One Degree of Separation: Tom Tancredo

The next time you see mild-mannered Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO; looks a bit like actor Harvey Keitel), being interviewed by Jim Lehrer on the PBS News Hour, please remember that Rep. Tancredo was a friendly guest on Michael Savage's "The Savage Nation" radio talk show on May 10 of this year. Here's a partial transcript:

SAVAGE: If you're a person of European descent, why do they want your child to be a minority in America? And when your little girl is a minority in America, what will happen to her? ... Do you think that the minorities, when they take over the country, will be quite as benevolent and as enlightened as the European-Americans are today? Or do you sense that just perhaps, just maybe, they will not bring the learnings of the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, to their new power? ...

Do you think that the people who are now minorities, when they seize power, when they are the senators, when they are the congresspeople, when they are the president, and the vice president, do you think they'll be quite as enlightened as our liberal government is today? And treat the minorities, meaning then the whites, as fairly as the nonwhites are being treated today? I don't, I do not ...

Well, the question is, the European-American, or the white person, is being erased from America's future, and the only question is why? ... Our guest now is Congressman Tom Tancredo, a hero to many. Congressman Tancredo welcome to The Savage Nation.

TANCREDO: Thank you. It's a pleasure to join you again.