Super Talk
Mississippi, which owns and operates seven conservative radio
stations in Mississippi, issued a press release today stating that
Michael Savage and his radio show Savage Nation had been
canceled effective immediately. The radio broadcaster said Savage
had crossed the line with comments he made about autistic children.
Last week, media
watchdog Media Matters posted on their site a transcript from
radio talk show host Michael Savage where he claimed that autism was
a “fraud” and a “racket” where “99 percent of the cases,
it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out.”
Parents of
autistic children were outraged. They said the comments were cruel
and demanded an apology.
Instead of an
apology, Savage lashed out at Media Matters. During Tuesday's
three-hour Savage Nation broadcast, Savage called the group a
“Stalinist,” “anti-family,” “illegitimate, dangerous
fascist group.” He also asserted that the group “ha[s] no place
in America.”
“It's
interesting to me that I've devoted my entire adult life to defending
the defenseless, and here I am, being attacked by those who do not
have children, who hate children, who are anti-family in Media
Matters, who take a statement that I make out of context and send
it to the poor parents of autistic children and have them believe I'm
their enemy. It's very, very clever, the devil. The devil is very
clever, indeed,” Savage told his audience.
“[I]t's ironic
that people who hate families and children – a group called Media
Matters, filled with anti-family individuals who do not marry;
they're men who like men – would take out of context comments that
I made last week directed at the misdiagnosed, the falsely diagnosed,
and the outright fakers in the autism field and try to make you, the
parents of the truly autistic, attack me.”
Super Talk
Mississippi said in a statement posted on their website:
“Effective immediately, Michael Savage and his Savage Nation
Radio Show has been canceled on all Super Talk Mississippi
stations. Michael Savage's comments about Autistic children were
beyond inexcusable and are unacceptable.”