Conservative Radio Host Wants Dissenters Detained
Conservative radio personality Mike Gallagher appeared on Fox News on Tuesday to vent his anger at "The View" host Joy Behar for comparing Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler. Without a shred of irony, Gallagher then called for the government to round up Behar, Matt Damon and Keith Olbermann and "take the whole bunch of them and put them in a detention camp until this war is over, because they're a bunch of traitors."Conservative radio personality Mike Gallagher appeared on Fox News on Tuesday to vent his anger at “The View” host Joy Behar for comparing Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler. Without a shred of irony, Gallagher then called for the government to round up Behar, Matt Damon and Keith Olbermann and “take the whole bunch of them and put them in a detention camp until this war is over, because they’re a bunch of traitors.”
Dig, Root, GrowTranscript from Think Progress:
GALLAGHER: You know, it’s a little bit ridiculous that we continue to watch these TV stars and movie stars who smear our leaders. I just wonder, Rob, if you’ll think for a moment, what our enemies think of seeing TV personalities compare the outgoing defense secretary to Adolph Hitler. I mean, you know, conservatives never get a pass. Strom Thurmond is wished a happy birthday by Trent Lott and the sky falls in on Trent Lott. But Joy Behar goes on national TV and compares a good man like Rumsfeld to the evilest in the world and nobody, you know, there’s no repercussions for Joy Behar. I think we should round up all of these folks. Round up Joy Behar. Round up Matt Damon, who last night on MSNBC attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney. Round up Olbermann. Take the whole bunch of them and put them in a detention camp until this war is over, because they’re a bunch of traitors.
ROB THOMPSON (radio host): They’re not traitors, they’re Americans. And you know what the great thing about America is, you get to say what you like and you don’t get thrown into detention camps.
GALLAGHER: No, you don’t.
THOMPSON: And that’s what the rest of the world sees. They see free Americans say what they like without having any fear of going to jail. So, if I wanted to compare someone to Hitler or anybody else, Pol Pot, whatever it might be, I have no fear of going to jail, because that is what an America is.
GALLAGHER: There’s such a thing as treason, Rob.
THOMPSON: That’s not treason. That’s just political talk and satire … .
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