaze/NEWSWIRE/NewsBlaze-Wire.html">received</a>
the <i>Talkers Magazine</i> Freedom of
Speech Award at the convention, alleged that C-SPAN was trying to
"censor" him,
because it ended its coverage of the event before he delivered his acceptance
speech. Savage offered his listeners the chance to defend C-SPAN by calling his
show: "Did they do the right thing? And if so, support it with your call
to this show. I&#39;d like to see how you could support censorship, but I
wouldn&#39;t be surprised by anything today." Savage later stated:
"I know that the fascists of today call themselves progressives. I
understand that. And I&#39;m a student of the brownshirt movement in
Hitler&#39;s Germany,
and, to me, the progressive movement are the brownshirts."</p>

<p>As <i>Media Matters for
America</i> has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200704250007?src=item200706140008">noted</a>,
Savage has frequently compared progressives to Nazis. On the April 23 broadcast
of his show, Savage called a speech by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
"Hitler dialogue." Additionally, Savage has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705080002?src=item200706140008">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705180012?src=item200706140008">smeared</a> Rep. Maurice Hinchey
(D-NY), referring to him as the "chief National Socialist," because
of Hinchey&#39;s support for reinstating the "Fairness Doctrine,"
which, until 1987, required "that discussion of public issues be
presented on broadcast stations and that each side of those issues must be
given fair coverage," as the Supreme Court wrote when it <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706140008&http://supreme.justia.com/us/395/367/case.html">upheld</a>
the doctrine in 1969.</p>

<p><i>The Savage Nation</i> reaches
more than 8 million listeners each week according to <i><a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706140008&http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=17&amp;Itemid=34">Talkers
Magazine</a></i>, making it the third most-listened-to talk radio show
in the nation, behind only <i>The Rush Limbaugh
Show</i> and <i>The Sean Hannity Show</i>.</p>

<p>From the June 12 broadcast of Talk Radio Network&#39;s <i>The Savage Nation</i>:</p><blockquote>

<p>SAVAGE: Do you think that C-SPAN had
an obligation to censor Michael Savage for what I just said? After all, they
were at the <i>Talkers</i> convention,
and they covered certain things, but they wouldn&#39;t cover my Freedom of
Speech Award, the paramount award of the convention. Why? <b>Did they do the right thing? And if so, support it
with your call to this show.</b></p>

<p><b>I&#39;d like to
see how you could support censorship, but I wouldn&#39;t be surprised by
anything today.</b> I&#39;ve heard so-called
progressives support [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez&#39;s closing down a
TV station.</p>

<p><b>So, I know that the
fascists of today call themselves progressives. I understand that. And
I&#39;m a student of the brownshirt movement in Hitler&#39;s Germany,
and, to me, the progressive movement are the brownshirts.</b> The greens
are the brownshirts -- only today, they wear green shirts and they don&#39;t
beat anyone up -- comma -- yet. Although I do recall that the environmental
extremists did beat up police horses, threw bricks at police horses -- again
covered up by C-SPAN and the big -- and
big media. </p>

<p>

<b>So, in fact, they
are the brownshirts of today -- only today, they wear green shirts and they
cloak themselves in environmentalism and peace. But make no mistake about it,
it&#39;s the same rabble that brought Hitler to power, and we have them today
-- and they&#39;re all on the left.</b></p></blockquote><table width="100%" style="background: #e8e8e8; 
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</b> Contact: <br />
<b>The Savage Nation</b></td>
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<br />The Paul Revere Society
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