May
2008
GOP Radio Talker on AM620 Mocks Ted Kennedy After Cancer Diagnosis
Offensive. Outrageous. Inexcusable.
That was my reaction when syndicated talk radio host (on AM620 WTMJ ) Michael Savage decided to play a "Dead Kennedys" song when he announced that Ted Kennedy had been diagnosed with brain cancer.
As a person who has lost a close relative to brain cancer I can tell you it's nothing to be joked about. Brain cancer is a ruthless cancer that destroys a persons motor functions and robs them of the ability to speak. There was nothing funny about seeing my uncle Don rot away from the inside. He was a vibrant man who in his youth was athletic and very active. There was nothing funny about seeing him shuffle about and it wasn't hilarious to see lose his ability to speak or to see him drooling in the latter stages of his cancer.
It's been over ten years since I lost my uncle Don and now Senator Ted Kennedy will likely face that same decline. Perhaps Savage doesn't understand the ravages of this disease. Savage was not funny, he was just cruel.
Jim McGuigan
Jim McGuigan, Watchdogging Talk Radio
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First off, Savage isn’t a WTMJ AM620 talk radio host, but a sysndicated host. He may be a right-wing nut job, but he is a very wise man and doctor. To tell you the truth, I was glad to hear that Ted Kennedy will be out of the Senate. I would have much rather had it that he was beaten in an election. Savage has a lot of die hard listeners who he has to cater to. Just like this site canders to liberals. If GW was to have some sickness I can bet my life’s savings that you would have a lot of left wing nut jobs doing the same thing, although I bet you wouldn’t have that posted on your blog….
Teddy’s got Kopechne Cancer, a rare form of retribution for commiting murder which is manifested as little killer demons growing in the guilty’s brain.
Wow… you right wingers are really sick…
disgusting and sick…
620 should immediately take Savage’s show off the air.
I mean really sick…
I’m shocked by Savage’s behavior, and even more by the two comments above. After all, we’ve been told so many times that only liberals are angry and uncivil.
I would not wish brain cancer on anyone — not Dubya, not even Mike Savage.
I am sorry Kennedy has brain cancer. I wish him well.
However, we should not forget his past actions of leaving Mary jo Kopechne to drown in his car after he drove it off a bridge.
He then got a lawyer and took nine hours to notify police.
Again, I don’t wish cancer on anyone.