Savage on Obama choice for CIA director: "[M]aybe Bill Ayers picked Leon Panetta"

Media Matters for America • Jan 6, 2009

Responding to reports that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta as CIA director, Michael Savage asserted on the January 5 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show that "maybe [former Weather Underground member] Bill Ayers picked Leon Panetta," later asking, "Is it Bill Ayers and his crowd in Chicago who said 'Pick Panetta. He's a man we can trust'?" Earlier, responding to a caller's assertion… Full Story »