Michael Savage blames Sikh temple shooting on Democratic Party and the SPLC

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UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE. This video popped up on my "suggested videos" sidebar on YouTube.

After asking (3:05): "Why is there such a cluster of insane shootings in America under Obama?", at the 3:40 mark Savage said: "We know that the Obama machine wants blacks to resent whites, whites to resent blacks, Hispanics to resent blacks, it just doesn't end. We know that we have the most divisive administration in modern American history." Then at 5:00, he suggested that the "anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-American" Southern Poverty Law Center has something to do with the "militarization of individuals in this country simply by picking on white males".

I wonder why the right wing media outlets like Fox and talk radio always over-react to any reports from the SPLC or the DHS right-wing extremism report that Janet Napolitano spinelessly retracted or the NAACP study on the Tea Party, rather than shunning the extremist elements of the right wing?

And Savage suggests (6:00) that synagogues and other religious worship houses should have armed security.

Then at 7:30 Michael takes the first caller, Barry from New York City, who describes himself as an independent and Zionist and longtime listener, who calls out Michael for politicizing the tragedy. Savage only doubles down on his idiotic POV. But the caller did a good job taking Savage to task.

So if you're wondering where your wingnut friends have gotten the idea that Obama is to blame for the shooting and posted that bullsh** to Facebook, this is where they got that talking point, besides the long-running "Obama wants to take away guns" conspiracy.

Check out this article on Rationalwiki I helped write, debunking some of the lies in Savage's book Trickle Up Poverty. And if you have a youtube account please click "dislike" for this video.

[pipoman]

1. Michael Who?

[krispos42]

2. Michael Weiner

No relation that I'm aware of to Anthony Weiner.

[limpyhobbler]

3. If anybody on the radio is guilty of inciting violence it's him.

[Jamaal510]

4. Fuck Michael Sausage.

[gtar100]

5. Standard republican mode of operation. The telltale sign of their guilt.

Anytime one of them goes out of their way to blame democrats for something, you know they are deflecting.

Assholes can't take responsibility for anything.

[Archae]

6. Don;t forget what Michael Savage said about autistic kids.

He claimed almost all of them are faking.

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. Who listens to that egomaniac? His tiny audience consists of the very slowest of the

60 to death demo, even the other reich-wing hucksters hate him. He sits in his "home studio" and talks to himself, about himself for 4 hours a day except from 6 minutes after the hour through two segments when he rants about that Muslim, terrorist, Communist, Socialist, Soviet agent in the Whitehouse. That stirs up enough blood pressure in his audience for them to pry themselves off the couch, find the telephone, and call in to scream about the end days or to tell him what a genius he is.

He literally begs for sponsors on his show every day in between promoting his own book.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. All you have to say is "Michael Savage..."

any sentence that starts out that way, isn't going to end well.

[lumpy]

9. The far right kooks are throwing anything sleazy they can think off at Obama.

It is the far right that is drumming up hate in their desperation to overthrow Obama. And Savage is in the front lines attacking the President with outrageous lies and insinuations.
It is beyond ridiculous. So Obama is responsible for stopping up my kitchen sink?