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Did Michael Savage just apologize for America?
Hmm. for all the screaming and yelling on the right about "OBAMA APOLOGIZED FOR AMERICA!!!!!" you'll never hear Michael Savage being dissed for expressing nearly the same thing. From the end of the 1st hour of Friday's The Savage Nation (transcript after the embedded clip, segment begins at 34:20):
SAVAGE: ...these young men are hungry after all these years of protest. They don't do anything. They don't have jobs. They have nothing to do all day but run around...where did they get the BlackBerrys from? And cell phones? They have no jobs, they do nothing. All they do is burn and mutilate, beat up their wives or girlfriends, they have nothing in their life but hate. What do they do all day? What are we doing there? Why are we there? Didn't you see Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole? Haven't you read your history? Haven't you read your poetry? Don't you understand that the Arab mobs have always been Arab mobs? They're not living in this century, they're not living in the last century, they're not living in the 18th century; they didn't go through the Age of Reason; they haven't gone through the Middle Ages; they're living somewhere in the 11th century. What world are you living in?
Liberals, please wake up. What has to happen for you to understand that it's time to pull out of the Middle East and let them have it. You say, "but we need their oil!" We actually don't need their oil. We don't really need their oil. Open up the Keystone XL pipeline, start drilling off the coast of California and Alaska...
Liberals, please wake up. What has to happen for you to understand that it's time to pull out of the Middle East and let them have it. You say, "but we need their oil!" We actually don't need their oil. We don't really need their oil. Open up the Keystone XL pipeline, start drilling off the coast of California and Alaska...
(the transcript is of the segment I heard live between the end of the PBS NewsHour and a local news bulletin from my NPR station since I wanted to peek at right wing radio. On youtube you can hear the context of this snippet. Savage ended the hour by ranting about the need for local oil production and said that Romney failed to discuss oil drilling because of his weak, pro Obama advisers.)
And I guess of course because the Obama administration is carrying out the military action in the Middle East right now, Savage directed his question about the US intervention to "liberals". As you can see in the beginning of the following clip from his short-lived MSNBC show (yes, MSNBC once did a weekend TV version of The Savage Nation in the first half of 2003 as America went to war), Savage called Bush "100% right" for starting the Iraq War:
Media Matters reported in 2006 that Savage once analogized the Rudyard Kipling poem "White Man's Burden" to the Iraq War, but in 2011, Savage admitted that the US never should have gone to war in Iraq. A freeper thread "Dead Wrong on Iraq War - An Open Letter to Michael Savage" attacked Savage in 2008 for being critical of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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