Fascist Wins Bushzarro “Free Speech” Award

In Bushzarro world—where up is down, black is white—fascists take all the awards. As a prime example, consider that Talkers Magazine, a trade industry publication covering talk radio in the United States, has awarded Michael “Savage” (as in Neanderthal) Weiner its coveted Freedom of Speech Award.

“According to Talkers Magazine, Savage is being honored, ‘For being the first major conservative radio talk show host to criticize President George W. Bush on his policies and encourage hosts of all political ideologies to remain independent of partisan loyalties,’” notes NewsMax. “Savage was also recently ranked No. 4 in ‘The Top 25 Most Influential Talk-Radio Hosts’ by NewsMax Magazine.”

In other words, according to the neocons at NewsMax, millions of people are “influenced” by Weiner, an unabashed fascist who demands people opposed to Bush and the neocons, “partisan loyalties” notwithstanding, be rounded up and slammed in detention camps. Considering this, “Savage” should receive the Joseph Stalin award, or maybe the Pol Pot or Mao award.

Michael Alan Weiner, a former beatnik who once swam naked with the homosexual poet Allen Ginsberg, is “America’s angriest, most vicious conservative radio host,” writes David Gilson for Salon. He makes his living attacking “liberals, gays, academics, the homeless, the Clintons, immigrants, feminists, CNN, the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslims and other minorities” and “dreams of dispatching with ‘commies, pinkos and perverts’ and other undesirables (’I say round them up and hang ‘em high!’) and even paraphrases a remark attributed to Nazi leader Hermann Goering (’When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-15!’).” Of course, for Weiner, any American who complains about the trashing of the Constitution and the fake war on terrorism is included in the above list of enemies—and he would gleefully string them up from lamp posts, sort of like the medieval Taliban lynched their enemies.

“Mr. Wiener, like a plethora of other so-called right-wing talk show hosts, is a dangerous anti-American who hates freedom and what the founding fathers created,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote in 2004, after the former beatnik called for arresting newspaper editors for the unpardonable and apparently executable crime of reporting the news. “While he has a first amendment right to voice his comments, we feel the need to challenge them and will continue to monitor his subversive and extremist activities.”

Of course, in Bushzarro world, loud-mouths who hate freedom—for instance Bill “phone sex” O’Reilly of Fox News who sics the FBI on those he disagrees with (one of his victims, Sami Al-Arian, is near death in prison)—are cherished, showered with awards, made into heroes, and endowed with multi-million dollar talk radio and television contracts.

It can be said, after all, “Savage” and O’Reilly are simply giving the people what they want—or what they are told to want, as hatred and warmongering are consumer items, albeit consumer items that benefit the ruling elite, determined to render the planet into a hellish gulag where Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.