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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Boo hoo hoo for ‘The Savage Nation’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Poor little Michael Weiner.
You may not know him as that, of course. A while back he changed his name to Michael Savage - oooh, scary!! - when he decided to go into attack radio. Now he makes his living telling listeners why he hates all the people he claims to hate, making like a real tough guy by attacking people without the power to strike back.
He also likes to call himself a conservative, but I don’t buy it. Conservatives have enough problems of their own making without getting stuck with “Savage” as their champion. He’s a professional jerk, and it doesn’t say much for modern America that a professional jerk is such a high-paying profession.
But last week, “Savage” went on his radio show and made fun of autistic children, calling autism “”a fraud, a racket.”
“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.’ ” ..
Now the parents of autistic children are striking back. At least one major advertiser, AFLAC, is pulling out and radio stations are canceling the show, which is silly. They knew the kind of garbage “Savage” spews, and they put him on the air anyway because they thought he could make them a buck. Pulling out now and claiming to be shocked, shocked!! is hypocrisy.
Oh, and “Savage” now claims he was taken out of context. Poor little misunderstood Mikey.
Cry me a river. Or as someone once said: “‘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.’ ” ..
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