Saturday, July 14, 2007

Savage Fired? Bay Area Activists Say YES

How could anyone wish someone else to starve? What is wrong with Savage and the thousands of others that have been venomously threatening and insulting undocumented immigrants on the air waves, on blog commentaries and in letters to lawmakers? Savage sent his blast through the airwaves saying that undocumented college students fasting to promote the DREAM Act should starve...



San Francisco Chronicle
SAN JOSE
Immigrant advocates demand radio station fire host for remarks
Hunger strikers should starve to death, he said
Kantele Franko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, July 13, 2007


Bay Area immigrant rights advocates say radio host Michael Savage should be fired for using hateful language when suggesting supporters of an immigration reform bill who fasted in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza last week should starve to death.
During a July 5 broadcast of "The Savage Nation," his nationally syndicated talk show, Savage said, "I would say let them fast till they starve to death ... because then we won't have a problem about giving them green cards because they're illegal aliens."



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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/13/BAGTDQVU6J1.DTL

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