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Bush Arrives in Senegal to Kick-off Five-Nation Tour of
Africa
INTRO: The president will visit Goree Island, one of the
best-known memorials to millions of Africans driven from West
Africa’s jungles and sold into slavery. In Dakar, thousands
of protesters were arrested ahead of Bush's arrival.
Five Months Before Being Killed in Iraq a US Marine Speaks
Out for Peace
INTRO: We play an excerpt from an interview he gave the
day before we was deployed. At the time he asked not to be
identified and his voice was electronically altered.
When Are Our Sons, Daughters and Spouses Coming Home From
Iraq?
INTRO: Democracy Now! talks to two parents of troops stationed
near Iraq. They expected their children to return weeks ago,
now all plans are off. And a pair of reporters discuss the
changing mood at Fort Stewart Georgia where hundreds of military
wives met recently with an official from Pentagon. The wives
grew so angry that their husbands were not returning home
soon that the official needed to be escorted out of the room.
MSNBC Fires Shock Host Michael Savage After He Tells Caller,
“Get AIDS and Die, You Pig”
INTRO: Weekly TV show “Savage Nation” was canned
yesterday, two days after Savage’s homophobic remarks
aired. He remains on 300 radio stations. We talk to Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting’s Steve Rendall and broadcast
an excerpt of Savage’s show.
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:10 Bush Arrives in Senegal to Kick-off Five-Nation
Tour of Africa
INTRO: The president visits Goree Island, one of the best-known
memorials to millions of Africans driven from West Africa’s
jungles and sold into slavery.
Police rounded up more than a thousand protesters in Dakar
in advance of the visit to Senegal by US President George
Bush and his 600-strong tour group of staff and journalists.
The round-up on Saturday night was in collaboration with
US security agents in the country ahead of Bush's arrival.
This according to the Cape Times.
He arrived to Senegal on the first leg of a five-nation African
tour. He was greeted by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade
at the airport this morning.
Bush was accompanied by National Security Adviser Condoleezza
Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The trip is designed to work toward several stated goals:
fighting AIDS, boosting national security and encouraging
emerging markets.
During the 2000 campaign, Bush said he would not put Africa
on his priority list and was not interested in the US taking
on “peacekeeping and nation-building” responsibilities.
Bush starts his visit in Senegal, and – as Clinton
did in 1998 – he will visit Goree Island off the Senegal
coast.
In an article for Reuters, freelance journalist Diadie Ba
writes:
“The island, just two miles off Senegal's breezy capital
Dakar, was for centuries the end of the line for thousands
of slaves driven from West Africa's jungles.
“Shackled and scared, they hobbled through the Slave
House, out its "door of no return" to the churning
Atlantic and onto ships to ferry them over the "Middle
Passage," as the crossing to the New World and a lifetime
of servitude was known.”
- Diadie Ba, Senegalese freelance journalist reporting for
Reuters from Dakar.
8:10-8:20 Five Months Before Being Killed in Iraq a US Marine
Speaks Out for Peace
INTRO: We play an excerpt from an interview he gave the
day before we was deployed. At the time he asked not to be
identified and his voice was electronically altered.
Two weeks ago, a 29 year-old Marine was killed in Iraq.
The day before he was deployed, Peace Watch correspondent
Ingrid Drake interviewed him.
The interview was broadcast on Pacifica’s Peace Watch.
We will play an excerpt from that interview today. In it,
the Marine voiced his opposition to the war and active support
for the peace movement.
At the time he asked not to be identified and his voice was
electronically altered.
His parents have asked that he continue to remain anonymous.
- Interview of U.S. marine and peace activist by Peace
Watch correspondent Ingrid Drake.
- Jen Carr, coordinator for the Washington Peace Center.
She was also a good friend of the peace activist and marine
who was recently killed in Iraq.
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:40 When Are Our Sons, Daughters and Spouses Coming
Home From Iraq?
INTRO: Democracy Now! talks to two parents of troops stationed
near Iraq. They expected their children to return weeks ago,
now all plans are off. And a pair of reporters discuss the
changing mood at Fort Stewart Georgia where hundreds of military
wives met recently with an official from Pentagon. The wives
grew so angry that their husbands were not returning home
soon The official needed to be escorted out of the room.
In Iraq, three U.S. soldiers were wounded in two explosions
today in Central Iraq. Meanwhile for the second time in less
than a week U.S. troops came under a mortar attack north of
Baghdad shortly before midnight.
The attacks comes days after President Bush taunted Iraqis
by saying “Bring ‘Em On” when asked by reporters
if the U.S. could handle the increasing number of attacks.
This all comes as morale back home is reaching a new low.
The New York Times reports that in Fort Stewart, Georgia,
a colonel recently had to be escorted out by security after
meeting with 800 seething spouses, most of them wives.
One official at Fort Stewart told the Times, "They were
crying, cussing, yelling and screaming for their men to come
back."
Meanwhile the Christian Science Monitor yesterday quoted
letters written by soldiers to their elected representatives
in Washington.
One read: "Most soldiers would empty their bank accounts
just for a plane ticket home."
Another read: "Make no mistake, the level of morale
for most soldiers that I've seen has hit rock bottom."
- Andrea Veras, son deployed in Persian Gulf.
- Guy Hallman, son deployed in Persian Gulf.
- Julian Borger, reporter for the Guardian, based in Washington
DC.
Link: www.guardian.co.uk
8:40-8:41 One Minute Music Break
8:50-8:58 MSNBC Fires Shock Host Michael Savage After He
Tells Caller, “Get AIDS and Die, You Pig”
INTRO: Weekly TV show “Savage Nation” was canned
yesterday, two days after Savage’s homophobic remarks
aired. He remains on 300 radio stations. We talk to Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting’s Steve Rendall and broadcast
an excerpt of Savage’s show.
Five months ago MSNBC overhauled their schedule. The network’s
most progressive voice Phil Donahue was out. A team of well
known conservatives were quickly hired.
An internal study leaked to media critic Rick Ellis, described
Donahue as a "a tired, left-wing liberal out of touch
with the current marketplace."
The report went on to say that Donahue presented a difficult
face for NBC at a time of war. The station feared that Donahue’s
show would become QUOTE "a home for the liberal anti-war
agenda at the same time our competitors are waving the flag
at every opportunity."
One of his replacements was Michael Savage.
Let’s take a listen to an excerpt from his most recent
show on Saturday.
“MICHAEL SAVAGE: So you're one of those sodomists.
Are you a sodomite?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I am.
MICHAEL SAVAGE: Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should
only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you
see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than
to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing
to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it. Get trichinosis.
OK, do we have another nice caller here who's busy because
he didn't have a nice night in the bathhouse who's angry at
me today? Get me another one, put another sodomite on. No
more calls out of-- let's go to the next scene. I don't care
about these bums. They mean nothing to me. They're all sausages.
Next scene; onto the next scene on the Savage Nation.
Those are the words of Michael Savage.
Well yesterday MSNBC decided enough was enough and fired
Michael Savage. But Savage nightly radio show remains on over
300 stations.
- Michael Savage, radio and TV host recorded on MSNBC July
5, 2003. He was fired from MSNBC yesterday.
- Steve Rendall, senior analyst at FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting
Link: www.fair.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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