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How Bout the 1st Amendment?

I am not a big Michael Savage fan. Honestly, I'm not much of a Savage fan at all. However, for as much as he makes outrageous and inappropriate statements about all kinds of groups all the time, it's always interesting to see who and what topics get the "liberal" Left up in arms about pulling him off the air. This time he made a statement about autism.

I just so happened to hear a few minutes of his show the other day and heard him talk about what he believes about the hyper-diagnosing and prescribing in our culture...and autism in that context. I may not agree with what he said the first time (at least that one sentence that is being repeated everywhere). "In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out."

Two things:

1. In context what he said is not so radical afterall. Is it not INSANE that one in 150 children is being diagnosed with autism?! Something is very strange about that statistic and I appreciate Savage's attempt to challenge the inanity of those numbers.

2. Even if he were completely off--in context--he has the same right to speak is mind (however crazy the rest of us might deem his opinion) that someone like, hmmmm.....Jesse Jackson does! Isn't it interesting that we didn't hear anyone call for Jackson to "step down" from whatever that position is that he has when he used the N-word on Fox news recently. What irony
that the Left is throwing a tantrum over a wild, strongly opinionated, often offensive talk radio host challenging autism diagnoses while they sit back and implicitly condone the nation's preeminent "black leader" for using the N-word.

Hypocrisy!

Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 05:55AM by Registered CommenterLores Rizkalla in | Comments2 Comments

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I cannot add to what you said Lores. Good observation.
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 07:50PM | Unregistered CommenterDon Gallerani
I do not understand why anybody is making a big deal about what Michael Savage said in the first place. I mean, did anybody formerly think that he does NOT make outrageous statements? That is all he does! That is his show! It would be comparable to suddenly being shocked that Howard Stern has very scantily clad women as guests on his show. Why would that all of the sudden shock people?

Besides, if somebody does not like what a particular radio talk show says, nobody is forcing the person to listen. I personally do not care for Michael Savage, not so much for his outrageous comments, as much as the degree to which he talks about himself. It gets annoying after a while. Plus, I do not like the way he (or Mark Levin, for that matter) shouts at their callers. So, I hardly listen to either of them.

Why can't every talk show host be as polite as William Bennett or Shaun Hannity is? Why can't everybody be as adorably pleasant and cheerful as Lores Rizkallah? Okay, that is expecting too much, but at least be somewhat polite like, say, Michael Medved.

Bottom line is, people really need to get a thicker skin, and stop looking for excuses to get offended. Come on, we ARE adults here, aren't we?
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 08:28PM | Unregistered CommenterRaymond

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