unmanaged wrote:

Michael Savage, the incendiary radio host who last week characterized nearly every child with autism as “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” said in a telephone interview on Monday that he stood by his remarks and had no intention of apologizing to those advocates and parents who have called for his firing over the matter.

Now main stream media as we know likes to speak before they think. And I think this is the case... should he be fired, NO, thats why we have the freedom to speak our minds... but I think the war on stupidity is far from over...

Late Monday afternoon, Aflac, the insurance company, announced it was withdrawing all advertising from Mr. Savage's show. "We understand that radio hosts pick on any number of targets," Laura Kane, a company spokeswoman, said in a statement, before adding that Aflac considered "his recent comments about autistic children to be both inappropriate and insensitive.”

So now he has lost $$$ for his show and I am 100% positive someone else will pick up the slack... But I really think that it is funny that misinformed people get paid to say anything about everything... Kind of makes me want to start a magazine called, "Modern Jackass," and Mr. Savage would be on the August Ed....

:P

Why should this jackass get fired when the goons on the major channels like Fox, CNN, and the big three networks are equally idiotic in their coverage of things like the War on Terror, the Invasion of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the economic plight of Medicare, Social Security, and public education. Don't get me started on the presidential election. The press, just like the rest of the governmental system, has failed by being co-opted by corporations.