We like freedom of speech. Hell, we've made a living on it, but some right-wingers are clearly abusing their American right when it comes to Barack Obama's short campaign break, which he's using to visit his ill grandmother:

Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, and Jerome Corsi suggested or asserted that the true purpose of Sen. Barack Obama's current trip to Hawaii is not to visit his ailing grandmother, as Obama claims, but rather to address rumors — widely debunked — that Obama has failed to produce a valid U.S. birth certificate. However, in addition to FactCheck.org and a Hawaiian Health Department official, even Corsi's employer, the right-wing website WorldNetDaily, has reportedly determined that the birth certificate provided by the Obama campaign is authentic.

We'd say this trio should be ashamed of themselves, but they clearly don't experience such an emotion.

The right sure has been having a field day reaming homo-politico Barney Frank.

First there was Fox News' Bill Sammon claiming the press had spared Congressman Frank negative press because he's gay.

The lusty bits stem from a relationship Frank - who heads the House Financial Services Committee - had with former Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses. Moses and Frank's relationship ended in 1998, the same year Moses left the doomed mortgage lender.

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Michael Savage made some more jaw-dropping history this week. The legendarily out-spoken radio host used Tuesday's show to discuss AIDS on the African continent. Savage first had a firey exchange with a caller he dubbed "Kojo" and then offered this analysis of the United States' HIV prevention and treatment programs: "We're not supposed to criticize the president because he wants to send $45 billion to that corrupt continent — for AIDS, which is a behavioral disease. It can be controlled only by behavior, not by money. Oh, education has really worked for the AIDS epidemic in America. It's really stopped the homosexual community from interacting in their well-known manners."

Concerned Women of America's male leader Matt Barber took to the radio recently to discuss with Martha Kleder how the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been using the same tactics as the "homosexual lobby".

His evidence? They called for an advertisers to boycott anti-Islam radio host Michael Savage. How sinister!

Matt Barber simply can't wrap his closed, conservative mind around the trans experience. Nor does the Concerned Women of America member* have much love for those of us who do:

Liberal ideology and political correctness, infused with public policy, begets social insanity.

Case in point: A recent report on a popular homosexual "news" site declares, "A transgendered student says he is the victim of discrimination at a small Massachusetts community college because he is biologically female."

Say what? "He" is "female"? Welcome to PC-ville. Come for the oxymoron, stay for the cognitive dissonance.

As much as we loathe Barber's perspective, we have to admit he makes us laugh.

We'd also like to note that Barber's Renew America piece begins with a quote from anti-gay radio host Michael Savage. It's a match made in homophobic heaven, which sounds a lot like hell to us!

Barber belongs to a women's group, but slams people who want to be women. Just saying…

Radio host Michael Savage tainted the air waves with his repulsively closed mind Monday. A caller phoned in to ask why Savage refused to attend last week's Republican debates. Savage first explains the bad blood between him and the news channel - something about Whoopi Goldberg, Al Sharpton and Joy Behar plotting a character attack on Larry King Live - and how Ted Turner set up a "bear trap" for conservatives.

From there, Savage launches a verbal assault on "Anderson Blooper" and Keith Kerr, the retired brigadier who asked the presidential candidates about Don't Ask, Don't Tell. And, from what we gather, Savage isn't so keen on Kerr:

I don't care about this old queen, frankly. He disgusts me to make — my flesh crawls from the old queen. That was a general? Now you wonder why we're still in Iraq five years later. General — with General Keith Kerr, you know why we're still in Iraq five years later. That's all. He wasn't just racking up cue balls at the pool table. I'm sick of it! I'm sick of the whole country, it's like Rome! It's melting down like Rome!

Christ, won't someone feed Savage to the lions, already?

The 65-year old commentator also commented on Cooper's sexuality: "Why don't you enlist, Anderson? I'm not saying you're gay. But you certainly could enlist if you're so interested in "do ask do tell.""

Michael Savage sure pissed off Ellen Andersen when he used to his radio show to compare lesbians to Nazi henchmen. Anderson - whose father spent time in a concentration camp - uses this impassioned, yet guilt-ridden post to protest Savage's deplorable comparison.

I recognize that Savage is being hateful to score ratings points and that the more I react to him the more he's "won." But at the same time, Savage’s reflexive invocation of Nazis and the Holocaust is dangerous.
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Savage’s diatribe about Nazis and the Holocaust is all about: it’s verbal porn that dehumanizes its subjects—both the “lesbians” and the “oven stuffers”—for the voyeuristic pleasure of his audience.

The scariest part: about 7 million Americans voluntarily watch Savage's show.

A big congratulations to conservative radio host Michael Savage!! We didn't think it possible, but he's reached a new low. Yes, lower than when he called a tazer-happy university cop a "bull-dyke fascist". And way lower than that time he equated gay parenting with child abuse. You're no doubt wondering, "What could be worse than calling gay parents abusers?" Media Matters provides the putrid details:

On the November 8 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation, a caller told host Michael Savage that while waiting at a stoplight in Midtown Manhattan, "I'm listening to you with the window open. This mean-faced, clipped-hair, liberal type — you know, the type you always talk about. … She comes up to my window and she goes, 'You're listening to hate speech. Why are you listening to that?'"

Savage replied to the caller's anecdote by saying, "Well, what does that tell you about the loving, kind lesbian who just assaulted you in your car?" He continued: "She's a — the type that stuffed ovens in [Adolf] Hitler's concentration camps. Whenever I hear anyone preaching to me about how compassionate they are, I reach for my Glock. That's all I can tell you. They can all drop dead."

Incredible, right? Not only does Savage imply lesbians helped Hitler destroy millions of people, he admits his own murderous rages! And gays are the evil ones.

We have to give Savage even more credit for curbing his overuse of the word "fascist". He only used it once in this rant, but sure as shit made it count: "[Lesbians are] the Nazis - the cryptofascists walking around."

Conservative shitbag Michael Savage took another opportunity to smear left-leaning website Media Matters. While discussing Bill O'Reilly's Sylvia snafu, Savage again referred to MM as a "gay, fascist website". Does he even know the meaning of fascist?

Savage's words:

They [Media Matters] are simply a gay, fascist website without any guts whatsoever." He added, "[T]hey attack me, O'Reilly, or whoever they can get their hands on that's a conservative because they think that we're anti-gay. They're psychotic. They're off their medication most of the time.
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They're a bunch of punk coward psychotics, so — I'm not on their side, don't get me wrong. They're vermin. They're utter vermin.

This from the man who called a female taser-happy cop as a "bull-dyke fascist". Does Savage even know what "fascist" means? He reminds us of those "rebellious" seventh-graders who hear their grandfather say something and then just repeat it willy-nilly.

Michael Savage sure does have a twisted sense of reality.

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It's been so long since we heard from Michael Savage, we were beginning to think he'd gone soft.

As you can see, the conservative pundit, who previously took on the "gay mafia," worked some homophobic magic while reporting on Andrew Meyers' unconstitutional tasering.

We wonder how he knows the University of Florida copper likes coochie…