This will be quick.

On his program this evening, Right-wing blowhard Michael Savage played a clip he said was from CNN reporter Chris Cato. (Cato is actually a reporter for WSPA, a CBS affiliate in Spartanville, S.C., but what’s geography got to do with it?)

Anyway, Cato in the clip is interviewing Wellford, S.C. Mayor Salie Peake over her order banning local police from engaging in any chases of suspects, even foot chases. Her reason, she said, is that too many officers were getting hurt, driving up the town’s insurance costs.

The mayor gets a little agitated with Cato, and near the end of the clip we can hear him say, “let’s be reasonable, let’s be reasonable.”

And then Savage came out with this gem: “Reason is a white man’s thing.”

In case you couldn’t have guessed, Mayor Peake is black.

“Reason is a white man’s thing.”

Why is this blatant racist still on the air? I can’t believe there are sponsors who would associate themselves with that kind of filth.

Do you need any better reason that the California Association of Highway Patrolmen Widows and Orphan’s Trust Fund, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund should return the combined $100,000 Savage and his (storm) front organization, the Paul Revere Society, has donated to them in the past week?

Do these groups really want to be connected with a man who can plainly say, on national radio, that “Reason is a white man’s thing?”

If they do decide to keep the money, then maybe it’s time for people of conscience to send their donations elsewhere.

That money, like Savage, was raised on hate. Whatever the source of the funds in the Paul Revere Society’s coffers, and there was close to $1 million when the group lost its tax-exempt status from the IRS several years ago, it was generated by race-bating, fear mongering, lies and flat-out hatred of people of color.

“Reason is a white man’s thing.”

Pathetic.

Keep the faith.