A judge tossed Michael Savage’s lawsuit against the Saudi-funded, pro-terrorist group called CAIR.
Savage sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, for copyright infringement and racketeering lawsuit late last year, claiming the group violated his rights by using a segment of his “Savage Nation” show in a letter-writing campaign to get advertisers to boycott the program. In the broadcast used by CAIR, Savage also called the Muslim holy book “a throwback document.”
In her ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said people who listen to a public broadcast are entitled to use excerpts for purposes of comment and criticism. She also said no evidence was presented to show that advertising on the show’s broadcast was affected by CAIR’s actions.
The racketeering element of the lawsuit alleged that CAIR was not a civil rights group, but a political organization with ties to terrorist groups. CAIR denies those claims, saying it opposes terrorism and religious extremism.
Can’t argue much with Savage’s description of that so-called “holy book”, but it seems the judge was correct to throw out the suit. Excerpting should be allowed. The funny part is that CAIR’s attempted boycott failed so miserably that it didn’t affect Savage’s ad revenues. Savage can be a dead-on provocateur, but he’s also unstable and prone to muddled thinking, so I don’t know how good the racketeering charges are, but I’m glad his attorney is going to file a new racketeering suit. I hope CAIR gets hit with a lot of those since CAIR is obviously not a civil rights group and obviously is a political organization with ties to terrorist groups.
