r00kers said:
Talk Radio Network, Savage's syndicator, has quite a list of advertisers.

ABC
Acura
American Express
Ancestry.com
Boca Java
Bochringer
Bosch
Campbells
Citrix
Consolidated Resources
Direct Buy
Dish Network
Ebay Motors
Efax
General Motors
Gallo Wines
Hoover
Legal Zoom
Marshalls
Nautilus
Nivea
Outback Steakhouse
Prudential
Purina One
Simon & Schuster
Staples
Subway
Texaco Chevron
United First Financial
Volkswagon

I wonder if anyone will organize a boycott?

I'll look up all of the addresses for those companies and post them tomorrow. If someone wants to write up some sort of form letter, that may encourage others to participate.

Rude_Ruca

I'm lost

December 2004

JUL 22, 2008 10:21 AM

felony187 said:

Rude_Ruca said:

joker_ said:
I thought this was going to be about:

::long sigh:: 1

Come on who cringed.

Should have worded it this way - ::long embarassed sigh::... it wasn't the kind of sigh one might expect from a 13 yr. old fangirl, I promise...

SockPuppet

I'm lost

July 2006

JUL 22, 2008 03:15 PM

joker_ said:
I thought this was going to be about:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Spoilers, please... I think I just went colourblind in self-defence.

RedBstrd

Pomona, CA

April 2004

JUL 22, 2008 08:24 PM

RedBstrd said:

I'll look up all of the addresses for those companies and post them tomorrow. If someone wants to write up some sort of form letter, that may encourage others to participate.

Here is the contact info for half of the companies listed by r00kers. I'll look up the rest tomorrow...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

emotedcreations

Germany

July 2006

JUL 22, 2008 08:30 PM

RedBstrd said:

RedBstrd said:

I'll look up all of the addresses for those companies and post them tomorrow. If someone wants to write up some sort of form letter, that may encourage others to participate.

Here is the contact info for half of the companies listed by r00kers. I'll look up the rest tomorrow...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

I appreciate the effort, but has anyone verified these sponsors? Or are we just operating on hearsay? Or is the list supposed to help us verify? I'm confused where we're at in the process. I feel like we jumped a step.

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA

April 2006

JUL 22, 2008 08:52 PM

wildswan said:

Savage, chillin' with his dog:

Jesus, that's one ugly bitch. I especially like that trail of bird shit leading towards his hand on the rail. If he stands there just a bit longer... Ker-splat!

RedBstrd

Pomona, CA

April 2004

JUL 22, 2008 09:40 PM

Tiwaz said:

RedBstrd said:

RedBstrd said:

I'll look up all of the addresses for those companies and post them tomorrow. If someone wants to write up some sort of form letter, that may encourage others to participate.

Here is the contact info for half of the companies listed by r00kers. I'll look up the rest tomorrow...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

No one has yet offered the verification. I can look into that too, but I kind of expected the person who posted that list to offer more info.

In the meantime, I figured that I could do my part.

emotedcreations

Germany

July 2006

JUL 22, 2008 09:55 PM

RedBstrd said:

Tiwaz said:

RedBstrd said:

RedBstrd said:

I'll look up all of the addresses for those companies and post them tomorrow. If someone wants to write up some sort of form letter, that may encourage others to participate.

Here is the contact info for half of the companies listed by r00kers. I'll look up the rest tomorrow...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

No one has yet offered the verification. I can look into that too, but I kind of expected the person who posted that list to offer more info.

In the meantime, I figured that I could do my part.

I asked the original poster whether they were associated specifically with his show or with the station that broadcasts it in general. Keep in mind, he's nationally syndicated, boycotting every sponsor of every station will be near impossible. I have no problem boycotting companies that he specifically supports, but lets be clear. That list looks a bit suspicious to me given my experience with him.

MessyJesse

Roanoke, VA

February 2008

JUL 22, 2008 10:00 PM

I have a tire iron with his name on it...

r00kers

Nederland, CO

March 2003

JUL 23, 2008 08:14 AM

The sponsor list was taken directly from the TRN (Talk Radio Network) website. While I do not know whether or not they all 'sponsor' Michael Savage is unclear.

BTW, they appear to have taken down the list of sponsors (or I simply can't find it anymore).

It was originally linked to from here:
http://www.talkradionetwork.com/pg/jsp/adinfo/demographics.jsp

FridgeMagnet

Chicago, IL

November 2004

JUL 23, 2008 08:23 AM

So, what if one of the people who work at the radio company has a kid with autism, and by boycotting his show we significantly fuck up the company's revenue forecast, and so that person gets laid off, and then they can't afford autism pills. Then the joke is on us.

Havilah

Phoenix, AZ

April 2006

JUL 23, 2008 08:29 AM

I heard Budwiser, Aflac and Home Depot were direct sponsors of his show and Aflac has pulled support, along with several radio stations. I also heard Home Depot has pulled it's sponsorship, but I can't find any citation of that yet.

Edit: Ah, here we go

SixBoxes

Stoney Creek, ON

June 2007

JUL 23, 2008 08:38 AM

FridgeMagnet said:
So, what if one of the people who work at the radio company has a kid with autism, and by boycotting his show we significantly fuck up the company's revenue forecast, and so that person gets laid off, and then they can't afford autism pills. Then the joke is on us.

If you really don't like the idea of boycotting sponsors, you could surely come up with a more plausible scenario by which to play devil's advocate.

...that is, if you're actually being serious. My monitor's not so good at showing me how far posters have their tongues planted into their cheeks.

r00kers

Nederland, CO

March 2003

JUL 24, 2008 09:09 PM

Update/fallout regarding the Savage affair:

"In response to Savage's remarks, the insurance company AFLAC announced it will no longer sponsor Savage's program, while the seven-station Super Talk Mississippi radio network has decided to drop Savage's program from its lineup."

mydogfarted

Waldwick, NJ

June 2003

JUL 25, 2008 01:30 PM

I hate to be a complete dick here, but has anyone else noticed that Autism is the new ADHD? It seems like every asshole with a kid with behavioral problems has Asperger Syndrome or something similar. The same asshole kids had ADHD a few years ago. Pisses me off that people who have children that are truly autistic and need help get lumped in with children that have the diagnosis of the moment.

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

JUL 25, 2008 02:32 PM

mydogfarted said:
I hate to be a complete dick here, but has anyone else noticed that Autism is the new ADHD? It seems like every asshole with a kid with behavioral problems has Asperger Syndrome or something similar. The same asshole kids had ADHD a few years ago. Pisses me off that people who have children that are truly autistic and need help get lumped in with children that have the diagnosis of the moment.

Reduced social stigma of diagnosis and/or treatment, greater understanding and recognition in the medical community and/or the public, greater incidence in the population, more access to treatment, etc.: These are all valid reasons for increases in the diagnosis of diseases in general which have nothing to do with "trends" or "fads." Every psychological illness in history has gone through a period where people with the condition have been either dismissed as "troubled" (or some variant of the argument) or mis-diagnosed, before their condition was more fully understood and accepted.

ADHD may have been over-treated for a time, because of a lack of understanding about treatments, but that doesn't mean the clinical diagnoses were invalid. Self-diagnosed cases of ADHD have been very common, and that's the key, because it's far more likely for parents to claim their children have ADHD when they don't than for a doctor to diagnose a child with ADHD when it doesn't exist. These uninformed diagnoses are common with disorders like these, because, like many psychological illnesses, many of the symptoms are part of normal behavior, but rise to the level of a disorder when their severity and frequency fall outside normal ranges. Furthermore, the perception of a rash of ADHD diagnoses suddenly spreading across the country probably has more to do with the fact that it was classified in the DSM in our lifetime.

Autism, on the other hand, is identified by abnormal behavior. That is, if children exhibit certain verifiable symptoms, then something isn't right. Following that recognition comes specific identification within the spectrum of autism-related disorders (which includes, but is not limited to autism itself) and determination of the severity. Furthermore, because autism and autism-related disorders have a wide range of manifestation and severity, if you compared two people with even the same autism-related disorder, one might seem almost normal while the other may exhibit very obvious symptoms. That doesn't mean that the person who seems almost normal doesn't have it, or that they don't have more pronounced internal symptoms that aren't readily apparent. Now, autism itself is pretty hard to miss if you're familiar with the symptoms, but it's entirely possible that people with less severe autism-related disorders might simplify their diagnosis by saying they have autism, because it's much simpler than saying you have PDD-NOS, which is much more common. Nevertheless, they're not entirely wrong, since they would still exhibit some of the same symptoms (just not all of them, and not as severe).

In short: ADHD's false diagnoses are probably much less common than you think, but understandable because many of the symptoms reflect normal behavior taken to problematic extremes of frequency and severity; autism is a completely separate phenomenon that is not particularly comparable and which is frequently misunderstood; and neither of them are "fads" or "diagnoses of the moment," and you're extrapolating a world view out of bad media coverage, the blathering of pundits, and limited personal experience.

P.S. I'm sure that as the parent of a baby, you're probably bombarded with information about autism more than most people, simply because most of the symptoms of autism appear before the age of 3 and in the US, autism screening is common. This might be affecting your outlook.

Salem

SUICIDEGIRL

Mississippi, USA

JUL 26, 2008 07:51 PM

r00kers said:
"the seven-station Super Talk Mississippi radio network has decided to drop Savage's program from its lineup."

I was just going to post this. I noticed that it wasn't on anymore.

It his place...THE DENNIS MILLER SHOW YAAAAAAY

r00kers

Nederland, CO

March 2003

JUL 27, 2008 11:22 AM

A complete blowhard for a somewhat washed up comedian who took a wrong turn a while ago. Some trade. Of course, it is 'talk radio'.

MisterSatan

Vancouver, WA

August 2002

JUL 27, 2008 12:00 PM

r00kers said:
A complete blowhard for a somewhat washed up comedian who took a wrong turn a while ago. Some trade. Of course, it is 'talk radio'.

Think of it this way- when was the last time you heard Dennis Miller badmouthing people with autism?

r00kers

Nederland, CO

March 2003

JUL 27, 2008 12:14 PM

Think of it this way- when was the last time you heard Dennis Miller badmouthing people with autism?

I'll concede that. Whereas Savage lights the match and closes his eyes before his idiot blunderbuss unloads, Dennis Miller at least takes aim and has some wit.

Necia

Salt Lake City, UT

August 2005

JUL 27, 2008 07:00 PM

MessyJesse said:
I have a tire iron with his name on it...

Oooh! I was going to go with "die in a fire," but that one's been used 'round these parts already.

I fully support you in this. Maybe I can purchase a tire iron.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Shiny_metal_ass

I'm lost

October 2006

JUL 27, 2008 07:02 PM

Necia said:

MessyJesse said:
I have a tire iron with his name on it...

Oooh! I was going to go with "die in a fire," but that one's been used 'round these parts already.

I fully support you in this. Maybe I can purchase a tire iron.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Here ya go...

MessyJesse

Roanoke, VA

February 2008

JUL 27, 2008 07:03 PM

Necia said:

MessyJesse said:
I have a tire iron with his name on it...

Oooh! I was going to go with "die in a fire," but that one's been used 'round these parts already.

I fully support you in this. Maybe I can purchase a tire iron.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

MessyJesse

Roanoke, VA

February 2008

JUL 27, 2008 07:04 PM

I like the 4-way...more versatile.

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