Michael Savage - Free speech at it's finest

Below is a transcript of the Feb. 16 edition Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation. Michael Savage once again lives up to his adopted name. His real name is Michael Alan Weiner but he changed it when he figured out everyone already knew he is a dick.

Just remember as you read this, that he has the right under the U.S. Constitution to spout such garbage. But we also have the right to protest the shameful, vulgar rantings of a madman.

Thanks to Media Matter for America.

SAVAGE: Diane Sawyer took a trip to Iran where she kissed the feet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Oh my gosh, she's disgusting.

See, in my world, Diane Sawyer would have had her passport seized upon coming back to America. And the smirk would have been driven off her face as she was booked, the handcuffs on the back of her hands, for aiding and abetting the enemy, the Hitler of our time. She would have been fingerprinted and booked for sedition. Then we would have seen if she was still smirking giving her little speech. OK?

Here's Diane Sawyer goes to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and does not once say to him, "How could you deny the Holocaust? Here are the pictures of the 6 or 7 million Jews that Hitler killed. How dare you do this to the world?" So Dianne Sawyer, in essence, is agreeing that the Holocaust didn't occur. This is what ABC has become.

Listen to clip 13:

SAWYER: I understand that it's confusing sometimes what we do and why we're there, but even --

SAVAGE: Oh, shut up! Get the hag off! Oh, shut up! Get that hag off my show.

We're not confused by what you do, you witch. You witch, you. You think that you're better than all of us, that's what it is, Diane. You think we're confused by what we do and why we're there? We're not confused by the fact that you're a low-life witch who would do anything for ratings, including going over to the Hitler of our time.

You rotten, stinking witch -- I pray to God, I pray to God that one day, one day, you come to understand how low you have become, Diane Sawyer, what a low-life vermin you really are. Play that again, I want to hear the whole thing.

SAWYER: I understand that it's confusing sometimes what we do and why we're there, but even, even your adversaries have their own point of view, and how can you tackle this part of the world if you don't understand why they say --

SAVAGE: You lying whore.

SAWYER: -- they're doing what they're doing. Even --

SAVAGE: You lying whore.

SAWYER: -- can teach you something about why they are doing what they're doing.

SAVAGE: You lying whore, you.

SAWYER: And we are trying to bring back real information in this critical time for these people who live in that part of the world. It is so complicated.

SAVAGE: You're full of crap. Who do you think you're fooling? You're a liar, and the reason you gave this interview about that interview is because you realized what you have done. You're being told that the people hate your guts.

I don't know how this goes on in this country, that a witch, a whore like Diane Sawyer -- and I'm going to stick to those words -- to me she's a whore, she's a whore for selling out her intellect like this, whoring herself for ratings. She goes and visits the Hitler of our time, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, does not challenge him on one of his statements, not one, and she does it just for ratings. And she has the nerve to come back here and pretend that it's confusing on what we do and why we're there. Who do you think you're talking to? Even your adversaries have their own point of view.

So let's see if I can follow this. It's 1940, and you go visit Adolf Hitler, and people are already being assassinated and executed and worked to death in Nazi Germany, and you say that even your adversaries have their own point of view? And how can you tackle Germany if you don't even understand why they say what they're doing and why they're doing it?

Diane, all I can say to you is you're probably the lowest creature in American journalistic history. You're probably the lowest creature in the history of American journalism. Did you hear me, Diane Sawyer? I hope to God this gets to you because this is one man's opinion. But let me tell you, it's not only one man's opinion, it's tens of millions of Americans know that you're the lowest whore in the United States of America.

I stand by those words, and if you don't like it, sue me. Take me to a court of law for calling you a whore, because you are an intellectual prostitute for what you have done for ratings. You're lower than Anna Nicole Smith on her worst day. You're dumber than Paris Hilton. You're more shallow than Lindsay Lohan.

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SAVAGE: I don't suppose Diane might have a Jewish friend or two in New York that would stand up to her. Anyone in New York City in the media who knows Diane Sawyer who may be of the Jewish faith, who might have an opportunity to say to her, "You've become lower than the lowest whore outside the Holland Tunnel in fishnet stockings at 3 in the morning, that you stink, lady"? And if ABC had a scintilla of decency, they'd fire her for what she just did.

Remember how we got into Iraq?

We've been maintaining all along that the Bush war on the Iraqi people is illegal and based on lies. It is a corporate war for not only the Iraqi oil but for billions in no-bid contracts for Cheneyburton, er, Haliburton.

As A. Alexander writes in The Progressive Daily Beacon we must always remember this.

"Regardless of how we got into Iraq," Mister Bush's apologists and supporters say, "we have an obligation now, to stay until the 'job is done'." That is a false argument designed to prevent an honest and rational analysis and debate regarding the war. It is like a father saying to his daughter, "Regardless of how you became pregnant, you are now with child and must marry your rapist."

Of course, George W. Bush and the Republicans would prefer the American people forgive the rapist, so to speak, because it absolves them of any responsibility for the dishonest and deceitful manner in which they led the nation to war. It releases Mister Bush and Cheney of any guilt in the death -- according to scientifically sound analysis -- of some 650,000 Iraqis and 30,000 dead and wounded US military personnel. Mostly, however, the false argument allows the President and Republicans to continue their failed war forever.

Will the American people get the justice they deserve from Congress now controlled by the Democratic Party?

You got to be kidding.

Any talk of impeachment is "off the table," according to comments attributed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Besides, there is not enough time, and unless Dick Cheney is included, nothing will change.

Just remember, folks, that Bush and Cheney started the war based on lies and they continue to lie and will forever lie, because that's all they know.