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Michael Savage, the incendiary radio host who last week characterized nearly every autistic child as “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” said in a telephone interview Monday morning that he stood by his remarks and had no intention of apologizing to those advocates and parents who have called for his firing over the matter. “My main point remains true,” Mr. Savage, whose radio audience ranks in size behind only those of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, said in an interview on Monday. “It is an overdiagnosed medical condition. In my readings, there is no definitive...

Today's Savage thread.

Even Ted Kennedy's political enemies spoke kindly of him when they learned that he had a malignant brain tumor. But not conservative talk show host Michael Savage. As a form of "respect" to Kennedy on his syndicated talk show Tuesday, Savage played The Dead Kennedy's "California Uber Alles" - get it? Ho ho, the wit! Oh, and he dropped in a couple of "Kindergarten Cop" sound clips of the Arnold Schwarzenegger character saying, "It's not a tumor." Listen to it here, if you must. Then quickly bathe. Mike, Mike, Mike, one word, baby: Karma. It never forgets. Then again, Savage's...

Bearing petitions and prayers, about 70 people gathered Sunday to protest the “hateful utterances” of national radio personality Michael Savage, whose talk show is carried locally by KCMO 710-AM. Representatives from several faiths, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Sikhism, were meeting for the first time as the Interfaith Coalition Against Bigotry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The group has collected hundreds of signatures on petitions protesting Savage’s statements last fall, “which included a call to deport Muslims from the United States without due process of law,” the group said. “We have become sometimes saddened and sometimes angered by...

Michael Savage, the occasionally loud, usually offensive radio personality who is deliberately ignored by every major media outlet in America, is the sort of person you’d be better off knowing about. Originally Michael Alan Weiner, he grew up in the Bronx. He currently lives in San Francisco, or as he sometimes refers to it, “San FranFreako.” But his thick, Italian New York accent, coupled with his love of Italian food and his certainty about everything he sets his mind to, make his roots as evident as ever.

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Today's New York Post lists the top 20 talkers in New York based on average numbers of listeners listening at any given moment. Franken beats Savage. 1) Howard Stern WXRK/6-10 a.m. 237,000 2) Rush Limbaugh WABC/12-3 p.m. 139,000 3) Curtis & Kuby (tie) WABC/6-10 a.m. 106,200 3) Mike & Mad Dog (tie) WFAN/1-6 p.m. 106,200 5) Sean Hannity WABC/3-6 p.m. 103,700 6) John Gambling WABC/10-noon 102,400 7) Don Imus WFAN/6-10 a.m. 96,800 8) Ed Walsh WOR/6-9 a.m. 92,200 9) Bob Grant WOR/4-6 p.m. 87,000 10) Joan Hamburg WOR/9-11 a.m. 83,800 11) Mark Levin WABC/6-8 p.m. 74,300 12) Bill O'Reilly WOR/2-4...

WASHINGTON – It's no longer just a charge of copyright violation in the case of Michael Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relations. Now the radio talk star is going for the legal jugular in his battle with the group that bills itself as a Muslim civil rights organization. The San Francisco-based talker has amended his lawsuit against CAIR for misusing audio clips of his show as part of a boycott campaign against his three-hour daily program to include charges the group "has consistently sought to silence opponents of violent terror through economic blackmail, frivolous but costly lawsuits, threats of lawsuits...

NASHUA – Speaking to about 40 BAE Systems workers in what he called a "town hall meeting," Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter again blasted an opponent because his former company is doing business with a Chinese defense contractor. Hunter, a U.S. congressman from California, called on Bain Capital, a company founded by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another GOP presidential contender, to drop its strategic partnership with Chinese defense contractor Huawei Technologies in a bid to buy U.S. defense contractor 3Com. Hunter will also ask Romney to use his influence with Bain to end the proposed merger between Huawei and...

Thank G-d It's Friday!!

SACRAMENTO – As if to sweep away the last remnants of his 2005 special election shellacking, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is following the purge of his senior government staff with a housecleaning in his political operation to launch his re-election campaign this year. But unlike his eclectic – critics would say “schizophrenic” – Capitol staff, where the dominant figure is a longtime Democratic activist, senior members of the Republican governor's new campaign team have solid Republican pedigrees. Out is senior strategist Mike Murphy, who directed the campaign for Schwarzenegger's “reform agenda,” which was defeated in November. And Rob Stutzman, Schwarzenegger's chief...

Vancouver — Capers by sophisticated thieves with a taste for the good life are regular escapist fare at the movies. But a real-life heist by someone with an acute knowledge of ''nothing but the best'' has stripped the priciest restaurant in Whistler of its most prized bottles of wine. "I feel like I've lost a part of myself, a part of my history," André St. Jacques, owner of the Bearfoot Bistro, said yesterday, as he mourned the disappearance of an estimated $200,000 worth of expensive wines from the tony eatery's showcase cabinet. While it would take something like 25,000 glasses...