Savage:  Equal Opportunity Offender
September 23rd, 2008

After taking part of the summer off to pick a fight with autistic kids and their parents, Michael Savage ushered in fall by returning to his meat and potatoes shtick:  bashing immigrants.  Media Matters has shared with us another one of Savage's fact-less, evidence-less rants against Muslim, African, and basically all illegal immigrants.  Seriously, is there anyone this guy doesn't hate, besides himself?  The Media Matters post is available here:

Savage on Muslim immigrants: 15th-century "throwbacks, some of whom are no doubt terrorists, and some of whom are gonna produce children who will become terrorists"

During the September 16 broadcast of The Savage Nation, host Michael Savage discussed what a caller described as "the garbage that comes in here legally." The caller stated, "[W]e talk about illegal aliens, but we tend to forget the garbage that comes in here legally. Like, I just moved to D.C., and all these Muslim fundamentalists, I mean, they walk around Northern Virginia as if they own the place." Savage responded: "All right, well, they do own the place -- they spit on Americans. They look at you with hatred if you're not wearing 14th- to 15th-century garb." Savage went on to add: "Why would a nation that is as evolved as America, and as liberal as America is socially, want to bring in throwbacks who are living in the 15th century? Now you have to ask yourself, what's the benefit? What is the societal benefit of bringing in throwbacks, some of whom are no doubt terrorists, and some of whom are gonna produce children who will become terrorists?"

As Media Matters for America noted, on the August 4 broadcast of The Savage Nation, while discussing the Italian government's decision to deploy soldiers on city streets to combat violent crime for which, according to The New York Times, "illegal immigrants are broadly blamed," Savage stated: "Things are so bad in Europe that the Italians have put soldiers, military on their streets. Now, you have to understand what it means by things are so bad. The illegal immigrants, mainly Muslims and Africans, are out of control." He then added: "So they've done there what we need to do here. We need to get our troops out of Iraq and put them on the streets of America to protect us from the scourge of illegal immigrants who are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America while the liberal psychos are telling us they come here to work."

To read the full text, go to http://mediamatters.org/items/200809180003?f=h_top.