Michael "Savage" Weiner and his comments on autism

[janradder]

I really don't know what to say about this idiot, Michael Savage.  He's a symptom of why talk radio is so horrible.  He's given a soapbox to air inflammatory comments regardless of their validity and he's given the ability to silence any dissenting opinions (either not taking calls from people who disagree, not booking guest who are experts in that area that he's mouthed off about and could provide a counterpoint, or silencing them when he actually does have them on his show by using a mute button).  What I think is worse than him, though, are the bigger idiots who eat this up as if it were news and take his, and other talk show pundits', word as gospel.  The whole lot of them really are a sad statement about the level of discourse in this country.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. But mostly I was just thinking: geez, Haddayr doesn't need to spend emotional energy on this shit right now.

An open letter like that isn't going to change Savage's mind, of course--but it will create an actual discourse. And some people from Savage's audience will read it, and some of them will sigh and go, yeah, Savage is an asshole. I don't know why I keep listening to him...

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I'd really just like to see the jack-ass fired. They did it to Imus, after all. Sadly, I don't thiink it'll happen.

(Haddayr's pretty good about filtering crap like this out when she's dealing with other issues though I'm sure she appreciates not hearing much about it right now)