Michael Savage
Savage advised the nation’s police officers to “call in sick the next time there’s a riot.”
He said law enforcement was being “picked on by [Obama’s] racist administration,” which he accused of siding with violent protesters angry about two recent grand jury decisions.
“Only when the rioters run up the hills of Berkeley,” Savage said, “and invade the homes of the white liberal professors who are egging them on will you see societal change for the better” (Free audio).
Later in the week, Savage questioned the timing of the release of a report detailing CIA interrogation techniques that many critics describe as torture.
“There is no justification whatsoever for releasing the CIA torture report at a time when ISIS is on the rise,” he said, singling out Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., for criticism.
“Why isn’t she being charged with sedition or treason?” Savage asked, given that the report reveals highly sensitive information that could put American lives at risk (Free audio).
Rush Limbaugh
On Tuesday’s show, Limbaugh told listeners that President Obama never personally signed any executive order in connection with his recent move providing amnesty for up to five million illegal immigrants.
“Folks, this is even more corrupt than anybody conceived!” he said. “He just wrote a memo instructing Homeland Security not to deport five million people. There is no actual executive order.”
Limbaugh lamented, “The lying that’s going on in mainstream America today. … The truth is the biggest casualty because the truth has become relative. The truth is all dependent on what the powerful can make it be” (Free audio).
After the CIA torture report was released, Limbaugh responded to those who condemned the United States for employing enhanced interrogation techniques: “Torture to me is being a family member of somebody who died in 9/11, either in the Twin Towers, the field in Pennsylvania or the Pentagon. It’s trying to go to bed every night thinking about what they experienced at that moment when the planes hit the towers. Torture, to me, is what you go through each and every day trying to go to sleep as you think about the last moments of the lives of your loved ones or family members on 9/11” (Free audio).
Aaron Klein
Only listeners to Aaron Klein’s radio show heard “the real Eric Garner story.” Klein revealed new information about Garner’s death following his arrest for selling illegal cigarettes. The real culprit, said Klein, is the New York “nanny state” and its war on untaxed cigarettes. He also looked into accusations that Garner was placed in an illegal chokehold by arresting officers.
Klein also offered a primer on the terrorist group ISIS. What are their real goals? Who is supporting them? And how can they be defeated? (Free audio).
Mark Levin
The IRS now admits to sharing thousands of private tax documents with the White House, but is refusing to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that would aid in an investigation.
Levin compared their behavior to that of Soviet bureaucrats (Free audio).
He also blasted Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., for releasing the CIA torture report, accusing her of playing into the hands of America’s enemies.
“She’s a disaster,” said Levin, whereas the interrogators mentioned in the report “deserve Medals of Freedom … for keeping us safe and taking the war to the enemy after 9/11” (Free audio).
Laura Ingraham
Calling it a “1,600 page bad joke,” Ingraham went through the $1.1 trillion “Cromnibus” budget bill on behalf of her audience.
Having just won back the House in the mid-term elections, she noted, the GOP leadership has just presented “a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that is chock-full with pork and giveaways to the left.”
“We have Republicans turning their backs on the very people that built this majority,” she added (Free audio).
“What is the point of having a Republican Congress,” Ingraham asked earlier in the week, if they are “going to sell you out on the immigration question” as well?
Ingraham said she had “a simple question” for GOP leadership: “Why do illegal immigrants get better representation in Washington than the U.S. citizen?” (Free audio).
Glenn Beck
The hit sitcom Family Guy announced that the plot of its “Christmas episode” this year revolved around the family’s attempts to help Jesus lose his virginity.
Beck and his on-air crew laughed off the idea that this storyline was somehow artistically “brave.”
“Let me explain something about bravery: It is not brave to do the things that the elite and the powerful agree with,” Beck said.
“You want to be brave, do this about Mohammed,” co-host Stu Burguiere added. “Do it about Allah.”
“Every great act, every great, truly great freeing act was inspired by the teachings of Jesus Christ,” Beck said. “Why would we take down just that man? Why would we make him into a joke? Out of all of the people you can joke about, all of the things you can do?” (Free audio).
