Cleveland radio station drops Michael Savage: ‘This guy’s a knucklehead.’
Cleveland radio station drops Michael Savage: ‘This guy’s a knucklehead.’
Last week, Media Matters caught right-wing radio talker Michael Savage claiming that autism is a “fraud” and “a racket” where “99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.” But Savage’s controversial remarks about autistic children have gotten him booted off Cleveland’s airwaves, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reports:
WHK AM/1420, the only Cleveland-area station carrying Savage’s radio talk show, is breaking its contract with Savage’s syndicator, Talk Radio Network, said Mark Jaycox, who manages the Cleveland stations under the Salem Communications corporate umbrella.
“This guy’s a knucklehead, and I want to get rid of him,” Jaycox said. The radio station Super Talk Mississippi announced recently that they were canceling Savage’s show because of the autism comments.
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please cover the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Limits of Executive Power.
The future of the Republic is at stake.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pmCue wingnuts whining about 'free speech' in 3...2...1...
never mind that this is a PRIVATE company exercising it's rights in a FREE MARKET
July 25th, 2008 at 12:38 pmLet me clear my throat:
July 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Dearest Mr. Michael Savage,
Positive thoughts.
Never forget that the greater good will eventually prevail. Always.
With respect and kindness,
Hugs
PS Yay for Cleveland!
July 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pmDearest Mr. Michael Savage,
Positive thoughts.
Never forget that the greater good will eventually prevail. Always.
With respect and kindness,
Hugs
PS Yay for Cleveland!
July 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pmCalling Michel Weiner a knucklehead is being quite kind.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:41 pmWho's taking odds on when Savage issues an apology.
You see, as with all right-wingers, the high talk and high ideals all fly out the window when their wallet is threatened.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pmThe Savage-Weiner just might be toast. That's one down and still quite a few to go. Who should be dropped next?
July 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pmWhile it's clearly true that Michael Savage is indeed a knucklehead, why did it take the autism comments to make radio stations wake up and notice this? Did they not notice Savage was a knucklehead when he was making all sorts of wildly hateful and erroneous statements about Democrats, about Muslims, and about the ACLU? Or did the stations find those statements acceptable?
July 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pmWeenie Boy can say anything he wants, short of using the 7 forbidden words. That's guaranteed him by the First Amendment.
He's also free to suffer and accept the consequences of his hate speech.
Knuckle head, indeed, more like knuckle dragging Neandertal. With apologies to the Geico caveguys...
July 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pmStratRat "Who should be dropped next?"
1a. Limbaugh
July 25th, 2008 at 12:44 pm1b. Hannity
1c. Kristol
1d. Beck
I think you both are being disparaging to both knuckles AND heads.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pm1e. all of the above
July 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pmIMHO he's more of a Meathead.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:49 pmxegar Says
July 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Who’s taking odds on when Savage issues an apology.
_____________________________________________________________
He never will. Instead, his M.O. is to whine loudly that his remarks were "taken out of context" and that he was really talking about kids who are misdiagnosed. Like we're supposed to believe that when he claims there is no such thing as autism and waving numbers around like "99%".
July 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pmInterestingly enough, a major Fargo ND radio station up here just dropped Insannity.
Poof! He's gone.
If it were only that easy to get rid of Bush. By the way, how about some IMPEACHMENT NEWS???
July 25th, 2008 at 12:52 pmDoes Michael Weiner actually have any children of his own? How are they turning out?
July 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pmJeebus, the article says he is heard in Ohio only in Canton, Lima and Portsmouth which are basically the two armpits and @ss____ of Ohio. If those dying towns are representative of his audience I wonder how he stays on the air.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pmHug The Moon Says:
StratRat “Who should be dropped next?”
1a. Limbaugh
1b. Hannity
1c. Kristol
1d. Beck
I like this list. They truly cannot help themselves. Give them enough rope and time, they will do our work for us.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pmCalling Savage a knucklehead gives all the rest of us knuckleheads a bad name.
How about...hmmm... A Stupid @ss M0therFu(king Beeotch?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:01 pm11.Hug The Moon Says:
StratRat “Who should be dropped next?”
1a. Limbaugh
1b. Hannity
1c. Kristol
1d. Beck
How 'bout dropping the corporations who provide advertising that pays the media conglomerates that furnish their paychecks. Cut off the gravytrain at the source....thses @ssholes will only be replaced by other other, more shameless d0uchebags.
Attack the supply lines always.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:03 pmohhh, first Mississippi and now Cleveland?
Don't know what Savage will do without those beacons of high society.
Seems to me that the libs who run those stations were simply looking for a reason to ban free speech from reaching their customers.
Someone else will come in to bring Savage back on the air ... and thus squash those worthless stations. Their fate will be the same as the flailing liberal newspapers and failed sc-AIR America.
Remember them?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:07 pmWeiner's son is in President of the "Rock Star" drink company.
http://www.drlaniac.com/Articles/View.asp?file=FascismCola.htm
July 25th, 2008 at 1:07 pmCLEVELAND ROCKS!!
July 25th, 2008 at 1:09 pmPuddin'head's cousins, the Knuckleheads, will now have to hang their heads in shame for generations to come for being assosciated with this.... this..... sackoftoxicsludgeposingasahuman.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:10 pm#7
xegar Says:
Who’s taking odds on when Savage issues an apology.
No he didn't but this is what he had to say in defense of his "hateful" comments.
On Monday Savage said he was trying to "boldly awaken" parents to his view that many people are being wrongly diagnosed. Savage defended himself in the interview with Grant. "Let's save our sympathies and our scarce resources for the truly sick child," Savage said. "I hope that does make it to the television," Savage told Grant. "I'm glad I'm exposing the fraud in the autism community and at the same time creating support for the truly autistic."
Savage said Tuesday that his deceased brother had brain damage. He said he actually knows what it is like to grow up with what he characterized as a "crippled child."
Savage spin- to awaken the world to fraud of misdiagnosis.
I'm sorry but that is just ludicris to think anyone would get that meaning from what he was saying. I'm glad to see the emails and phone calls are working. Only 348 radio stations to go.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:10 pmYou ever been to Cleveland?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pmOr just using a stereotype?
You wish you had the class of many of the folks up there.
tony and lido
"Hey! Let's make that Weiner kid sing his song!"
July 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pmTim43 says:
So, this is a "free speech" matter? I thought, as was already mentioned, that this was a "free market" decision. Or do you propose that anyone who wants to be on syndicated public airwaves should be able to demand a constitutional right to be paid by the stations to broadcast, regardless of the decisions of the stations (which ARE businesses, and make their decisions based on financial reasons).
Why are Republicans and neo-cons against a free capitalist market?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pmI heard yesterday that Virginia dropped him too.
In addition, XM Radio airs Amerileft with Randi Rhode and drops Air America in her time slot.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pmGood friggin' riddance to bad friggin' rubbish.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pmWHo was the loon that was defending Savage's statements the other day when this all went down? Where is that clown? Can we get them back here for follow-up. Does anyone have like a red hotline phone to the crazy people?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:23 pm#30 Shayne Says:
I heard yesterday that Virginia dropped him too.
In addition, XM Radio airs Amerileft with Randi Rhode and drops Air America in her time slot.
That is great news Shayne :)
July 25th, 2008 at 1:24 pmGood, we need more stations calling out the Hate Radio Anti-American Fascists on their pure BS propaganda and lies. Mic Wiener is one of the worst.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pmTimmeh thinks this is a "free speech" issue?
Does he think Savage Wiener is on the radio for his health?
Timmeh, listen up -- you have every right to insult the residents of Mississippi and Cleveland. No one can put you in jail for it. THAT is free speech.
Now, if you had a radio show in Cleveland and you made a remark like that and the station got complaints and dumped your show, that would not be a "free speech" issue.
Get the difference?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:26 pm#17 misshusseinmolly Says:
Does Michael Weiner actually have any children of his own? How are they turning out?
I only know of one, he may have more:
Rockstar (or ROCKST?R) is an energy drink created in 2001. Rockstar is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was founded by Russell Weiner, who currently serves as CEO. Russell Weiner is the son of the talk radio host Michael Savage.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pmAre you referring to pmavrk?
or was there another chief Savage Wiener apologist?
July 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pmralph the wonder llama:
July 25th, 2008 at 1:44 pmI don't recall and am too lazy to go check. All I remember was that Savage was right, a truth teller, and the answer to fake left wing falsehoods. Whoever it was, it was utterly ridiculous but still really really amusing. You know I am a sucker for those types...
You mean, Savage was being held responsible for the words that cma out of his mouth?
Wow! That's a first! An ultra-radical right-whining blow hard being held responsible!
July 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pmLibruls running a conservative station? ROFL!!!!!
These radio stations have every right to drop Weiner-Savage just like weiner-savage has every right to say stupid things.
You lost
July 25th, 2008 at 1:56 pmMark Jaycox is my Hero of the Day.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:04 pmTim43 Says:
...failed sc-AIR America.
Remember them?
Sure, I remember Air America. I'm listening to Ed Schultz on Air America right now.
What has failed is your brain.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:06 pmTeleMan Says:
“Hey! Let’s make that Weiner kid sing his song!”
July 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Especially if he dances "Straight to Hell"!
July 25th, 2008 at 2:42 pmThanks, Pete. At least one person got my reference.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pmHey, I think that's Michael Savage in the Mini-Me sex video. Ya, he's the one on the bottom.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pmTeleMan Says:
Thanks, Pete. At least one person got my reference.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
That's the one with Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love (Wasn't she pregnant?), Elvis Costello as "Wiener Boy", and a bunch of nobodies playing coffee swilling villains who like to kill. Isn't it?
July 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pmTim43 Says:
Seems to me that the libs who run those stations were simply looking for a reason to ban free speech from reaching their customers.
I live in Cleveland, Home of The Cleveland Clicic, Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Orchestra and a very robust "High Society" Unfortunately WHK is run by the loathesome right wing Salem Broadcasting Group. Their daily line-up includes:
Bill Bennett
Laura Ingraham
Dennis Prager
Michael Medved
Hugh Hewitt
and their news comes from TownHall.com
No libs in sight.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:44 pmpete Says: (Re: movie "Straight to Hell")
That’s the one with Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love (Wasn’t she pregnant?), Elvis Costello as “Wiener Boy”, and a bunch of nobodies playing coffee swilling villains who like to kill. Isn’t it?
I think so. Been years since I've seen it. It's finally come out on DVD but they want $40. Ouch. I hear it's quite a spaghetti western cult fav. I just still love that quote:
“Hey! Let’s make that Weiner kid sing his song!”
July 25th, 2008 at 3:56 pmShow your love, you can contact the GM of WHK at mjcox@salemcleveland.com
July 25th, 2008 at 3:57 pmTim43 is pmavrk's sock puppet. Apparently he is either
a. tired of getting owned on every thread so he had to make a new handle without all the baggage
b. banned
c. trying to bolster credibility for his position by making it look like Everybuddah loves Weiner
Ridicule, flag, ignore.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:11 pmCan we get an updated list of sponsors, maybe with asterisks by the ones who have dumped this clown already so that we can thank them?
July 25th, 2008 at 4:15 pmpaleolib Says:
I wonder how he stays on the air.
I wonder how he has any sponsors.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:55 pmHe seems to be denigrating the very customers of his sponsors.
paleolib Says:
I wonder how he stays on the air.
1. Cruel people
July 25th, 2008 at 5:37 pm2. Stupid people
3. Cruel, stupid, people
4. Other assorted Republicriminals who argue it's "funny"
5. Quadriplegics who have been "kindly" left alone with a radio.
What a great day it will be when all these latter day Goebbels are booted off the air.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pmGood for Cleveland!
WHK AM/1420, the only Cleveland-area station carrying Savage’s radio talk show, is breaking its contract with Savage’s syndicator, Talk Radio Network, said Mark Jaycox, who manages the Cleveland stations under the Salem Communications corporate umbrella.
“This guy’s a knucklehead, and I want to get rid of him,” Jaycox said. The radio station Super Talk Mississippi announced recently that they were canceling Savage’s show because of the autism comments.
Thank you very much!
Troubled Texan
July 25th, 2008 at 7:45 pmI am one of the parents who wrote to WHK because I was enraged by Savage's rant.
My son has Asperger's Syndrome.
This isn't a matter of free speech. I am a Democrat, I'm not homophobic, or racist and when Savage makes attacks on these groups of people and I think it is wrong, but these groups of people can defend themselves. The difference in this case is that he made a verbal attack on disabled children who don't have a voice to defend themselves. He verbally attacked my seven year old and called him a "brat" and an "idiot."
Also, when choosing radio programming, is it necessary to include crappy programming just for the sake of "free speech?" There are other conservative talk show hosts who are reasonably intelligent, are able to discuss conservative issues and also have at least a little compassion for human beings, especially children.
Free speech, sure, but why not weed out the ignorant buffoons and give the conservative hosts who have half a brain the airwaves instead?
July 26th, 2008 at 2:12 am57. biffmctavish Says: You folks talk about getting rid of Savage, Hanity, Limbaugh and others. Just bring back the fairness doctrine and limit free speach. Better yet, just get rid of anyone who you hate. Then, you’ll always be right.
Um, no; it's getting rid of people who hate. Therein lies the difference.
Now, some of you people will call me names and spout hatred. Before you do, I ask you to remember these words:
“When the Nazis came for the communists,I remained silent;I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,I did not speak out;I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,I remained silent;I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me,there was no one left to speak out.”
When they came for the Nazis, no one spoke out because the nazis were @ssholes who wanted to wrap themselves in the flag and first amendment and tell lies and propaganda to their heart's content.
Here is the result of biffmctavish's brand of "free speach"[sic]
With free speech comes great responsibility, responsibility that Weiner is abdicating in favor of spreading popular distortions and inciting entrenched stereotyped prejudices. That is not what the first amendment was created to support.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:06 ambiffmctavish Says: Or perhaps you will accuse me of calling autistic children “brats” like you do Savage.
No accusations, just statements of facts. Keep defending your boyfriend though.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:22 pmhttp://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=268844
July 26th, 2008 at 2:20 pmDon't racist comments pertain to ethnic descent, a group of people who share common heredity, or physical characteristics such as skin color?
Since the general tone of your comments is that you are defending Michael Savage's attack of autistic children then it is safe to assume that you are also homophobic because anyone who would support Michael Savage at this point is a total right wing nut job. Right wing nut jobs are always homophobes, so basically I think that brown acid was trying to ruffle your homophobic feathers.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:36 amI'm not seeing any discussing of issues, biff. Only that you're really upset about me knowing that you are cut of the same cloth as Savage because you defend him.
Savage and his followers are nothing if not really excited about the fact that they are totally ignorant. Savage and his kind should get excited about studying current events instead of continuing on with a chronic case of mouth diarrhea.
July 27th, 2008 at 3:27 amJim Says:
While it’s clearly true that Michael Savage is indeed a knucklehead, why did it take the autism comments to make radio stations wake up and notice this? Did they not notice Savage was a knucklehead when he was making all sorts of wildly hateful and erroneous statements about Democrats, about Muslims, and about the ACLU? Or did the stations find those statements acceptable?
Thank you Jim! You said it! I might be mistaken, but I find it a little nauseating that the Cleveland Plain Dealer didn't mention the Asthma/Minority comment, the misogynistic comment against the female gender, the countless attacks on these groups as well as Islam over the years, etc., etc. BTW, just because he's Jewish doesn't negate the fact that he's an anti-semite; and has been getting away with this fifth-grade level hate speech for years. Is The Cleveland Plain Dealer protecting Salem ["Witch Hunters"] from certain populations in Cleveland? Why leave out the whole story for busy Clevelanders, who probably don't listen to that garbage in the first place? (This is why we need to donate to certain independent radio stations in Cleveland, to keep them going.)
. . . and no, I'm not going to start shopping @ the substandard corporations that funded his programming this whole time. This sudden "awakening" of moral hypocrisy @ the corporate level is just sickening. A) Is it that they woke up and smelled the coffee or more likely, B) that they finally pretended to wake up, because they smelled all the $$ they were losing for a while; and were forced to "cut-n-run" @ the last possible moment?
My spouse and I were just talking about this the other day. I would like to thank Jim for being brave and making that comment early on.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pm