According to Media Matters for America, syndicated talk-show host Michael Savage said some remarkably incendiary things about Barack Obama on his March 13 show. Here's the most inflammatory:
I think he was hand-picked by some very powerful forces
both within and outside the United States of America to drag this
country into a hell that it has not seen since the Civil War of the
middle of the 19th century.
Obviously,
Savage is free to entertain this theory and to speak it out loud. The
question is, do the stations that carry his show want to him a platform
to do it?
Here in Boston, Savage's show is heard on
WRKO-AM.
Here's what station spokesman George Regan told me a minute ago:
"That's obviously a nationally syndicated show, so we don't have any
control over the content. However, we obviously do not go along with
Mr. Savage's remarks."
[Note: this was originally posted Friday morning, but then vanished into some weird Internet limbo.]