Shock jocks: voice of America or voice of hate?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/08/michael-savage-usa-radio-shock-jock

Savage calls Jacqui Smith a witch, but Obama is the big target of talkshow hosts

Chris McGreal in Washington

At last Michael Savage has someone to be really angry at. Not the faceless targets of many of his shows: hordes of disease-ridden Mexican illegal immigrants spreading cholera and swine flu, or black people taking jobs from better deserving whites because of affirmative action, or gays subverting the very foundation of America's existence. Not to mention Barack Obama's secret socialist agenda.

To the strains of Rule, Britannia! morphing into the old Soviet national anthem, one of America's most popular talk radio show hosts launched into what has become a daily diatribe against Britain's home secretary, Jacqui Smith, for banning him from the UK this week for hate speech.