Wow. Check out this conservative radio host spewing vicious anti-Semitism:
HOST: The reason you see more Jews now is because Bill Clinton flooded America with Jews, mostly of the throwback variety. Not the modern Jew, not the Jew who wants to come here and advance society. But the Jew who wants to come here and either live off the society or take us backwards two hundred years. That’s part of their diversity training. They don’t want the country to be too advanced, you get it?
CALLER: Right, and they come into our country and say, you bow down to me. You accept me, I don’t have to accept you.
HOST: I see the eyes behind those slits. I see hate and murder in most of their eyes, should I level with you?
CALLER: They’re not nice, they’re not cordial.HOST: Whatever happened to when in Rome, do as the Romans do? I guess it didn’t make it Saudi Arabia.
OK, OK, I played fast and loose with some of the facts above. The radio host in question is Michael Savage, and he isn’t actually talking about Jews (which would have been outrageous and likely ended his career), but rather Muslims (which is like, totally co0l).
But seriously, the anti-Muslim bias in this country is so strong that you can get away with saying things about Islam and Muslims that you couldn’t come within ten yards of with respect to just about any other religion or its followers.
Hell, even Scientology is treated with greater reverence (Peace Be Upon Xenu).
This is a fucked up state of affairs.
March 2, 2010 at 12:21 pm
“the Muslim who wants to come here and… live off the society”
Dr. Savage nee Weiner should know that Muslims in the US have a higher per capita income than the general population. And although Savage is of Jewish extraction, this has not stopped him from indulging in anti-Semetic statements directed at liberal jews.
March 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm
This is why I just don’t understand Jewish neo-con types. Don’t they know that “Muslim” (and “gay”) are just the new code words for Jews?
How long do the Pammy-cakes, et al., of the world think that the wingnuts will continue to just hate on Muslims before they decide to hate on Jews again?
Don’t they remember that, e.g., during the Crusades, before going to “fight the infidel abroad” the Crusaders would massacre the “infidel at home” (i.e. Jews)? Of course, to the neo-con types, there was no anti-Semitism until Hitler came around and since then all anti-Semitism is to be found (only) in the Muslim world.
March 2, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Dude, that’s the point. People like Savage believe that the Lesson of the Holocaust was that Jews should have gotten in on the ground floor with Hitler. That way, he’d have gone after the Semites who really deserve extermination (e.g Palestinians) and left the Jews alone.
March 2, 2010 at 4:55 pm
It’s called the “I don’t have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun you” strategy.
March 2, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Also, it distracts attention from the Belgian Menace.
Or perhaps that is the point.
March 2, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Yeah, damn Belgians. They force us to buy their beer and their chocolate, yet they think they’re so high and mighty that they don’t even have to come over here to do in person.
March 3, 2010 at 11:15 am
You damnable Walloonophobe!
March 3, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Herr Dr PDV,
They taped your pie hole shut.
I’m just an angsty stop sign.
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March 2, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Well I effin H8 Jehovah’s Witnesses! Goddamn heretics otta be burned at the staek, and they would be, too, if this were a civilized Christian country!
Mormons too.
March 3, 2010 at 10:46 am
True (and horrible) story: Was at a friend’s house with the crew, had a batch of ‘shroom tea near the boil when a couple of witnesses rang the bell. Dude invited them in, and we sat around talking Jeebus for a bit while dude went into the kitchen to finish up. Served us all a steaming cup, and politely asked the witnesses to leave. They were on their way to some kinda jamboree – bet it was a good one :D
March 2, 2010 at 6:01 pm
I find it disgusting that you would print such things about Jews. Your ability to think them, even in jest, is a sign of your sick liberal worldview. You must be some kind of terrorist-loving Moslem freak or something.
Don’t you know the Jews are the people chosen by God to be personally condemned to eternal damnation by Jesus, once they are able to get their act together and win back the Holy Land?
Get with the program, dammit! Frikkin’ mud people…
March 2, 2010 at 7:09 pm
nice to see someone else take on the ‘slightly edited’ version of actual events
http://tofubo.blogspot.com/2007/06/from-june-12-edition-of-christian.html
reductio ad absurdum is the bestest of the fallacies
March 3, 2010 at 6:26 am
Jesus loves me even though he died for *your* sins.
March 3, 2010 at 6:28 am
BTW, from years pf hanging at The Ornery American, it seems a form of concentrated wingnut infection is on the rise. Strictly subjective impression from a tiny sample, but it’s creepy.
March 3, 2010 at 8:11 am
Or… The voices from their AM radios have convinced them that the voices in their own heads are worth airing in public.
March 3, 2010 at 8:12 pm
It’s very hard for me to dismiss a group or a set of beliefs so entirely but they’re consistently wrong on almost every damn thing. One thing they’re right on is congress is corrupt. Well, doh.
March 3, 2010 at 8:38 am
But seriously, the anti-Muslim bias in this country is so strong that you can get away with saying things about Islam and Muslims that you couldn’t come within ten yards of with respect to just about any other religion or its followers.
What do expect after the demonization of “muslim extremists” in the wake of 9-11? While such demonization is a requirement for conducting a now seemingly endless war in the mideast oil producing regions for entirely questionable reasons, it is also not conducive to such fine points as “not all muslims are extremists” and “not all extremists are muslims,” especially when its primary targets are people whose religion has been, is, and in all liklihood will remain diametrically opposed to Islam. I’m just surprised the knuckleheads aren’t acting on their prejudices even more than they are.
March 3, 2010 at 11:37 am
It’s those Buddhists that scare me. Why was the Dalai Lama at the White House?
March 3, 2010 at 12:36 pm
After spending four days with my father just after Christmas and listening to this kind of thing (“the Muslims are taking over Europe”…”I fear for you and your daughter when the Muslims take over”…”we ought to just wipe them all out”), it finally sank in that the man who raised me, who instilled in me a lot of good qualities, is a monster on the same level as “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.” When, toward the end of our time together, he marveled that we were so different and wondered how that came to be, he put into words what I was already thinking.
The scary thing is, he’s one of millions just like him in this country.
March 3, 2010 at 6:35 pm
If you could hear my mother talk, I’d be ashamed for all of us. Trouble is, it’s not just the demented old anymore, it’s the middle of the road young and middle aged as well.
Predictable unfortunately, given the complete consolidation of the MSM by the fascist corporate state. “Marketing synergies enabled by the monopolization of all available official communication channels,” is what I would have termed it during my MBA seminars. DAMN! Don’t that sound all academic and shit?
March 3, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Post-WWII Germans (deutsch baby boomers) know all about this listening to their parents excuse their Nazi complicity. as if Hitler had been installed by aliens, not voted into office.
March 3, 2010 at 6:43 pm
The savage weiner says anything that gets him a headline. He doesn’t believe in anything except his bank balance.
He’s such a miserable moronic piece of garbage I bet even his dogs hate him.
March 3, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Lucky 13. I have nothing to add, other than JIMI!
March 3, 2010 at 7:17 pm
And again…
March 3, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Hmmm… Technical difficulties?
March 3, 2010 at 7:51 pm
What? You would deny us our 3 minutes of daily hate?
Well who should we hate then?
March 3, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Alas, THESE are the questions of our lives.
March 3, 2010 at 8:16 pm
I never could stand goths. Only thing worse than goths was a group of goths mingling with a bunch of neo-hippes.
Patchouli and clove tobacco: ick!
March 3, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I could never stand cockroaches either.
I moved.
March 4, 2010 at 12:54 am
Outer Party member Brother Savage takes his propaganda seriously.
A useless asshole propagandizing useful idiots.
March 4, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Michael Savage would see hate in my eyes, too, if I were looking at him. Seems perfectly understandable.
March 4, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Well, how else they gonna fight these damn hippies but with HATE-WAR-MISERY?
March 6, 2010 at 1:23 am
Hey, kids! Wanna hear a really bad anti-semiotic riff? Okay:
(sung to an old Mary Poppins tune) Let’s go fry a kike… I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and jokes like that were practically de rigeur.