Savage ignorant remarks drawing consequences

[ccharles000]

FOX News is finally, six days after the fact, reporting on Michael Savage's truly contemptible remarks about autistic children, whom he characterized as "brats" with ineffective parents. MediaMatters has been on the story since he made the comments on his radio show last Wednesday July 16th, which has earned them scathing remarks and curses from the hate-jock.

On his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage claimed that autism is " fraud, a racket. ... I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent 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? 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. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.' "

Go to MediaMatters for full timeline and action links. So far, "In response to Savage's remarks, the insurance company AFLAC announced it will no longer sponsor Savage's program, while the seven-station Super Talk Mississippi radio network has decided to drop Savage's program from its lineup."


http://www.newshounds.us/2008/07/22/savage_ignorant_remarks_drawing_consequences.php#more

[barbtries]

1. his career should go into the garbage

where his mind has always been

[BridgeTheGap]

2. Talk about your "psycho babble"...Savage has it in spades. What an IDIOT!!! n.t

[KharmaTrain]

3. Sewage Goes One Cesspool Too Far

Kudos to Fighting Irish and his LTR blog...he pretty much nails what's at play here:

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/

To be a "shock jock"...and that's what Sewage is, he needs to stir the pot...make noise or else get bypassed for another hate talker on the dial. His motif for years has been to spew his hate to a small audience of like-minded cretins and it's relegated him to the fringes of hate radio stardom. Several years ago, M$NBC was looking at him hosting a show, now he's lucky to host a remote at the local Ace Hardware. He sees how making headlines made Rushbo $400 million and Hannity for another $100...now he wants his piece of the pie...and there's only one way...make noise. But methinks he went in the wrong direction...too smart by half.

While I'm totally against censoring this asshat, I sure wouldn't mind seeing him bankrupted off the air. Sewage doesn't have the clearance or audience to justify the big coin and now his "outburst" could cost him what little he has.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. "Shock Jocks" are a phenomenon I could easily live without.

Their whole act generally amounts to prank phone calls, adolescent sexual humor and worthless opinions. If I had my way they would be the first people up against the wall when the revolution comes.

[KharmaTrain]

6. They Only Do What They're Paid To...

I also have little taste for the crap that flows across the radio dial these days...and that comes from someone whose had a lifelong love and involvement with this medium. The corporate greed and control has all but destroyed its true creative nature and replaced it with freak shows and jukeboxes. A Sewage doesn't walk up to a station and say "put me on"...he is recruited and vetted...and then once on the air he's all but sure to be protected as long as the bills get paid.

The real problem at work here is how poorly radio has deteriorated that such bile is one of the few "Saleable" items they have. The "wisdom" is that something that "sizzles" gets attention...especially with talk radio. I saw this develop in the late 80s and that right wing haters hijacked the medium as they were the ones who brought the "sizzle" that was then sold to a small but very vocal audience.

I'd prefer to revisit Telcom '96...something that was supposed to have been done in 2002...and re-institute ownership regulations that destroyed local radio, competition and diversity in voices.

Cheers...

[Ganja Ninja]

7. I had a good friend that worked in radio back in the early 80's.

She read the news on the morning drive time show for the number 1 rock station in town. I thought at the time it was a pretty good gig and was surprised when she quit. She told me the station had started to replace all it's managers with a bunch of right wing types. Radio had already deteriorated by then but little did I know how bad it would eventually get.

[AlinPA]

4. I thought he was a Fox "News" commentator.