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Media Matters for America16y
Savage on autism: “A fraud, a racket. ... In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out”
On the July 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage claimed that autism is "[a] fraud, a racket." Savage went on to say, “I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent ...
Media Matters for America16y
Savage still claiming autism comments taken out of context, despite his prior reference to “a phony disease”
Referring to Media Matters' documentation of comments in which he called autism "[a] fraud, a racket," Michael Savage said: “They're very happy that they were able to use the poor parents of ...
Mother Jones4y
Trump Put a Right-Wing Radio Host in Charge of a National Park. Emails Show the Chaos That Ensued.
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Click the highlighted text for more. Last December 7, Michael Savage kicked off ...
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If Savage was smearing only misdiagnoses of autism, why did he previously call autism itself a “phony disease”?
A rebroadcast of The Savage Nation that aired on the program July 9 further undermines Michael Savage's claim that he was referring on July 16 only to misdiagnoses of autism, and not to the ...
Salon22y
Michael Savage's long, strange trip
These days, Weiner's more interested in purging the body politic. Using the pseudonym Michael Savage, he's launched a one-man mission to save America from its enemies at home and abroad ...
Chicago Tribune5y
Why Michael Savage is blasting Sean Hannity and the right-wing media on the coronavirus
There are a lot of people who are ruining the country right now, according to Michael Savage. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Liberal mayors in big cities like San Francisco. Undocumented immigrants.
The New York Times6y
Michael Savage Has Doubts About Trump. His Conservative Radio Audience Does Not.
Michael Savage was one of the first radio hosts to endorse Mr. Trump. Now he thinks the president’s fans are too uncritical. But his listeners aren’t so sure. Michael Savage hosts his ...
The Washington Post21y
Savage Lives Up to His Name -- and That's All for Him at MSNBC
HOLLYWOOD, July 7 -- MSNBC was shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- to learn that its well-known homophobe host Michael Savage is actually -- gasp! -- homophobic, and the network has sacked him ...
Fox News12y
Michael Savage wins legal battle with boss, leaves airwaves in search of new network
LOS ANGELES – Michael Savage's talk show left the airwaves Thursday after the conservative host won a legal battle with his longtime employer, although his attorney said discussions with new ...
Media Matters for America16y
Savage asked why Obama visited grandmother “who suddenly and suspiciously died virtually the night before the election”
Discussing purported “questions about” President-elect Barack Obama “that the media won't answer,” Michael Savage revived discredited rumors about Obama's birth certificate and asked ...
Media Matters for America17y
Savage: “Bring in 10 million more from Africa. ... They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head”
On The Savage Nation, a caller identified by Michael Savage as “Kojo” asked Savage: "[D]o you know how the AIDS got there [Africa]?" Savage responded: “It got there because it was spread ...