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Dept. of Weinerschnitzel: radio host banned from the U.K.

Mark Pritchard — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:06:07 +0000

Local comedian Michael Weiner, who broadcasts nationally as a right-wing foamer called “Michael Savage,” has been banned from the U.K. for promoting hate speech. The Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci has an exclusive interview with the radio talker and former Allen Ginsburg groupie, whose previous utterances have included an allegation that autistic children are simply badly behaved kids who need more parental discipline.

It’s not just his radio broadcasts that are banned. Weiner himself is banned from entering the U.K.

Dept. of Weinershnitzel: GOP congressman takes on hate talker

Mark Pritchard — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:01:24 +0000

Kudos to local journalist Brad Kava for publishing this first on the Examiner.com website: Freshman GOP congressman Joseph Cao — who became the first-ever Vietnamese-American elected to Congress when he defeated corrupt Democratic Rep. William Jefferson in the Louisiana 2d district — has condemned the anti-immigrant comments of San Francisco radio talker Michael Weiner.

Weiner, the former Alan Ginsburg groupie whose “Michael Savage” broadcasts are ranked third nationally among right-wing talk shows, is well known for inflammatory statements about immigrants, the disabled, gays and other minorities. Cao called his statements in a 2007 program “repulsive” and added, “I hope that the GOP will not tolerate those kinds of views and will not take those positions.”

Also: In today’s Boston Phoenix, Adam Reilly looks at hateful anti-Barack Obama statements by Weiner and other foamers.

Dept. of Weinershnitzel: SFPD’s sensitivity training is silly

Mark Pritchard — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:56:33 +0000

Local comedian Michael Weiner, who broadcasts nationally as a right-wing foamer called “Michael Savage,” is back at the well, making fun of local customs for the amusement of the auslanders. Now it’s the standard sensitivity training classes for police detectives, classes designed to teach the sherlocks about our more colorful residents. According to Weiner:

The San Francisco Police Department is forcing detectives to undergo brainwashing by a transgendered detective… I would not let myself be brainwashed by this freak.

This sad little man, who is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to spew this shit over the radio, loves that kind of talk, because his demented listeners love it even more. All I can say is, I hope he spends some of his huge salary locally, because that’s all the benefit we’ll ever get out of the fact that he actually works here.

Previously:
Local demagogue finds new way to offend people

Bad week for Weiner

Mark Pritchard — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:21:16 +0000

It’s been a bad week for comedian Michael Weiner, whose national broadcasts as “Michael Savage” from a San Francisco studio have dirtied the airwaves for several years. First his network was forced to clarify and backtrack on his July 16 comments that children with autism are likely just “brats” who should be told to “act like a man” and “told to cut the act out.”

Protests against Weiner continued Sunday with a demonstration in front of San Francisco station KNEW, where he records his nationally syndicated program.

Meanwhile, a federal judge late Friday tossed out Weiner’s suit against a Muslim organization that used short clips from his broadcasts to show he was bigoted. The judge said the clips were covered under fair use and that Weiner hadn’t documented claims that their use by the Council on American-Islamic Relations took money out of his pocket.

None of this would add up to a bad week for the former Alan Ginsburg groupie, who like others of his ilk thrives on bad publicity. What hurt was that he lost a sponsor, as well as distribution in the state of Mississippi. Stations in Ohio and Virginia also canceled Weiner’s program, according to Media Matters for America.

Previously:
Local radio demagogue finds new way to offend people
SF radio talker, unclear on the concept, sues critics

Local radio demagogue finds new way to offend people

Mark Pritchard — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:01 +0000

Comedian Michael Weiner, who broadcasts nationally as the right-wing radio talk show foamer Michael Savage, has added parents of autistic children to the long list of people he has insulted, flamed and defamed in his long career. The former Alan Ginsburg groupie said Monday he was trying to “boldly awaken” parents who refrain from disciplining their autistic children. This week he refused to bow to the demands for an apology, though he admitted his assertion that 99 percent of autism cases were misdiagnosed was “hyperbole.” He has already lost one sponsor over the incident.

Weiner’s home base is local station KNEW at 910 AM.