(editor's note: I tried for almost 30 minutes to get a series of YouTube videos on here to go with this story, like I did at another site, but to no avail.  MyDD really needs to work on making it easier for diary posters to put up stuff.)

What can I say, I like this guy. No, I'm not crazy, nor have I suddenly sold out to the gang at Swindlers' Inc (aka the current Republican Party).

(cross posted at Kickin it with CG and Clintonistas for Obama)

As if we needed more evidence that the Right is completely whacked...

Yesterday on his radio show, right winger Michael Savage said that autism is "a fraud" and "a racket" and that "in 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out." Savage then asserted that all these "brat[s]" need as a father to tell them to "stop acting like a putz":

That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, `Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'" Savage concluded, "[I]f I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, `Don't behave like a fool.' The worst thing he said -- `Don't behave like a fool. Don't be anybody's dummy. Don't sound like an idiot. Don't act like a girl. Don't cry.' That's what I was raised with. That's what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You're turning your son into a girl, and you're turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That's why we have the politicians we have."

Savage later claimed that there was "an asthma epidemic amongst minority children" because "the children got extra welfare if they were disabled."

Listen and vomit a little:

Where do they find these guys?

(cross posted at Kickin it with CG and Clintonistas for Obama)

In case anyone was wondering what an exercise in fear-mongering looks like.  Here you go:

The above represents a billboard in Orange County, Florida. The local ABC News affiliate reports that the person responsible is a local musician "trying to help Republicans" but that "officials with both political parties are calling the billboard inappropriate."

Betcha we'll see more of this as we get closer to the GE.  Ya think?

I don't know if any readers are really into poetry, but I thought I'd post this anyway. I posted one of his poems called "I too sing America." in another thread.

Langston Hughes is often called America's greatest black poet. He is considered by many, myself included, to be one of America's greatest poets, of any color.

He was born in 1902 and died in 1967. He lived through some of the most vicious years of Jim Crow and fought against it his whole life. He flirted briefly with communism then rejected it when he saw it for what it really was - only another way for tyrants to hold power. This poem was first published in 1938 during Hughes brief period of support for communism. Many of his poems speak to the black experience, but many others speak to the universal human spirit. This is one that speaks to both.Many verses are especially relevant in this election cycle. The title of this poem was the source for John Kerry's campaign slogan.

Okay so I have had comments Hide Rated a lot recently. I have only given a Hide Rating to one post. I give troll ratings sparingly and try to only give them to post that attack and demean without provocation. Here is my most recent ratings that I have given:

1) Re: Fight for Equality [2.00], by feelfree, Rated: 2
Posted on 07/13/2008 03:33:01 PM EST
Rated on 07/13/2008 03:56:46 PM EST

2) He is black [1.41], by JJE, Rated: 1
Posted on 07/11/2008 01:00:23 PM EST
Rated on 07/11/2008 02:53:16 PM EST

3) Re: Obama's Fundraising Down? [2.00], by SophieL, Rated: 2
Posted on 07/10/2008 09:41:46 PM EST
Rated on 07/10/2008 10:12:32 PM EST

4) Re: John McCain Raises $22 M [2.00], by chiefscribe, Rated: 2
Posted on 07/10/2008 08:23:10 PM EST
Rated on 07/10/2008 08:40:20 PM EST

5) Re: Answer: Because the PUMA [2.00], by SuGeAtARC, Rated: 2
Posted on 07/10/2008 11:07:34 AM EST
Rated on 07/10/2008 12:41:24 PM EST

6) ultra tip jar [1.57], by Lakrosse, Rated: 2
Posted on 07/01/2008 07:02:14 PM EST
Rated on 07/01/2008 09:01:52 PM EST

7) Re: Last 2 weeks [1.50], by Reaper0Bot0, Rated: 1
Posted on 07/01/2008 01:34:02 PM EST
Rated on 07/01/2008 05:27:06 PM EST

8) Re: Honestly [1.25], by Tenafly Viper, Rated: 1
Posted on 06/23/2008 09:42:44 PM EST
Rated on 06/23/2008 10:37:37 PM EST

9) Why [1.92], by kevin22262, Rated: 2
Posted on 06/23/2008 09:02:04 PM EST
Rated on 06/23/2008 10:37:37 PM EST

10) Re: Methinks the best ticket may be [1.80], by ragekage, Rated: 1
Posted on 06/02/2008 10:20:26 PM EST
Rated on 06/02/2008 10:27:23 PM EST

11) And the trolls roll out... [1.65], by ragekage, Rated: 0
Posted on 06/02/2008 09:40:36 PM EST
Rated on 06/02/2008 10:27:23 PM ESTT

12) [Hidden Comment]

So here is a comment that was hide rated of mine:

(Cross posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

You know, I love Jerome Armstrong. I really do. When so many of us Hillary Clinton Democrats were being bashed around everywhere else, he provided us with a warm & welcoming home here at MyDD. I'll always appreicate him for that. Oh yeah, and he's wicked smart as well!

But you know what, Barack Obama is our Democratic nominee. I've made peace with that. Oh yes, and I really like his energy & environment plan. And while I agree with Jerome on many other matters, I just have to disagree with him on this.

Let's IMPEACH them, NOW! I pray this to honor every Iraqi child who was blown into redness for absolutely nothing -- other than happening to be born on oil-soaked sand -- in order to satisfy a bunch of chicken-hawk draft-dodgers who are currently running our nation using this bizarre, filthy, far-out Neocon "quasi-fascist" Middle-Eastern colonization attempt, just to help their buddies at Exxon and Haliburton. I really hope there is a fair judging for heaven and hell because that's where the Bush war criminals are going!

I found this posted on an ABC site:

IF YOU LIKE THIS ECONOMY;

IF YOU LIKE THIS NEVER-ENDING WAR;

IF YOU LIKED HIS VOTE AGAINST A GI BILL FOR IRAQ VETS;

IF LIKE PAYING HIGH GAS PRICES;

IF LIKE THE TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH;

IF YOU CAN'T WAIT TO INVADE IRAN;

IF YOU LIKE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT;

IF YOU LIKE A PRESIDENT WHO VOTED AGAINST EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN;

IF YOU LIKE A PRESIDENT WHO VOTED AGAINST MATERNITY LEAVE FOR WOMEN;

IF YOU LOOK FORWARD TO THE END OF ROE V. WADE;

IF YOU LIKE THE UNFAIR TRADE POLICIES THAT SEND JOBS AND TECHNOLOGY OVERSEAS;

IF YOU LIKE A GOVERNMENT THAT PRACTICES TORTURE;

IF YOU LIKE A GOVERNMENT THAT SPIES ON ITS OWN CITIZEN;

IF YOU LIKE THE FACT THAT THE US IS ONE OF THE MOST REVILED NATIONS ON THE PLANET, THEN YOU'LL JUST LOVE McCAIN.

No matter what arguments come out of the campaigns this year, this says it all to me. Each and every item sums up the problems with Republican policies and you can be guaranteed that the Old Man promotes all of them.

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