The Real Radio Hatemongers
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Executive Summary
The so-called “news” media have spent much of the past two decades
demonizing the rhetoric of conservative radio talk show hosts as
mean-spirited, divisive or a menace to civil discourse. But these same
journalists — who gleefully castigate Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark
Levin and other conservatives — are silent about the vile and vicious
rhetoric that spews from the Left’s leading radio talk show hosts.
Since
late 2007, the Media Research Center has collected numerous examples
of the outrageousness of left-wing radio hosts. And, unlike the Left —
which attempted to smear Rush Limbaugh with phony quotes — readers can
find an audio or video of every one of these quotes posted at our Web
site: www.MRC.org.
This report includes examples of over-the-top
rhetoric from left-wing hosts Mike Malloy, Stephanie Miller, Randi
Rhodes, Ron Reagan, Jr., Ed Schultz and Montel Williams, all of whom
currently or at one time broadcast to a national audience on either the
Air America network or via XM and/or Sirius satellite radio. Among the
lowlights:
Conservatives Want to Kill Barack Obama: “I really think there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out.” (Ed Schultz)
Conservatives Are Terrorists: “Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are as complicit of the September 11, 2001 terror attack as any one of the dumbass 15 who came from Saudi Arabia?” (Mike Malloy)
Conservatives Want You to Die: “If, in fact, the GOP doesn’t like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot ‘em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don’t know.” (Montel Williams)
Conservative Congresswoman Would Have Liked the Holocaust: “[Representative Michele Bachmann is] a hatemonger. She’s the type of person that would have gladly rounded up the Jews in Germany and shipped them off to death camps....This is an evil bitch from Hell.” (Mike Malloy)
Dick Cheney Eats Babies: “Cheney, by the way, looks very ruddy. I couldn’t get over that. Like, he must have feasted on a Jewish baby, or a Muslim baby. He must have sent his people out to get one and bring it back so he could drink its blood.” (Mike Malloy)
Dick Cheney Should Die: “He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion. Dick Cheney is an enemy of the country....Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you? See, I don’t even wish the guy goes to Hell, I just want to get him the hell out of here.” (Ed Schultz)
Rush Limbaugh Should Die: “I’m waiting for the day when I pick up the newspaper or click on the Internet and find that he’s choked to death on his own throat fat, or a great big wad of saliva or something, whatever. Go away, Limbaugh, you make me sick.” (Mike Malloy)
Michele Bachmann Should Die: “So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.” (Montel Williams)
If the establishment media were really interested in cleansing
the airwaves of hateful rhetoric, they would not confine their
criticism to conservative hosts. Instead, they would — and they must —
make an equal effort to expose the nastiness that runs rampant on
left-wing talk radio. Unless and until they do, they are participating
in an act of journalistic hypocrisy.
