Savage Ban

I've always wanted to go to the United Kingdom. I've always hoped to see the White Cliffs of Dover, travel through the Midlands countryside, eat fish and chips, enjoy the sun and sand at Paignton, explore London and Glasgow, and yes, make a pilgrimage to Abbey Road Studios, birthplace of rock albums that changed my life. The bad news is I can't do that, because I lack the time and the money to do so.

The good news is, that jerk Michael Savage can't go either.

Savage, a right-wing talk radio host known for incendiary propaganda, has been banned from the U.K. for his hateful rhetoric. Among others banned from Britain are Samir Kantar, a Lebanese man once jailed for murdering four Israelis, and Russian gangsters Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, who were sentenced to ten years in a Russian jail for their role in racially motivated killings of 19 people.

Savage complained about the band imposed on him by the Office of the Home Secretary in London, and says he's considering legal action. Of Home Secretary Jaqcui Smith's action, he said, "She's linking me with mass murderers who are in prison for killing Jewish children on buses? For my speech? The country where the Magna Carta was created?"

Gee, why could Savage possibly be banned? Maybe because it's because he called the Koran a "book of hate" and dismissed autistic children with autism by saying in "a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out" in most cases.

Flying on British Airways across the Atlantic suddenly seems less scary knowing I wouldn't have to sit next to Savage on the plane.