If you think Ann Coulter represents the bottom of the republican hate machine barrel, you are not paying nearly enough attention…

Savage called transgender murder victim a "psychopath" and a "freak"

On the March 20 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage discussed a San Francisco Chronicle report detailing the murder of a transgender woman whose body was found naked near a freeway outside San Francisco. Savage read a sentence from the article stating that "it appeared the victim had been in the process of becoming a woman," to which Savage replied: "Yeah, process of becoming a woman — psychopath. [She] should have been in a back ward in a straitjacket for years, howling on major medication." He went on to say, "And what’s this sympathy, constant sympathy for sexually confused people? Why should we have constant sympathy for people who are freaks in every society?" adding, "But you know what? You’re never gonna make me respect the freak. I don’t want to respect the freak." Savage concluded: "The freak ought to be glad that they’re allowed to walk around without begging for something. You know, I’m sick and tired of the whole country begging, bending over backwards for the junkie, the freak, the pervert, the illegal immigrant. All of them are better than everybody else. Sick. Everything is upside down."

There’s a link to the audio on the Media Matters page there, and to other gems of wit and wisdom from Michael Savage.  And he is far from the only one out there inciting pure, unadulterated hate on the radio.  Take a nice long cross country drive someday, through the heart of red state territory and listen.  It’s why I got the satellite radio installed in my car; so I would have something to listen to besides hate, hate, and more hate.  But you need to listen.  This is the republican base.  These are the people the republican party knows it cannot win elections without.