Cville’s Own Don Imus: Michael Savage

Posted by Vanillavy on July 29th, 2008 49 Comments

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Local radio station 1070 WINA announced it is replacing Michael Savage’s “Savage Nation” show with “The Dave Ramsey” show. Apparently Savage made some inappropriate comments on autism in the US, namely that

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.


UNCUS made a terrific effort to get the real scoop on the story and got this response from Savage:

“The drug companies are very powerful and have worked very hard to silence any voice critical of the misdiagnosis of our children and the drugging of vulnerable minds. Sad the station manager is such an ignorant man”

Doing some more research, I found a site dedicated to answer the extremist rants on the Savage Nation show. According to the site creator, Thomas Leavitt, Michael Savage has many opinions most would view as well, strange:

“Michael sees sexual freedom as “degeneracy”, as long as he’s talking about queer folk, or women, god forbid he talk about irresponsible sexual behavior by straight males… instead, we get nonsense about the country being ruled by a “she-ocracy” that has “both feminized and homosexualized America to the point where the nation has become passive, receptive and masochistic.”

He longs for a return to the days of Sen. McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, blacklists and blackmail. This man does NOT represent the opinions of anything other than a small group of Americans (admittedly, a very vocal and scary minority) and yet, he has the fastest growing nationally syndicated radio show in the United States, and he’s kicking Rush Limbaugh’s ass in market after market.

It is time for those of us who believe in the values of tolerance, freedom, liberty, social justice, and ecological wisdom (among others) to stand up and make our voices heard - remember, as Michael continually reminds us, when the people in Germany stayed silent as the voices of hate raised the volume, the result was Hitler and death and suffering tens of millions of innocent victims on all sides.”

Color me modernist, but he does seem a little out there. How the heck did he stay on the radio, in Cville of all places, for so freaking long? His own website seems just as crazy as everyone’s claims.
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49 Responses to “Cville’s Own Don Imus: Michael Savage”

  1. 29 Jul 2008 at 3:29 pm1Lulu said:

    Michael Savage is outlandishly conservative? Next you’ll be telling me the sky is blue, or some other new-fangled idea like that.

    Savage is one of the top 5 or so listened-to radio hosts nationally. What’s more surpirising than the fact he’s been on the air in Cville for so long, is that he is based out of San Francisco (aka: West Charlottesville).

  2. 29 Jul 2008 at 3:33 pm2shenanigans said:

    Derrr… that dude isn’t from C-ville.

  3. 29 Jul 2008 at 3:37 pm3alteros said:

    So you’re telling me a radio personality made sensationalist comments about something that undermined what little point he may have actually had… and then someone got mad about it? No way…

    I’m pretty sure he’s made worse statements that the radio station didn’t seem to care about. Glad they listen to their audience… i think.

  4. 29 Jul 2008 at 3:43 pm4Vanillavy said:

    @2..but if he floats on the radio waves isnt that the same thing?

  5. 29 Jul 2008 at 3:46 pm5belmont yo said:

    That picture is givin me the jibblies.

    That said I find conservative talk radio highly amusing. Its like catching up on all the kids that got beat up in grade school (If ever there was one person who had a world record number of swirlies its Roger Hedgecock). I used to play this game with my old boss, who was a “mega dittohead”, as it were. We would eat lunch at the same time. I knew he listened to el rushbo in his car at lunch, so I started doing the same. Then later that day, i would subtly start a conversation about whatever the topic dejour, and then confound him as I seemed to know every word and opinion he would have right before he had it.

    /good times.

  6. 29 Jul 2008 at 3:48 pm6dieter said:

    not local and since one of the local guy’s ( WINA liberal Coy Barefoot) has a kid with autism Savage’s show was a dead man walking. Savage’s real last name is -Wiener

  7. 29 Jul 2008 at 3:53 pm7shenanigans said:

    @4: Not so much. Your title says “C-ville’s own” as well and that’s just not true.

  8. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:06 pm8Donk said:

    I bet Michael Savage blew smoke in VanillaNUT’s omelette at Blue Moon.

  9. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:29 pm9Marshall said:

    @5 Jibblies seconded.

    But srsly, replacing a right-wing blowhard with someone that wants to sell me Financial PeaceTM? Think I’ll stick to NPR.

  10. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:29 pm10shenanigans said:

    @8: VanillaNut! HAHAHAHA

  11. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:33 pm11belmont yo said:

    VanillaNUT. GobmaN.

    What if it turns out there are only like four of us?

    @9 NPR, seconded.

  12. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:34 pm12shenanigans said:

    Whatevs, Belmontony Yotel.

  13. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:35 pm13Vanillavy said:

    Rest assured there are at least 4…or perhaps cvillain is all in your head, and none of this is real, and you are sleeping, in cvillain land.

    /time for a beer

  14. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:35 pm14Thor said:

    There is only one of us, The Matrix.

  15. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:36 pm15Floozy said:

    Hahaha… coming from Shanaynayigans

  16. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:36 pm16Donk said:

    Wait…
    So, am I The Matrix, or is Thor?

  17. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:36 pm17echo said:

    Or are you Thor?

  18. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:36 pm18Wingnut said:

    there is no Thor?

  19. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:36 pm19belmont yo said:

    @ 13 I knew I should have eaten the blue pill. Damnit.

  20. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:37 pm20shenanigans said:

    At least I don’t post talking to myself like Gobman.

  21. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:37 pm21Vanillavy said:

    we are the matrix

  22. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:38 pm22belmont yo said:

    There is no spoon!

    There are four lights!

    I am not a number, I am a free man!

    /loves me some mindfucks.

  23. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:38 pm23neo said:

    Shut up, y’all. I own this joint.

  24. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:38 pm24Lulu said:

    I am a Lulu… does that help?

  25. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:40 pm25shenanigans said:

    Lulu, you said something earlier that makes me think you’re a dude.

  26. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:40 pm26echo said:

    I am whoever I want to be.

  27. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:41 pm27belmont yo said:

    Shen, your penis leads me to think you are a dude.

  28. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:42 pm28Thor said:

    @23.. at least when I look at pretty girls, they don’t look like a bunch of #$()&*#$(*^@$&$*(@#$&’s

  29. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:42 pm29Wingnut said:

    Cvillain is people!

    The Island actually sucks! (in more ways than one)

    there was a beetle in the typewriter!

    /sorry…

  30. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:42 pm30Lulu said:

    @25: Because I said “/that guy” as in the phrase “don’t be that guy”?

  31. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:43 pm31shenanigans said:

    @27: If I had a penis, it would be HUGE

  32. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:45 pm32Wingnut said:

    wait, was that actually YOUR bathroom BYo posted?

    /or are you secretly W8LUC…washes out e-mouth…

  33. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:47 pm33shenanigans said:

    Maybe. Maybe I’m W8LUCMYSHENANIGANS

  34. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:53 pm34Vanillavy said:

    we are all Thor

  35. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:54 pm35five said:

    Are you Neos’ and Morpheus’ forgetting about the Homo Erectus face plastered on the top of this page? If I looked like that, I would shave my face with a chainsaw, starting at the neck.

  36. 29 Jul 2008 at 4:59 pm36Wingnut said:

    it does appear rather…simian…in nature.

  37. 29 Jul 2008 at 5:00 pm37colfer said:

    Savage was an influential herbologist in his previous career. People still read his book, some kind of standard reference for people that otherwise hate his values. Unless you see a connection between health nuts and fascists.

  38. 29 Jul 2008 at 5:01 pm38belmont yo said:

    If by herbologist, you mean huckster, then yes. Yes, he was.

    /its obviously done wonders for his complexion.

  39. 29 Jul 2008 at 5:02 pm39Stanley said:

    Dan Savage is infinitely better than Michael Savage. They should get him.

  40. 29 Jul 2008 at 5:06 pm40belmont yo said:

    If Dan Savage were on the air here, the bouffant encrusted thought police would have an aneurism.

    /santorum!

  41. 29 Jul 2008 at 5:20 pm41colfer said:

    I saw this movie in college:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhle_Wampe
    I thought it was about hippies in a 1920s who became fascists in Germany, but I might be wrong, judging by the Wikidruff.

  42. 29 Jul 2008 at 10:04 pm42Hooligan said:

    The guy who shot up the Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville apparently had Savage’s book “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder” among the possessions seized by the cops. By God, there’s some irony in there somewhere.

    http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2008/07/a_whole_lotta_ugly_in_church_s.html

  43. 29 Jul 2008 at 10:12 pm43caroline said:

    wow. Lilith would’ve never let this happen.

  44. 29 Jul 2008 at 10:19 pm44Silmo Syrup said:

    CAROLINE!!!

  45. 29 Jul 2008 at 10:41 pm45caroline said:

    Hi Silmo!

  46. 29 Jul 2008 at 11:37 pm46Silmo Syrup said:

    Hi Lady!!! How’s L town?

  47. 30 Jul 2008 at 12:18 pm47SF = W. Cville??? said:

    Lulu - After reading your comparison between San Francisco and Cville - “San Francisco (aka: West Charlottesville)” I threw up a little in my mouth. I lived in SF, I knew SF, SF was a friend of mine. Charlottesville is no San Francisco.

    Seriously though, you can’t put the cart before the horse. Perhaps - and that’s a big perhaps, but perhaps you might be able to get away with saying that Cville is “East San Francisco,” but even that claim would be a stretch at best.

    Actually, belmont yo’s mention of Dan Savage provides a perfect case in point. When I first moved to Cville, The Hook was running Dan Savage’s “Savage Love” column. It was a nice reminder of one of the SF weeklies. Then they dumped it as it was ruffling local feathers. OUCH! That’s just part of why Cville will never be East San Francisco.

  48. 30 Jul 2008 at 2:04 pm48Lulu said:

    @46: Joke. Since Vanillavy made a comment about how Savage could be on in Cville for so long. And really, if you’re going to try and deny the political environment in Cville, I have some election results to show you.

    /I am a lame.

  49. 30 Jul 2008 at 2:10 pm49belmont yo said:

    @ 46 Amen. And if anything like the Folsom Street Fair went down in our little berg, there would be unparalleled mass umbrage leading to a blood bath of hell fire. “Wont someone think of the children!”

    C-ville is kinda “lefty light”. The latte left, as it were.

    /likes his kinks.

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