Michael Savage is aptly named. He is simply that, a savage. His unprovoked attacks on people who are defenseless really do go beyond civilized discourse. It’s time he was tossed off the public airwaves.
Why the rant? Well on his radio show today, a show that is broadcast on the “public’s airwaves”, he attacked Autistic children as just “brat[s] who need as a father to tell them to stop acting like a putz”.
Let that sink in for a little while. I don’t know if you have ever been around anyone with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, but I have. They are not “acting like a putz”! I am appalled that this jerk can say something so insensitive on the radio.
I keep harping on the “public Airwaves” part of this story because here is the truth. The government manages the radio spectrum and leases portions of it to broadcasters. Prior to the Bush regime, there was an expectation that the broadcasters had at least some obligations to the public for if not fair, at least decent programming. Savage is anything but decent.
Mr. Savage, later in his show called the epidemic of asthma in minority families a scam because “the children got extra welfare if they were disabled.” Now lets really talk about being a putz!
Mr. Savage needs to be off the air and on the street. Perhaps when he breathes enough dust from cockroach shells and ends up in an emergency room in need of a breathing treatment to keep from dying, he might reconsider his obscene remarks.
Maybe Mr. Savage should spend a few weeks with a family of an Autistic child to see just how much good his tirade would do. Let him sit with a rocking screaming child, overloaded from stimuli he cannot process and then let him cure it by calling him a “putz”.
If I sound mad, I am and I think Mr. Savage needs to have someone give him a good shake and sit him in the corner for a time out, FOREVER! Get Michael Savage off the public airwaves!
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While what you’re posting about contacting him seems like the logical thing, I have worked with Savage and his network before and this will really do no good.
The only way that action will be taken is if the individual affiliates complain to the network and threaten action like removing his show or cutting back aired hours.
Also, if enough local affiliates air in their live programs repudiations of Mr. Savage’s statements, that could help as well.
Contact your local Savage affiliate and let them know what he said was false and unacceptable.
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