Mark Williams (radio host)

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Mark Williams is an award winning conservative opinion journalist who often winds up far more libertarian. He is broadcast nationally but based in Sacramento, California. Williams is a regular contributor to Fox News Channel, MSNBC and Court TV and writes a newspaper column for the Sacramento Union newspaper. Additionally he hosts a radio talk program carried on a number of mostly major market radio outlets (the stations change and updates are posted at Williams' web site - see "external links" for a current listing and schedule.

Williams is not always an arch conservative and can be quite flip. He coined the term "Hildebeast" and uses it on TV, in print and on the radio to refer to Hillary Clinton. While extremely supportive of the invasion of Iraq (and an advocate of invading Iran while suggesting that Mecca also be "high on our list"), and out in front of the movement to deport illegal aliens, he also supports same sex marriage, stating that a true conservative believes that the government should leave people's bedrooms alone. He is very active in raising funds for pet shelters and adoption efforts. His dog, "Casey the pound dog" often appears when he shows up to protest Arnold Schwarzenegger (for whom he coined the term "Schwarzenkennedy"). Casey has also appeared on TV as a "spokesdog" for animal adoptions.

But Williams' chief claims to fame are that he gets out of the studio and eyeballs what he talks about first hand. He led listeners on a lobbying trip to Capitol Hill in a successful drive to support immigration reform. In 2005 he and his wife (Holly) traveled to Iraq and broadcast several shows from various locations around Baghdad for which he won a number of awards. He is a regular on Fox News Channel and frequently also on CNN & MSNBC as a guest.

[edit] Quotes

A sampling of quotes by Mark Williams[1]:

  • On Islam: "Nothing will change in the Middle East until Moslems love their children as much as they hate everyone else they come in contact with." On the Schnitt Show, December 22, 2007
  • On Hurricane Katrina: "The Left's experiment in training Americans to be passive and expect the government to do absolutely everything for them has been overwhelmingly successful in creating an infantile mindset, with the result being that in New Orleans and entire segment of the population, mostly black - the Left's guinea pigs in this endeavor - apparently no longer have the requisite brains and common sense to get out of the way of a Category 5 hurricane."
  • On rapper Kanye West's assertion that President Bush "hates black people": "He's [Kane]a Ku Klux Klansman in blackface."
  • On North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il: "This crazy little midget, y'know, Kim Mentally Ill, that runs North Korea is taking us to the cleaners. We need to find a CIA agent who can blend in and put a bullet in his brain."
  • On Iraq war protester Cindy Sheehan: "Cindy Sheehan's not interested in the memory of her son beyond venting her hatred of him and fury that he died an American Hero. She's only interested in using her son as a prop to advance her own hatred for America."[2]
  • More on Sheehan: "Cindy Sheehan is on a mission to figuratively urinate on her son's grave and make his death stand for nothing."
  • On illegal immigration: "...a human rights near atrocity. We're watching the plantation owners swap out Africans for Latinos - no difference but for the lack of visible chains. Supporters of illegal immigration are really saying that they support the exploitation of the desperation of dark-skin people who speak a different language and who are desperate only by virtue of skin color. Been there, done that, fought a civil war over it. Here we go again."
  • During a segment on the Fox News Channels Hannity & Colmes on December 4, 2006 when discussing the Flying Imams controversy, he responded to constitutional attorney Michael Gross's tongue in cheek comment 'Arabic? They were speaking in Arabic? My God, why not throw them off the plane while it's in the air? Isn't that sufficient cause?' with the comment 'Wouldn't be a bad idea.'"[3]

[edit] References

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  2. ^ Brown, Joseph (2005-08-24). "Truth Tour's" Williams: Sheehan "on a mission to figuratively urinate on her son's grave"'. Media Matters. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.
  3. ^ Radio host Mark Williams on imams thrown off flight: "These people want us dead"

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