Henry Gates vs. Michael Savage
Ellis Washington
If you want to squelch my free speech, go ahead and try it. By doing so, you’ll reveal your true colors. You’ll be acting exactly like the [Nazi] Brownshirts that you really are.
–Michael Savage, “The Enemy Within”
The case of Henry Louis Gates, chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Harvard, and his conflict with the local police with virulent charges of racism and racial profiling brings to the surface some interesting dichotomies with my friend and mentor, Michael Savage, and his present blacklisting by England and its recently uncovered collusion with America. Let’s examine a few of them.
Gates is a very well-respected black academic at an elite educational institution, yet his oeuvre, in my opinion, is amateurish at best, partisan at worst. For example, in 2000 he and fellow race baiter Cornel West (now at Princeton) collaborated on a book, “The African American Century: 100 Black Americans Who Shaped America.” Of course, I like many other academics was shocked to see that the most influential and intellectually affluent black man and black women in America, Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Janice Rogers Brown, were not even listed as part of the 100 most influential blacks, let alone even mentioned in a footnote by these two “scholars.”
Michael Savage has two master’s degrees and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in the hard sciences. His doctoral thesis was published by Harvard. He has written more than 25 books, five New York Times best-sellers. His radio show, “The Savage Nation” has between 8-10 million listeners per week. Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, Glenn Beck notwithstanding, Dr. Savage is the most intellectually astute and interesting radio host in America.
The Gates affair took place on July 21 when one of his neighbors called the police because she was concerned that two men appeared to be trying to break into professor’s Gates house by repeatedly hitting against the front door. What turned out to be an innocent mistake on the neighbor’s part could have been diffused by Gates when the white police officer came to investigate, but the good professor instantly visualized a race card and played it with all the skill of an Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton or Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson.
The Michael Savage affair occurred on May 5 when, completely unprovoked, Britain Home Secretary Jacqui Smith placed Savage’s name on a list of infamy along with Hamas baby killers, Muslim fanatics, homosexual hatemongers and Russian Neo-Nazis just to name a few. Of course, Michael and most right-thinking Americans who love freedom of speech and freedom of expression were outraged at these Stalinist tactics against a bona fide conservative intellectual, American patriot and an unabashed Anglophile.
Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Fox News, conservative think tanks, the government-controlled media and President Barack Obama all were seemingly in rare agreement that the blacklisting of Savage was a good thing. They were happy about his dire plight, and they uttered not a mumbling word of support even when Savage pleaded with them daily for help and even sent letters asking that the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama use diplomatic backchannels on his behalf as an America citizen, despite their political differences, since they are bound by the Constitution to “protect and defend” Savage’s constitutional rights “against all enemies foreign and domestic.”
This week Rush played extended excerpts of a TV interview of the Gates affair that featured the outspoken demagogue Michael Eric Dyson of the University of Pennsylvania. The good professor skillfully baited Rush by associating him with the Gates affair, knowing that Rush the next day would give this liberal hack primetime air time on his show. It worked like a charm, and the next day Rush spent half of his show giving Tyson expensive air time, yet for 21 years on the radio and in two books, I have yet to hear Rush utter Michael Savage’s name once.
In the Bible, Moses had Hur and Aaron to hold up his arms in the pivotal Battle of Amalek (Exodus 18:12); Capt. Alfred Dreyfus had the celebrated intellectual and writer Émile Zola to plead his case in “J’accuse,” but who does Michael Savage have on his side while his good name is viciously slandered and libeled as he is daily blacklisted by our number one ally, England? WND notwithstanding, virtually no other media entity has the courage to champion his cause.
In conclusion, I believe in the comforting words of Martin Luther King that, “Truth crushed to the earth will rise again.” Therefore, I know that the Savage affair similar to the Dreyfus affair I wrote about a few weeks ago, will one day vindicate Michael Savage’s name and reputation. We are already getting glimpses of truth rising up to expose the tangled web of conspiracy, duplicity, lies, deceit and treachery perpetrated against this innocent man. Where an official British document stated these chilling words: … the Home Office chose him to balance the list of Muslim extremists because he is Jewish.
It is the Michael Savage case, not the case of the racial demagogue, Henry Louis Gates, that will determine the scope of freedom of speech and freedom of expression in England and here in America.
Gates or Savage? – This is the choice that every American and lover of freedom must make. Will you follow a man who continues to play the race card even as mounting evidence is presented that it was he who was guilty of racialism, race baiting and racial profiling? In a just world Henry Louis Gates would be summarily fired for his naked racism and Michael Savage given his position at Harvard. However, in an unjust world Gates is invited to the White House by the president to use as “a teachable moment,” while Michael Savage is treated as a pariah.
I truly believe that one day Henry Louis Gates’ racial demagoguery will be exposed and Michael Savage will be rewarded 100 fold for the unjust pain and suffering he has endured by the hands of England and his own country, who like Hitler’s Brownshirts seeks to silence all dissenting voices of reason and veritas (truth).
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