Michael Savage makes some noise (as usual)

Conservative hate-monger and talk show host Michael Savage has filed a lawsuit against CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) for copyright violations for using excerpts of his broadcasts in a campaign to get advertisers to drop his show.
Here are some excerpts from the suit:

"“The Savage Nation” is unique among so-called “Talk Radio” in that it combines serious intellectual analysis with dramatic and emotional soul baring that the show advertises as “Psychological Nudity”. This performance aspect of the show is critical in that it conveys an emotional power and a fundamental honesty to the programming that is meaningful to the listening audience."

Right.

CAIR has misappropriated copyright protected material from Michael Savage and made this material available on its website. This is actionable regardless of whether or not CAIR had a genuine charitable purpose in using Michael Savage’s material. Even genuine charities must gain the permission of a copyright holder before using the copyrighted work for fund raising or other purposes.

The CAIR misappropriation was done for political purposes unrelated to civil rights and unrelated to CAIR’s tax exempt status.

The copyright infringement was done to raise funds for CAIR so that it could self perpetuate and continue to disseminate propaganda on behalf of foreign interests that are opposed to the continued existence of the United States of America as a free nation.

CAIR repackaged the content of Michael Savage’s show and manipulated that stolen content so that it could be used by CAIR to raise funds. Little or none of the money raised went to alleged “civil rights” activities.

The CAIR repackaging damaged the work and damaged the public image of the work because it was taken out of context, the introductory remarks were omitted and the context of “The Savage Nation” were removed. It was deliberately designed to obscure the specific message conveyed by Michael Savage. The actual message while highly provocative and strongly worded, was not intended as an attack on people of faith and in fact, Michael Savage is well known as a person of faith."

It wasn't? He is? How laughable is that.

"The stolen material as repackaged by CAIR was intended to portray both the material and the creator of the material, Michael Savage as having a blanket opposition to a particular religion. This was not the context of the statement and it is not consistent with the content of the programming as a whole."

Savage, in the excerpts of the show he's being sued for, called the Quran a "book of hate" and said Muslims "need deportation." Right. No hate there. Sigh.
Savage puts out this type of crap for his listeners on a daily basis. That conservatives give him any credit at all puts them on the low end of the human spectrum.
Savage is a publicity hound and it wouldn't surprise us if this lawsuit is just to say he's suing Muslims. We're not a lawyer, but someone should tell Savage he's a public figure and people using excerpts of his program fall under the Fair Use law. In other words, his lawsuit is frivolous.
For anyone interested, the full lawsuit is here.