What does it take to get a racist, liberal hating eliminationist, right wing talk show by Michael Savage canceled in Mississippi? Well, you might think that “nothing” Michael Savage could say would get his program removed from the air there. But you would be wrong. Apparently all it took was for him to call autism a “fraud” and a “racket.”
The Super Talk Mississippi radio network has canceled The Savage Nation because of comments syndicated host Michael Savage made about autistic children last week.
Steve Davenport, president and CEO of Super Talk’s parent company Telesouth Communications, confirmed The Savage Nation had been dropped from the network’s lineup as of Monday.
“It was just horrible what he said,” Davenport said Monday.
“When you talk about people in politics, business people, that’s one thing. But when you talk about defenseless children, that’s another.”
Savage, a controversial conservative commentator, said during the July 16 broadcast of his show that autism is a “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.'”
Davenport said, after he had read an account of Savage’s comments, “I made the decision that we weren’t going to tolerate that.
Yes, they weren’t going to tolerate calling poor defenseless children with autism frauds and brats. Now they did tolerate him playing a Dead Kennedy’s song after Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with brain cancer. And they tolerated it when he called Nancy Pelosi “Nancy Mussolini.” And they tolerated it when he called for sending homeless people to “work camps.” Or when he said Obama had been “hand picked by some very powerful forces … to drag this country into a hell that it has not seen since the Civil War”. Or when he called women who wear burqas Nazis who want to “cut your throat and kill your children.” Or when he called gay parents child abusers. Or when he said of the 9/11 attacks on America “That was God talking.” Or when he called civil rights a “racket” to steal the birthright of “Christian, white males.” . . . , or when . . . , or when . . .
I guess there must be a few white, right wing conservative Christians who have kids with autism in Mississippi. I guess you never know what people won’t tolerate if you really put them to the test. So thank you Michael Savage. You’ve finally taught us what turns even your most devoted listeners intolerant when they hear it from a right wing talk show host.
Full disclosure moment: I have a nephew who suffers from seizures and displays autistic behavior, though he hasn’t been officially diagnosed with autism (because the seizure issue makes doctors reluctant to diagnose him as autistic). He’s not a brat, he’s a lovely, sweet child who has difficulty relating to people at times, and who dislikes environments which provide too much external stimulation. So, I agree, Michael Savage’s comments about autistic children are despicable. I just find it odd that those comments are the only ones by Mr. Savage that “The Super Talk Mississippi” radio network found intolerable.
Actually, I just lied. I don’t find it odd at all. Sad, disappointing, predictable, perhaps. But not odd.
Aflac joined the boycott – pulled their ads
Noticed that, can’t imagine any corp that would like their good name associated with those comments. Good for Aflac.
Apparently these people don’t mind.
They’re called “Access Services” and they provide supportive services for people with special needs in Philadelphia. So I called them up, as they are listed as a sponsor on WNTP, which carries Savage her in philadelphia.
Their marketing person told me she supprts WNTP all the way. Then she hung up on me.
throughout the history of mankind are two categories of people: the quick and the dead.
The quick are thinking, compassionate people who are aware.
The dead – well, no definition required.
That’s disturbing because my daughter’s family is moving to Pennsylvania because the state offers better services for autistic children that California is doing at present. How any organization that’s dedicated to helping those with special needs could support the filth that Savage is spouting is beyond belief.
I have two teenage cousins with serious cases of autism and I would love to have Savage spend one hour with them to find out if they are “faking” it.
so lets see. mississippi drops the piece of shit but not NYC.
wor radio- nuthing yet. How about someone posting all of the piece of shits sponsors and then we go after them?
Mild autism runs in my wife’s families. I have three nephews and nieces that suffer from it. I wonder when someone will point out that Savage is tracking the Nazi’s, who were murdering autistic people years before they established the death camps for the Jews and Gypsies.
I was thinking the same darn thing. The parents of autistic children will rip Savage a new asshole, and do so with relish. I have a friend whose stepson is autistic, and it ain’t bean bag. I would say that Savage should man up and walk in the shoes of these kids’ parents, but he wouldn’t last an hour.
I really wish, however, that the collective “we” would have done something about this raving lunatic scum a LONG time ago. This is offensive, but it’s almost tame given his many other examples of verbal diarrhea.
Bad Reporter:
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/asmussen/
reports that the dead are just lazy, lazy people.
When I was in the army back in the early seventies, I worked as a race relations specialist. One weekend I was assigned CQ duty, sitting around the company headquarters and waiting for the phone to ring. Someone had left some of the most disgusting racist literature in plain view, maybe for my benefit. This, in the U.S. Army, in 1973.
I always wondered what these racists did. Now I know. They listen to Michael Savage.
Oh to have more media outlets act in kind. Then maybe Rush wouldn’t get a new contract worth hundreds of millions, and O’Reily would lose his sponsors and audience. Maybe too, we would elect a black Democrat for President and a majority of Dems in both houses. Then maybe we would reverse our self destructive mid-east policy, join progressive nations in making meaningful changes in our “energy policy” to combat climate change, develop a system for universal health care, begin to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, increase social security with holding beyond the current salary cap, reverse the Bush tax cuts for the super-wealthy, provide needed funds for public education, encourage domestic companies to make things at home, and and so on.
I know impossible. But if Savage gets taken off the air in Mississippi, then maybe pigs can fly.