Smith’s Report, no. 182

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 2011

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The Savage, the Academic, and the Brainwashed

By Bradley Smith

One afternoon I was on the Michael Savage website, I don't remember exactly why, when I found a YouTube video that appeared to work with the Holocaust a bit. I clicked onto the video and was startled to hear a sudden, high-volume shouting exhibition by Savage about Muslims and the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who he called the son of a pig, son of a whore, and a direct descendant of some Old Testament Satan and so on. Then Savage got to the place in his rant where he noted that Ahmadinejad says “the Holocaust didn't happen.”

Savage said: “We know the Holocaust happened. American soldiers liberated Dachau and Auschwitz and Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen.” Michael Savage is one of the top radio talkers in America, with something like 8-million listeners. He's no dummy. He's got degrees from three different universities. He's written half a dozen New York Times best-selling books.

I thought it remarkable that such man could believe that American soldiers liberated Auschwitz especially. Such a claim from such a figure with such name recognition was—it was too good to pass up. I would shoot a YouTube video

Michael Savage

dealing with several of the issues he had raised. I would not get into the family history of President Ahmadinejad. And I would see to it that my video is distributed to hundreds of student organizations via email and a link to YouTube…

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  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

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