India's first ever museum on explosives in Assam
Guwahati, Nov.17 ANI: With terrorist activities becoming a global reality, a lot of people have started showing curiosity in understanding the details of blasts. Such inquisitive people can now educate themselves by visiting the Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati which has instituted India's first ever museum on explosives. Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati is meant to develop methodologies and facilitate in probing blast explosions in detail and thereby preventing such incidents in future. This Explosive Museum, inaugurated recently will be a nodal point to research and develop methodologies to probe blast explosions in detail and thereby prevent such incidents in the country.It may be recalled that Assam has witnessed several violent incidents in the last couple of years, the worst being the recent bomb blasts on October 30 in Guwahati and other places in the State.Over 80 people had died and several injured in the serial blasts in the State capital and other areas last month. The credit for setting up the museum is attributed to Dr. Padma Pani, currently Joint Director of the Forensic Laboratory of Guwahati, regarded to be among the best in country.This institution has trained personnel not only from the north-east but also from many other States and foreign countries."This is a really good effort to have a place which you can use for the capacity building of the police officials as well as even the public to see and gain knowledge on this. Because such type of gallery or museum can provide a place where one can get to know how different kinds of explosives have been used in the recent times as well as earlier. And how police actions and other steps are required to check the menace of illegal explosives," said Dr. Padma Pani, Joint Director, Forensic Science Laboratory, Assam.Padma Pani says that in north-east there have been around 1,000 blasts over the years and some way or the other, he has been associated in the investigation of many blasts. And, thus it came to his mind to set up an "Explosive Museum", which he says will help Investigators in many ways.Dr. Padma Pani has also authored many books on forensic sciences including a couple in Assamese. An expert in forensic science, he has been a regular guest speaker at seminars on criminology.Besides the police personnel, general public can also come to the museum and gather knowledge about explosives.The explosive materials that have been displayed in the museum include the RDX, PTD devices, TNT explosivse, grenades, guillotine sticks, detonators, and many others devices that have been used since early times in the North East. by Peter Alex Todd ANI
2008-11-17 10:04:08How the US played a vital role to assist powersharing
In an extract from his new book, Gunsmoke and Mirrors: How the IRA Dressed up Defeat as Victory, the Observer's Ireland Editor argues that the Bush administration's support for the DUP on policing as a pre-condition for powersharing with Sinn Fein was absolutely critical in persuading Paisley to enter government with Martin McGuinness as his deputy. The disjunction between how the Bush White House saw the developing political process and the way the British and Irish governments went out of their way to placate Sinn Fein became more pronounced after Richard Haas's departure as the President's special envoy to Northern Ireland. Haas' successor Mitchell Reiss was even less inclined to take Sinn Fein's word or promote their cause to the detriment of the unionists. Evidence of this is contained in an unreported academic study of the Bush administration's Northern Ireland policy between 2001 and 2006. US academic Mary Alice Clancy spoke to senior members of the Bush White House intimately involved in the negotiations that finally led to the St Andrews deal. In her findings Clancy concluded that the Bush presidency was more interested in British counter-intelligence and anti-insurgent techniques against the IRA than the use of political compromise. It was particularly keen to draw lessons in the battle to stabilise post-Saddam Iraq.This was the first major academic survey into the Bush effect on Northern Ireland politics and the pressure thus applied on the Provisionals. Clancy argued that the Bush administration played a central role in the St Andrews Agreement which led to the restoration of devolution in May 2007. The deal that led to a once unthinkable coalition headed by Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness rested on a cornerstone - Sinn Fein signing up to support the police and the judicial system within Northern Ireland. And, according to Clancy, that cornerstone was the work of Reiss and others in the Bush White House. Sinn Fein's willingness to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland was the key test for Paisley and his party that mainstream republicans had given up violence for good. Clancy said that those she spoke to in the State Department insisted it was Reiss who pursued this pre-condition to powersharing far more vigorously than either the British or Irish governments. Reiss resisted, specifically in the face of Irish government opposition, overturning George Bush's ban on Sinn Fein raising funds in the United States in the build-up to the St Andrews talks. Dermot Ahern, the then Irish Foreign Minister, had tried to persuade the Americans to soften their stance on policing as the price for powersharing. The US special envoy maintained that the ban would only be lifted once Sinn Fein agreed to sign up to policing. One US official told Clancy the reported rift during the summer of 2006 between Reiss and the then Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain over the policing pre-condition was also real. 'I think they the British government went after Mitchell harder than they went after Richard Haas. Because when Mitchell started to actually continue to insist that policing mattered and we restricted Gerry Adams's visa for fundraising, it was much tougher with British officials, and open and nasty.... They were much more angry at Mitchell last year. I mean, that was really icky,' the State Department source said.Reiss, however, told both the British and Irish governments that Paisley would not sign up to the deal at St Andrews without a Sinn Fein commitment to support the police and the rule of law in Northern Ireland. So, eventually at the start of 2007, in a sequenced prelude to devolution being restored to Stormont, Sinn Fein held a special conference and unanimously endorsed support for the PSNI. Once again the vote underlined the power Adams really exercised over the base, despite constant protestations from himself and others in the leadership that they had to take their time for fear of rupture.Although the DUP only backed the St Andrews deal after the policing pre-condition was met, the State Department and British officials interviewed by Clancy revealed that Paisley was already prepared to share power with Sinn Fein before the accord. The Bush and Blair governments were also at odds over the latter's view of 'ordinary' IRA crime such as robberies. One American official said: 'This was the biggest irritant between us and the Northern Ireland Office. I don't believe that they the NIO had ever issued a policy statement to the police to tell them to ignore IRA criminality as long as it did not turn into bombs on the mainland, but I believe that many, many police thought they operated under those rules.'The alleged British policy of 'turning a blind eye' in the interests of the wider peace process, the American official added, ended after the IRA stole £26 million in the Northern Bank raid. Following the robbery the Americans adopted a told-you-so attitude to their NIO counterparts, he said. Even after St Andrews the British continued to try to water down the policing element of the deal in order not to cause the Sinn Fein leadership any grief from its base. Almost exactly a year after that historic agreement Ian Paisley returned to Scotland, this time to the south-west coast. In his capacity as First Minister of Northern Ireland Paisley was guest of honour at the opening of the Wigtown international book festival held every year in the first weekend of September. After opening the conference Paisley apparently revealed to one author backstage that Tony Blair was still trying to dilute the policing requirement so insisted upon by the Americans. The DUP leader said that on New Year's Day 2007 he was woken up by a phone call from the then Prime Minister who was on a post-Christmas holiday in the Caribbean. Blair implored him, said Paisley, to allow modifications to the policing section of the St Andrews Agreement. Paisley said he refused and tried to get back to sleep. To no avail. Blair made a further five phone calls that morning attempting to persuade Paisley to backtrack a little on the policing question. Each time Paisley refused to relent. The timing of these New Year's Day calls was critical as within less than a month Sinn Fein was to hold that special Ard Fheis/conference which would either ratify or reject support for the PSNI. Blair, according to Paisley's version of events, was again trying to cut Sinn Fein some slack. The problem, however, was that just like the republican movement's relationship to the United States, the dynamics of British and Northern Irish politics had also altered radically. Paisley was unmoved by prime ministerial pressure. He would and could not relent on policing and Sinn Fein's support for the PSNI as the republicans' passport into powersharing. Otherwise Paisley knew he would split the DUP down the middle. Moreover, Blair no longer exercised such a mesmeric charm on the unionist leadership. He was a lame duck Prime Minister whom everyone, including Paisley, knew was about to hand over power to Gordon Brown. The result of the Ard Fheis poll, an overwhelming vote in favour, also exposed the charade with which the Adams leadership had dazzled Blair and his Downing Street chief of staff Jonathan Powell for so long. Despite the departure of a handful of former prominent activists such as Jim McAllister and Davy Hyland from South Armagh, the vast majority of Sinn Fein was still under Adams's tight control. Perhaps Paisley too guessed that Adams would easily win the day. He no longer cared about Blair's concern for Adams' leadership and its survival. Moreover, the DUP leader in the policing debate now had America on his side. What all this indicates is that the Sinn Fein strategy of uniting Dublin, London and Washington against unionism was spent. Once Sinn Fein signed up to the new policing structures the doors to the White House were open again. In parallel to wooing Capitol Hill, Sinn Fein's leadership had already ditched decades of anti-imperalist, radical chic sloganising and embraced the largesse of US capitalism. The party had sought to boost its war chest with millions of dollars in donations from corporate America. The trouble was that once the party and the IRA appeared to be regressing into its old leftist anti-colonialist mode as witnessed in Colombia with the Farc rebels and in Cuba with the constant sucking up to the Castro dictatorship their new financial backers recoiled in horror. The hard-headed realists in New Sinn Fein had a choice: either retreat back into leftist certainties to appease its radical fringe or do what their new supporters in North America wanted them to do, namely, decommission. With the stick of White House sanctions post 9/11 and the blunder in the Colombian-jungle hanging over them as well as the carrot of US corporate finance dangling in front of them, the leadership chose the latter option. As always with the Provisionals' leadership, most significantly of all with Adams, Sinn Fein's leftist hanger-ons were entirely expendable. They could sell as many Che Guevara T-shirts from their stalls at universities and take self-indulgent nostalgia trips to Cuba for their holidays, in the end they would be dumped along with their policies in the interests of realpolitik, Provo-style.To those the Adams/McGuinness leadership had long left behind, especially Ruaraigh O'Bradaigh and his loyal band of diehards in republican Sinn Fein, it must have all resembled that scene at the end of George Orwell's Animal Farm when the beasts who have been excluded from the pig's rapprochement with the men look on and are unable to distinguish between porcine and human. While Friends of Sinn Fein hosted $1,000-a-head fund-raising dinners in Manhattan five-star hotels, O'Bradaigh could only address the handful of street collectors for RSF in America via a webcam address from Ireland; the president of that party had been banned from the United States. There was even worse in store for the Real IRA which, after 9/11, was put on a par with terrorist organisations like al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah. The Real IRA and its support group, the 32-county sovereignty committee, were designated as banned organisations in the US. Even Bernadette Sands McKevitt meanwhile was reduced to the status of Islamist firebrands like Mohammed Omar Bakri and also banned from the United States. The dissidents of all hues had found themselves on the wrong side of the fence when it came to George W Bush's 'war on terror.' In contrast, Adams was far more astute and pragmatic realising that global politics had shifted on its axis after the 9/11 attacks.Northern Irish politicsNorthern IrelandUS foreign policyUnited Statesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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2008-11-08 20:25:16It's not just Limbaugh and Hannity
While there has been much discussionabout the role that nationally syndicated radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity haveplayed in perpetuating smears and falsehoods about progressive candidates andideals, little has been said about the vast network of lesser-known syndicatedand regional radio hosts who have served as an echo chamber for conservative talking points andfalsehoods. This year, ÏŽm>Media Matters forAmerica has greatly expanded its monitoring of regional radio andhas produced numerous items documenting falsehoods, smears, and baselessattacks on progressives in that time. While the hosts vary in the degree ofvitriol they spew and in their ratio of rebuttable falsehoods to unbridledsmears, ÏŽm>Media Matters and ÏŽmϬolorado Media Mattershave identified common themes that many, ifnot all, promote.The Project for Excellence in Journalismrecently released a ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://journalism.org/node/13307">report, which garneredconsiderable media ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310012"Ϫttention, concludingthat Sen. John McCain received much more "negative" coverage than President-elect Barack Obamaduring the campaign. But in purporting to compare the media's coverage ofthe two candidates, PEJ did not consider talk radio, saying: "Talk radiostories ... were not included in this campaign study of tone." But, beyond ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310012f=s_search"Ϫrguable flaws in PEJ's methodology, nostudy of the "tone" in the media's coverage of thispresidential campaign is complete without inclusion of conservative talk radio. Several ofthe radio hosts monitored by ÏŽm>Media Matterstheir ÏŠ href="#shows">shows are described in detail below, as well as theirguests, engaged in an all-outeffort to foment hate and suspicion of Obama among their listeners, promoting the most baseless andfarfetched of smears and advancing falsehoods -- including about Obama'sreligion and background -- that have taken hold among a substantialpercentage of the electorate. ÏŽm>MediaMatters has compiled some ofthe more noteworthy examples of conservative radiohosts' and their guests' attacks on Obama and, more generally,attacks against others in the context of the 2008 election.Generalthemes in 2008 electionThroughout the general election cycle, conservative talk radio hosts haverepeatedly attempted to exploit ignorance about and distrust of Obama rooted inhis heritage and upbringing, and have engaged in a relentless campaign todepict Obama as an untrustworthy outsider. In doing so, radio hosts havecompared Obama to the Antichrist, as well as to Hitler and Mao and have suggested that his loyalties lie outside of the United States, including in the case of some radio hosts, with Kenya andKenyan political figures. The first-ever nomination bya major party of an African-American has also inspired extensive, racially tinged commentary on conservativeradio, with direct attacks on Obama, his qualifications for office, and themotivations of his supporters.This election-related commentary was not limited to Obama.Sen. Hillary Clinton's and Gov. Sarah Palin's candidacies promptedmany talk radio hosts to engage in unabashed sexist commentary, often focusedon the candidate's physical appearances. Attacks were also waged againstthose seen as supporters or beneficiaries of progressive candidates. Forinstance, several talk radio hosts and their guests suggested that demographicgroups such as the poor or women should be denied the right to vote.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018">Radio hosts echo Drudge's distortion of Obama's 2001 WBEZinterviewOn his October 27 radio show, Minneapolis radio host ChrisBaker distorted Obama's 2001 remarks by claiming that Obama said "we gottahave economic justice and the Supreme Court ought to weigh in on redistributingwealth." Baker added: "Yeah, it's too bad you kind of stuck with theConstitution as it was. It's a tragedy that redistribution of wealth was notpursued by the Supreme Court. Can you believe that" In fact, Obama didnot say, "It's a tragedy that redistribution of wealth was not pursued bythe Supreme Court," or indicate, as Baker later claimed, that Obama"wants to use the Supreme Court to reinterpret the Constitution in orderto force the redistribution of wealth." Rather, as ÏŽm>ÏŽm>Media Matters hasÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810270008">noted, the "tragedy" Obamaidentified during the interview was that the civil rights movement �meso court-focused" in trying to bring about political and economic justice.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200802270001" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200802270001f=s_search"><strongϬlear Channel hostslikened African outfit worn by Obama to "the kind of garb you often seeOsama bin Laden in" and to "Somali warlord garb"On the February 25 broadcast of his radioshow, Dan Caplis questioned Obama's having worn the traditional attire of atribal elder during an August 2006 visit to Kenya. Referring to Osama binLaden, Caplis questioned why Obama would "put on similar clothing to theoutfit worn by the man who personally ordered thousands of Americans, includingwomen and kids, to be burned to death," later stating that "it would beas if John Kennedy had gone out and thrown on the fatigues and the funnybaseball hat that Castro wore."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310019"Ϭunningham alleged that "Obama wants to gas theJews"<pÏuring the October 30 broadcast ofhis Cincinnati-based radio show, Bill Cunningham asked "RandyFurman," a fictional Jewish character voiced by fellow WLW-AM host ScottSloan: Èid you hear about this ColumbiaUniversity professor of Middle East studies Rashid Khalidi tape where Obama istoasting a guy who wants to gas and fry Jews ... This Obama guy loves the PLOPalestinian Liberation Organization. Can't you figure that out"Cunningham later added, "Jews for McCain because Obama wants to gas theJews, like the PLO wants to gas the Jews, like the Nazis gassed the Jews.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310017">In the days before the election, media figures haverepeatedly compared Obama to HitlerOn the October 28 edition of ClearChannel's ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Big Show, referringto McCain, Cunningham asserted: "Maybe it's his age, or maybe it's hislack of eloquence. Whatever it is, the guy just doesn't have the same verbalskills of someone like a Barack Hussein Obama. Of course, Adolf Hitler hadgreat verbal skills, too, and he led the country of his country todisaster."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140020" target="_blank"><strongϬunningham invoked"six-six-six" and "the beast" in discussing ⊺rackHussein Obama"Stating that 666,000 new voters haveregistered in Ohio,Cunningham said on October 10: "Six-six-six. The mark of the beast. Thegreat majority, of course, are registered by ACORN. ... Who conducted ACORN seminarsto tell ACORN employees and others how to cheat the system Barack HusseinObama. I may declare him to be the beast. Six-six-six. It could be the end ofall days." On the October 13 edition of Cunningham's show, a caller saidof Obama, "He may be the Antichrist."Mark LevinÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310017">In the days before the election, media figures haverepeatedly compared Obama to HitlerOn the October 29 edition of ABCRadio Networks' ÏŽm>ÏŽm>TheMark Levin Show, Levin asserted that Obama is"really into these big German-like events that he creates in this country,isn't he Have you noticed that" Curtis Sliwa, WABC radio host and CEOand founder of the community activist organization Guardian Angels, responded:"I am telling you, and he comes out and it's almost as if the crowd standsin unison, and I'm saying to myself, 'Oh my God, the Olympic Stadium, Berlin,1938,' " to which Levin replied: "Yeah, we've seen this. It'sscary." Sliwa then asserted: Ȫnd the only thing missing is he's notstanding up in an open car."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018">Radio hosts echo Drudge's distortion of Obama's 2001 WBEZinterview<pÏuring the October 27 broadcast of hisradio show, Levin falsely asserted that "what the Supreme Court shouldhave done from Obama's point of view was impose socialism from the bench."He also claimed that Obama and Harvard Law Schoolprofessor Cass Sunstein are "promoting" an interpretation of the14th Amendment that it should ⊾ used ... to compel, as a matter ofconstitutional law, the socialist agenda. In other words, constitutionalizeredistribution of wealth." Levin then called Obama's position on theConstitution Ȫ radical point of view" and Ȫ foreign approachto the rule of law."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200806060008">Levin, MacCallum falsely accused Obama of inconsistency on whetherIranian Revolutionary Guard should be designated a terrorist groupOn the June 4 broadcast of his radioshow, Levin falsely asserted that Obama "lied to" the American IsraelPublic Affairs Committee when he "told them today that the IranianRevolutionary Guards should be designated a terrorist group after votingagainst a bill designating them a terrorist group a year ago." In fact,Obama has consistently supported designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard aterrorist organization, having co-sponsored a bill in 2007 to do that."Gunny" Bob NewmanÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200807110004" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200807110004f=s_search">Newman: "There willbe an invasion of Muslim terrorists" if Obama becomes presidentOn the July 10 broadcast of his radioshow, responding to a caller's statement that "we better start learningArabic" if Obama is elected president, Newsradio 850 KOA's"Gunny" Bob Newman stated that "there will be an invasion ofMuslim terrorists" if Obama is elected. Further, after stating that hedidn't know whether Obama has È®ver held a real job," Newman falselyclaimed that Obama has accomplished "nothing" in the U.S. Senate.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200805200001" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200805200001f=s_search">"You are justanother blowhard, make-believe thug": KOA's Newman asked if Obama would"try ... to whip my white ass"On May 19, Newman labeled Obama aȬlown" and stated, "Son, you are not some sort of macho toughguy, trust me." Directly addressing Obama, Newman asked, "What areyou gonna do, Obama, come to Denverand try, key word try, to whip my white ass" Continuing, Newman said,"Son, you are not some sort of macho tough guy, trust me. You are justanother blowhard, make-believe thug who wants to be the most powerful man onEarth. You're a far-left, terrorist-hugging politician, not the bad-boy gangstayou want people to believe you are."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200805020001" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200805020001f=s_search">"Gunny" Bob toKOA caller concerned about critics who Èon't even know" Obama:"I didn't know Hitler. I didn't know Stalin."On his April 30 program, Newman respondedto a caller's complaint about people who say of Obama "that he doesn'thave a good heart when you don't even know the guy and are relying on massmedia to paint a picture of him," by stating, "Well, you know, Ididn't know Hitler. I didn't know Stalin." Newman added, "Not thatObama is Stalinesque, not that Obama is Hitleresque, but we didn't know thosetwo either."Quinn ɪmp; RoseÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018">Radio hosts echo Drudge's distortion of Obama's 2001 WBEZinterviewOn the October 27 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The War Room,co-host Jim Quinn said, "Here's what was wrong with the civil rights movement,according to Barack Obama: The Supreme Court never got into the area ofredistribution of the wealth." He added, Èo you want to have a judgetell you how much you can make, and how much of your productivity goes toanother man who may have done nothing You want the court to decide that AndI'm telling you, this guy is gonna make one, two, three -- maybe --appointments to the Supreme Court, and they're gonna be exactly those kinds ofjudges. Hold onto your wallet, kids." Quinn also said, " He just gotdone telling you that the Constitution's only half-done. He needs to write theother half -- you know, the other half where we decide how much we take fromyou and give to that guy down the street."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080027" target="_blank">ÏŽm>ÏŽm>Quinn ɪmp; Rose from Kenya, Corsi said of his detention: "Call Barack's officeand ask him why I'm being detained"In a phone call to ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The War Room during theshow's October 7 broadcast, Jerome Corsi statedthat he and his staff were ⊾ing detained by the immigration of Kenya⟊use they lost our entry papers." Corsi repeatedly suggested Obama wasresponsible for his detention, stating at one point: "Just don't writeanything bad about Senator Obama, because, otherwise, this is what happens toyou." Corsi also said, "Call Barack's office and ask him why I'mbeing detained." Also during the interview, Corsi said, "We hadmeetings with top government officials here in Nairobi. Everybody knew we were here. But wetry to do a press conference, and then, you know, then you get detained. So,there's free speech in Kenyafor ya," to which Quinn replied: Ȫnd soon to be free speech here, bythe way."Rodgers ɪmp; SussmanÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018">Radio hosts echo Drudge's distortion ofObama's 2001 WBEZ interviewOn the October 27 broadcast of SanFrancisco radio station KSFO's ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Lee Rodgers Show, host Brian Sussmandescribed Obama's comments as "talking about using the courts forredistributional change." Sussman then played a clip of the portion of theJanuary 18, 2001, WBEZ interview in which Obama referred to "theoreticaljustifications" for È«ringing about economic change through thecourts." Sussman then commented: Èid you hear that Bringing abouteconomic change through the courts That's judicial activism on steroids."But Sussman did not air what Obama said just prior to referencing the"theoretical justifications" -- "it's very hard to legitimizeopinions from the court in that regard" -- or what he said just afterward:"I think that, as a practical matter, our institutions just are poorlyequipped to do it."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100017" target="_blank">In post-detention KSFO interview, Corsi claimed critics of Obama are"now going to have to risk being thrown in jail or killed"On the October 9 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Lee Rodgers Show,Corsi asserted regarding his detention and departure from Kenya: "Ithink the story here is really the suppression of the press. ... I hate tothink of what the First Amendment is going to mean. If you write a negativebook or criticize Obama, I think you're now going to have to risk being thrownin jail or killed." Rodgers said, "I'll tell you what's scary aboutthis, to make the connection here. These are friends of Barack Obama in Kenya,who are trying to intimidate a journalist. ... I'm telling you, this is scary.I have heard from Obama supporters telling me: one way or another, boy, whenwe're in office, we're going to shut you down."Michael SavageÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280018">Radio hosts echo Drudge's distortion of Obama's 2001 WBEZinterviewOn the October 27 broadcast of hisnationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage also misrepresented Obama'scomments, falsely claiming that in the interview, Obama "says that one ofthe tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the courts did not move forredistributive change."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130012" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130012http://mediamatters.org/items/200810130012f=s_search">Savage:"Kenya is going to move to America if Barack Hussein Obama wins"<pÏuring the October 10 broadcast of hisradio show, Savage baselessly accused Obama of running a Ȭorruptcampaign," suggested that white liberals "hate white people," repeatedthe discredited charge that Obama "won't produce his birthcertificate," and asserted "Kenya is going to move to America"if Obama wins the election. ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200803190006" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200803190006f=s_search">Savage: Obama was"hand-picked by some very powerful forces ... to drag this country into ahell that it has not seen since the Civil War" Savage stated of Obama on the March 13broadcast of his radio show: "I think he was hand-picked by some verypowerful forces both within and outside the UnitedState of America to drag this country into ahell that it has not seen since the Civil War of the middle of the 19thcentury." ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200802040008" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200802040008f=s_search">Savage: Ȫmerica'snot ready for an affirmative action presidency" On the February 1 broadcast of his radioshow, while referring to Sen. Clinton and Obama, Savage stated: "We have awoman and a multi-ethnic man running for office on the Democrat side. Is thisnot akin to a -- an affirmative action election Isn't that why the libs arehysterical, tripping over themselves to say amen and yes to this affirmativeelection vote" He later added, Ȫmerica's not ready for anaffirmative action presidency." Misinformation aboutObama's religion<pϪ key component of the dangerous-outsiderdepiction of Obama on conservativetalk radio has been promotion ofthe false claim that Obama was not being truthful about his religious beliefs.Despite numerous instances of falsehoods about Obama's religion rebuttedby media outlets and nonpartisan fact-checkers, conservative radio hostsrepeatedly and consistently advanced the false claim that Obama was a Muslim,not a Christian, and that he has concealed his true religion.Neal BoortzÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200808250016" target="_blank"Ï«oortz: "Let's ask Obama how manyprayer rugs he has"On the August 21 broadcast of hisnationally syndicated radio show, host Neal Boortz falsely suggested that Obamais a Muslim. While discussing McCain's inability to answer the ÏŽm>ÏŽm>Politico'squestion about how many homes he and his wife own, Boortz said: "Let's askObama how many prayer rugs he has."G. Gordon LiddyÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809110018" target="_blank">Liddy guest Walid Shoebat falsely claimed that Obama is 𢷯initelya Muslim"On his September 10 radio show, Liddyhosted self-described former terrorist Walid Shoebat to advance the false claimthat Obama, who Shoebat said would be È®xtremely dangerous" aspresident, is a Muslim. Liddy also did not challenge Shoebat's false claim thatHamas supports Obama.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100028" target="_blank"><strongϬonservative radio hosts seize on Obama comment to revive false rumorsabout his faithOn the September 8 broadcast of hissyndicated radio show, Liddy aired an audio clip of Middle Eastern-soundingmusic and said, "You're listening to our secret taping of a Obama familymeeting, and we're -- just kidding." "Gunny" Bob NewmanÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200807090001" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200807090001f=s_search">"Gunny" Bobposted doctored photos of Obama, fake photo captions on Clear Channel-ownedwebsiteIn July, Newman posted a variety of doctored photos and other images on hispage on the station's website, depicting Obama as meeting with bin Laden anddressed as Ȭhe Obama." The page also included actual photos of Obamaaccompanied by false "quotes," purportedly by the candidate,threatening Newman in profane terms. Michael SavageÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200804070001" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200804070001f=s_search">Savage on Obama: "Now we have an unknown stealth candidate who wentto a madrassas in Indonesia and, in fact, was a Muslim" On the April 3 broadcast of his radio show,Savage falsely asserted that Obama was a Muslim and attended a madrassa,stating: "Now we have an unknown stealth candidate who went to a madrassasin Indonesiaand, in fact, was a Muslim."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220012" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220012f=s_search">Savage on Obama: "We have a right to know if he's a so-calledfriendly Muslim or one who aspires to more radical teachings"Savage falsely asserted during theFebruary 21 broadcast of his radio show that Obama is a Muslim, claiming that"we have a right to know if he's a so-called friendly Muslim or one whoaspires to more radical teachings." The Obama campaign website states thatObama "has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is acommitted Christian who attends the United Church of Christ."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110013" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110013f=s_search">Savage smeared Obama with false name, ⊺rack Madrassas Obama"On the January 10 edition of his radioshow, Savage referred falsely to Obama as "Senator Barack MadrassasObama." Savage made the comment while discussing a December 10 AssociatedPress article headlined, "Presidential hopefuls and first cars" thatȪsked candidates to name their first cars" and also "lookedat some of their personal vehicles now." Savage said of Obama: "IllinoisSenator Barack Madrassas Obama. His first car was his grandfather's FordGranada. Now he owns a Chrysler 300C."Rodgers ɪmp; SussmanÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810220018">Rodgers falsely claimed Obama âŠmits in one of hisown books" that he would "stand with the Muslims" against"the Western world"On the October 22 broadcast of his radio show, Rodgers falsely claimed Obama âŠmits in one of his ownbooks" that "in case of a confrontation between the Western world andthe Islamic world, he will stand with the Muslims." Rodgers' assertionrecalls a similar allegation in a chain email that has been previouslydebunked. As FactCheck.org documented, while discussing "my meetings withArab and Pakistani Americans" in ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Audacity of Hope, Obamawrote: "They need specific assurances that their citizenship reallymeans something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japaneseinternments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should thepolitical winds shift in an ugly direction.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100030" target="_blank">Sussman suggestedObama's "lipstick on a pig" comment may be his Muslim father's"genetic DNA welling up inside of him"On the September 10 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Lee Rodgers Show,a caller suggested that Obama's ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026f=h_top" target="_blank">remark that "youcan put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig" was ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809100007f=h_top" target="_blank"Ïirected at Palin andsaid: "It's a little indicative of a Muslim attitude towards womenthat's creeping up, you know, and he just can't help but say it, how he feels."Sussman responded: "Well, there's no question that Muslims, at least thereligious ones, look at women as second-class citizens. That was just a lowblow. He should not have made the remark. I don't know if it was his father'sgenetic DNA welling up inside of him or not, but I'll tell you something: Itwas stupid. The question is, did he know what he was saying"ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200807310004" target="_blank"㺯ter suggesting Obama was "runningfor Antichrist," Sussman now says if Obama "were on trial for beinga Christian...I think he would walk"On the July 30 broadcast of ÏŽm>The Lee Rodgers Show, Sussman questioned Obama'sChristianity: "Now I'm going to get into something that is probablyequally as offensive to some, especially those listening in on KSFO.com fromaround the world. If Barack Obama were on trial for being a Christian, wouldthere be enough evidence for a jury of his peers to pronounce him guilty I doubtit. I think Obama would walk."Obama'sbirth certificateIn yet another attempt to define Obama asun-American and foreign, numerous conservative talk radio hosts and their guests have advancedthe discredited claim that Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore noteligible for the presidency.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140015" target="_blank"><strongϬonservative radio hosts repeat discredited claim that Obama has notproduced valid U.S. birth certificateOn the October 9 broadcast of his radioshow, Baker discussed a ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070004" target="_blank">lawsuitfiled in August by Philip J. Berg, who baselessly charged that Obama was bornin Kenya.Baker stated that "when you really start looking into this, thereapparently has never been a real birth certificate presented. There's been acertificate, but it's not a birth certificate. ... Just get the damn birthcertificate presented and let's move on with our lives."Peter BoylesÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200810290003f=s_search">Hosting Berg for the third time, Boylesagain allowed Obama birth certificate smear<pϯor the third time in three weeks, Boyleshosted Berg during the October 29edition of his radio show and allowed him torepeat the discredited falsehood that Obama has not released a valid birthcertificate establishing he was born in the United States and therefore couldbe ineligible to run for president.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200810250001">Hosting Philip Berg, Boyles and Martino allowed furtherfalsehoods about Obama's birth certificateOn the October 22 broadcast of ÏŽm>The Troubleshooter and the October 23broadcast of ÏŽm>The Peter Boyles Show,Boyles and Tom Martino, respectively, uncritically allowed Berg to repeat thediscredited smear that Obama has not released a valid birth certificateestablishing he was born in the United States and therefore could be ineligible torun for president. Berg further claimed on both broadcasts that the copy ofObama's certification of live birth posted on his campaign website is aȯorgery."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200810100004" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200810100004f=s_search"𾮬k-to-back guests on Boyles repeateddiscredited claim that Obama has not released valid birth certificateOn his October 9 broadcast, Boyles hosteddiscredited author Jerome Corsi and Berg, both of whom repeated the debunkedfalsehood that Obama has not released an authentic birth certificateestablishing that he was born in the United States and therefore couldbe ineligible to run for president.G. Gordon LiddyÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809180017" target="_blank">Liddy, Corsi again repeated discredited claim that Obama has not producedbirth certificate establishing his U.S. citizenshipOn the September 17 broadcast of his radioshow, Liddy and Corsi each repeated the discredited claim that Sen. BarackObama has not produced a birth certificate establishing his U.S. citizenship. In fact,FactCheck.org reported that the Obama campaign provided its staff with Obama'soriginal birth certificate and concluded that it "meets all of therequirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship," andeven WorldNetDaily.com, the right-wing website for which Corsi works as a staffreporter, has reported that a "WND investigation into Obama's birthcertificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to beauthentic.""Gunny" Bob NewmanÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200808190001" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200808190001f=s_search">Newman disputed theauthenticity of Obama's birth certificate; Hawaii Department of Healthconfirmed itOn his August 11 radio show, Newmanasserted that Obama has produced a ⋺ke" birth certificate, a weekafter claiming that Obama "will not produce his birth certificate" toprove his United States citizenship. In fact, the Hawaii Department of Healthhas confirmed that the document posted on Obama's campaign website is Ȫvalid Hawaiistate birth certificate" and has labeled speculation about his citizenship"ridiculous." Quinn ɪmp; RoseÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070004" target="_blank">Quinn and Tennent repeated discredited claims that Obama has not releasedvalid birth certificateOn the October 3 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The War Room,Quinn and Tennent hosted Berg to discuss Berg's lawsuit, which baselesslyalleges that Obama is not a natural-born U.S.citizen; during the interview, Quinn, Tennent, and Berg each repeated thediscredited charge that Obama has not produced an authentic U.S. birthcertificate. In fact, in addition to posting a copy of Obama's birth certificate on thecampaign website, the Obama campaign reportedly provided the original documentto FactCheck.org, whose staff reported that it "meets all of therequirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship."Michael SavageÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140015" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140015f=s_search"><strongϬonservative radio hosts repeat discredited claim that Obama has notproduced valid U.S. birth certificateOn the October 8 and 9 broadcasts of ÏŽm>The Savage Nation, Savage and guest host Rick Roberts repeatedly questioned Obama'scitizenship. For instance, Savage falsely claimed that Obama's birthcertificate Èoes not exist, they can't find it in the Hawaii government. It's never been produced.The one that was produced is a forgery." Roberts stated, "You'rerunning for the president of the United States, OK Show them thebirth certificate and say, 'OK, here's my birth certificate, get out of myface.' Why hasn't it been produced Why" On the October 10 broadcast, Savage against stated that Obama Èoesn'thave a birth cerfiticate."<pð¾«itionally, while baselessly stating thatObama has not proven his U.S.citizenship, Savage revived other falsehoods about Obama. He falsely suggestedthat Obama is a Muslim, stating: "How could he not be Muslim if he has aMuslim name How could he not be Muslim if his father and grandfather wereMuslims How is that possible, when he has no known birth certificate"ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230020"Ϭonservative media figures allege Obama's Hawaii trip is aboutdiscredited birth-certificate rumors, not his ailing grandmotherOn the October 22 broadcast of his show,Savage stated that "there are people arguing that Obama is headed backto Hawaii not so much to visit an ailing relative, but to fudge the birthcertificate in question" and said moments later, "There is intensenational interest on the Internet about his citizenship, and the question isbeing asked, could this be the real reason he is headed to Hawaii" Savagesubsequently became more definitive, claiming that "there's some otherreason that he's leaving the mainland of the United States in the midst of thistoe-to-toe struggle right now, and it's got to do with his birthcertificate."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200811040010"Ïiscussing death of Obama's grandmother, Savage continuedto promote discredited birth-certificate rumors <pÏuring the November 3 broadcast of his show,Savage again revived discredited "rumors" about Obama's È«irthcertificate not being valid" -- this time while discussing the recentdeath of Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. Savage stated: Ȫnd, oh yes,our condolences to his grandmother who raised him, who he so bravely visited lastweek -- shockingly, out of nowhere, in the, in the last days of a campaign --while the rumors of his birth certificate not being valid were circulatingthroughout the Internet. Shockingly, Obama goes to Hawaii, and again, not one of the emptyskirts in the media asks him about his birth -- his birth certificate, theKenyan relatives. Not one of the empty skirts in the media raises the question.And today she dies, poor lady dies, poor lady dies today; the woman who raisedhim -- the white grandmother who raised him."Obamaand race <pϬonservative radiohosts used Obama's status as the first African-American major partynominee for president to launch extensive, racially tinged commentary on Obama,his qualifications for office, and the motivations of his supporters.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080005" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080005">Minneapolisradio host Baker promoted video of pastor calling Obama's mother "trash"On October 7, on bothhis radio show and website, Baker promoted an Internet video in which the Rev.James David Manning of ATLAH World MissionaryChurch in Harlemsays: "The difference between Obama's mama and Bristol Palin is thatObama's mama was trash. I mean, she was dirt. She was a bag of trash sitting onthe sidewalk waiting there in Honoluluon one of those streets for the garbage truck to come by and pick her up andtake her to the dump."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300019" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300019"Ϭunninghamon Obama Sr.: "That's what black fathers do. They simply leave"On the October 28broadcast of his show, Cunningham stated of Obama's childhood: "Imagineat the age of 1 or 2 seeing your father for the last time. See, his father wasa typical black father who, right after the birth, left the baby. That's whatblack fathers do. They simply leave."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810210015" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810210015"Ϭunninghamguest Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: "Most black people today are racist"On the October 20edition of Clear Channel's ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Big Show, guest Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson saidof former Secretary of State Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama: "He'sclearly for the color of the man and not the character." Cunninghamreplied, "Great comments, and if Obama was white as chalk, do you thinkthat Powell would be endorsing the Democrat He didn't endorse Al Gore, hedidn't endorse Sen. John Kerry. I think color trumps everything in hismind." Peterson responded: "That's right, because if it was about whatBarack Obama stood for, then he would have endorsed Gore and all those guys,but he did not. You know, it's so sad, my friend, that most black people todayare racist. Not all, not all -- but most of them are racist."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140009" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810140009"><strongϬunningham:"I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack loses. Yeah, that'swhat the black intelligentsia says" <pÏuring the October 10broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Big Show,Cunningham stated: "I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barackloses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says." Cunningham alsoasserted that ȯlavor Flav, 50 Cent, and Diddy" are "really incharge of the Obama Inaugural Ball."G. Gordon LiddyÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090017" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090017">Insketch on Corsi's detention in Kenya, Liddy played audio of "jungletelegraph drums"On the October 7edition of his program, Liddy discussed the detention of Corsi in Kenya and aired a sketch in which he said:"We've used the satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing inon the trial of Dr. Jerome Corsi. ... He's being accused of impersonating ahuman being. My Zulu's not -- not as good as Obama's, but -- yeah, they'rereally upset with him. You can probably tell." Liddy then aired a clipapparently from the 1950 movie ÏŽm>ÏŽm>King Solomon's Mines, which featured charactersspeaking in Kinyarwanda not Zulu, one of the official languages of Rwanda,and playing music on drums.Quinn ɪmp; Rose ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810200015" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810200015">Quinnand Tennent: Powell endorsed Obama because "he's tired of being called anOreo," Ȫn Uncle Tom"On the October 20broadcast of ÏŽm>The War Room, Tennentasserted that Powell endorsed Obama �use he doesn't want to beknown as an Uncle Tom anymore. He wants to be black again." Quinn latersaid of Powell, "He's tired of being called an Oreo."Michael SavageÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280016" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810280016">Savageon Obama: Ȫmerica's first affirmative action candidate about to becomepresident"<pÏuring the October 27broadcast of his show, Savage said: "Obama and I are on the opposite sidesof the political spectrum, as you can well imagine. While he benefited fromaffirmative action, stepping over more qualified white men, I actually lost asa result of affirmative action, many times in my life. Although Iɽ get near100s on certain exams, they put me at the back of the bus because they said --the ACLU said -- certain people will have to put their futures on hold in orderto let others advance, and take a look at where we are today -- we have America's firstaffirmative action candidate about to become president."SexismRight-wing talk radio hosts have alsorepeatedly made sexist comments or attacked feminists, often while highlightinga woman's physical characteristics. For example, with McCain's pickof Palinas his running mate, talk radio hosts have often focused on Palin's appearance and have also referred to progressive women as "ugly." Some hosts and guests havequestioned women's abilities as political leaders, and even suggestedthat the country would be better off if women were denied the right to vote.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070010" target="_blank"><strong㺺ker called Obama a"little bitch" who "won't even stand up to""smoking-hot" PalinWhile discussing Palin's assertion that Obamawas "palling around with terrorists" on the October 6 broadcast ofhis radio show, Baker called Obama a "little bitch" who "won'teven stand up to a smoking-hot chick from Alaska." Baker did not note that ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The New York Timesarticle Palin cited for her claim about Obama's association with William Ayersreported that "the two men do not appear to have been close," or thatthe Obama campaign did indeed respond to Palin's claim.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810060010" target="_blank"><strong㺺ker on Palin's appearance at VP debate: "Shoulda had a littlecleavage going ... I noticed a panty line on her"On the October 3 broadcast of ÏŽm>The Chris Baker Show, Baker said Palin"shoulda had a little cleavage going" during the vice-presidentialdebate, and that he "noticed a panty line on her."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030004" target="_blank"><strong㺺ker: "I don't think homeless people should vote" "I'mnot that excited about women voting"On the October 2 broadcast of his radioshow, Baker said, "I don't think homeless people should vote. Frankly. Infact, I have to be very honest. I'm not that excited about women voting, to behonest." Baker later said: È«ut that's just me. I'm a pig, and that'sfine. All right"ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809050024" target="_blank">Minneapolis radio host said Code Pink protesters "ought to have alltheir tubes tied"<pÏuring the September 5 broadcast his show,Baker stated of McCain's speech at the Republican National Convention,"I'll tell you, though, in the speech -- the best part of the speech waswhen those Code Pink nuts -- another bunch that ought to have all their tubestied. All right I can't stand these Code Pink broads."Mark BellingÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809120018" target="_blank"><strong㺾lling: "When you think of Hillary Clinton," the wordÈ«itches" comes to mindMilwaukee radio host Mark Belling declared on his September 11 radio show,"What's the process that determines which potholes get patched the fastestin MilwaukeeI'll tell you what it is. No, they don't go and judge it on severity. ... It'swho -- can I use this word When you think of Sen. Hillary Clinton what doyou think -- what word comes to mind Yes, can I use that word here All right,it's who bitches the most."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809050016" target="_blank"><strong㺾lling called Gloria Steinem a "grizzled old bag," "oldwitch"ÏŽm>The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show,Belling called Gloria Steinem a "grizzled old bag," "oldwitch," and È®mbittered old has-been" and also stated that the"previous generation" of feminists "were so ugly you couldn'tstand to look at them." Belling made these remarks while discussing Steinem'sSeptember 4 ÏŽm>ÏŽm>Los AngelesTimes op-ed, in which she criticized McCain's choice of Palinas his vice-presidential running mate.Jon CaldaraÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200806170001" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200806170001f=s_search">On Caldara's KOA show,Coulter claimed women's suffrage È®xplains the destruction ofAmerica"<pϪppearing as a guest on the June 16 broadcast of JonCaldara's Newsradio 850 KOA program, Ann Coulter asserted that women aren'tȬoncerned with how capital is generated and created," and claimedthat women's suffrage È®xplains the destruction of America." Herremarks echoed those in a 2007 blog posting that quoted her as saying, "Ifwe took away women's right to vote, weɽ never have to worry about anotherDemocrat president."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200801230002" target="_blank" title="http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200801230002f=s_search"><strong㻊ldara asked Coulter ifClinton was È«itch-slapped" in debate<pÏiscussing the January 21 CNN Democraticpresidential candidates' debate, Caldara during his broadcast that eveningasked Coulter whether it was ⋺ir to say" that Clinton "got bitch-slappedtonight."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300017"Ϭunningham on Democratic women: "Alot of women who are single are vulnerable; they need like a daddy governmentto keep an eye on them"On the October 29 broadcast of his show, Cunninghamstated: "Traditionally, we think of women as Democratic voters because alot of women who are single are vulnerable; they need like a daddy governmentto keep an eye on them."Mark LevinÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090022" target="_blank">Levin on his "National Organization of Ugly Women" remark:"For now on, it's the National Organization of Really Ugly Women"<pð¾«ressing his September 4 comments onSean Hannity's radio show, in which he called the National Organizationfor Women, the "National Organization of Ugly Women," Levin said onhis September 8 radio show: "I just wanted to underscore that maybe Ishouldn't have called them the National Organization of Ugly Women. For now on,it's the National Organization of Really Ugly Women." Levin first made hisremarks while discussing with Hannity NOW's opposition to Palin.Quinn ɪmp; RoseÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070020" target="_blank">Jim Quinn: Steinem opposes Palin because Palin 𢷬lined to slaughterher own unborn child, Trig, to the goddess of feminism"On the October 6 broadcast of ÏŽm>The War Room, Quinn claimed that Steinemopposes Palin because Palin "refused the sacrificial right of passage,better known as the Eucharist of the feminist church: abortion. That's right.She declined to slaughter her own unborn child, Trig, to the goddess offeminism, even after doctors told her that he was one of those Down syndrome'throw-aways.' "ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809170001" target="_blank">Quinn: To feminists, even Ȫ childless feminist who looks like aBulgarian weightlifter in drag" can be a "real woman"On the September 15 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The War Room, Quinn stated: "Ifyou don't agree with the feminist scolds, then you're not a real woman -- evenif you are a very feminine working mom. But even if you're an actual man, nevermind a childless feminist who looks like a Bulgarian weightlifter in drag,you're a real woman solely because you nod your head like a windup clappingmonkey every time you read the latest editorial from ÏŽm>ÏŽm>Ms. Magazine." Quinn made theseremarks while discussing, among other things, prominent feminists'opposition to Palin.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200808270022">Quinn introduced segment about Clinton by playing EltonJohn's "The Bitch Is Back"On the August 27 edition of thesyndicated radio program ÏŽm>ÏŽm>TheWar Room, Quinn introduced a segment on Clinton bysaying,ÏŽm>ÏŽm> "the way, that brings us to our Hillary Heads-Up," and then playing audioof the Elton John song "The Bitch Is Back." Quinn then said, "Iwas going to play ɽing Dong, the Witch is Dead.' But you know what, I -- younever know with the Clintons."Lee RodgersÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170007" target="_blank">Rodgers said many "professed leaders of the feminist movement"are "hags" who Ȭouldn't get laid in a men's prison"On the October 17 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Lee Rodgers Show,Rodgers said: "You look at many -- perhaps most -- but many of the womenwho are professed leaders of the feminist movement in this country, and they'rea bunch of hags." He added: "They couldn't get laid in a men'sprison, let's be honest about it." Rodgers made these ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170007">remarks while discussing,among other things, feminists' disapproval of Palin.ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809230018" target="_blank">Rodgers: "Puckered-butt Democrat women hate Sarah Palin ...because her idea of choice was choosing not to have an abortion"Returning to a previous claim he hasmade, Rodgers asserted on September 23: "I believe that the reason a bunchof puckered-butt Democrat women hate Sarah Palin is because her idea of choicewas choosing not to have an abortion." Guest Steven Hayward of theAmerican Enterprise Institute responded in part by saying: "There isthat very vocal segment of feminist opinion that celebrates abortion as apositive good in the same way that, you know, Southern slaveholders 150 years agocelebrated slavery as a positive good."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200809170017" target="_blank">Rodgers: "Female leadership of the Democratic Party" consistsof "ugly skanks" who "hate" that "Sarah Palin'sgood-looking"On the September 17 broadcast of his radioshow, Rodgers said that "the female leadership of the DemocraticParty" is made up of "ugly skanks." He also stated: "SarahPalin's good-looking and they hate that." He also declared: "I thinkwe have to ask: Would you like Sarah Palin better if she got pregnant again anddid have an abortion, because it's obvious, with a lot of liberal women,killing babies is the main priority they have."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200808270011" target="_blank">Rodgers: "With that screechy, fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice ofhers, it is impossible for Hillary Clinton to deliver a great speech"On the August 27 broadcast of his radioshow, Rodgers said of Clinton'sspeech at the Democratic National Convention, "With that screechy,fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice of hers, it is impossible for HillaryClinton to deliver a great speech." Rodgers later said that Bill andHillary Clinton are hoping Obama ⋺lls flat on his face so theHilldebeest can have another run in four years, and Billy Bentpecker can hidebehind the curtain in the Oval Office telling Hillary what he wants her to doas president of the United States."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200806120001" target="_blank">KSFO's Rodgers on voting gender gap: For Ȫ lot of women in thiscountry who get knocked up ... the government becomes Daddy in terms of payingthe bills"On the June 11 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The Lee Rodgers Program,Rodgers said: "The historical voting records show that Democrats have,historically, enjoyed a huge advantage in women voters. Why is that"Rodgers continued: "Well, some women may be offended by this, but here'sanother dose of reality. We have a lot of women in this country who get knockedup and they don't have a husband. In effect, the government becomes Daddy interms of paying the bills. And that accounts -- that's not all of it, but thataccounts for a large part of that vote."LGBT issuesSmears against lesbian, gay, bisexual,and transgendered Americans are routine among conservative talk radio hosts, and the 2008 election has provided them with specific issues toaddress. Michael Savage, for example, has focused on Proposition 8 to amend theCaliforniaconstitution to ban same-sex marriage. Michael SavageÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310015">Savage: "If you're insane, hate the family ... hateyour mother and father, hate the Bible, hate the church, and hate thesynagogue," you oppose CA gay marriage banOn the October 29 broadcast of his radioshow, Savage said of a Californiaballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage,"There's a ballot initiative on homosexual marriage that is moreimportant than you could imagine. It's called Proposition 8, and you must vote'yes' if you're sane. If you're insane, hate the family, hate man and woman,hate your mother and father, hate the Bible, hate the church, and hate thesynagogue, of course you're in favor of 'no' on Proposition 8." The nextday on his program, Savage stated: "The people who don't have familiesdon't understand that, as difficult as family life is, life is impossiblewithout it. They don't understand that. They don't understand what the familyunit is. It's the strongest bond on Earth, which is why homosexual marriage issuch a threat to civilization itself."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030006" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030006f=s_search"><strong㺯ter railing against gay marriage, Savage said "the spiritual sideof the downturn on Wall Street was directly related to the moral downturn"On the October 1 broadcast of his show, Savagesaid: "You may say, 'Why should we care about homosexuals trying todestroy families through the mock marriage that they perform in order to mockGod, the church, the family, children, the fetus, the DNA of the human speciesWhy should we care about it while we have a financial meltdown' Because thespiritual side of the downturn on Wall Street is directly related to the moraldownturn in the United States of America." Savage later saidof San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom: "Today it's the gays, tomorrow it'llbe a man marrying a horse." <strongϪttackson the poorSeveral talk radio hosts have attackedlow-income Americans over the past year, including several who have expressedsupport for the idea that certain groups of lower-income Americans shouldnot have the right to vote. ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030004f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030004f=s_search"㺺ker: "I don't think homelesspeople should vote" "I'm not that excited about women voting"On the October 2 broadcast of show, Bakersaid: "I don't think homeless people should vote. Frankly. In fact, I haveto be very honest. I'm not that excited about women voting, to be honest."Baker subsequently added: È«ut that's just me. I'm a pig, and that's fine.All right And we'll see that, I'm sure, on a lame-ass website very soon. But Idon't think hobos ought to vote at all. They're nuts. And I think that thereneeds to be a little more care in who votes."G. Gordon Liddy ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310009f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310009f=s_search">Liddy: Obama is relying, in part, on"the welfare class" to win PennsylvaniaOn his October 30 program, Liddy said ofObama's electoral prospects in Pennsylvania:"Pennsylvania has been described as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia,with Alabamain the middle. Obama is counting on the urban elites and the welfare class towin the state for him. But he's putting on a show for the rest of Pennsylvania."Jim Quinn ɪmp; Rose Tennent ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310014f=s_search" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810310014f=s_search">Rose Tennent on Obama ad: "Don'tput that jive out there in front of me, devil, and tell me that these peopleare hurting when they are not hurting"On the October 30 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The War Room, Tennent said of the families featured inObama's 30-minute ad: "Well, OK. They were sad stories, but I'm looking atthe background. I'm not looking at the person talking in their home, I'mlooking at what they have in their home. They have color television sets; theyhave everything that I have in my house. I'll bet you they have an iPod, I betyou they have, you know -- I'll bet they have a lot of luxuries in that home.They are not poor." Tennent later said: "So don't put -- don't putthat jive out there in front of me, devil, and tell me that these people arehurting when they are not hurting. All they need to do is make some cuts andfigure out a way to do this."ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810220012" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810220012f=h_latest">Quinn: "Originally, if you didn'thave land, you didn't vote, and there was a good reason for it"On the October 21 broadcast of ÏŽm>ÏŽm>The War Room,while reading from an opinion column by conservative blogger Scott Johnson thatdiscussed the history of taxation and property rights in the United States,Quinn declared: "Originally, if you didn't own land, you didn't vote, andthere was a good reason for it: because those without property will always voteaway the property of other people unto themselves, and that's the beginning ofthe end." Quinn added: È«ut, oh no, that was -- that was just toomean-spirited." Moments earlier, Quinn said, "Now -- I mean, I canhear the appeal to the masses: 'It's not fair, it's not the American way thatyou don't get to vote,' but let me ask you a question: If I don't own anything,what kind of a problem do I have with voting for a measure -- a tax, a law --that takes somebody else's property and gives it to me I have no stake inpersonal property ownership ⟊use I don't have any. Now, back in the day, whenthis was the law of the land, anybody who wanted to vote needed to step up tothe plate, achieve, get a stake in America, and then vote."Michael Savage ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230016" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230016f=h_top">Savage: "Why should a welfare recipient have the rightto vote They're only gonna vote themselves a raise"On his October 22 show, Savage asked:Èo you think a person on welfare has the right to vote I don't. Whyshould a person who is on public assistance maintain the right to vote Tell mewhy. Where is it written that they should have the right to vote" Headded: "I support them, and they should have the same vote I do Thatwould be like saying an infant has the right to vote or an insane person hasthe right to vote. Why should a welfare recipient have the right to voteThey're only gonna vote themselves a raise."ÏŠ name="shows">THESHOWSÏŽm>The Chris Baker Show is a Minneapolis-based talk-radio show that airs weekdays from 7a.m. to 11 a.m. CT on ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.ktlkfm.com/pages/chrisbaker.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.ktlkfm.com/pages/chrisbaker.html">KTLK-FM. Baker ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/hoffman/5844463.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/hoffman/5844463.html">previously hosted twodifferent Houston-based radio programs before reportedly being dismissed in November2007. Baker joined KTLK in February and was nominated to the Texas Radio Hallof Fame in June. Since moving to KTLK, Baker discussed with a co-host beingȬonvinced that Magic Johnson faked AIDS" claimed that"it's very rare to find a woman worthy of serving in politicaloffice" said that Gov. Sarah Palin "shoulda had a little cleavagegoing" during the vice-presidential debate; and declared "I don'tthink homeless people should vote." ÏŽm>The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show iscarried on News/Talk 1130 ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.newstalk1130.com/main.html" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.newstalk1130.com/main.htmlhttp://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.newstalk1130.com/main.html">WISN-AM in Milwaukee, which is ownedby Clear Channel Communications. ÏŽm>Talkers Magazine includes Belling in its"ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://talkers.com/main/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44" target="_blank" title="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://talkers.com/main/index.phpoption=com_contentɪmp;task=viewɪmp;id=19ɪmp;Itemid=44">Heavy Hundred,"which it describes as "the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America."According to 1130 WISN-AM, ÏŽm>ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://2005.newstalk1130.com/pages/markbelling.html" target="_blank" title="http://2005.newstalk1130.com/pages/markbelling.html">The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show "isregularly rated number one in its time slot in the Milwaukee radio market and is the highestrated afternoon drive talk show host in the country." In 2001, Bellingwas awarded National Association of Broadcasters' ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfmSection=Search&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8597" target="_blank" title="http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfmSection=Searchɪmp;template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfmɪmp;ContentID=8597">Marconi Radio Award formedium-market "Personality of the Year." Belling has said"when you think of Hillary Clinton" the wordÈ«itches" comes to mind; has called Gloria Steinem a "grizzledold bag," an "old witch," and an È®mbittered oldhas-been" and has smeared teachers who have talked about global warmingas "idiot union teachers," "liberal unionized hacks,""greedy, overpaid unionized schoolteachers," andȯruitcakes."ÏŽm>The Neal Boortz Show is anAtlanta-based program that airs weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. Theprogram is nationally syndicated by ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://coxradio.com/company/syndication.html" target="_blank"Ϭox Radio Syndication,which says that it "partners with the Jones Radio Network to service morethan 200 affiliate stations with programming listened to by several millionpeople each week." According to ÏŽm>ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.talkers.com/main/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=34" target="_blank">Talkers Magazine,the show is the seventh-rated talk-radio program and averages at least 4.25million listeners a week. Boortz has repeatedly referred to Hurricane Katrinavictims as "parasites" commented that he would "make a lousyMexican" because of his inability to use a floor buffer; and described"single mothers receiving public assistance" as "welfarebroodmares."ÏŽm>The Peter Boyles Show airs weekday mornings from 5 to 9 a.m. MT on Denver's 630 KHOW-AM. According to hisKHOW ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.khow.com/pages/shows-boyles.htmlfeed=119773&article=361092" target="_blank"Ï«iography,È«oyles has received numerous awards including âž¾st InvestigativeRadio Talkshow Host' in The Denver Post, Westword, 5280 Magazine, and atthe 1999 Denver A.I.R. awards. He is also considered one of the mostinfluential media people in Colorado."Boyles was a 2006 ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfmSection=Search&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5019" target="_blank" title="http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfmSection=Searchɪmp;template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfmɪmp;ContentID=5019"ϯinalist for theNational Association of Broadcasters' Marconi Radio Award forlarge-market "Personality of the Year." Boyles has repeatedlyhosted guests who spread the discredited claim that Obama does not have a valid U.S.birth certificate.ÏŽm>The Jon Caldara Show airs on Denver's 850 KOA-AM on weeknights from 10 p.m. to 1a.m. MT. Caldara is ÏŠ href="http://mediamatters.org/rdto=http://www.i2i.org/main/author.phpauthor_id=93" target="_blank" title="http://www.i2i.org/main/author.phpauthor_id=93">president of theȯree market" Independence Institute and has had a public role innumerous anti-tax and anti-government spending campaigns. Caldara also hosts aȬurrent affairs" television program, ÏŽm>Independent
2008-11-08 06:37:32Cisco executive slain in Detroit is remembered as gifted techie, dedicated family man
At Cisco Systems, at Temple Shir Hadash and at his Los Gatos home during his family's shiva, Ben Goldman, a Cisco executive who was found shot to death in Detroit's gritty 8 Mile area on Aug. 19, was remembered this week as a man full of life, family and song.Guest book for Goldman
2008-11-07 01:10:55Brian Viner: I share Fay Weldon's bafflement
The splendid Fay Weldon was a guest on the Radio 4 programme Book Club yesterday, talking about her 1989 novel The Cloning of Joanna May. Or rather, others were talking, while Weldon rather bemusedly listened.
2008-11-07 00:04:12Wartime Courage, By Gordon Brown
This year, Gordon Brown has made something of a habit of surprise guest-star roles at literary events. He materialised for an interview with Sebastian Faulks at the London...
2008-11-07 00:03:12The Main: Recipes by Anthony Sedlak
After the Food Network's TV series that debuted in 2007 comes the cookbook. You can recreate 45 of Anthonys best recipes...
2008-11-04 20:34:17Hotel Case Study: Peer Pressure&aposs Impact on the Environment
Most travelers staying at hotels have encountered a bathroom sign asking them to help save the environment...
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