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.

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.

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.

No accusations, just statements of facts. Keep defending your boyfriend though.

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]

Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from 8 July 1993 to 31 July 1994. It played a significant role during the April-July 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

The station’s name is French for “Thousand Hills Independent Radio and Television”, deriving from the description of Rwanda as “Land of a Thousand Hills”. It received support from the government-controlled Radio Rwanda, which initially allowed it to transmit using their equipment.[1]

Widely listened to by the general population, it projected hate propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur.
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The station is considered to have preyed upon deep animosities and prejudices between the Hutu and Tutsi populations. The hateful rhetoric was placed alongside the sophisticated use of humor and popular Zairean music.

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After-effects

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s action against RTLM began on October 23, 2000 – along with the trial against Hassan Ngeze, director and editor of the Kangura magazine.

On August 19, 2003, at the tribunal in Arusha, life sentences were requested for RTLM leaders Ferdinand Nahimana, and Jean Bosco Barayagwiza, They were charged with genocide, incitement to genocide, and crimes against humanity, before and during the period of the genocides of 1994.

On 3 December 2003, the court found all three defendants guilty and sentenced Nahimana and Ngeze to life imprisonment and Barayagwiza to imprisonment for 35 years. The case is currently on appeal.

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.

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?

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

I wonder how he stays on the air.

1. Cruel people
2. 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.

I wonder how he stays on the air.

I wonder how he has any sponsors.
He seems to be denigrating the very customers of his sponsors.

Ridicule, flag, ignore.

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!”

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.

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?

Especially if he dances “Straight to Hell”!