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Homophobic radio talk show host Michael Savage.
Radio talk show host Michael Savage is notorious for his homophobic tirades, as when he said to a gay caller, “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.”
But Savage’s prejudice and hate extends far beyond our little community. “In 99% of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent?” Savage said last week in remarks that infuriated parents of autistic children. “They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz’,” Savage continued in his uninformed tirade. “My comments about autism were meant to boldly awaken parents and children to the medical community’s attempt to label too many children or adults as ‘autistic,’” Savage said in response to the controversy, in a message he posted to his own website, which he calls the ‘home of the Savage Nation.’
There are radio hosts who have something to contribute to public discourse. Savage is not one of them. The irony with the controversy over his bizarre rant against autistic children is that it was (as far as I know) the first and only attack on the autistic launched by the right-wing hater; his many hate-filled homophobic rants have gotten far less attention from the mainstream media. Were everyone to take him seriously, it would be a savage nation indeed.
spreading hatred is a crime. demeaning others is a crime. i am sure the law will take care of this man.
If he’s that much of a bigot,how come he still has a job.It doesn’t say much for the radio station.
Here are contacts to the sponsors:
It’s unbelievable what this __ is saying about Autistic Children. I am sure that some of the major sponsors would be interested in hearing what their advertising dollars are suporting.
Buckley Broadcasting/WOR Radio General Phone # 212-642-4500
111 Broadway 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10006
Home Depot public_relations@homedepot.com 770-384-4646
Sears Public Relations & Communication 847-286-8371
http://www.searsmedia.com/tools/inquires/feedback.htm
Radioshack Media Relations 817-415-3300
Email media.relations@radioShack.com
Budweiser Anheuser-Bush, Inc 1-800-DIAL BUD(1-800-342-5283)
Email contactus.anheuser-bush.com/contactus/email.asp
Hopefully each of you will take the time to contact these sponsors of the Micheal Savage’s Radio Program and express your opinion about his comments.
I am sure that Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey along with the other celeberties that attended the fundraiser for Generation Rescue on July 20, 2008
Please note the backlash to sponsors and the station has already begun. Here is note of demonstration to be held tomorrow.
Should we be surprised at this cretin’s defiance? He’s only backtracking on his claim that 99% of the cases of autism are invalid — that was “a little high.”
Michael Savage, the incendiary radio host who last week characterized nearly every autistic child as “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” said in a telephone interview Monday morning that he stood by his remarks and had no intention of apologizing to those advocates and parents who have called for his firing over the matter.
…On his program lastWednesday, Mr. Savage suggested that “99 percent of the cases” of autism were a result of lax parenting. He told his audience: “They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life.” He added, “Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’ ”
Asked Monday if he actually believed that 99 out every 100 cases of autism was misdiagnosed, Mr. Savage conceded that figure was “a little high.” “It was hyperbole,” he said.
…”He characterizes children with autism who are very, very ill – disabled children – as essentially bad kids; the only thing wrong with them is they have parents who don’t discipline them,” said John Gilmore, executive director of Autism United and the father of an 8-year-old diagnosed with autism. “That completely misrepresents what is going on with children with autism.”
Autism United held a press conference today to announce a national protest against Savage in San Francisco (Savage’s hometow) on July 23 with autism groups and parents from across the nation.
“Those of us who know more about autism than Michael Savage have a responsibility to call him out on this issue,” Congressman [Mike] Doyle (PA-14)added. “If I were a radio station that broadcast his show or a company that sponsored it, I’d certainly reconsider my association with it, and if I were a parent of an autistic child, I’d certainly demand that.”