I’ll take my chances with the old war horse and even with Sarah Palin, who I’m not really a big fan of, by the way, over this naked Marxist revolutionary, because I don’t want to see what the next Pol Pot’s liable to do to the world.”

Radio Talk Show Host Michael Savage endorsing John McCain 10/28/08

I love right wing talk radio for comments such as this. The most amazing things come out of these blathering partisans’ mouths. And now that Barack Obama has won the presidency, listening to the hysterical, factually challenged propaganda of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and my personal favorite, Michael Savage, has become even more riveting. Hearing their enraged paranoid delusions as to what a Barack Obama presidency will do to our country solidifies my feeling that we as a nation elected the right man for the job. Time will tell if that is true, but the onslaught of seditious rhetoric spewing from these Chicken Little shills since the election gives me hope for the future.

On many occasions, Savage and his comrades in the lunatic fringe have tried to draw a parallel between Barack Obama and Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge. During his tyrannical reign from 1976-1979, Pol Pot installed an agrarian collectivization that forced all Cambodians to work in collective farms and forced labor projects with the goal of restarting civilization in Year Zero. It is estimated that over 1.7 million people died during his brutal regime before he and the Khmer Rouge government were overthrown after an invasion by Vietnamese forces on Christmas Day in 1978.

The reason for this ridiculous analogous sentiment is based on the fear that an Obama administration will revive the Fairness Doctrine, the FCC policy that was abolished in 1987 that required the holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, fair and balanced. Obama, via his press secretary, told Broadcasting and Cable in June that the (then) candidate does not support reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine and sees the issue as “a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible.”

To prove that this analogy between Obama and Pol Pot is patently absurd, consider how the dictator dealt with dissenting opinion. Pol Pot banned education, religion, professionalism, intellectualism, banking, skilled trade, as well as relationships with family, expressing certain emotions and speaking about the past. In addition, the Khmer Rouge banned all art, literature and music that did not praise the communist party. Singers such as Sin Sisamouth, Pen Ron and Ros Sereysothea and countless others weren’t murdered for voicing dissenting political beliefs; they were murdered solely because they made music. Despite the regime’s efforts to destroy everything that came before them, several excellent compilations of pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodian pop music (“Cambodian Rocks” on Parallel World and “Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop music Vol. 1” on Sublime Frequencies) offer a fascinating glimpse into what Greg Cahill, director of a 30-minute film on the life of singer Ros Sereysothea, “The Golden Voice”, calls, “the most advanced music scenes in Asia at the time.” It is truly amazing music.

Given these facts, if Obama was truly cut from the same cloth as Pol Pot, Savage and his brethren would already be dead. Despite all their huffing and puffing about the impending end of their 1st amendment rights, they have nothing to worry about. A Fairness Act bill was submitted in the House in 2005, but it had scant support, with only 16 cosponsors. No such bill has been submitted since and Barack Obama opposes reintroducing the Fairness Act.

And that is why I love right wing talk radio. The fiction is simply delectable.

In other words you have no idea what youre talking about. I guess you think Osaama Bin Laden’s democratic victory was quite telling.  Liberals are so tiring, and slavish to boot.  Why are all liberals losers who look to the govt. to make everything fair?  I figure you can answer this question.  Dem d-bags might want to ask themselves what the definition of fair is also.

POl-Pol was a socialist loser, thats how he came to power and look what he did to the people you moron.

Well, Pol Pot didn’t come to power through a popular vote. You really should read more…

leftty radio a la “air america” is non-existent so theres nothing to criticize, except that it all sucked so bad they went bankrupt.  In defence of righty radio, they are commercially viable.  So since lefty radio cant make it in a free market they will look for govt. intervention(fairness doctrine) to solve their problems at the expense of those who are successful at providing radio consumers with what they desire.  Competition weeds out what consumers dont want, and gives them what they want. 
Youre right Michael Savage is paranoid, but like Kurt Cobain said “maybe youre not paranoid enough.“  or maybe the Cambodians werent paranoid enough, the question i have is how did Pol POt gain power?  You didnt go into that