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As Media Matters for America documented, the nationwide network
of conservative radio hosts -- personalities without the national
prominence of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh -- engaged in an all-out
effort to foment hate and suspicion of Barack Obama by participating
actively in an echo chamber of smears and falsehoods about the primary
candidate and then Democratic nominee. But these same radio hosts were
by no means discerning in their vitriol and did not save their ire
solely for Obama. The smears ran the gamut, both in the context of the
2008 election, as Media Matters noted in the previous report,
and beyond. Immigrants, female politicians (and women in general), the
LGBT community, the poor and homeless, minorities, progressives,
unions, college students, and even autistic children were targets of
these radio personalities' invective. Media Matters and Colorado Media Matters have compiled some of their more noteworthy attacks on these groups.
Immigrants
In discussing immigration reform or immigration in general,
conservative talk-radio
hosts have repeatedly smeared immigrants -- Latino immigrants in particular --
as violent, uncivilized, or having sinister motives against the United States. Media Matters has documented several
instances of talk-radio
hosts baselessly blaming undocumented immigrants for the mortgage crisis,
citing bogus statistics --
refuted by the Department
of Housing and Urban Development -- to claim that they held a significant
percentage of subprime loans.
G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy
smeared undocumented Mexican immigrants, claiming they "want to reconquer
America, they say"
On the June 5 broadcast of his radio show, G. Gordon Liddy
asserted: "[T]he problem that I have is with people who come over here and
instead of wanting to become Americans, you know, fly the American flag, learn
English, and so forth, they want to fly the Mexican flag, they want to speak
Spanish, you know, and other varieties of illegal alien." Liddy later added: "They want to
reconquer America,
they say."
Jim Quinn, Lee
Rodgers
Conservative radio
hosts claimed HUD said 5 million illegal immigrants were given subprime
mortgages, despite HUD's reported denials
On October 10, KSFO's Lee Rodgers repeated a variation of
the claim that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
reported that it gave "5 million illegal aliens" subprime loans which
have not been paid back. The same day, Quinn
& Rose's Jim Quinn also claimed that "[f]ive million of these bad mortgages went to
illegal aliens" without citing a source for the figure. But neither noted that HUD has
reportedly stated that this statistic is false.
Michael Savage
Savage:
"Illegal aliens" have "raped and disheveled" the Statue of
Liberty
Discussing the Italian government's reported decision to deploy soldiers on city
streets to combat violent crime allegedly committed by illegal immigrants,
Michael Savage said during the August
4 broadcast of his radio show: "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." Savage added:
"[Y]ou turn on the cable news, they're covering again a missing child. Not
a missing country but a missing child. ... We hear about the rape of a woman,
but not about the rape of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is
crying, she's been raped and disheveled -- raped and disheveled by illegal
aliens."
Savage: "We're
getting refugees now who have never used a telephone, a toothbrush, or toilet
paper. ... [T]hey never assimilate. And then their children become
gang-bangers"
Michael Savage asserted on the June 23 broadcast of his
radio show: "We're getting refugees now who have never used a telephone, a
toothbrush, or toilet paper. You're telling me they're going to assimilate?
They will never assimilate. They come here and they bring their destitute ways
to this country, and they never assimilate." He continued: "And then
their children become gang-bangers. It is a disaster." Savage added that
earlier immigrants to the U.S.
"had used toilet paper and toothbrushes and they knew how to survive in
this country. They took a job or they worked. They didn't come and sit and have
16 children and eat beetle nuts."
Savage: "Bring
in 10 million more from Africa. ... They can't reason, but bring them in with a
machete in their head"
On the January 29 broadcast of his radio show, while
discussing President Bush's AIDS spending proposal in the State
of the Union address, Michael
Savage responded to a caller's assertion that he "do[es]n't know anything
about Africa" by unleashing
a series of attacks on the continent
and its people, including the claim that AIDS "got"
to Africa "because it was spread from eating green monkey meat" and
that "in Africa ... people
settle arguments with machetes."
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"
On September 16 broadcast
of The Savage Nation, discussing a caller's claim that
"Muslim fundamentalists" are "walk[ing] around Northern Virginia
as if they own the place," Michael Savage asked, "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?" He also asked:
"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?"
Sex and gender
As Media Matters
noted, right-wing
talk-radio hosts have
also repeatedly made sexist comments about female politicians -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- often highlighting
a woman's physical characteristics, in one instance referring to Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah
Palin's "smoking-hot" looks while calling Obama a
"little bitch." Others referred to Sen. Hillary
Clinton as a "bitch" and, in numerous instances, remarked on her
voice, with one describing it as "screechy,
fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice." Also, as Media Matters
noted, hosts and
guests have attacked progressive women as "ugly
skanks" or
"whores," impugned women's abilities as political leaders,
and some have even questioned
allowing women the right to vote.
Chris Baker
Baker called Obama a
"little bitch" who "won't even stand up to"
"smoking-hot" Palin
While discussing Palin's assertion that Obama was
"palling around with terrorists" on the October 6 broadcast of his
radio show, Baker called Obama a "little bitch" who "won't even
stand up to a smoking-hot chick from Alaska."
Baker did not note that The
New York Times article Palin cited for her claim about
Obama's association with William Ayers reported that "the two men do not
appear to have been close," or that the Obama campaign did indeed respond
to Palin's claim.
Baker on Palin's appearance at VP debate: "Shoulda
had a little cleavage going ... I noticed a panty line on her"
On the October 3 broadcast of The Chris Baker Show, Baker
said Palin "shoulda had a little cleavage going" during the
vice-presidential debate, and that he "noticed a panty line on her."
Baker: "I don't think homeless people should
vote"; "I'm not that excited about women voting"
On the October 2 broadcast of his radio show, Baker said,
"I don't think homeless people should vote. Frankly. In fact, I have to be
very honest. I'm not that excited about women voting, to be honest." Baker
later said: "But that's just me. I'm a pig, and that's fine. All
right?"
Minneapolis radio host said Code Pink protesters
"ought to have all their tubes tied"
During the September 5 broadcast his show, Baker stated of
McCain's speech at the Republican National Convention, "I'll tell you,
though, in the speech -- the best part of the speech was when those Code Pink
nuts -- another bunch that ought to have all their tubes tied. All right? I
can't stand these Code Pink broads."
Mark Belling
Belling: "When you think of Hillary Clinton,"
the word "bitches" comes to mind
Milwaukee radio host
Mark Belling declared on his September 11 radio show, "What's the process
that determines which potholes get patched the fastest [in Milwaukee]? I'll tell you what it is. No,
they don't go and judge it on severity. ... It's who -- can I use this word?
When you think of [Sen.] Hillary Clinton what do you think -- what word comes
to mind? Yes, can I use that word here? All right, it's who bitches the
most."
Belling called Gloria Steinem a "grizzled old
bag," "old witch"
During the September 4 broadcast of The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show,
Belling called Gloria Steinem a "grizzled old bag," "old
witch," and "embittered old has-been" and also stated that the
"previous generation" of feminists "were so ugly you couldn't
stand to look at them." Belling made these remarks while discussing
Steinem's September 4 Los
Angeles Times op-ed, in which she criticized McCain's
choice of Palin as his vice-presidential running mate.
Jon Caldara
On
Caldara's KOA show, Coulter claimed women's suffrage "explains the
destruction of America"
Appearing as a guest on the June 16 broadcast of Jon
Caldara's Newsradio 850 KOA program, Ann Coulter asserted that women aren't
"concerned with how capital is generated and created," and claimed
that women's suffrage "explains the destruction of America." Her
remarks echoed those in a 2007 blog posting that quoted her as saying, "If
we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another
Democrat president."
Caldara
asked Coulter if Clinton was "bitch-slapped" in debate
Discussing the January 21 CNN Democratic presidential candidates'
debate, Caldara during his broadcast that evening asked Coulter whether it was
"fair to say" that Clinton
"got bitch-slapped tonight."
Bill Cunningham
Cunningham on Democratic women: "[A] lot of women
who are single are vulnerable; they need like a daddy government to keep an eye
on them"
On the October 29 broadcast of his Cincinnati-based radio show, host Bill Cunningham stated:
"Traditionally, we think of women as Democratic voters because a lot of
women who are single are vulnerable; they need like a daddy government to keep
an eye on them."
Mark Levin
Levin on his "National Organization of Ugly Women" remark:
"[F]or now on, it's the National Organization of Really Ugly Women"
Addressing his September 4 comments on Sean Hannity's
radio show, in which he called the National Organization for Women, the
"National Organization of Ugly Women," Mark Levin said on his
September 8 radio show: "I just wanted to underscore that maybe I
shouldn't have called them the National Organization of Ugly Women. For now on,
it's the National Organization of Really Ugly Women." Levin first made his
remarks while discussing with
Hannity NOW's opposition to Palin.
Quinn & Rose
Quinn
called NOW the "National Organization for Whores," said columnist
Fatimah Ali should "get an American name"
On his syndicated radio
show, Jim Quinn referred to the National Organization for Women as "the
National Organization for Whores," and said of Philadelphia Daily News
columnist Fatimah Ali: "[Y]ou know, Fatimah, what's your real name? Come
on, seriously. I mean, get an American name, will you, if you want to be an
American." He then asked: "You don't suppose she's a liberal black
Muslim, do you?"
Quinn: "[T]he goal of the public school system --
the feminists in the public school system -- is to make male behavior
illegal"
After reading from a blog post about a Georgia teacher who reportedly informed
the school principal and campus police that a picture of a vampire one of her
students had drawn might contain gang symbols, Quinn stated on the November 6
broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose that the
incident is evidence of "the chickification of schools, the feminization
of society, and the war on masculinity." He then stated that "the
goal of the public school system -- the feminists in the public school system
-- is to make male behavior illegal, a crime."
Jim Quinn: Steinem opposes Palin because Palin "declined to
slaughter her own unborn child, Trig, to the goddess of feminism"
On the October 6 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, Jim Quinn claimed that
Gloria Steinem opposes Gov. Sarah Palin because Palin "refused the
sacrificial right of passage, better known as the Eucharist of the feminist
church: abortion. That's right. She declined to slaughter her own unborn child,
Trig, to the goddess of feminism, even after doctors told her that he was one
of those Down syndrome 'throw-aways.' "
Quinn: To feminists, even "a childless feminist who looks like a
Bulgarian weightlifter in drag" can be a "real woman"
On the September 15 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, Quinn stated: "If
you don't agree with the feminist scolds, then you're not a real woman -- even
if you are a very feminine working mom. But even if you're an actual man, never
mind a childless feminist who looks like a Bulgarian weightlifter in drag,
you're a real woman solely because you nod your head like a windup clapping
monkey every time you read the latest editorial from Ms. Magazine." Quinn made these remarks while
discussing, among other things, prominent feminists' opposition to Palin.
Quinn introduced segment about Hillary Clinton by
playing Elton John's "The Bitch Is Back"
On the August 27 edition of the syndicated radio program The War Room with Quinn & Rose, Quinn
introduced a segment on Sen. Hillary Clinton by saying, "By the way, that brings us to our
Hillary Heads-Up," and then playing audio of the Elton John song "The
Bitch Is Back." Quinn then said, "I was going to play 'Ding Dong, the
Witch is Dead.' But you know what, I -- you never know with the Clintons."
Lee Rodgers
KSFO's Rodgers said many "professed leaders of the feminist movement"
are "hags" who "couldn't get laid in a men's prison"
On the October 17 broadcast of San Francisco radio station
KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show,
Rodgers said: "[Y]ou look at many -- perhaps most -- but many of the women
who are professed leaders of the feminist movement in this country, and they're
a bunch of hags." He added: "They couldn't get laid in a men's
prison, let's be honest about it." Rodgers made these remarks while
discussing, among other things, feminists' disapproval of Palin.
KSFO's Rodgers: "[P]uckered-butt Democrat women hate Sarah Palin ...
because her idea of choice was choosing not to have an abortion"
Returning to a previous claim he has made, Rodgers asserted
on September 23: "I believe that the reason a bunch of puckered-butt
Democrat women hate Sarah Palin is because her idea of choice was choosing not
to have an abortion." Guest Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise
Institute responded in part by saying: "[T]here is that very vocal segment
of feminist opinion that celebrates abortion as a positive good in the same way
that, you know, Southern slaveholders 150 years ago celebrated slavery as a
positive good."
KSFO's Rodgers: "[F]emale leadership of the Democratic Party"
consists of "ugly skanks" who "hate" that "Sarah
Palin's good-looking"
On the September 17 broadcast of his KSFO radio show,
Rodgers said that "the female leadership of the Democratic Party" is
made up of "ugly skanks." He also stated: "Sarah Palin's
good-looking and they hate that." He also declared: "I think we have
to ask: Would you like Sarah Palin better if she got pregnant again and did
have an abortion, because it's obvious, with a lot of liberal women, killing
babies is the main priority they have."
KSFO's Rodgers: "With that screechy, fingernails-on-the-blackboard
voice of hers, it is impossible for Hillary Clinton to deliver a great
speech"
On the August 27 broadcast of his radio show, Rodgers said
of Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention,
"With that screechy, fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice of hers, it is
impossible for Hillary Clinton to deliver a great speech." Rodgers later
said that Bill and Hillary Clinton are hoping Obama "falls flat on his
face so the Hilldebeest can have another run in four years, and Billy
Bentpecker can hide behind the curtain in the Oval Office telling Hillary what
he wants her to do as president of the United States."
KSFO's Rodgers on voting gender gap: For "a lot of women in this country
who get knocked up ... the government becomes Daddy in terms of paying the
bills"
On the June 11 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Program, host Lee Rodgers
said: "[T]he historical voting records show that Democrats have,
historically, enjoyed a huge advantage in women voters. Why is that?"
Rodgers continued: "Well, some women may be offended by this, but here's
another dose of reality. We have a lot of women in this country who get knocked
up and they don't have a husband. In effect, the government becomes Daddy in
terms of paying the bills. And that accounts -- that's not all of it, but that
accounts for a large part of that vote."
LGBT-related smears
Media Matters has
identified numerous examples of smears pertaining
to sexual orientation or targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender Americans that are routine among conservative talk-radio hosts. As Media Matters
noted, legal rulings and ballot propositions regarding same-sex marriage prompted
several radio hosts to target the LGBT community, in some cases suggesting that same-sex
marriage will "lead to legal human-animal marriage."
Jon Caldara
On Caldara program, Coulter called John Edwards "the very definition
of faggy"
Referring to a National Enquirer
report
alleging that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has an
illegitimate child with "his mistress," a "blonde
divorcée," Coulter told Caldara during his July 23 broadcast, "I just
think John Edwards is an incredibly creepy individual and the very definition
of faggy." Coulter's remark echoed her reference to
Edwards as a "faggot" during a 2007 speech to the Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Dan Caplis
KHOW's Caplis again
asserted that gay "conduct is not natural" and is "immoral"
During a discussion about same-sex adoption on his June 17
630 KHOW-AM broadcast, co-host Dan Caplis repeated his contention that gay
"conduct is not natural," adding that "that conduct is
immoral."
"Gunny"
Bob Newman
KOA's
"Gunny" Bob repeated concern that "crushing tyranny of the
left" could "lead to legal human-animal marriage"
Discussing the California Supreme Court's decision
invalidating a state statute banning same-sex marriage, Newsradio 850
KOA's "Gunny" Bob Newman on May 15 asserted that "under
the crushing tyranny of the left, America will legalize gay marriage at the
federal level -- or at a minimum
recognize gay marriage in states with such laws." and that
"[s]ome Americans fear that this will lead to legal human-animal
marriage." Newman similarly warned of "[l]egal polygamy" and
"[l]egal marriages between [parents] and their offspring."
Michael Savage
Savage: "If you're insane, hate the family ...
hate your mother and father, hate the Bible, hate the church, and hate the
synagogue," you oppose CA gay marriage ban
On the October 29 broadcast of his radio show, Savage said
of a California
ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage,
"[T]here's a ballot initiative on homosexual marriage that is more important
than you could imagine. It's called Proposition 8, and you must vote 'yes' if
you're sane. If you're insane, hate the family, hate man and woman, hate your
mother and father, hate the Bible, hate the church, and hate the synagogue, of
course you're in favor of 'no' on Proposition 8." The next day on his
program, Savage stated: "[T]he people who don't have families don't
understand that, as difficult as family life is, life is impossible without it.
They don't understand that. They don't understand what the family unit is. It's
the strongest bond on Earth, which is why homosexual marriage is such a threat
to civilization itself."
After railing against gay marriage, Savage said "the spiritual side
of the downturn on Wall Street was directly related to the moral downturn"
On the October 1 broadcast of his nationally syndicated
radio show, Savage said: "[Y]ou may say, 'Why should we care about
homosexuals trying to destroy families through the mock marriage that they
perform in order to mock God, the church, the family, children, the fetus, the
DNA of the human species? Why should we care about it while we have a financial
meltdown?' Because the spiritual side of the downturn on Wall Street is
directly related to the moral downturn in the United States of America."
Savage later said of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom: "Today it's the
gays, tomorrow it'll be a man marrying a horse."
Savage linked
San Francisco event to the "artistes" and "leather
fetishists" of Weimar-era Germany, whom he blamed for Hitler's rise
Discussing the Folsom Street Fair, a leather-themed
adult-entertainment event in San Francisco,
Savage declared on the September 29 broadcast of his radio show: "This
country today is far beyond the excesses of the Weimar Republic
that led to Adolf Hitler. God forbid that should ever happen here. But the
German people, who were not all Nazis prior to Hitler's arrival on the scene,
were shocked by the degenerates of Berlin.
They were sickened by the perverts, sickened by the artistes, they were
sickened by the leather fetishists, they were sickened by the degeneracy, and
they couldn't handle it."
Savage: "The children's minds are being raped by the homosexual
mafia"
Responding to a caller who said, "I had to explain to my
young son why these two men were holding hands the other day," Savage
stated on the June 16 broadcast of his radio show: "You've got to explain
to the children ... why God told people this was wrong." He went on to
say, "You have to explain this to them in this time of mental rape that's
going on. The children's minds are being raped by the homosexual mafia, that's
my position. They're raping our children's minds."
Brian Sussman
KSFO's Sussman invited guest to talk about his
claim that "gay and lesbian radicals actively recruit through our schools
and the media"
On the June 16 broadcast of San Francisco radio station
KSFO's The Lee Rodgers
Show, guest host Brian Sussman hosted theologian Charlie Self, whom Sussman
called "Dr. History," to discuss the California Supreme Court's May
15 ruling overturning the state's ban
on same-sex marriages. In the course of the discussion, Sussman referenced a post on Self's blog and said
to Self: "On your website -- it's interesting you're addressing this very
topic, Dr. Self, and you talk about how gay and lesbian radicals actively
recruit through our schools and the media in order to swell their ranks. Talk
to us about that for a moment." After asserting, "It is amazing how
little the traditional family is pictured in either drama or comedy on TV anymore,"
Self said that "[t]he only way that you are
going to grow the ranks of this kind of movement is this kind of onslaught
because it is simply not part of the nature of things as designed or as evolved
or as historically recorded for thousands of years." During the
interview, Sussman also claimed that "Darwinism just doesn't jibe with
gay marriage" and asserted: "[I]n our society we say, here are the
rules: man and a woman, you can't marry anyone under this particular age, you
can't marry a family member. So, the rules are the same for all of us, Dr.
History. But, for some reason, the gays want to change those rules. I just
don't understand it."
Quinn & Rose
Quinn: "Gay sex produces AIDS"; "They
should charge homosexuals more for their ... health insurance"
On the November 6 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, Quinn said: "The
only thing that -- the only thing that gay marriage produce -- well, gay marriage
doesn't produce anything that the state has an interest in. Gay sex produces
AIDS, which the state doesn't have -- or should have an interest in. They
should charge homosexuals more for their -- for their health insurance than
they charge the rest of us." Quinn made the comment while discussing the
passage of a California
ballot initiative
to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Race and ethnicity
Several right-wing radio hosts have promoted insulting stereotypes regarding
African-Americans,
Mexicans, and other groups.
Neal Boortz
Boortz: "Muslims, making tortillas? ... [W]ith all of the illegal
Mexicans in this country, we can't find some Mexicans to make those tortillas?"
On the May 29 broadcast of his radio show, while discussing
reports that six Muslim women were fired from a Minnesota tortilla factory because of dress
code violations, Boortz asked: "Muslims, making tortillas? You know, this
world is really screwed up when Muslims are making our tortillas, folks."
He added: "I mean, with all of the illegal Mexicans in this country, we
can't find some Mexicans to make those tortillas?"
Boortz's commentary on his inability to use a floor buffer: "I would
make a lousy Mexican"
On the April 10 edition of his radio show, Boortz asserted,
"I would make a lousy Mexican." Engineer and "sidekick"
Royal Marshall asked Boortz: "Why is that?" Boortz responded,
"Well, because I wanted to scrub the hangar floor the other day, so I went
and rented one of these big buffers," later adding: "I turned on that
buffer, and it damn near killed me! It was dragging me across the hangar floor,
throwing me around like I -- it was like a dog shaking a cat or something like
that. You know, that's skilled labor."
Bill Cunningham
Cunningham on Obama Sr.: "That's what black
fathers do. They simply leave"
On the October 28 broadcast of his radio show, Cunningham
stated of Obama's childhood: "[I]magine at the age of 1 or 2 seeing your
father for the last time. See, his father was a typical black father who, right
after the birth, left the baby. That's what black fathers do. They simply
leave."
Cunningham guest Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: "[M]ost
black people today are racist"
On the October 20 edition of Clear Channel's The Big Show with Bill Cunningham, guest
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said of former Secretary of State Colin Powell's
endorsement of Obama: "[H]e's clearly for the color of the man and not the
character." Cunningham replied, "Great comments, and if Obama was
white as chalk, do you think that Powell would be endorsing the Democrat? He
didn't endorse [Al] Gore, he didn't endorse [Sen. John] Kerry. I think color
trumps everything in his mind." Peterson responded: "That's right,
because if it was about what Barack Obama stood for, then he would have
endorsed Gore and all those guys, but he did not. You know, it's so sad, my
friend, that most black people today are racist. Not all, not all -- but most
of them are racist."
Cunningham: "I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack
loses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says"
During the October 10 broadcast of The Big Show with Bill Cunningham,
Cunningham stated: "I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack
loses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says." Cunningham also
asserted that "Flavor Flav, 50 Cent, and Diddy" are "really in
charge of the [Obama] Inaugural [Ball]."
G. Gordon Liddy
In sketch on Corsi's detention in Kenya, Liddy played audio of
"jungle telegraph drums"
On the October 7 edition of his radio program, Liddy
discussed the detention of Jerome Corsi in Kenya
and aired a sketch in which he said: "We've used the satellite connection
to Kenya,
and we are now focusing in on the trial of Dr. Jerome Corsi. ... [H]e's being
accused of impersonating a human being. My Zulu's not -- not as good as
Obama's, but -- yeah, they're really upset with him. You can probably
tell." Liddy then aired a clip apparently from the 1950 movie King Solomon's Mines, which featured
characters speaking in Kinyarwanda (not Zulu), one of the official languages of
Rwanda, and playing music on drums.
Quinn & Rose
Quinn and Tennent: Powell endorsed Obama because
"he's tired of being called an Oreo," "an Uncle Tom"
On the October 20 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Rose Tennent
asserted that former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Obama
"because he doesn't want to be known as an Uncle Tom anymore. He
wants to be black again." Co-host Jim Quinn later said of Powell,
"He's tired of being called an Oreo."
Lee Rodgers
Rodgers suggested that just as the O.J. Simpson verdict "was a
racial vote," African-Americans support Obama because of "racial
brotherhood"
During the October 3 broadcast of KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, arguing that
"some things never change," Rodgers claimed O.J. Simpson was
acquitted of murder because of a "racial vote" by the jury and said
of polls that show "98 percent of black voters voting for" Obama:
"[A]re we to assume they all agree with him on all his principles? Or
could there be a hint of racial brotherhood in that vote? Come on, we know the
answer to that." Rodgers also declared, "If any white person, for
whatever reason -- because they think he consorts with terrorists or
communists, or believes in all the things that black racist preacher said for
20 years votes against him for that reason -- no, no, no, no. If you're a white
person voting against Obama, you are a racist."
Michael
Savage
Savage on Obama: "America's first affirmative
action candidate about to become president"
During the October 27 broadcast of his radio show, Savage
said: "Obama and I are on the opposite sides of the political spectrum, as
you can well imagine. While he benefited from affirmative action, stepping over
more qualified white men, I actually lost as a result of affirmative action,
many times in my life. Although I'd get near 100s on certain exams, they put me
at the back of the bus because they said -- the ACLU said -- certain people
will have to put their futures on hold in order to let others advance, and take
a look at where we are today -- we have America's first affirmative action
candidate about to become president."
Savage: "Kenya is going to move
to America if Barack Hussein Obama wins"
During the October 10 broadcast of his radio show, Savage
baselessly accused Obama of running a "corrupt campaign," suggested
that white liberals "hate white people," repeated the discredited
charge that Obama "won't produce his birth certificate," and asserted
"Kenya is going to move to America" if Obama wins the election.
Attacks on the poor
Several talk-radio
hosts have attacked low-income and homeless Americans over the past year,
characterizing them as "welfare broodmares" and "lack[ing]
values, morals, and ethics." Some have advocated that the poor be
disenfranchised, or even that the homeless be sent to "work camps."
Chris Baker
Baker: "I don't think homeless
people should vote"; "I'm not that excited about women voting"
On the October 2 broadcast of show, Baker said: "I
don't think homeless people should vote. Frankly. In fact, I have to be very
honest. I'm not that excited about women voting, to be honest." Baker
subsequently added: "But that's just me. I'm a pig, and that's fine. All
right? And we'll see that, I'm sure, on a lame-ass website very soon. But I
don't think hobos ought to vote at all. They're nuts. And I think that there
needs to be a little more care in who votes."
Neal Boortz
Boortz: "Single mothers receiving public
assistance" are "welfare broodmares"
On his August 19 program, Boortz described "single
mothers receiving public assistance" as "welfare broodmares."
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a
"broodmare" as "a mare [a female horse] kept for breeding."
Boortz made the comment while discussing a report that women in Georgia who
received public assistance gave birth at more than three times the rate of
women who did not receive public assistance, according to 2006 U.S. Census
Bureau figures.
Boortz again referred to victims of Hurricane Katrina
as "parasite[s]"
On the June 19 edition of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show,
host Neal Boortz
asserted that "the real question" concerning the difference between
the current floods in the Midwest and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is as follows:
"[W]hy is it that the people who are being affected by the floods in Iowa
and the upper Midwest, why is it that they seem to be so much more capable of
taking care of themselves and handling this disaster than were the people of
Katrina in New Orleans?" Boortz continued, "I think the answer's
pretty clear, is that up there in that part of the country, you find a great
deal of self-sufficiency. Down there in New
Orleans, it was basically a parasite class totally
dependent on government for their existence." Boortz described this as
being a "cultural
issue, not a racial issue."
Boortz: "[P]rimary blame" for Katrina goes
to "worthless parasites who lived in New Orleans"
Boortz asserted during the January 30 edition of his radio
show: "I am fed up with this conventional wisdom that Katrina and the
disaster that followed was George Bush's fault. It was not. The primary blame
goes on the worthless parasites who lived in New Orleans who you -- couldn't even wipe
themselves, let alone get out of the way of the water when that levee broke."
Bill Cunningham
Cunningham: "[P]eople are poor in America ...
because they lack values, morals, and ethics"
On the October 28 broadcast of his radio show, Cunningham
asserted that "people are poor in America ... not because they lack
money," but "because they lack values, morals, and ethics." He
also said that "unlike many countries in the world ... we have fat poor
people. We don't have skinny poor people. Ours are fat and flatulent."
Cunningham made similar remarks on the October 23 broadcast of his radio show,
asserting that "[t]he reason people are poor in America is not because
they lack money, it's because poor people in America lack values, character,
and the ability to work hard."
Cunningham: America's "so-called noble poor"
don't use birth control so that "the mom can get more checks in the mail
from the government"
After declaring on October 27 that "most responsible
couples engage in birth control so they don't bring children into the world
they cannot afford," Cunningham claimed that "[a]mong the so-called
noble poor in America, just the opposite is true. Birth control is not used so
illegitimate children can be brought into the world, so the mom can get more
checks in the mail from the government." Cunningham then added: "And
then once the child is born, that is the key to financial riches in the poor
communities -- white and black -- in America. And that key is Section 8
housing and vouchers; the key is food stamps, no work -- if you work you're
punished."
G. Gordon Liddy
Liddy: Obama is relying, in part, on
"the welfare class" to win Pennsylvania
On his October 30 program, Liddy said of Obama's electoral
prospects in Pennsylvania: "Pennsylvania has been described as Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia, with Alabama in the middle. Obama is counting on
the urban elites and the welfare class to win the state for him. But he's
putting on a show for the rest of Pennsylvania."
Quinn & Rose
Quinn stated that unlike welfare recipients, slaves
"had to work" for food, housing
On the November 6 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose,
Quinn compared "slave[s] in the Old South" to welfare recipients
today, stating that the "difference" is that "[t]he slave had to
work for" the benefits Quinn said they received. Quinn said: "You
know, if you were a slave in the old South, what did you get as a slave? You
got free room and board, you got free money, and you got rewarded for having
children because that was just, you know, tomorrow's slave. So, you got a free
house, you got free money, and you got rewarded for having children. Can I ask
a question? How's that different from welfare? You get a free house, you get
free food, and you get rewarded for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on
a second. There is a difference: The slave had to work for it." The show
then aired an audio clip of a buzzer sounding and a voice repeating,
"Insensitivity!" Quinn then stated: "Ah, the truth stings, does
it not?"
Responding to Media
Matters item, Quinn defended comparison of welfare recipients to
slaves
On the November 7 broadcast of The War Room, Quinn addressed comments he made on the
previous day's broadcast comparing "slave[s] in the old South" to
welfare recipients today, the "difference" being that "[t]he
slave had to work for" the benefits Quinn said they received. Quinn said: "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." He later added:
"[W]hen you think about it, the slave had more personal nobility than the
welfare recipient, because he or she had no say in their station in life. The
welfare recipient actually volunteers for it. It is the liberal
plantation."
Rose Tennent on Obama ad:
"[D]on't put that jive out there in front of me, devil, and tell me that
these people are hurting when they are not hurting"
On the October 30 broadcast of The War Room, Tennent
said of the families featured in Obama's 30-minute ad: "Well, OK. They
were sad stories, but I'm looking at the background. I'm not looking at the
person talking in their home, I'm looking at what they have in their home. They
have color television sets; they have everything that I have in my house. I'll
bet you they have an iPod, I bet you they have, you know -- I'll bet they have
a lot of luxuries in that home. They are not poor." Tennent later said:
"So don't put -- don't put that jive out there in front of me, devil, and
tell me that these people are hurting when they are not hurting. All they need
to do is make some cuts and figure out a way to do this."
Quinn: "Originally, if you
didn't have land, you didn't vote, and there was a good reason for it"
On the October 21 broadcast of The War Room, while reading from an opinion column by
conservative blogger Scott Johnson that discussed the history of taxation and
property rights in the United States, Quinn declared: "Originally, if you
didn't own land, you didn't vote, and there was a good reason for it: because
those without property will always vote away the property of other people unto
themselves, and that's the beginning of the end." Quinn added: "But,
oh no, that was -- that was just too mean-spirited." Moments earlier, Quinn
said, "Now -- I mean, I can hear the appeal to the masses: 'It's not fair,
it's not the American way that you don't get to vote,' but let me ask you a
question: If I don't own anything, what kind of a problem do I have with voting
for a measure -- a tax, a law -- that takes somebody else's property and gives
it to me? I have no stake in personal property ownership 'cause I don't have
any. Now, back in the day, when this was the law of the land, anybody who
wanted to vote needed to step up to the plate, achieve, get a stake in America, and
then vote."
Michael Savage
Savage: "Why should a welfare recipient have the
right to vote? They're only gonna vote themselves a raise"
On his October 22 show, Savage asked: "Do you think a
person on welfare has the right to vote? I don't. Why should a person who is on
public assistance maintain the right to vote? Tell me why. Where is it written
that they should have the right to vote?" He added: "I support them,
and they should have the same vote I do? That would be like saying an infant
has the right to vote or an insane person has the right to vote. Why should a
welfare recipient have the right to vote? They're only gonna vote themselves a
raise."
Savage's answer to homelessness:
"Why not put them in work camps?"
On the June 6 broadcast of The
Savage Nation, Savage responded
to a caller's question about how Savage would address the "problem with
the homelessness in this country" by asking, "Why not put them in
work camps? Most of them are able-bodied." He went on to say that
"since they're already receiving public assistance, I'd pay them
nothing." He later asked: "Why do you have to pay a man who's right
now living off the fat of the land?"
Other attacks
Beyond smears of Obama, his
supporters, racial and ethnic minorities, women, gays and lesbians, and the poor, talk-radio hosts often directed their ire toward a broad range of other groups of people: those with HIV/AIDS, people
with autism, teachers, other radio hosts, comedians perceived as progressive,
Democrats in the House and Senate, and the organizations that document their
attacks.
Chris Baker
Minneapolis radio
hosts Baker and Perry are "convinced" that Magic Johnson "faked
AIDS"
On the October 8 broadcast of The Chris Baker Show, Minneapolis
radio host Langdon Perry stated, "I'm convinced that Magic [Johnson] faked
AIDS," to which Baker replied, "Yeah, me too." Perry then called
Johnson "the only cured AIDS guy ever."
Baker: Media Matters "can kiss my supple
buttocks"
Responding to a Media
Matters item documenting previous remarks he made about House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Baker said on the September 19 broadcast of his show:
"Media Matters people can
kiss my supple buttocks. What I say is what I say, and if they don't like it,
instead of hiding like a bunch of commie girls, they can challenge me if they
like."
Mark Belling
Belling smeared
"greedy, overpaid unionized schoolteacher[s]" who talk about global
warming
On the August 12 broadcast of his show, Belling referred to
schoolteachers who talk to their students about global warming as "idiot union
teacher[s]," "liberal unionized hack[s]," "greedy, overpaid
unionized schoolteacher[s]," and "fruitcake[s]."
Neal Boortz
Boortz: Teachers
unions "do more damage to this country than all the drug pushers
together"
While discussing the issue of public education with a caller
on the April 16 broadcast of his radio show, Boortz stated: "I think the
most dangerous -- the single most dangerous entity, group of people in this
country right now are the teachers unions." He continued: "I think teachers
unions do more damage to this country than the Los Angeles Lakers. They do more
damage to this country than all the drug pushers together. ... If I had a
button right now, two buttons -- push this button and it gets rid of all the
drug dealers; push this button, it gets rid of the teachers unions -- I'm
getting rid of the teachers unions."
Mark Levin
Levin attacks
"Jon Leibowitz, a.k.a Jon Stewart": "I'm really tired of these
phony intellectuals ... arrogantly looking down their sizable noses at our
armed forces"
On the July 16 broadcast of his radio show, Levin said,
"As you know, from time to time, we monitor Jon Leibowitz, a.k.a. Jon
Stewart, as well as some of the other nudniks out there." While discussing
remarks Stewart made on his Comedy Central show, Levin stated, "I'm really
tired of these phony intellectuals -- and that's what they are, phony --
arrogantly looking down their sizable noses at our armed forces."
"Gunny" Bob Newman
"Gunny" Bob's suggestions
for replacing Air America's Rhodes included Obama, Stalin, bin Laden, Charles
Manson
Commenting on Air America Radio's
April 10 announcement that host
Randi Rhodes would be leaving the progressive network following her April 3 suspension for using
vulgar language to insult Sen. Hillary Clinton at an off-air event, Newman on
his April 10 broadcast suggested possible replacements for Rhodes, to
"stay true over at Air America to their programming ideology." In
addition to Clinton, Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former
President Jimmy Carter, Newman's suggestions included "Osama bin Laden.
[bin Laden collaborator] Ayman al-Zawahiri. Robert Mugabe, the dictator down in
Zimbabwe
... [former Ugandan dictator] Idi Amin," and "[a]dmitted terrorist
Nelson Mandela." Newman also stated that former cult leader "Charles
Manson would be a fantastic Air America host" and included Joseph Stalin
among "those characters [who] would fit right in at Air America."
Lee Rodgers
KSFO's
"gentleman" Rodgers lashes out at Media Matters
On the September 18 broadcast of his KSFO radio show,
responding to a Media Matters item
documenting his comments that "the female leadership of the Democratic
Party" consists of "ugly skanks" who "hate" that
"Sarah Palin's good-looking," Rodgers stated that "one of the
little left-wing websites" "inferred that I had said that these
women, prominent women in the liberal movement, are prostitutes. And of course
I didn't say any such thing as that because I am a gentleman." Rodgers
also said that "left-wing bloggers ... are men in their 30s and 40s who
are single and likely to stay that way" and are "[s]till living at
home with one or both parents." He added: "And, of course,
handwriting analysis has revealed that ... they have to use tweezers to
masturbate."
Michael Savage
Discussing economic
crisis and bailout plan, Savage said Rep. Frank "should be in the gallows
for this"
On the September 29 broadcast of his show, Savage said of
Rep. Frank's role in proposed federal financial bailout legislation:
"Barney Frank should be in the gallows for this. Barney Frank should be in
jail for doing this."
Savage: Democratic
Party's "membership is made up largely of minority blocs ... that are all
against the white person"
On his August 25 radio show, Savage said, "The Democrat
[sic] Party is the minority party. ... Obama is a minority, a half minority at
least. The membership is made up largely of minority blocs, the Hispanic caucus
and the gay caucus -- caucuses that are all against the white person."
Savage also claimed: "Now, the white women generally are not as hard-nosed
about things as the white male, and so many white women don't even understand
that they're being duped, and they vote for a Democrat, not knowing that
they're digging their own grave."
Savage reportedly
likened Media Matters to HIV
A July 22 WorldNetDaily.com article reporting on the
controversy over Savage's July 16 remarks about autism stated that Savage
"told WND that Media Matters itself is as much a part of the story as
autism," adding: "Acting like the HIV virus, he said, 'they invade
the body politic and mimic the defense cells until they poison the entire
organism.' "
Savage on Media Matters: "They have no place in
America"
On the July 21 broadcast of his radio show, Savage
repeatedly attacked Media Matters,
calling the group a "Stalinist," "anti-family,"
"illegitimate, dangerous fascist group[]," and asserted that Media Matters "ha[s] no place in
America." His comments came after Media
Matters documented, with transcript and audio, his July 16 remarks
describing autism as "[a] fraud, a racket." Those comments have sparked
protests and generated widespread media attention.
Savage on autism: "A fraud, a racket. ...In 99
percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the
act out"
On his July 16 program, Savage 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 concluded:
"[I]f I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to
me, 'Don't behave like a fool.' The worst thing he said -- 'Don't behave like a
fool. Don't be anybody's dummy. Don't sound like an idiot. Don't act like a
girl. Don't cry.' That's what I was raised with. That's what you should raise
your children with. 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. That's why we have the politicians we have."
Savage referred to
Pelosi as "Nancy Mussolini"
On his July 15 show, Savage referred to Pelosi as
"Nancy Mussolini." As Media
Matters noted, during the June 27 broadcast of his program, Savage
similarly referred to Pelosi as "the Mussolini in a skirt," "Nancy
Pelosi Mussolini," and the "Mussolini-like woman of the day."
During his June 27
show, Savage also said of Obama: "We don't know whether he'd be more like
Mussolini or Stalin, but one of the two would work."
Savage plays Dead
Kennedys song again after asserting he "is now being persecuted for
refusing to take the party line" on Sen. Kennedy's illness
On his May 21 show, Savage stated of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), "His poor health does
not excuse him from what he has done to our nation, and so, now, the Soros-run
media sets on Michael Savage for daring to disclose the truth about Ted
Kennedy's legacy." Savage added: "Just as in a Soviet show trial,
Michael Savage is now being persecuted for refusing to take the party line that
the great lion of the left must be praised -- all praise, all praise." On
May 20, Savage aired
the Dead Kennedys song "California Über Alles" while discussing
Kennedy's diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor. Savage again aired the song
during his May 21 broadcast.
Savage: "I
would round up every member of the ACLU and of the National Lawyers Guild and
I'd put them in a prison in Guantánamo and I'd throw the key away"
On the March 31 broadcast of his radio show, Savage stated:
"Cops are getting knocked off all over the country because of the rules of
engagement, written primarily by the scummiest class in America, the
vermin of vermin, which are the left-wing lawyers who should be put in Abu
Ghraib with hoods over their head, as far as I'm concerned." He then
stated: "If I had the power by executive order, I would round up every
member of the ACLU and of the National Lawyers Guild, and I'd put them in a
prison in Guantánamo and I'd throw the key away."
Savage claimed
Lantos used the Holocaust as "a weapon the rest of his life"
Discussing the death
of Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), Savage stated on February 11, "You're not
supposed to talk badly about the dead. I generally wouldn't do it. But in the
case of Tom Lantos, I'll make an exception. I think he was one of the most --
he was a scoundrel. And I'll tell you why I detested Tom Lantos. The man
survived the Holocaust of World War II and used it as a weapon the rest of his
life."
THE
SHOWS
The Chris Baker Show is a Minneapolis-based talk-radio show that airs weekdays from 7
a.m. to 11 a.m. CT on KTLK-FM. Baker previously hosted two
different Houston-based radio programs before reportedly being dismissed in November
2007. Baker joined KTLK in February and was nominated to the Texas Radio Hall
of Fame in June. Since moving to KTLK, Baker discussed with a co-host being
"convinced that Magic [Johnson] faked AIDS"; claimed that
"it's very rare to find a woman worthy of serving in political
office"; said that Gov. Sarah Palin "shoulda had a little cleavage
going" during the vice-presidential debate; and declared "I don't
think homeless people should vote."
The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show is
carried on News/Talk 1130 WISN-AM in Milwaukee, which is owned
by Clear Channel Communications. Talkers Magazine includes Belling in its
"Heavy Hundred,"
which it describes as "the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America."
According to 1130 WISN-AM, The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show "is
regularly rated number one in its time slot in the Milwaukee radio market and is the highest
rated afternoon drive talk show host in the country." In 2001, Belling
was awarded National Association of Broadcasters' Marconi Radio Award for
medium-market "Personality of the Year." Belling has said
"[w]hen you think of Hillary Clinton" the word
"bitches" comes to mind; has called Gloria Steinem a "grizzled
old bag," an "old witch," and an "embittered old
has-been"; and has smeared teachers who have talked about global warming
as "idiot union teacher[s]," "liberal unionized hack[s],"
"greedy, overpaid unionized schoolteacher[s]," and
"fruitcake[s]."
The Neal Boortz Show is an
Atlanta-based program that airs weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. The
program is nationally syndicated by Cox Radio Syndication,
which says that it "partners with the Jones Radio Network to service more
than 200 affiliate stations with programming listened to by several million
people each week." According to Talkers Magazine,
the show is the seventh-rated talk-radio program and averages at least 4.25
million listeners a week. Boortz has repeatedly referred to Hurricane Katrina
victims as "parasites"; commented that he would "make a lousy
Mexican" because of his inability to use a floor buffer; and described
"single mothers receiving public assistance" as "welfare
broodmares."
The Jon Caldara Show airs on Denver's 850 KOA-AM on weeknights from 10 p.m. to 1
a.m. MT. Caldara is president of the
"free market" Independence Institute and has had a public role in
numerous anti-tax and anti-government spending campaigns. Caldara also hosts a
"current affairs" television program, Independent Thinking, on Denver's KBDI-TV. Caldara has asked a
guest if it was "fair to say" that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY)
"got bitch-slapped" during a primary debate; and he described Colorado Media Matters as a "hate
group" for highlighting his remarks.
The Caplis & Silverman Show airs
weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m. MT on Denver's
630 KHOW-AM. Co-host Dan Caplis, an attorney who in 2007 publicly discussed
running for U.S. Senate as a Republican, has also made occasional appearances
on Fox News' The O'Reilly
Factor. Caplis has asserted that gay "conduct is not natural" and is
"immoral." While discussing a
photograph of Obama wearing Somali clothing, Caplis questioned why Obama would "put on similar clothing
to the outfit worn by the man [Osama bin Laden] who personally ordered
thousands of Americans, including women and kids, to be burned to death."
The Big Show with Bill Cunningham is a weekday Cincinnati-based radio program that airs from 12:25
p.m. to 3 p.m. ET on Ohio's
WLW-AM. The program is also simulcast on
XM Radio Channel 173. Cunningham, a former Ohio assistant attorney general, also hosts
a nationally syndicated Sunday-night talk program titled Live on Sunday Night, It's Bill Cunningham,
which is broadcast live on 325 affiliates, according to its syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks.
In 2001, Cunningham received the National Association of Broadcasters' Marconi Radio Award for
large-market "Personality of the Year." Cunningham has alleged that
"Obama wants to gas the Jews;" compared Obama to Hitler; has
repeatedly suggested that if Obama lost the election "there will be 100
cities burning;" has invoked "six-six-six" and "the
beast" while discussing Obama; has asserted that "a typical black
father... simply leave"; has repeatedly claimed that poor people "lack values"; and has claimed that "the so-called noble poor" don't use birth
control so that "the mom can get more checks in the mail from the
government."
The Mark Levin Show is a nationally syndicated program hosted by Landmark Legal Foundation president Mark
Levin. Based in New York City,
The Mark Levin Show broadcasts
from WABC-AM Monday through Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET and is syndicated by ABC Radio Networks.
According to Talkers Magazine,
The Mark Levin Show reaches a
weekly average audience of at least 5.5 million listeners and is tied for the
ranking of fifth among talk-radio programs nationwide. Levin has compared Obama
to Hitler; has referred to the National Organization for Women as the
"National Organization of Ugly Women" and "the National
Organization of Really Ugly Women"; and while discussing Comedy Central
host Jon Stewart complained of "phony intellectuals" who are "arrogantly
looking down their sizable noses at our armed forces."
The G. Gordon Liddy Show is hosted by convicted Watergate felon G. Gordon Liddy, who often
refers to himself as "the G-Man," and is nationally syndicated through Radio America.
Talkers Magazine lists Liddy in
its "Heavy Hundred 2008."
Liddy has advanced claims that Obama was not a U.S.
citizen; has said that undocumented Mexican immigrants "want to speak
Spanish, you know, and other varieties of illegal alien" and "want
to reconquer America, they
say"; and claimed that Obama was relying, in part, on "the welfare
class to win" Pennsylvania. In the 1990s, Liddy reportedly
advised
his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms agents.
The Gunny Bob Show, hosted by "Gunny" Bob Newman, airs weeknights on
Denver's 850 KOA-AM from 7 to 10 p.m. MT. Newman is the author of Minefields to Microphones: Global
Asymmetric Warfare, the Radical Left, and Winning the War on Terror
(Paladin Press, September 2006), which, according to its publisher,
"exposes the treason and treachery of America's maniacal liberal machine
while laying out a roadmap to victory in the war on terror that will stun the
enemy and infuriate America's wild-eyed left." Newman has described Obama
as "just another blowhard, make-believe thug" and "a
far-left, terrorist-hugging politician"; has asserted that "there
will be an invasion of Muslim terrorists" if Obama is elected; posted doctored
photos of Obama on his website depicting Obama as meeting with Osama bin Laden
and dressed as "Che Obama"; has suggested that legalizing gay
marriage could "lead to legal human-animal marriage"; and declared that "every Muslim immigrant to America" should be
"required by law to wear a GPS tracking bracelet at all times."
The War Room with Quinn & Rose is a syndicated radio program based in Pittsburgh on Clear Channel's 104.7 WPGB-FM. Talkers Magazine lists Quinn & Rose on its "Heavy Hundred."
According to the show's website, it airs
on 18 radio
stations and XM Satellite Radio Channel 158. Jim Quinn, who co-hosts
the show with Rose Tennent, has repeatedly described the National
Organization for Women as
the "National Organization for Whores"; told columnist Fatimah Ali to "get an American name"; has
said that, in the past, "if you didn't own land, you didn't vote, and there was a
good reason for it"; and often introduces segments on Hillary Clinton by
playing audio of the Elton John song "The Bitch Is Back."
The Lee Rodgers Show is the morning drive-time talk program for San Francisco's 560 KSFO-AM and airs
Monday through Friday from 5 to 9 a.m. PT and from 5 to 7 a.m. PT on Saturdays.
The show features co-hosts Lee Rodgers and Tom Benner, known on-air as
"Officer Vic," and is listed as one of Talkers Magazine's "Heavy Hundred."
The program is sometimes guest-hosted by KSFO's Brian Sussman. Rodgers has described many
"professed leaders of the feminist movement in this country" as
"a bunch of hags," who "couldn't get laid in a men's
prison"; has said that "the female leadership of the Democratic Party" is
made up of "ugly skanks"; and has referred to Hillary Clinton as
"the Hilldebeest" who has a "screechy, fingernails-on-the-blackboard
voice."
The Savage Nation is a top-rated nationally syndicated radio program hosted by
Michael Savage. The program, which airs from 4 to 7 p.m. PT, is based in San Francisco and is
syndicated through Talk Radio Network. Talk Radio Network claims that Savage is
heard on more than 350 radio stations, and, according to Talkers Magazine,
The Savage Nation reaches at
least 8.25 million listeners each week, making it one of the most listened-to
talk shows in the nation, behind only The
Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean
Hannity Show. Savage has attacked everyone from politicians to
children with autism. He has insisted that Obama was a Muslim; has described
Obama as an "unknown stealth candidate who went to a madrassas in
Indonesia and, in fact, was a Muslim"; has referred to Obama as an
"affirmative action" candidate and complained that "affirmative
action" stole his "birthright"; has claimed that "illegal aliens" have "raped and
disheveled" the Statue of Liberty; has linked "homosexuals
trying to destroy families through the mock marriage" to "the downturn on
Wall Street"; has claimed that "[t]he children's minds are being raped by the
homosexual mafia"; has asserted that "welfare recipient[s]"
should not "have the right to vote;" and has described autism as a "fraud, a racket," and said, "In 99
percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act
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