Savage responds  to "fascist, gay website named Media  Matters "
 
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:23:04 -0400

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<p><b>Savage responds  to "fascist, gay website named <em>Media  Matters</em>" </b></p>
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<p>On the September 18 edition of his 
nationally syndicated radio show, host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/michaelsavage?src=item200709190012" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/michaelsavage">Michael Savage</a> responded to a 
<i>Media Matters for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180009?f=h_side" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709180009?f=h_side">item</a> noting that on the afternoon of September 18, 
Savage&#39;s <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709190012&http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/index.html" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709190012&http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/index.html
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/index.html">website</a> used the following headline 
in linking to an article: "BULL-DYKE FASCIST TASERS STUDENT WHO ASKS KERRY TOO 
MANY QUESTIONS." The 
article reported on a 
University of 
Florida student who was 
shocked with a Taser and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709190012&http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfZBulx_H-prruRU2Clj0dIgUOww" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709190012&http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfZBulx_H-prruRU2Clj0dIgUOww
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfZBulx_H-prruRU2Clj0dIgUOww">removed</a> by several campus police 
officers -- at least one of whom was female -- from a September 17 forum 
featuring Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). On his show, Savage asserted that "a fascist, 
gay website named <i>Media Matters</i> 
has attacked me for pointing out that it was a so-called feminist type who 
tasered the student who asked Kerry too many questions," adding: "They took the side of the 
Taser woman, of the 
policewoman."</p>

<p>In fact, <i>Media Matters</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190009?src=item200709190012" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190009">noted</a> -- in the context of an 
item documenting Fox News host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly?src=item200709190012" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly">Bill 
O&#39;Reilly</a>&#39;s reference to the 
University of Florida student as "the biggest wimp in the United States of 
America" -- that the Department of Justice has 
launched several studies on Tasers, citing an increase in the number of reported 
deaths associated with them.</p>

<p>During his radio broadcast, Savage 
did not refer to the female police officer as a "bull-dyke." He did, however, 
characterize two female police officers -- both of whom Savage claimed were involved 
in the altercation during Kerry&#39;s appearance -- as having "extraordinarily large hips and 
small heads, of the type that you would have seen in a cartoon of <i><a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709190012&http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047834/" title="http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/animalfarm/">Animal 
Farm</a></i>."</p>

<p>As of September 19, Savage&#39;s website 
still included the headline "BULL-DYKE FASCIST TASERS STUDENT WHO ASKS KERRY TOO 
MANY QUESTIONS," with a link to the same article. </p>

<p>From Savage&#39;s website:</p>

<p><img  src="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/savage-20070919.jpg" border="0" alt=" " width="400" height="310" /> <br /></p>

<p>From the September 18 edition of 
Talk Radio Network&#39;s <i>The Savage 
Nation</i>: </p>

<blockquote>

<p>SAVAGE: <b>Well, you know, you probably heard this today. The 
fascist police -- and 
I&#39;ve never used that phrase, I&#39;m a supporter of the police -- but the fascist police of 
the University of Florida, including two women with extraordinarily large hips 
and small heads, of the type that you would have seen in a cartoon of <i>Animal Farm</i>, tasered this student -- who was a Democrat, by 
the way -- who dared 
ask John Kerry about the Skull and Bones society.</b> Now, I don&#39;t know whether they 
were told to taser him the minute he said Skull and Bones, but I do know that 
Kerry has shown he has no character, because he&#39;s now saying that he didn&#39;t want 
it to happen, it shouldn&#39;t have happened. It&#39;s too late, John. You had an opportunity as a former 
presidential front-runner to say to the police, "Stop 
that. I will not have 
you taser a student in my presence. You are wrong." He didn&#39;t do that. 
</p>

<p>Now, that&#39;s Andrew Meyer, a student. He&#39;s a Democrat, probably a liberal, tasered 
while attempting to ask 
Senator Kerry a question. </p>

<p>[..]</p>

<p>SAVAGE: Chicago, [caller], you&#39;re on <i>The Savage Nation.</i> Go ahead, please. 
</p>

<p>CALLER: Good evening, Dr. Savage. I 
just wanted to let you know that within the last hour, a very liberal talk-show host on a very liberal 
network was already dumping on John Kerry as to why he didn&#39;t get involved and 
stop this incident in the lecture hall.</p>

<p>SAVAGE: <b>Yes, but a fascist, gay website named <i>Media Matters</i> has attacked me for pointing 
out that it was a so-called feminist type who tasered the student who asked 
Kerry too many questions. They took the side of the Taser woman, of the policewoman. Do you know 
that?</b></p>

<p>CALLER: I didn&#39;t know that. And I am 
a police officer, as well as my whole family, and if what we saw on TV happened, 
it shouldn&#39;t have happened. They 
shouldn&#39;t have --</p>

<p>SAVAGE: Why did these cops feel it 
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</b> Contact: <br />
<b>Michael Savage</b></td>
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<b>Talk Radio Network</b></td>
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<br />Talk Radio Network
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<br />Phone: 541-664-8827 
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</b> Contact: <br />
<b>The Savage Nation</b></td>
<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/contactus.html">The Savage Nation</a>
<br />The Paul Revere Society
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