Michael Savage spews vile filth on a daily basis, and is the Media Putz

THE BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK

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Michael Savage

THE BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK

For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.

There's been a lot of back and forth between the Obama and Clinton campaigns about accusations of "surrogate" insults. Recently John McCain jumped into the fray by demanding that Obama apologize because progressive talk show host Ed Schultz called McCain "a warmonger." So, we're now at the point that people have to apologize for third parties unrelated to them telling the truth!

But all of these minor slings and arrows pale by comparison with what many right-wing radio talk show hosts spew out as vile filth on a daily basis. Few, even Rush Limbaugh, get down as deep in the manure pile as Michael Savage (born Michael Alan Weiner). Savage was nominated by Jon Nilsen of Windsor, California.

Savage is the kind of guy who gets tossed out of a restaurant for launching an offensive, vituperative rant that offends just about everybody -- and starts pushing and shoving the manager when asked to leave the premises. But, of course, there are those haters who revel in Savage's cesspool of bigotry. They are his audience.

One Web site offers a sampling of Savage's milder slime:

On the air, he says that Latinos "breed like rabbits", and that America's public schools are "teaching kids in the third grade how to put a condom on a cucumber." He explains that civil rights are a "racket" that is "used to steal only from the white male -- no one else pays the price." He is worried about "degenerates on the left who want to sell Americans on the idea that homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, even sex with animals is normal." He demonizes pot smokers, refers to third-world nations as "turd world nations", and strongly opposes abortion (although his first wife had two while they were married). After the Dixie Chicks spoke ill of President George W. Bush, Savage inexplicably suggested they should be jailed as traitors. "We've all been warned about the dangers of a theocracy", says Savage, "where religious zealots rule. Today in America, we have a she-ocracy where a minority of feminist zealots rule the culture."

Savage was kicked off of MSNBC television for engaging in this exchange:

SAVAGE: Alright, so you're one of those sodomists? Are you a sodomite?

CALLER: Yes, I am.

SAVAGE: Oh, you're one of the sodomites! You should only get AIDS and die, you pig! How's that? [off-screen crew can be heard shouting 'Whoa!'] Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig? You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage? You got nothing to do today? Go eat a sausage and choke on it. Get trichinosis. OK, do we have another nice caller who's busy and didn't have a nice night in the bathhouses, angry at me today? Huh? Get me another one, put another sodomite on! No more calls? I don't care. Let's go to the next scene. I don't care about these bums, they mean nothing to me. They're all sausages. Next scene; onto the next scene on the 'Savage Nation.'

Gee, can you imagine all his homophobic, xenophobic, sexist white male listeners getting worked up into an erotic lather while tuning into Savage? We can, and it's scary that in our society, Savage is paid to be on the airwaves. He's an affront to a civilized society. His radio program appeals to our worst instincts as Americans. After each broadcast, he leaves the world a little more barbaric.

The trouble with "shock" talk show hosts such as Savage is that they sanction our most base feelings and legitimatize them. He has a First Amendment right to state his foul views, but that doesn't mean that a broadcasting network, using the public airwaves, is justified in making a profit off of his aggressively vicious demagoguery.

Savage is the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week, but his employers and listeners share the award with him.

THE BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK

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