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July 23, 2008 at 08:49:39

Headlined on 7/23/08:
Savage Hiding Behind Hyperbole and Other Literary Devices

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"I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat
who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do
you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around
to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop
acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying
and screaming, idiot." Michael Savage (7/16)

Last week my son Ryan and I wrote of talk show host Michael Savage's
remarks concerning Autism. Ryan's beautiful eight-year old daughter has
been diagnosed with Autism. Ryan and his wife fight for Rebecca's rights
and happiness nearly everyday. We've received some supportive email, but
we have also been subjected to rather nasty attacks from Savage
apologists.

Savage even read a letter of support from the CEO of his one of his long
time sponsors, gold and silver trader, Swiss America, Craig R. Smith. Smith, a columnist at the far-right WorldNet Daily, isn't unfamiliar with the
bomb-throwing territory, calling MSNBC, Time Magazine, Chris Matthews and
Michael Isakoff, "unpatriotic haters of this country." In his note, which
Savage read to listeners on Tues night (7/22), Smith called people like
my son and I, "Neanderthals" for questioning Savage's integrity.

I don't have the time, to respond to each of the good doctor's defenders
indivisually. but I wanted to clear up a few misconceptions that Savage, his sponsor and many of his fans might have about myself, Ryan and literary terms in general.

1. Neither of us are Neanderthals. Neither were Ryan's grandparents who
would have had to have been for he or I to be considered such. Not
hyperbole as much as questioning your standard evolution, which I
understand you're not entirely sure of.

2. We're not Sodomites either. This isn't even close to hyperbole as
we're not even a little bit Sodomite. Nothing against Sodomites, but our
wives and past girlfriends can attest to the fact that we could barely
talk them into READ THE REST OF THE STORY HERE.

Steve Young is the author of Great Failures of the Extremely Successful and blogs at steveyoungonpolitics.com

www.greatfailure.com

A talk show host, author, columnist,award-winning television writer and filmmaker, his inspiring book, "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press) has been published internationally and has become required reading in the Wharton School of Business Masters Program. His "All The News That's Fit To Spoof " column appears every Sunday on the L.A. Daily News Oped Page. Steve has appeared all over national TV and radio with his unique brand of satirical punditry and social observations appearing in national periodicals from the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, to his own weekly Internet column "The Lords Of Loud," at AlbionMonitor.net and The Huffington Post.

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Sandy SandSandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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In defense of Neanderthals

On behalf of all of us Neanderthals (and we perfer the Ne-and-er-thal pronunciation to the silly-sounding Ne-and-er-tall.) Besides, we were short in stature, but big in civility.

Unlike the larger brained homo sapians who replaced us, we were a peace-loving people with a spoken and pictorial language. We were an eco-friendly people who didn’t rape the land, loved our children, buried our dead with ceremony and respect, and only fought others to protect ourselves, making us far smarter and gentile than them.

We also didn’t make stupid, ill-informed accusation cemented in convoluted, idiotic logic.

by Sandy Sand (131 articles, 0 quicklinks, 161 diaries, 1208 comments) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:50:29 AM

Hater of Nazis above all. Hobbies include activism, military model building, military history, exciting and vital conversation with retired crooks. Retired
John HanksHater of Nazis above all. Hobbies include activism, military model building, military history, exciting and vital conversation with retired crooks. Retired

Crook media believes in liars, bullys and crooks.

Essentially every powerful organization in our culture has a license to steal.

by John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 975 comments) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 8:21:19 PM

I am a produced playwright,published essayist and doctoral level scholar in religion and literature, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am also the widow of Silas S. Warner, creator of the original "Castle Wolfenstein".
Kari Ann OwenI am a produced playwright,published essayist and doctoral level scholar in religion and literature, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am also the widow of Silas S. Warner, creator of the original "Castle Wolfenstein".

Each Autistic Human Being is an Individual

I write to testify to the extraordinary progress of one of my disabled students in our therapeutic horseback riding program. This gentleman is 58 years old and hardly qualifies as a brat. His manners are better than several people at the stable and a couple of the horses! He has made incredible progress and has a beautiful Western Pleasure seat, has learned more self confidence than I dared to imagine at first, and has amazed his social workers, his devoted sister and all of us. He is a privilege to teach, and I wish some of the "abled" people at our stable had his courtesy, kindness and perceptiveness.

by Kari Ann Owen (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:10:07 PM

Male, 50, Texas. White with white hair (for 20 years)
Write, read, and draw.
Topics include science, art, history, language, philisophy, the odd and unusual. SiFi/Goth/Lovecraft
Recovering from a medical episode that nearly killed me in 2006. Still being treated.
An autodidact and graduated High School but not college.
Not good with people. I have poor emotional intelligence.
nightgauntMale, 50, Texas. White with white hair (for 20 years)
Write, read, and draw.
Topics include science, art, history, language, philisophy, the odd and unusual. SiFi/Goth/Lovecraft
Recovering from a medical episode that nearly killed me in 2006. Still being treated.
An autodidact and graduated High School but not college.
Not good with people. I have poor emotional intelligence.

The Savage Man is the one to talk ---he sneers at civility.

So it is only appropriate that he has another savage man to back him up. When incivility is considered 'truth telling' in an unadulterated form you know the bullies run the show. That is ugly as their verbage to whom they direct their attack. And like any predator they go after the weakest to bring down and maul to a bloody ruin then consume.

As long as his brand of 'talk' is considered good and worthy of support, he is rated third after Limbaugh and Hannity, it will go on and his form of mental illness will be lionized.

by nightgaunt (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 64 comments) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 12:25:41 PM

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