[W]e are about to enter a fractured, chaotic world of news, characterized by superior community conversation but a decidedly diminished level of first-rate journalism.

According to Media Matters for America, syndicated talk-show host Michael Savage said some remarkably incendiary things about Barack Obama on his March 13 show. Here's the most inflammatory:

I think he was hand-picked by some very powerful forces both within and outside the United States of America to drag this country into a hell that it has not seen since the Civil War of the middle of the 19th century.

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