U.S. News Conservative loon Michael Savage attacks veterans with PTSD: ‘Boo-hoo-hoo!’
Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage said last week that veterans with PTSD are a bunch of crybabies who should act like men and stop complaining because they’re bringing the entire country down.
According to Right Wing Watch, Savage was in the middle of a discussion about whether or not the city of San Francisco should rename a road tunnel after comedian Robin Williams, who committed suicide earlier this year.
The right-leaning host was on the air with a caller who supported the naming of the tunnel after the famous comic. Savage said to honor Williams would only promote suicide. The caller, a veteran with PTSD, said that people who struggle with depression and other forms of mental illness deserve to not be stigmatized.
Savage abruptly hung up on the former serviceman and went into a rant about the current state of society.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/conservative-loon-michael-savage-attacks-veterans-with-ptsd-boo-hoo-hoo/
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Combat veterans have always suffered negative effects from their service. Even back in the "good old days" that Weiner probably longs for. In WWI it was called shell-shock. In WWII, it was called battle fatigue. Those guys were showered with adoration, appreciation, compassion, and understanding. Now that it has a scientific classification, and appropriate evidence-based treatment available, right-wing monsters like Weiner think it's all a put-up job by a bunch of cry-babies.
