Michael Savage

Michael Savage is an American conservative commentator on radio, who was given Freedom of Speech Award by Talkers Magazine in 2007. He is considered to have some of the more extreme opinions on talk radio. He writes that he created the term "Compassionate Conservative" in 1994, and, for him, these words describe a "firewall of balance" that limits how far to the right his opinions go.

Lawsuits

He has sued the Council on American Islamic Relations for copyright infringement, because they rebroadcast a part of a show in which he referred to the Koran as "a throwback document" and a "book of hate."

What kind of religion is this? What kind of world are you living in when you let them in here with that throwback document in their hand, which is a book of hate... Don't tell me I need reeducation. They need deportation.

He also joined in a suit against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder over a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security, which warned that there might be increased risk of extremism among disaffected returned veterans.

Opinions on journalists

After he played portions of a Barbara Walters interview with Hugo Chavez, he called her a "double-talking slut" continuing: "She's an empty mind-slut. She'd peddle anything for a ratings point....[a] mental prostitute...I think that the woman is vermin. I think she's dirt."

On August 7, 2006, he said of CNN's White House correspondent, Wolf Blitzer,

That's why the department store dummy named Wolf Blitzer, a Jew who was born in Israel, will do the astonishing act of being the type that would stick Jewish children into a gas chamber to stay alive another day. He's probably the most despicable man in the media next to Larry King, who takes a close runner-up by the hair of a nose. The two of them together look like the type that would have pushed Jewish children into the oven to stay alive one more day to entertain the Nazis.

Blitzer was born in Germany but grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended the University of Buffalo, according to its alumni newsletter.

Hate speech and Britain

He was banned from entry into Britain, in 2008, by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, on grounds that he was among a group of "preachers of hate".

I think it’s important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it’s a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won’t be welcome in this country

Education

He holds a B.S. degree in biology and education from Queens College, in New York City, and taught high school science before returning to graduate school, receiving a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Epidemiology and Nutritional Ethno-Medicine in 1978. Savage also holds two Master’s degrees in Medical Botany and Medical Anthropology from the University of Hawaii.