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Ärende: Racist radio hosts
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OK, Imus has been canned.

Good.

Now how about these racist pigs?

Glenn Beck

On the November 14, 2006, edition of his CNN Headline News program, Beck 
said to Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim ever elected to 
Congress: "OK. No offense, and I know Muslims. I like Muslims. ... With 
that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, 'Let's cut and 
run.' And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview 
with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you 
are not working with our enemies.' "

On the April 27, 2006, edition of his radio program, Beck claimed that 
there are three reasons that an illegal immigrant "comes across the 
border in the middle of the night": "One, they're terrorists; two, 
they're escaping the law; or three, they're hungry. They can't make a 
living in their own dirtbag country."

On the August 9, 2006, edition of his CNN Headline News program, Beck 
aired a segment mocking the names of several missing Egyptian students 
in which the announcer said that one "may or may not be accompanied by 
his camel." The segment showed pictures of crowds and pointed to random, 
unidentifiable people as the missing Egyptians. It ended with a reading 
of the students' names in quick succession followed by the announcer 
pretending to gag as he struggled to pronounce them.

On the September 9, 2005, edition of his radio show, Beck referred to 
survivors of Hurricane Katrina who remained in New Orleans as 
"scumbags." Also, after acknowledging that nobody "in their right mind 
is going to say this out loud," Beck attacked victims of the disaster 
and the families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist 
attacks, saying: "I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9-
11 victims."

Neal Boortz

On the July 19, 2006, edition of his radio show, Cox Radio Syndication's 
The Neal Boortz Show, Boortz claimed that "at its core," Islam is a 
"violent, violent religion," and said, "[T]his Muhammad guy is just a 
phony rag-picker." Boortz asserted that "[i]t is perfectly legitimate, 
perhaps even praiseworthy, to recognize Islam as a religion of vicious, 
violent, bloodthirsty cretins."

In a December 12, 2005, weblog post, Boortz predicted that California 
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) would commute the sentence of convicted 
murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams to life imprisonment because 
"Schwarzenegger knows full well that as soon as Tookie's death is 
announced there will be riots in South Central Los Angeles and 
elsewhere." Boortz wrote that "[t]here are thugs just waiting for an 
excuse ... not a reason, an excuse" and explained that "[t]he rioting, 
of course, will lead to wide-scale looting." Boortz added: "There are a 
lot of aspiring rappers and NBA superstars who could really use a nice 
flat-screen television right now."

Rush Limbaugh

On the March 2 broadcast on his nationally syndicated radio show, 
Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, Rush Limbaugh stated 
that "since [Sen. Barack] Obama [D-IL] has -- on his mother's side -- 
forebears of his mother had slaves, could we not say that if Obama wins 
the Democratic nomination and then wins the presidency, he will own 
[Rev.] Al Sharpton?"

On the February 1 edition of his radio show, Limbaugh responded to a 
Reuters report on a University of Chicago study that found that "a 
majority of young blacks feel alienated form today's government" by 
asserting: "Why would that be? The government's been taking care of them 
their whole lives."

On the August 23, 2006, broadcast of his radio program, Limbaugh 
commented on a season of CBS' reality TV program Survivor in which 
contestants were originally divided into competing "tribes" by 
ethnicity. Limbaugh stated that the contest was "not going to be fair if 
there's a lot of water events" and suggested that "blacks can't swim." 
Limbaugh stated that "our early money" is on "the Hispanic tribe" -- 
which he said could include "a Cuban," "a Nicaraguan," or "a Mexican or 
two" -- provided they don't "start fighting for supremacy amongst 
themselves." Limbaugh added that Hispanics have "probably shown the most 
survival tactics," that they "have shown a remarkable ability to cross 
borders," and that they can "do it without water for a long time, they 
don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do." 
When the Survivor producers decided to dissolve the show's racially 
segregated "tribes" after only two episodes, Limbaugh declared that 
"[t]here can only be one reason for this ... that is the white tribe had 
to be winning."

In 2003, Limbaugh made controversial comments about Philadelphia Eagles 
quarterback Donovan McNabb, which led to Limbaugh's resignation from his 
position as a commentator on ESPN. During the September 28, 2003, 
edition of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, Limbaugh said that "[t]he media 
has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well" and, therefore, 
that McNabb "got a lot of credit for the performance of this team [the 
Eagles] that he didn't deserve."

According to a June 7, 2000, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) 
article, "As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a 
black caller: 'Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.' " In 
the early 1990s, "after becoming nationally syndicated, he mused on the 
air: 'Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted 
criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?' " According to FAIR, "[w]hen Carol 
Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was in the U.S. Senate, the first black woman ever 
elected to that body, Limbaugh would play the 'Movin' On Up' theme song 
from TV's 'Jeffersons' when he mentioned her. Limbaugh sometimes still 
uses mock dialect -- substituting 'ax' for 'ask'-- when discussing black 
leaders." FAIR also reported that "[i]n 1992, on his now-defunct TV 
show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black 
schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: 'Spike, if 
you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You 
should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up 
on their way out.' "

Bill O'Reilly

On the January 16 broadcast of his radio show, O'Reilly agreed with a 
caller's assertion that illegal immigrants "bring corrupting influences" 
to the United States, including "a third-world value system" that "can 
corrupt the education system." O'Reilly replied: "Absolutely. And that's 
why the dropout rate is so high."

On the August 16, 2006, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly argued 
extensively for "profiling of Muslims" at airports, arguing that 
detaining all "Muslims between the ages of 16 and 45" for questioning 
"isn't racial profiling," but "criminal profiling."

During the April 12, 2006, broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly 
claimed that on the April 11 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, guest 
Charles Barron, a New York City councilman, had revealed the "hidden 
agenda" behind the current immigration debate, which was "to wipe out 
'white privilege' and to have the browning of America."

On the September 13, 2005, broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly 
claimed that "many of the poor in New Orleans" did not evacuate the city 
before Hurricane Katrina because "[t]hey were drug-addicted" and 
"weren't going to get turned off from their source." O'Reilly added, 
"They were thugs."

On April 15, 2005, a caller to O'Reilly's radio show claimed that each 
undocumented immigrant crossing the border "is a biological weapon." 
O'Reilly agreed, further stating, "I think you could probably make an 
absolutely airtight case that more than 3,000 Americans have been either 
killed or injured, based upon the 11 million illegals who are here."

Michael Savage

On the February 7 broadcast of his radio show, Savage claimed that 
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "was chosen by George Bush as part 
of an affirmative action program in order to make his Cabinet look like 
America" and called her "a schoolmarm who has been pushed up the ladder 
all of her life because of social engineering." Savage also stated that 
President Bush's secretary of state "should have been a man because he 
would have more respect in the Middle East than does a woman to begin 
with."
On the January 15 edition of his radio show, in a monologue about Martin 
Luther King Day, Savage called "civil rights" a "con" and asserted: 
"It's a racket that is used to exploit primarily heterosexual, 
Christian, white males' birthright and steal from them what is their 
birthright and give it to people who didn't qualify for it." Savage then 
said, "Take a guess out of whose hide all of these rights are coming. 
... [T]here is only one group that is targeted, and that group are 
white, heterosexual males." He added: "They are the new witches being 
hunted by the illiberal left using the guise of civil rights and 
fairness to women and whatnot."

On the November 27, 2006, edition of his radio show, Savage declared 
that in order to "save the United States," lawmakers should institute 
"an outright ban on Muslim immigration" into the country. Savage also 
recommended making "the construction of mosques illegal in America, and 
the speaking of English only in the streets of the United States the 
law."

On the October 23, 2006, edition of his radio show, Savage said of 
Ethiopians: "The people down there have flies around their eyes," 
adding, "I never went into an Ethiopian restaurant. The Ethiopians come 
here to eat American food." Earlier in the broadcast, while discussing 
Ramadan and the continued violence in Iraq, Savage suggested that Islam 
is "a bloodthirsty religion that's practiced over there by a bunch of 
throwbacks, and we're gonna to kill 'em." Savage called for the United 
States to say: "That's it, we're leaving them; we're killing them."

On the August 7, 2006, edition of his radio program, Savage declared 
that CNN hosts Wolf Blitzer and Larry King "look like the type that 
would have pushed Jewish children into the oven to stay alive one more 
day to entertain the Nazis." Savage remarked that Blitzer "will do the 
astonishing act of being the type that would stick Jewish children into 
a gas chamber to stay alive another day. He's probably the most 
despicable man in the media next to Larry King ... a close runner-up." 
Savage opined: "The reason they curry favor with the turbaned hoodlums 
is to gain access to the turbanned hoodlums, domestic and foreign, for 
their news shows. They need more turbanned hoodlums to build ratings."

On the July 24, 2006, edition of radio program, Savage declared that 
Blitzer is "the type who would have let children into the gas chamber in 
order to stay alive an extra day." Savage accused Blitzer of being "anti-
Semitic ... anti-Jewish, and pro-Arab" because he "doesn't want to 
appear too Jewish ... and too pro-Jewish."

During the April 10, 2006, broadcast of his radio program, Savage warned 
political leaders not to sympathize with illegal immigrants, whom he 
described as "vermin." Savage stated: "If you take to the streets with 
the vermin who are trying to dictate to us how we should run America, 
even though they're not even entitled to vote or be here, you're going 
to be thrown out of office." Savage added that Americans are "craving 
leadership" because "[f]eminism is destroying America. Homosexuality is 
destroying America. Weepy liberalism is destroying America."

On his May 11 and May 12, 2004, radio shows, Savage called Arabs "non-
humans" and "racist, fascist bigots"; asserted that Americans would like 
to "drop a nuclear weapon" on any Arab country; and that "these people" 
in the Middle East "need to be forcibly converted to Christianity" in 
order to "turn them into human beings."

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