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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 12:09 PM
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Right-wing hero: Radio gasbag refuses to apologize for anti-Muslim remarks


Doesn't he look of age to join Bush's jihad?



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201255_pf.html


Talk Show Host Graham Fired By WMAL Over Islam Remarks

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 23, 2005; C01



Washington radio station WMAL-AM fired talk show host Michael Graham yesterday after he refused to soften his description of Islam as "a terrorist organization" on the air last month.

Graham had been suspended without pay from his daily three-hour show since making his comments July 25. The station had conditioned his return to the midmorning shift on reading a station-approved statement in which Graham would have said that his anti-Muslim statements were "too broad" and that he sometimes uses "hyperbole" in the course of his program. WMAL also asked Graham to speak to the station's advertisers and its employees about the controversy.

But Graham refused both conditions, prompting the station to drop him.

According to WMAL, Graham said "Islam is a terrorist organization" 23 times on his July 25 program. On the same show, he also said repeatedly that "moderate Muslims are those who only want to kill Jews" and that "the problem is not extremism. The problem is Islam."

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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 12:11 PM
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1. He knows he'll become a right wing media darling now...
Fired looks great on a resume if you're a right wing hate monger. Perhaps they'l have a spot for him at the White House or in Congress.. he has that creepy plastic hair ala Trent Lott and Bill Frist.
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smartvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 12:15 PM
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3. Yes. This is a launching pad for him. nt
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Guckert Donating Member (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 12:12 PM
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2. If Tim McVeigh was a Christian does that make Christianity a terrorist
Organization??? What about the Christian Olympic bomber??
What a F---cking TOOL!!!!!
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 12:18 PM
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4. Those RW radio hosts must all be cloned from the same defective
set of DNA. They all vaguely resemble each other -- middle-aged white males, with side parts, bad suits, smug and self-satisfied facial expressions, irritatingly loud and obnoxious voices, and a total absence of frontal lobes.
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 12:32 PM
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5. Faux News is making sure there is plenty of paper....
in their fax machines, to receive his resume!
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