Talk Host Gallagher: ‘Round Up’ Olbermann, Damon, And ‘Put Them In A Detention Camp’

[CatWoman]

Yesterday on Fox News, talk radio host Mike Gallagher said the U.S. government should “round up” actor Matt Damon, “The View” host Joy Behar, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and “put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.”

Gallagher was upset over Behar’s comment that Time magazine should have chosen a controversial “Hitler-type” like Donald Rumsfeld as its Person of the Year. Gallagher said Damon should also be incarcerated because he “attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney”; he didn’t explain why he wanted to imprison Olbermann. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/20/gallagher-damon-olbermann/

[SoFlaJet]

1. I'll bet ya Newt Gingrich

is all for this one too...

[babylonsister]

2. Traitors? So much for our hallowed freedom of speech when it comes

to the likes of Faux.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Oh, yes, please begin the round ups. Then we can have yet another round of "I told you so!"

These right-wing idiots are so transparent.

[Cyrano]

4. When is some publication going to start featuring "The Asshole of the Year?"

Then again, so many to choose from. So little time.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

22. I don't know about "Asshole of the Year"

But I smell a Top 10 listing coming up.

[Taverner]

5. Well I wanted to round up some people too....

Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly and now this Gallagher nut...put em in a camp until Democracy is restored in the US and then make them clean toilet stalls :)

[verse18]

6. I think I know who will be KO's next "Worst Person in the World."

[Kingshakabobo]

7. This clown-ass? Never served a day in uniform.......

......but likes to play dress-up.

[CatWoman]

9. OMG

He's a dead ringer for Soupy Sales :)

[tularetom]

17. LOL - looks like a doorman or a bus driver

I've seen this asswipe on TV but he was much more, er, portly shall we say. Did they photoshop 50 lbs off of him plus put that silly ass uniform on him for that pic?

[warrens]

8. Gallagher should be rounded up

And then we could let Cheney torture him. I'd pay good money to see THAT.

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. When some nut goes and kills one of them

this idiot will take zero responsibility for his part in feeding the hate. ZERO! He'll blame on the victim(s) behavior; that they shouldn't have gone shooting their mouths off in such a traitorous fashion. All the while, his listeners will nod their heads and hail the killer as a hero.

People like this Gallagher character are disgusting! It is unbelievable that they get paid to speak on the public airwaves at all!!! One of these days, a high-ranking Democratic representative is going to get shot or killed.

It's the exact same shtick they've been using to foment (yes, "foment") the seething hate targeted at Judges. "Activist Judge" is a subjective term. Apparently, so is "Traitor". :grr:

[tinfoil tiaras]

16. It just breeds Chad Castanagas...

:grr:

and this time, the white powder might be real. :( :scared:

[icymist]

31. They might have it in them, but, it would be political suicide!

I could see this happening someday, as quoted by talk host character Gallagher, "One of these days, a high-ranking Democratic representative is going to get shot or killed." Gee! If any of us Dems said such a thing again GW, then we'd be in Gittmo, with no lawyer, no trial, no hope. Yet, these pundits can get away with threatening Dems. Why is this? Is it not American to face and question your accusers? Why is this different?

[tinfoil tiaras]

11. At least the Faux guy called him out on his BS

re: the transcript.

[Parche]

12. gallagher

He is one of the biggest nifnods out there, he tries to sound like a smaller (not much)
Rush, but has the same ignorant mind.

[MnFats]

13. Gallagher says outrageous things because he's strictly second-string...

...
among the right-wing radio talkers....he's desperate to move up to the Hannity-Limbaugh big leagues, so he does this kind of shit fairly frequently.
listen to him for five minutes and you'll see why he's reached his level of incompetitence...

[pdxmom]

14. I guess dissent will NOT be tolerated. I will assume that Gallagher

also thinks all of us at DU should also be detained.

How Nazi-like of him.

[EOTE]

15. Y'all want to smash some fruit?

Oh wait, wrong Gallagher. My bad.

[spanone]

18. Gallgher, he's a comedian, right? Bald on top? Top hat? Smashed watermelons?

[Bobbie Jo]

19. Nutjobs like this guy....

Resort to such tactics simply because they cannot refute the substance of the message intelligently or logically.

It's like..."Oh yeah?,ah..yo mama."

Good one Gallagher....:eyes:

[LTR]

20. This asshole's three years too late

The only people that say shit like that anymore are desperate media goons. Oh wait - he is one!

Perhaps we should round up facist morons like this tool and beat them with sticks. Or better yet, since he doesn't appreciate the Constitution, which gives him the right of free speech in order for him to make a complete fool of himself, perhaps he should leave my country and go to Russia, where he should get along fine with the Putin regime.

[stevietheman]

21. Mr. Gallagher, I'd like for you to meet my Louisville Slugger. n/t

n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. Gallagher is a Grade-A Whackjob

We in DE have the misfortune of having his radio show broadcast on one of our AM stations. I've only heard him a few times, but he is your typical hateful, nonsense-spouting, Limbaugh wannabe.

[AspenRose]

24. How un-American.

eom

[Initech]

25. We should be rounding up the conservative pundits instead.

They're the ones who have allowed this administration to get away with whatever it wants.

[Uncle Joe]

26. I believe Gallagher hates us for our freedoms

He may mutter inanities about freedom, but he can't live with it in practice.

[sniffa]

27. i aLways hated that guy

ooh, Look at me, i can smash a watermeLon. so not funny.

[Sapere aude]

28. Right wingers always say the troops are defending our freedoms yet the right wingers themselves are

ones who are the biggest treat to our freedoms. They are willing to throw out the constitution if it doesn't support their agenda.

[depakid]

29. How is it that this guy stays on the air?

Another poster child for media regulation.

[Marnieworld]

30. So who was on with him for "Balance"?

:rofl: