Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Let's "Savage" Michael Weiner ("Weener? Whiner"?) "Savage"!!!

I mean, let's really really get the barbarous, vicious, scum-sucking shitheel (The essence of this approach was developed and perfected by Bay-Area blogger/activist, Mr. Spocko, who took on the odious. drooling asswipes on the Disney channel, KSFO.):
I refer you to Chicago blogger "Driftglass" on his 'experiment.'
Make Them Choose!
...(As) the Denial Condom that “Moderate” Republicans have to slip over their Huge!Throbbing!Racist!Crazy!Party grows thinner and more fragile every day, there has never been a more fruitful opportunity to get up in the grills of those who want to silently support the Party of God and start loudly and publicly framing their alternatives for them.
Make them choose -- Do you or do you not stand behind what these looney motherfuckers say? -- and then make them publicly accountable for those choices.
So I’m going to try an experiment based on these simple facts:
1. WIND is a Chicago radio station that features one of the ubiquitous, all-wingnut-all-the-time line-ups. [Ed. Note: KKKOB (770 AM), in Abq.]

2. Some months ago they proudly announced the addition of Michael Weiner Savage to their line-up. (Ed. Note: As of Dec. 7, he was on KKKOB at 1 pm daily)

3. To keep the Pig People a'squealin' and a'listenin', Michael Weiner Savage likes to run his mouth.

4. The good people at Media Matters helpfully jot down what Michael Weiner Savage says and publish it, which makes Michael Weiner Savage very, very sad.

5. Advertising revenue is the life's blood of radio, and is what makes it possible for bottom-feeding moral CHUDs like Michael Weiner Savage to exist and enjoy a handsome living.
Thanks to a lot of tedious digging on the part of my army of (mostly imaginary) minions, I now have a fairly exhaustive list of the organizations that advertise on WIND:
  • The addresses of their corporate offices.
  • Their websites.
  • Their phone numbers
  • The names of their principle corporate officers.
Heheheh.
[This is the money part, the template for writing the sponsor a letter they cannot ignore. It's Drifty's Part 3.]
Writing The Complaint Letter.

STEP 1: Tell them why you are writing.
Dear Sir/Madame:

I am writing you because I hear advertisements for your business on Albuquerque's KKOB radio station, and I wondered if you were really aware of what sort of programming your advertising dollars are underwriting.
STEP 2: Quickly emphasize your bona fides, and your specific complaints.
I am writing as an American citizen. (As a veteran, too; USAF, '64-68.) As someone active in my community. As a hardworking, honest, decent person, who loves my country as much as I’m sure you do, and cares about our kid’s futures as much as you do.
The country faces many problems, from war and terrorism to economic and environmental degradation. I know you agree that as Americans we need to find a way to do what we have always done: work together to solve our problems. But these days it’s harder than ever to find ways of working together, and a big part of the reason why is that "Conservative" Talk Radio stations like KKOB apparently have discovered that peddling hate on radio using on-air personalities like Michael Savage is profitable.

It’s right there on their billboards -- “Liberals Hate Us!”

For the last 20 years, people like Mr. Savage have been allowed to poison the public airwaves for the amusement of the vicious and the ignorant. For the last 20 years, people like Mr. Savage have been able to make a very nice living not because his is smart or informative, but because of his willingness to use his position to promote a cruel, ugly, and deeply un-American agenda.

Frankly I’m sick of it, and hope you are too.
STEP 3: Cite specific examples (these are not fabricated; all of them are taken directly from Media Matters site here.)
Here is a small sampling of the kind of things Mr. Savage says on the air:

After Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Prize:
"90 percent of the people on the Nobel Committee are into child pornography and molestation....”

When he asked questions about military policy, calls Retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr :
"gay, phony general"

Refers to an organization that collates and publishes his remarks in a effort to make him accountable for what he says on the air as:
"is a fascist front group" and "bunch of punk coward psychotics"

Stating that a "[L]oving, kind lesbian" is:
"the type that stuffed ovens in Hitler's concentration camps".

Regarding the grave possibility of a military conflict with Iran:
"Let's get it on! Let's bring it on! Bomb Iran, bring our boys home now!"

Regarding a minor seizure suffered by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts:
"You're telling me there's no possibility of a conspiracy by the Democrats" to cause Roberts' seizure?

Compared the firing of radio talk show host Don Imus to:
"what was done in Nazi Germany to Jews"

Stated that Representative Keith Ellison (who is a Muslim) and atheists share:
"hatred of Christianity and hatred of Jews".

On Martin Luther Kings birthday, referred to civil rights as:
“…a racket” designed to steal “white males’ birthright.”

He blamed the Columbine school massacre on sexual reassignment surgery. He frequently refers to gay marriage and parenting as “child abuse”. I am NOT making ANY of this up.
STEP 4: Preempt any silly-ass argument about this being a Freedom of Speech issue.
Of course what makes America great is that, here, people like Michael Savage have an absolute Constitutional right to hold any sick, malevolent beliefs they choose. But nowhere are they guaranteed the right to a national radio platform for spewing those beliefs, or the right to profit handsomely from spreading the doctrine of hate and divisiveness that is destroying our country.
STEP 5: Outline a specific course of action, and a specific warning.
This is a matter of choice, and as a nation we can no longer allow people who support extremists like Michael Savage to be quietly complicit. So now that you know exactly what kind of filth your dollars are going to support, I am asking as a concerned fellow American that you make a choice; choose to stop footing the bill for putting hatemongers like Michael Savage on there air, or choose to let it be known that your organization will continue to support his extremist views with your advertising dollars.

I look forward to hearing from you regarding your decision. I will wait (two weeks/30 days) for a reply before publishing your lack of response online.

Yours truly,

XXX
So, there's a template, and a letter. Of course, the hidden genius of the letter is that it allows you to imply that the advertiser is sympathetic with the bigoty of the "Savages," while explicitly exonerating them of ill-will. I will NOT volunteer to listen to KKKOB to gather the necessary information about Savage's sponsors. I cannot listen to him at all. I hope someone else can do it. Or has a trained monkey who would not go batshitCRAZY ubder the influence of his shrill barbarities.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

At what point do slander and libel laws apply to these "people"?

Anonymous said...

Savage is right in everything he says, Savage has a right to free speech, and you are wrong in all matters, unfortunately. An ex-liberal.