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IssuesSavage: Most "Ph.D. experts on children are either gay or crazy ... if they were married, they either tried to kill their wife or were in rehab"
Discussing "children" on
the November 14 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael
Savage stated: "I'm as good an expert as any. I have found in my
life that most of the Ph.D. experts on children are either gay or crazy and
were never married. Or if they were married, they either tried to kill their
wife or were in rehab for a few years, and then came out and went into
psychotherapy to find out why they killed, or attempted to kill. And then they
washed it all away, and suddenly they're experts on childrearing."
As Media
Matters for America documented, Savage previously
claimed that autism is "[a] fraud, a racket," and went on to say,
"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.' "
Savage also said: "Stop with the sensitivity training. You're turning
your son into a girl, and you're turning your nation into a nation of losers
and beaten men."
Talk Radio Network, which syndicates
Savage's show, claims that Savage
is heard on more than 350 radio stations. The Savage Nation reaches at least
8.25 million listeners each week, according to Talkers Magazine,
making it one of the most listened-to talk radio shows in the nation, behind
only The Rush Limbaugh
Show and The Sean Hannity Show.
From the November 14 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's
The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: And I wanna talk about
children -- I've got two minutes here, I'm gonna -- cause a young
man called earlier, and he asked me to talk abut children. Now, suddenly
I'm the resident expert on children. But you know what? I'm as good
as any, 'cause I have children who are adults, and they're both
wonderful people, and fine people, and the fact of the matter is I'm as
good an expert as any. I have found in my life that most of the Ph.D. experts
on children are either gay or crazy and were never married. Or if they were
married, they either tried to kill their wife or were in rehab for a few years,
and then came out and went into psychotherapy to find out why they killed, or
attempted to kill. And then they washed it all away, and suddenly they're
experts on childrearing.
I mean, I'll tell you,
that's what I've found. So, I'm as good a source as any on
how to raise a child. You wanna hear the number one rule? It's really
simple. I remember when I had my first child. I had been living in the islands
at that time. I flew all the way home, 6,000 miles, when my father died, to the
funeral. And I had -- I took my little baby with us. I mean, you know, it
was like an infant. It was terrible. What a reason to come home to that, but
you can't pick things in life. Things happen.
So, after the -- the, the --
whatever -- you know, you go to the house and you, whatever, drink, and
we're sitting and talking. I remember asking one of my uncles, who,
incidentally, did not have children himself, but he was not a bad guy. Somehow
I loved him and thought he knew everything, but he never had kids himself.
So, I said, "Well, really, I
don't know the rules. How do you raise a child? What are you supposed to
do?" I didn't know how to raise a child. What -- do you think
you know? I didn't know. I was -- I was not a baby. I mean, I was
like 28 at the time, but I was still, by today's standards, I was like an
infant. They don't have children today till they're 60 in Los Angeles. The guy is
bald, he's got one foot in the earth, and he marries his masseuse, or his
Viagra provider, and then they have a baby, and the baby is 12 when he drops
dead. I don't know how these kids are all gonna survive with these
fathers -- 60 years. All right, that's a second story.
So, I asked my uncle, "How do
you raise a child? I mean, what's the rules here?" My uncle said
something to me that I remember to this day. He said, "You know what?
There are no rules except one that you have to remember: Love them. If you love
them, everything will work out." And you know something? He was right.
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:53:54 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleIssuesLimbaugh's guest host is latest radio host to compare current policies or proposals to slavery
While discussing potential Republican outreach efforts
toward African-Americans during the November 14 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Jason Lewis
stated: "[T]his whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe
what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's
ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor."
Lewis later added: "We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because
they know what it's like to have to work for free. And during the times of
slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're
taking something that doesn't belong to you."
Lewis hosts a weekday radio show on Minnesota's 100.3 KTLK-FM, the same
station that broadcasts The Chris Baker Show.
As Media Matters for
America documented, on the
November 6 broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room, co-host Jim
Quinn compared "slave[s] in the old South" to welfare recipients
today, the "difference" being that "[t]he slave[s] had to work for" the benefits Quinn
said they received. Quinn defended those
comments on the November 7 broadcast of his radio show, saying, "Now, naturally, the point that I was
making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude that
you can be forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I
mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding -- naturally, that was my
point."
Additionally, on the September 3 broadcast of San Francisco radio
station KSFO's The Lee
Rodgers Show, host
Lee Rodgers
said: "Bring
us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. ... Free of
the stifling stupidity of liberalism, which disguises slavery as benevolence.
That's -- that's the program for the Obama campaign, by the way."
From the November 14
broadcast of Premiere Radio
Networks' The Rush
Limbaugh Show:
LEWIS: What was the party in control? During the Jim Crow era, what was the party in
control? The Democrats.
CALLER: The Democrats.
LEWIS: Yeah.
CALLER: Nobody knows
that, though, Jason. Nobody
knows none of that history, particularly down here where I'm at. Nobody knows. They've been lying to
them, man, for 40
years.
LEWIS: By the way, it's another great point you bring up. It's
also very dangerous to rely on the Supreme Court and unelected judges, because it was the Supreme
Court that upheld Plessy versus Ferguson
in -- I think it was
1896 -- that said
separate but equal is
just fine, for 60 years. Well,
what was the court made
up of? I mean,
you're right --
CALLER: Nobody knows that history,
Jason. We -- I saw -- somebody was reading it
off one of the morning shows or something, what all the Republicans have did as
pertaining to that issue. And
the Democrats --
LEWIS: I got you.
CALLER: -- ain't got nothing compared to that. So, we're talking --
LEWIS: Well, it might change. [Caller], I gotta go -- I gotta go, buddy. But
it might change if former Lieutenant
Governor Michael Steele, who has announced his candidacy for the position of chairman of the Republican
National Committee --
conservative African-American
-- becomes the head of
the party. I know
he's been wanting Republicans to go into the African-American community and saying that. And I would only add that
this whole notion of taxing --
taxing America's labor --
you know, I don't
know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you
take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits
of their labor. We
fought a great war over that. And
you're quite right. We
lost 600,000 Americans, many of them white, by the way. This country repaired itself. This country repaired the
damage it was done. Those are reparations -- 600,000 lives.
The bottom line, however, is, that
we need to go into the African-American
community as conservatives. It's a natural
constituency. Seventy percent
of African-Americans
voted to uphold traditional marriage in California,
and now they're seeing the intolerance of the militant gay left. We need to go into the
African-American
community there on cultural issues.
And they should be
there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for
free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're taking something
that doesn't belong to you. Thanks
for the call and the reminder.
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:32:26 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleIssuesConservative radio hosts accuse Dems of "trying to steal" MN Senate election -- but there's no evidence, according to GOP governor
In recent days, several conservative talk
radio hosts have accused Democrats of "trying to steal" the Minnesota senatorial election for Democratic
challenger Al Franken over incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R). They offer no evidence to back up their accusation, and, according
to the state's Republican
governor, there is none. Gov. Tim Pawlenty said on November 12 on Sean Hannity's radio show that there is "no actual evidence that there's been any
fraud or problems" in counting the votes.
Also, on the November 12 edition of Hannity & Colmes, Hannity asked
Pawlenty: "Do you suspect there's been cheating going on?" Pawlenty
replied: "Sean, we don't have any direct evidence of that, and when
you make an allegation -- not you, but anybody -- of fraud in an election, it's
a very serious matter, so you gotta have specific evidence to back it
up."
The following conservative talk radio
hosts have baselessly accused Democrats of trying to "steal" the
election:
Mark Levin: On the
November 11 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Levin
described Franken as a "spiteful troll," and said: "I
see he and his fellow hoods are trying to steal the election in Minnesota."
Rush Limbaugh: On the
November 12 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, during a
discussion with a caller about the upcoming Georgia run-off between
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Martin,
Limbaugh stated: "At this point, people in Georgia have gotta take
this very seriously. Because the Democrats are trying to steal Minnesota, and they're gonna, they're --
he's [Chambliss] gotta win this runoff in Georgia."
Chris Baker: On the
November 13 broadcast of his Minneapolis-based radio program, Baker
asserted that "the left" have "become the fascists that
they have claimed to be the watchdog to protect people from." He
added: "And it's really frightening, especially with the
coming political situation. I mean, once the Norm Coleman election is
stolen, and they get rid of [Sen.] Ted Stevens [R-AK], and
they maybe get rid of Saxby Chambliss, with a supermajority, these people
are gonna run amok, and it's all over and we're all gonna be
in irons."
From the November 11 edition of ABC Radio
Networks' The Mark
Levin Show:
LEVIN:
Well, speaking of the spiteful troll, aka Al Franken, I see he and his fellow
hoods are trying to steal the election in Minnesota. May I say a brief prayer out
loud? Dear God, I think we've had about all we can take in this last
election. Please, please, not a Senator Al Franken. What would the Founding
Fathers say? My God, please. All right, now, I would be remiss if I
didn't thank our new affiliate in Nacogdoches,
Texas -- KSFA. There we go.
Let's go to Katie, Oxford,
New Jersey.
From the November 12 broadcast of
Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh
Show:
CALLER:
I'm a little frustrated. Well, that's not true; I'm very
frustrated. I kind of feel like my vote is being extorted down here. You know, Georgia
conservatives screamed bloody murder over the bailout, and Saxby Chambliss
refused to vote with us. He went up there and -- and did what he wanted to do
-- whatever he wanted to do, which is, you know, even come clean down here and
admitted --
LIMBAUGH:
I know, I know. I know it. He voted for the gang of whatever on the offshore
drilling. He made a tactical mistake there. At this point, people in Georgia
have gotta take this very seriously. Because the Democrats are trying to steal Minnesota, and they're gonna, they're --
he's gotta win this runoff in Georgia. If -- if -- if we lose
these two they're up to 59.
CALLER:
I know, Rush. I am -- I'm in total agreement with you there. And I
continue to write and write and write letters over to their campaign begging
them for just one humble moment to admit that the bailout was a really bad
idea, and that it's down the tubes further than anybody could have
imagined, and just to admit that he's in Washington to represent me.
LIMBAUGH:
Not gonna do it. He's not gonna -- he's not gonna do it.
From the November 13 broadcast of KTLK's The Chris Baker Show:
BAKER:
See, we've -- we've come to a point where if you have an opinion
that opposes the left, sorry, you must be silenced and shut down.
LANGDON PERRY (KTLK host):
Right.
BAKER:
I don't hear conservatives asking for people to be thrown out of their
job on a regular basis. I don't hear conservatives on a regular basis say
that people should be ostracized, culled from the herd. But, man, you get these
people all wound up, and they, you know, they burst into a church over the
weekend.
PERRY:
The left, I think, has become much more the party of "you can't say
that" or "you can't do that."
BAKER:
They have become the fascists that they have claimed to be the watchdog to
protect people from. And it's really frightening, especially with the
coming political situation. I mean, once the Norm Coleman election is stolen,
and they get rid of Ted Stevens and they maybe get rid of Saxby Chambliss, with
a supermajority, these people are gonna run amok, and it's all over and
we're all gonna be in irons.
From the November 12 edition of Fox
News' Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY:
And this is a "Fox News Alert." The recount has not even
started in Minnesota,
and somehow Al Franken has already shaved off more than 500 votes off the incumbent
lead. That's Norm Coleman.
Now,
Republican Coleman was up by 725 votes last Wednesday
morning, but as of yesterday that difference has now shrunk to just 206.
Coleman's vanishing lead came during a week when Minnesota election officials
were required to check their initial results.
Under
normal practices, both candidates would expect a bump, but these strange
circumstances have seen only Franken's vote totals swell. Now, the
Minneapolis
director of elections claims to have found 32 absentee ballots hiding in the
trunk of her car -- all of them conveniently going to Al Franken.
Liberal-leaning
precincts in Two Harbors, Minnesota, and Partridge
Township threw Franken
another 346 votes combined, claiming
that wrong numbers were initially submitted. Again, Coleman's vote total -- it remained
unchanged. Plus, Franken's changes are nearly three times the gains for
Democratic candidates statewide. So, the question is: Is the fix in?
Joining
us now is Minnesota Governor Tim
Pawlenty. Governor, as I describe that -- I'm sorry, no reasonable person can
conclude there's not funny business going on here. What is your thoughts on
this?
PAWLENTY:
Sean, in the practice of law, there's a phenomenon called disparate impact,
which means when something is so out of proportion to what the norm or the
trend would be, it at least raises a concern or a suspicion.
In Minnesota,
we don't have any evidence of wrongdoing, but these patterns that you've just
described cause us concern, because even if you're in a part of the state
that's overwhelmingly Democrat, Norm Coleman should be getting some of the votes, not losing 100
percent or 90 percent to Al Franken. So, it's cause for concern for sure.
[...]
HANNITY:
But here's the problem. We did not have a uniform system in terms of the day
after Election Day to protect those ballots. So, in other words, the different
precincts -- so, in other words, my fear is that the fix may already been in,
and during the recount, we're going gonna
discover, oh, there's another 500 votes for Franken.
When
you look at these changed votes
so far, Governor, you know, we see that, for example, the Senate gains for
Franken were two and a half times that than the gain for Barack Obama, and
Barack Obama way outperformed Franken in the state of Minnesota; 2.9 times the
total of the Democrats across the congressional races; and five times the net
loss that Democrats suffered for all statehouse races. So, he's outperforming
every single solitary measure. So, I'm asking -- I guess, Governor, I guess my
question is honest: Do you suspect there's been cheating going on?
PAWLENTY:
Sean, we don't have any direct evidence of that, and when
you make an allegation -- not you, but anybody -- of fraud in an election, it's
a very serious matter, so you gotta have specific evidence to back it up.
What we
do know is the statistics that you're citing and the patterns that you're citing
are suspicious. They seem to defy probability theory; they seem to defy common
sense. Even in an overwhelmingly Democratic area, Norm Coleman would be getting
some of those votes -- 20, 30, 40 percent.
That's not happening, so it raises a red flag.
From the November 12 edition of ABC Radio
Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:
HANNITY:
Well, here's what I read. John Lott wrote a very frightening piece about
what's happening here, and he chronicled how we've gone from 725
votes -- what are we, down to 206 votes separating the two in Norm
Coleman's favor?
PAWLENTY:
Correct.
HANNITY:
OK. So he points out that, for example, the Senate gains for Franken were two
and a half times the gain for Obama in the presidential race count. In other
words, these ballots "oops" that we found -- now here's a
state where Barack Obama won fairly handily. But yet, these ballots that
we're now finding, you know, are favoring Franken two and a half times
than that of the gain of Obama; 2.9 times the gain of the Democrats and what
they got all across Minnesota
in congressional races; and five -- five times the net loss the Democrats
suffered for all state house races.
PAWLENTY:
Yeah, those -- those are definitely a concern, Sean. I want to be clear. You
know, Minnesota
has a tradition of clean elections, and good election systems, and there
isn't any actual evidence of wrongdoing or fraud yet. But the pattern
that you just described, as long as -- and as well as the ballots in the trunk
and some other things -- raise concerns, and we need to make sure that the
ballots are secure, the process is transparent, that there is a uniform
standard, and that all these things are looked into and make sure that they are
fully legitimate -- and that's gonna happen.
HANNITY:
Does Norm Coleman have operatives or -- or members of his campaign now, 24
hours a day around these voting machines, et cetera?
PAWLENTY:
Yeah, the news accounts suggest that he has dispatched people to watch the
room, and there -- most of the counties' administrators, you know, have a
room that's locked -- and this county that issued the court order, they
actually only have two people can have access to it. People have to sign in or
sign out; they have to explain why they would even go in the room in the first
place. The campaign's gonna have monitors as to who would go into the
room or out of the room. That's the kind of uniform standard we'd
like all the counties to use, I know that those --
HANNITY:
Has that been implemented? Here's the problem, though. Because there
hasn't been a recount yet. Has that been implemented from -- from the day
after election or no?
PAWLENTY:
Day -- no. But --
HANNITY:
That's a problem, Governor. Because that means it could have already
happened.
PAWLENTY:
That's also true. But there is no actual evidence, Sean. I wanna be
clear. There's no actual evidence that there's been any fraud or
problems there. There are these patterns of concern, and again, Norm's
campaign and Franken's campaign were close as of a day ago to have an
agreement about how to handle all this.
HANNITY:
All right, Governor Tim Pawlenty. Appreciate you, updating on us -- updating
for us these -- these goings-on in Minnesota.
But it's somewhat frightening to me. All right, we gotta --
PAWLENTY:
I understand.
HANNITY:
Well, we'll stay on it. Appreciate it, Governor Pawlenty. Thank you.
Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:11:02 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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