Michael Savage - San Francisco Supervisors Illegal Alien Flap

NOT VERY BRIGHT

Dim-Bulb SF Supes Risk Turning Enemy Talker Into Hero







Though San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have rarely been accused of being terribly bright, a new proposal to condemn talk host Michael Savage seems especially stupid and threatens to play right into his hands.

While Savage's rhetoric in recent months has been particularly extreme, the move by SF's generally demented city-county supes may very well turn the talker into a hero for the many millions of Americans who view its civic leadership as downright moonbatty.

WorldNetDaily has been following the flap and its fallout. From their first Drudge- linked piece on the subject:

On the same day, apparently to further generate sympathy for immigrants and bolster Daly's bailout effort, Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval introduced a resolution condemning popular radio talk-show host Michael Savage, a mainstay of the San Francisco airways for years. Since he was syndicated nationally by Talk Radio Network, Savage has become one of the nation's most-listened-to radio talkers.

Condemning the "defamatory language used by radio personality Michael Savage against immigrants," Sandoval's resolution is apparently in response to Savage's July 5 broadcast, when the talker commented on a group of students who had announced they were fasting in support of changes in immigration policy.

"I would say, let them fast until they starve to death," quipped Savage, "then that solves the problem."

Sandoval's resolution calls Savage's comments "symbolic of hatred and racism," according to the Examiner.

"I really for the life of me cannot understand why there is not more media outrage to what Michael Savage said," Sandoval said in the Examiner report, which added that Sandoval plans to hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall Tuesday just before the entire Board of Supervisors votes on his resolution against Savage.

"The intolerant and racist comments of Michael Savage demand a strong condemnation," Sandoval insisted.

Later, an Internet- fuelled backlash began, with Savage himself receiving an offer of free legal counsel should he choose to file suit against Supervisor Sandoval:

Daniel A. Horowitz of Oakland, Calif., wrote to Savage after Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval introduced a resolution condemning the radio talker urging him to sue the official, whom he compared to Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and Hugo Chavez in the way he attempted to silence political speech by rallying the mob.

"You have a strong federal civil rights action that you can file against Supervisor Sandoval and the city of San Francisco," he advised. "You have a constitutional right to state your political opinions and no city official has the right to lie about what you said or to call for a mob to come to your door to threaten you and to try to have you fired."

Horowitz said the Civil Rights Act of 1871, designed to tame the terror of the Ku Klux Klan, can be used as the basis for a federal civil rights action against the official and the city.

"You are protected by this civil rights act because you are the victim of the same type of mob terror that (the) Klan used to inflict," wrote Horowitz. "This terror is being organized against you simply because people do not like what you say. Translated into legal language, you are being attacked by a type of terrorist because you have exercised your First Amendment rights."

Horowitz wrote: "The Klansman in your case is wearing a suit and not a white robe. He is doing his dirty work under the hood of his elected position instead of under the coward's hood of the Klan."

The call for action against Savage came at the same time city supervisors were considering using taxpayer dollars to pay for immigrants' green cards and citizenship.

Whether a potential Savage suit against Sandoval has any merit is unclear. But should the syndicated talker choose to take this course, it would provide a great deal of additional publicity for his show.

In the end, it's amazing to believe San Francisco's leaders don't recognize the benefit they are providing to Savage by pushing a condemnation resolution against him. Do they really see themselves as mainstream politicians? Do they not realize that many Americans see them as fringe kooks?


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