Talk Host Gallagher: ‘Round Up’ Olbermann, Damon, And ‘Put Them In A Detention Camp’

[DeepModem Mom]

Think Progress: Talk Host Gallagher: ‘Round Up’ Olbermann, Damon, And ‘Put Them In A Detention Camp’

Yesterday on Fox News, talk radio host Mike Gallagher said the U.S. government should “round up” actor Matt Damon, “The View” host Joy Behar, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and “put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.”

Gallagher was upset over Behar’s comment that Time magazine should have chosen a controversial “Hitler-type” like Donald Rumsfeld as its Person of the Year. Gallagher said Damon should also be incarcerated because he “attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney”; he didn’t explain why he wanted to imprison Olbermann. (Video at link below.)

Earlier this year, Gallagher was one of five conservative talk radio hosts invited to the White House to meet with President Bush.



Full transcript:

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 man 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.

(Talk show host Rob) THOMPSON: 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 and it might be funny at the best, at the least.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/20/gallagher-damon-olbermann/

[spanone]

1. mr gallagher, go fuck yourself

[vireo]

2. That guy has no sense of irony, does he

Putting people in concentration camps for having the audacity to make Nazi comparisons.

[unpossibles]

10. I was thinking the same thing....

just goes to prove that old adage - you can't make this stuff up.

[Kingshakabobo]

18. He already likes to play dress-up.

Here he is as part of "Gallagher's Army."




Of course, the chickenhawk never served a day.

[DearAbby]

28. Is it me ...

these people are all white pudgy, and where the fuk are their chins? Except for Ann Coulter, who is trying her damnedest to look like an emaciated pre-teen boy, the rest have no freggin chins. just a dollop and a pudgy neck....?

I wonder, what other body parts are missing...

:::Abby ponderin look::: Nope, dont wanna go there.

[kskiska]

43. Neither of his four sons ever served a day, either.

This guy is such a jerk. I hear about 10 minutes at the end of his program as I drive to work. A while back he went down to Farmer's Branch, TX, support the town in legislating anti-immigrant laws. Now the deli he broadcast has lost half its business and Mike is begging his listeners to send money so the deli can stay in business.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Can you believe that this guy was once teamed up with Lionel (pre-AAR) on

WABC in New York City? Lionel tore him a new one on a daily basis.

[Peregrine Took]

4. Aw, give the guy a break. He's just trying to break into the 3rd level of right

wing talk show carrion by saying something outrageous.

[baldguy]

5. A Real American Hero, he is!

There is such a thing as treason - like exposing the identity of an active CIA agent, or intentionally giving weapons to our enemies which are then used to kill American soldiers, or intentionally subverting the goals & actions of those soldiers.

If he's looking for people to put in detention for treason, start with the White House staff.

[tuckessee]

6. These people are not joking about jackbooting fellow Americans.

They are damn serious. This isn't bluster.

They want the domestic opposition gone, disappeared or dead.

[Golden Raisin]

19. And now they've got Blackwater to

put some backbone in it. Bad times folks.

[hfojvt]

7. There is such a thing as treason

and I might argue that Gallagher just committed it. A verbal attack on the President is legal under the Constitution. The President, after all, is not the USA, just the main public servant. The "don't blame me, I voted for the other guy" is a classic bumpersticker, and we do not, and should not, abandon our Constitution or principles in a time of war.

A verbal attack on the Constitution itself seems alot closer to treason. That is an attack on our very principles, and an insult, if not a threat, to every American. However, even that kind of speech is still protected by the first amendment. In other words, Mr. Gallagher, you have a right to say what you said, but what you said is deeply, disgustingly, and fundamentally UN-American.

[DBoon]

8. and this is why we should not try to reason or compromise with these folks

Advocating sending your political opponents into detention camps is not funny and has no place in a democratic society.

This kind of crap has to stop before it becomes reality.

Julius Steicher published a tabloid rag in Wiemar Germany that said similar things about Jews and other supposed traitors. After a bloody war and ghastly mass extermination, Steicher was hung as a war criminal. His rhetoric was recognized by the judges at Nuremberg as one of the enablers of the holocaust.

We have our Julius Streichers in the American media. I don't want to wait until the Hitler that follows their rhetoric gains power.

I want them off the air NOW.

[earth mom]

40. Exactly. They are the traitors, not to mention COMPLETELY INSANE. No reasoning w/ the crazies. nt

[Kurovski]

9. That's certainly a motley crew.

So Olbermann's a star of stage and screen now? Well then where are the beefcake pin-ups? No really, where?

Gallagher's a moron's moron. Is he any relation to this guy pictured below?

[hootinholler]

11. Oh man I was thinking WTF the Sledge-o-matic dude when I came in...

Glad to see it's not The Gallagher.

OnEdit: Just put their head between the patented pie pans...

-Hoot

[distantearlywarning]

12. America is the greatest country on earth because of it's freedom!

To keep it free, we need to round up people we don't like and put them in detention camps!

:crazy:

[Beelzebud]

13. This is the moron that dressed in a fake uniform for his website pictures.

[Richard Steele]

23. Yup. He never served in our Armed Forces, but he sure loves to play dress-up:

[Greyskye]

33. Is that the uniform he got from mugging a Salvation Army guy?

Sure as hell looks like it. :puke:

[Kurovski]

48. Oh my. And doesn't he look handsome!

Hangs out in Jeff Gannon's circle does he?

[Rincewind]

50. somewhere, a clown is naked nt.

[Richard Steele]

51. Bwahaha! You've been here too long for me to say "welcome to DU", but...

...I feel safe in saying "Welcome to DUzy"!

[Cheap_Trick]

14. hey gallagher you lame fuck

why don't you go back to smashing watermelons with a sledgehammer. too bad someone doesn't smash YOUR melon with a sledgehammer.

[backscatter712]

26. That's a different Gallagher

I'm not sure where melon-smashing Gallagher like on the political spectrum.

[tridim]

37. It's easy to remember.. Both Gallaghers are dumbass Repukes

[dflprincess]

15. Add Garrison Keillor to the list of potential detainees

What is really scary is that so many members of the public would agree with Gallagher.

This is a LTTE from yesterday's Minneapolis Star Tribune. The woman who wrote apparently thinks Bush rules by divine right.

http://www.startribune.com/letters/story/1496347.html

ENOUGH BUSH BASHING

Keillor loses a fan

Garrison Keillor was one of my favorite radio personalities. I was one of the biggest fans of "A Prairie Home Companion." I even forgave him for going to New York and leaving us behind. But I have suffered too long with his commentary belittling our president.

The last column I read was Sept 30, "Drink from the well of fresh ideas." He ends by saying "When you push an incompetent frat boy on the country, what you get is what has happened ... loyalty to the Occupant now is like marriage to a drunk."

I am really tired of the lack of respect for any person, let alone our president. People from my generation were brought up to respect the office as the persons in power were there because God permitted them to be. Keillor has joined the camp of those who find glee in degrading those to whom they feel superior. I'm sure it doesn't matter to him what an old lady thinks, but I am willing to bet there are a lot of others like me who decry the lack of gentility, outright bad manners and crassness expressed by those who hate Bush.

[alarimer]

16. Spoken like a true faschist pig

Although I think it is not just the fascists who throw dissenters in jail but Republic talk show hosts bear more than a passing resemblance to them.

[Parche]

17. Lets Get This Gallagher To Smash Mike Gallagher!!!

Mike Gallagher is the biggest blowhard.......all words no substance :bounce: :hi:

[Contrary1]

20. "it’s a little bit ridiculous that we continue to watch..."

That's an easy one Moran...don't.

[Quantess]

21. I wonder if Gallagher ever disparaged Bill Clinton?

Wonder if he ever "smeared our leader" back then?

[DeepModem Mom]

22. Good question. nt

[Quantess]

25. YES HE DID! Check out his book promo!

The left is trying to destroy the pillars of our great country," Gallagher says. After a foreword by Sean Hannity, regular listeners will expect-and enjoy-attacks on familiar targets: Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, the Dixie Chicks, animal-rights groups, Hollywood liberals, parents who won't spank their kids and immigrants who don't or can't learn clear English ("Heh-yo, Hoppy China, yoh ohrduh peez?").

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780641771903

[DeepModem Mom]

44. There it is! He's even noted as a "familiar target." nt

[librechik]

24. It's gallegher who should be locked up--he's totally un-American

and completely deranged.

[The Stranger]

27. The "cold" civil war brewing will quickly become hot if Gallagher tries to make good on

his word. Detention camps? Maybe Gallagher needs to be the one in a detention camp.

[KG]

29. guys like gallagher are why i think there should be limits to freedom.

:eyes:

[backscatter712]

30. People like Gallagher are the reason why I own a shotgun.

If he gets his way and people start getting hauled off to camps, they'll never take me alive. And I will not use my shotgun on myself. Take that as you will...

[mnmoderatedem]

31. Oh, KO will have a field day with that one!

I smell a Worst Person entry.

I can never figure out why people like Gallagher set thelselves up to be Olberman's pinata.

[DeepModem Mom]

45. I'll bet you're right! nt

[Dukkha]

32. UGH the "Hitler" card has gotten SO overused!

It literally has no shock value at all anymore from constantly being referenced. Funny he uses the Nazi spin while suggesting detention camps at the same time. Keep it up Gallagher, you're just making the rest of your right wing loonies look terrible.

[gateley]

34. What an absolutely horrifying statement. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Just Two Words

Complete Idiot.
The Professor

[Arugula Latte]

36. So he'll say the same thing about anyone who criticizes a Democratic president, right?

Right? Anyone? ... Anyone?

[sniffa]

38. i'm caLLing on aLL abLe bodied americans

to hunt him down, and Lock him up. when you're done, there's a few more "enemies" we can round up.

you know what to do.

[earth mom]

39. We all better hope & pray those f*ckers don't get their wish.

:grr:

[LisaM]

41. I have to go off-topic to discuss the color scheme

It's absolutely dreadful. Is that the Oval Office? I know they put that kind of ugly, peach-colored sunburst carpet in the Oval Office, but maybe they've put them everywhere. It's GOD-AWFUL. If Bush had a hand in it, he should be ejected from the White House on grounds of bad taste alone. It looks like an RV.

[DeepModem Mom]

46. Now that you mention it...

it does look a bit "furniture-storey" for such an exalted space. Big diff from photos I've seen, for example, of Mrs. Kennedy's rooms.

[RB TexLa]

42. Do they not realize that no one gives a shit what actors (left or right) think or say?

They have no significance.

[Ezlivin]

47. Hey, I was convinced to switch to Polident by Florence Henderson

And if it wasn't for Margaret Hamilton I wouldn't be drinking Maxwell House coffee.

[Danger Mouse]

49. what a hypocrite scumbag TURD

they hate us for our freedoms! that's why we have to round up dissenters and send them to concentration camps. to preserve our freedoms, y'know. :puke:

[Canuckistanian]

52. Woo-hoo, Gallagher's made the big time!

I used to listen to this sad, pathetic fascist a few years ago before his show was cut from North Country (NY) radio.

He wasn't making the headlines, so he decided to kick it up a few notches. I remember when he held a "forum" about a muslim youth camp that was about to open up. He did a series of shows from the town and constantly attacked the muslim leaders for "trying to open a madrassa in America". He invited the local imam to his show but when the imam refused, Mike just insulted him even more.

Since then, he seems to be emulating Savage in his hatred of all things foreign, especially muslims.

His wife, a self-described liberal, never listens to his show.

By the way, his son DID once consider joining the Army, but backed out.