Savage accused Rep. Hinchey of being "in cahoots with Al Qaeda"

SAVAGE ACCUSES REP HINCHEY OF "BEING IN CAHOOTS WITH A QAEDA"
[SOURCE: Media Matters for America]
On the May 9 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, while reading from a May 9 National Review article on the six Muslim men arrested for plotting an attack on the Fort Dix military base, Michael Savage called Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) a "rotten, stinking, verminous congressman." Then, purporting to address Hinchey, Savage said: "By the time I get through with you, if you should call me to Congress, I'll have you in prison, because you're in cahoots with Al Qaeda. You are enabling Al Qaeda," adding, "You are a threat to our national security, as are all the other left-wingers who have signed that edict against -- that fatwa against Michael Savage, and [conservative radio host] Rush Limbaugh, and the others who want to disseminate the truth." Savage attacked Hinchey and other sponsors of the Media Ownership Reform Act (MORA) for seeking "the final solution for conservatives on talk radio." He also asserted that MORA "would declare Michael Savage, [Fox News host] Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and [Fox News host] Bill O'Reilly 'Threats to National Security,' and remove us from the radio," adding that this "is the exact rhetoric that Hitler used in his march to take over Germany." In fact, MORA would merely require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to once again enforce its "fairness doctrine," which the commission stopped enforcing in 1987. As paraphrased by the Supreme Court when it upheld the doctrine in 1969, it "require[d] that discussion of public issues be presented on broadcast stations, and that each side of those issues must be given fair coverage." The 2005 version of Hinchey's MORA -- H.R. 3302 (109th Congress) -- would mandate that the FCC reinstate that rule as it existed before its 1987 demise.
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