On MLK Day, Savage called civil rights a "racket" designed to steal "white males' birthright"

[LynneSin]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200701170002

On MLK Day, Savage called civil rights a "racket" designed to steal "white males' birthright"
On the January 15 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, in a monologue about Martin Luther King Day, Michael Savage called "civil rights" a "con" and asserted: "It's a racket that is used to exploit primarily heterosexual, Christian, white males' birthright and steal from them what is their birthright and give it to people who didn't qualify for it." Savage then said, "Take a guess out of whose hide all of these rights are coming. ... here is only one group that is targeted, and that group are white, heterosexual males." He added: "They are the new witches being hunted by the illiberal left using the guise of civil rights and fairness to

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SAVAGE: But basically, if you're talking about a day like today, Martin Luther King Junior Day, and you're gonna understand what civil rights has become, the con it's become in this country. It's a whole industry; it's a racket. It's a racket that is used to exploit primarily heterosexual, Christian, white males' birthright and steal from them what is their birthright and give it to people who didn't qualify for it.

[bryant69]

1. Damn. That's where my birthright went.

Oh well, never really used the damn thing anyway.

Bryant
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[wryter2000]

15. I've been using your birthright for the last couple of months

It's a mess. Didn't you ever change the oil?

[Virginia Dare]

2. Yes, I demand an end to the exploitation...

of primarily heterosexual christian white males in this country. :crazy:

Just how is one's sexual orientation a birthright? :wtf:

[LynneSin]

4. I'd like to know what birthright he has over me just because he's a man

if anything he is way inferior to my womanly birthright

[Richard Steele]

3. First the nation became a 'homeland', now whites have a 'birthright'. Are we Nazis YET???

[gratuitous]

6. And that birthright was "given away"

According to Savage, to people who didn't qualify for it. By what, exactly? Not having white enough skin? Why is this racist asswipe still "earning" millions of dollars and getting access to my airwaves?

[Richard Steele]

17. Yup. The "stolen birthright routine" is straight out of the 1930's.

Obviously, those aren't really OUR airwaves anymore if
it's being broadcast again here in 2007.

[quiet.american]

5. What a loser. Pathetic. Embarrassing. Loser. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

7. "steal from them what is their birthright and give it to people who didn't qualify for it." ???

The right to be an inbred 'moran' like Michael Wiener? They can have it!

[Karenina]

32. Hi Swampers!!!

:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

36. Check your PM

:hi:

[mirandapriestly]

8. How about to get back some of what some WM's have stolen.

not all though.

[babylonsister]

9. OK, that's it. What year is this? Too damn much hate for me.

And this guy gets paid to spew this shit?

[NoodleBoy]

10. apparently, it's my birthright to not let people vote if they look different from me

or get their fair share of public services, or gather in large groups, or not be immediately suspected by police when a crime is committed.

[racaulk]

11. And this man calls liberalism a mental disorder.

He even wrote a book saying so! :wtf:

It must really suck to be so filled with hatred and anger towards others that are different. This man is seriously distrubed. Just like Fred Phelps, the more he is ignored and marginalized, the better off we'll all be.

What's sad and scary is that there are way too many people out there that agree with him.

On a side note, if he hates gay men so much, then why the hell is he living in San Francisco? :shrug:

[Prophet 451]

22. Because he is deeply, deeply closeted

I have absolutely no idea if this is true but A: He's slandering so many people that I feel justified in slandering him and B: it would explain an awful lot (how many anti-gay ministers or public figures have been outed in recent years?).

[Lautremont]

12. Aside from everything else despicable about this,

I think it's kind of enlightening to learn that people like this believe that, if rights are given to one group, that necessarily means they're being taken from another. As if there were only so many to go around.

[indepat]

13. Well thanks to Michael for succinctly expressing the core belief of those of his ilk

[mtnester]

14. The saddest part of this?....

Michael Savage BELIEVES this.....with every fiber of his being.

Incomprehensible to my mind.

[LynneSin]

18. Sometimes I question that

Do these people really believe what they say OR are they just making these outrageous ratings in hopes to keep their targetted listeners tuning in - dumbasses that really do believe the shit these screeds are saying.

Money corrupts and there are those people out there willing to say anything in order to make more of it even if it's an outrageous claim of the birthright of "Male White Heterosexual Christians"

[mtnester]

21. I hear you on the outrage factor for ratings, but in this case

I think it was one of those "did I really say that outloud?" moments when your brain pushes out your true feelings without your jaw clamping shut quick enough to stop it.

[walldude]

28. Actually whats sad is he doesn't believe this shit, he's in it

for the money. Savage was actually a liberal, he wrote books on holistic healing when his name was still Michael Wiener, when he realized there was no money in it he switched teams and made his fortune. He's learned well from the likes of Rush and Coulter that the more outrageous you are the more attention you get. He's nothing but a greedy little simp.

[noahmijo]

31. I agree I still remember when he was pro war in Iraq pro bush

I remember he even compared Saddam to the Babylonian King and how America's war against Iraq was a victory for the righteous.

Today he says Bush is too liberal and that the war was a grave mistake.

Yea his religion is the almighty dollar and his beliefs change to the direction of which will garner him more of it.

[Johonny]

16. clearly he's seen Borat

and believes minorities are hatched from eggs and thus don't get birthrights.

[Mythsaje]

19. Funny...I wasn't aware that stealing something gives you a right to it...n/t

[happy5]

20. He didn't say what his birthright was

didn't he? For a moment I thought that everybody is equal, that's what MLK stands for. Savage's version of equality, his "birthright" apparently is calling "a nigger a nigger" and being able to do what he wants with said "nigger", like hanging him or something like that.

Who are these people that listen to what these guy has to say?

[Prophet 451]

24. They're everywhere

Rule of life: Always bet on stupidity.

[sakabatou]

23. Weiner is a real whiner

[Forrest Greene]

26. He Is Not!

He's a savage! A big, bad, savage! G-r-r-r! Woof, woof!

[sakabatou]

34. Sit, boy!

[LSK]

25. I didnt know giving someone rights takes mine away

:crazy:

[bumblebee1]

27. There seems to be one thing Savage hasn't grasped yet.

The white men with the birthright were the same white men who denied his people their birthright. Who do they come after next when the blacks, latinos, muslims and gays are gone? You want to guess, Savage? Jews just like you.

[AspenRose]

35. Thank you!

That is the most bizarre thing about his whole philosophy. Michelle Malkin, same thing.

[noonwitch]

29. Making outrageous statements like this is the only way he can get attention

He's not funny, he's not clever, he's not well-spoken.

[noahmijo]

30. This coming from an ex-hippie Jewish guy from New York

I've heard of people hating themselves but this is just another level....

On another note I can't stand ex-hippies turned Neo-Cons getting in my face and telling me how I should live. These people have taken part in more crazy psychodelic bullshit in one day than I ever have in my life but give them a suit and a healthy salary now they're the holy makeover cult and they're gonna educate YOU on how you should live and think.

Piss on em all.

[depakid]

33. Michael Wiener

err, I mean "Savage" will say anything to get a rise out of people.