Right Talker Savage on Britain Ban: ‘When Has This Witch Listened to My Program’

The Virginian ^ | 5/6/2009 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

SFGate...

San Francisco-based conservative talk show host Michael Savage -- whose sharp-tongued right-wing commentary has earned him headlines across the U.S. -- is making news again: He's been banned in Britain.

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"When I woke up and saw this this morning ... my first thought was, damn, there goes the summer trip where I planned to have my dental work done," the "Savage Nation" host joked. "My second thought was, darn ... there goes my visit to the restaurants of England for their great cuisine."

But, he added, the issue is no laughing matter -- and represents a serious threat to free speech.

"Today it's me. Tomorrow it's someone else," he said. "My first reaction is, this can't be happening ... that the land of the Magna Carta has now become the land of the mini-Carta."

The list of high-profile banned visitors was released by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who published 16 of the 22 names of people banned from the country since October...

From Hot Air...(after Allahpundit tells us the obligatory disclaimer: he "never listens")

Also on the list: Jihadists, neo-Nazis, that child-killing savage from Hezbollah for whom Al Jazeera threw a birthday party last year, and, oh yeah, Fred Phelps.

The LA Times is neutral...

Reporting from London -- Britain has just two words for controversial California radio talk-show host Michael Savage:

Keep out.

NPR asks it's listeners if the ban is justified...they can't quite decide.

Is his banning about speech that fosters hatred, as the U.K. has decided, or free speech?...

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[dajeeps]

Well, maybe now he has standing in his lawsuit over the DHS ‘right extemist’ report. These lefties are really stupid.

[Dudoight]

I don’t listen to this guy but the banning is scary.