What does freedom of speech mean to the old world, rotting, UK? Not much.
Michael Savage
The Labour Party (the UK sister party of the US Democrats) posted a list of the 16 “least wanted” people and includes radio talk show host Michael Savage.
“This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country,” Ms Smith told BBC Breakfast.
Savage self promotes his show as independent, yet he helped tear down George W. Bush’s reputation and has no clue how the American two-party system works. Savage actually helped elect Obama and the one-party Democrat powerhouse.
Savage lumps FOX News in with MSNBC , CNN and CBS. If he is serious, he really may be mentally off. Or he is such a blowhard that he wants the masses just listen to him. What has it done for you lately?
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are constantly mocked by Savage.
But this is not the way governments should work, by destroying free speech.
He’s a target of the left and the outlook for his survival is about as dim as that of newspapers.
Advice to Michael Savage: Visit Ireland!
5 responses so far ↓
Tony Kondaks // May 5, 2009 at 9:28 am |
I don’t agree with Savage being banned.
However, if he must be banned it should be for the right reason. Despite Savage painting himself as a champion of free speech, he is anything but. He took the organisation CAIR to court to prevent them from using snippets of his show on their website. Had Savage prevailed, free speech would have lessened for us all. See:
http://tinyurl.com/27ladx
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Mick // May 5, 2009 at 7:02 pm |
We don’t yet ban political speech or thought in the USA. But give the Democrat “Progressives” another year or two. Watch the Fairness Doctrine come back, from the last time America had total rule by the Democrats, FDR.
Friend-of-a-friend // May 8, 2009 at 3:01 pm |
A 22-year-old student in Ireland set up a Wikipedia hoax that led several major UK newspapers to publish a fake quote after they used the popular “wiki” encyclopedia site to get information about French composer Maurice Jarre, who died in March. The hoax was unnoticed for weeks.
The Irish Times reported this week:
“The quote … was posted on the online encyclopedia shortly after Jarre’s death and later appeared in obituaries published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine Web site and in Indian and Australian newspapers.
“Mr. Fitzgerald (the student hoaxer) said he placed the quote on the Web site as an experiment when doing research on globalization. He wanted to show how journalists use the internet as a primary source and how people are connected especially through the internet, he said.
Friend-of-a-friend // May 11, 2009 at 2:32 pm |
Mick,
The biased TV media is failing too. University of Pennsylvania researchers found that TV news shows had 38 stories about falling print newspaper readership and only six about the falling audience for national news broadcasts. “The television networks have basically not been very interested in talking about television’s problems,” said Michael Delli Carpini, one of the study’s authors.
Little Johnny // August 9, 2009 at 7:24 pm |
You know Savage is one of the most vicious self obsessed psychos in the talk radio business. Even though the man tells a good story from time to time I don’t think he brings anything fresh or healthy to the American process. He tore Bush down for 8 years like you said, he attacks all other pundits with a level of hatred unprecedented in media history then he expects everyone to come to his defense, he really is a funny guy. He wants to blame libs for all this madness when the truth is the neo-cons have did this to him because the dude is such a bleeding heart Jerry Brown supporting Ginsberg loving Folsom street trolling liberal…