Don't you get it?!. No one has to defend their words in a free country, and when they do, it ought to be a wake-up call to you and your wimpy, so-called-conservative, brethren.
I am a conservative. I don't feel I have to defend what I or anyone else says. Savage had a perfect right to say what he wanted to say, no matter what you, or I, or anyone else thought of it.
Neither person's offense was "series" though. There was no genuine wish behind the actions.
Catch up on the thread. Michael Savage also told him to go choke on a sausage. Would you still have been outraged if he had just said, "Drop dead" or would you have taken it to be a rude response to a rude comment?
Is AIDS a poltically protected disease or are there other horrible illnesses that would have provoked this response?
I won't defend his comment by bringing up heartless statements made by people on the left (in relation to Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heaston, and others) over time. I'll just point out that a double standard does exist.
I will offer this parallel. There was a Benneton ad that was mocked up to show Ronald Reagan with AIDS scars. Magazines still take their ads and we would be considered "petty" today to push for a boycott of their products/sponsorship this late in the game.