Radio Shack, Home Depot, Budweiser and Sears pull ads from Michael 'Savage' Weiner's radio show

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/07/25/2008-07-25_michael_savage_loses_home_depot_sears_an.html

Michael Savage loses Home Depot, Sears and Budweiser over autism flap
BY CHRISTINA BOYLE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, July 25th 2008, 8:45 PM

Six more major companies have yanked ads from Michael Savage's talk-radio show after he branded autistic children "brats."

Home Depot, Sears and Budweiser all withdrew their support from the fiery hatemonger's program, along with Direct Buy, Cisco and Radio Shack, according to Autism United.

Insurance giant Aflac was the first company to pull its commercials off the nationally syndicated show, which has more than 8 million listeners.

"We are going after each and every advertiser that hasn't dropped him yet," said Evelyn Ain, president of Autism United, who joined angry parents in a protest on Wall Street Friday.

"We are doing this in all states and really hoping that more people will immediately drop out supporting him. We are going after every angle."

Savage made headlines on July 16 when he told listeners that autism was a ploy to hide the fact that most kids are "brats" as well as "idiots" and "morons."

Looks like the waste of skin and gravity is toasted. These are big ticket accounts and this will definitely push TRN towards dropping him.

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Asthmatic and autistic children .... nice targets Michael!

I heard him for about 3 minutes last thursday .... he was screaming that he "was not going
to let them beat him" and then went on to ask his listeners to "pray for him."

There's conservative talk radio, and then there's insane ranting -which is all he ever offered.

This is far from the first insulting/shocking/hate-filled/bigoted/ignorant thing he's said.

Three cheers for Autism United :yourock: :bounce: :applause:...keep up the pressure until the Wiener stands alone.

Actually, it's not beyond me. The only thing corporations want on the air is their "everything is great under Bewsh" message and whatever scares the shit outta Whitey.

Savage is very critical (to put it mildly) of bush. Some of his rants he sounds as anti-bush as mike malloy.

Not every rightwinger is pro-bush. Savage is strongly anti-bush, in many respects, and has repeatedly criticized bush, corporatism, and the bush economy.

:sarcasm:

Big surprise it is YOU! :eyes:

Why this guy hasn't been pizza'd yet is beyond me. NO one's fooled.
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This quote says otherwise:

"You know something; I'm voting for Bush, I just made up my mind. There's nothing in this for me. I'm a white male, I'm a white, male, married heterosexual -- I don't want the Democrats. Everywhere I turn, there's another hot coal in my eye. For example, today's DNC calendar of public events included lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender meeting, the disability meeting, the ethnic meeting, the American Indian meeting, the Asian/Pacific Islander meeting, the Hispanic meeting, and the African American meeting -- God bless 'em, they're entitled to their meeting, I'm entitled to my vote, they're not my party, end of story. And that's it. I'm not voting for a party of ethnic minorities and women and immigrants. I will not do it. And if I thought for a moment that they had changed their direction, if I thought for a moment there was a new Democrat Party that was more centrist and more focused on the real issues of today, I would have considered, well, maybe sitting the election out, or voting for Kerry -- no, I'm not. "

July 28, 2004

And when he does criticize Bush (and note that I use the word criticize and not flat-out smear and slur . . . he reserves that tactic for everything Democratic), it's because he's not off-the-charts right wing ENOUGH, not because he has a particular hate for him in general, like he does liberals and people who aren't white.

Accuracy in reporting.

Although "vicious racist extremist" works, too.

Even the right wingers are sick of Weiner. Stick a fork in him, he's done.

which if this keeps up Weiner could be out of a job

Man, i hate that when they write that stuff. That's a weekly aggregate. There's only about 1.5 million people listening to that idiot.
The Professor

who his advertisers are and what crap he's saying

Probably not half, but certainly some. So, it means 1.5 million people are listening, but only 1.2 million or so, agree with him.

That means his ratings are about 1% of American Idol.
The Professor

like hannity, limpy, son of st. ronnie, dennis miller etc. Great corporate gesture, boys.

but good to see that even they have limits to how low they will go.

said symbolman was threatening his livelihood. Bet he tries to lean on the Autism groups too.

Does he not know that out of the staggering 1 in every 150 kids diagnosed with Autism, the odds are, lots of those children will be the children of right wingers. I believe there is a prominent right wing member of Congress (forget who, maybe Sensenbrenner?) who has a grandchild with Autism. Hateful drek, and beyond stupid.

Buh-bye:hi: michael............. asshole.

lol

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to discredit right-wing hate radio, what with the Savage remark and the shooting in Tennessee. I hope more people wake up to the real danger this pervasive propaganda is posing to our democracy and start doing something about it. I'm glad Autism United is doing something but they are one small group focused only on the Weiner.