Hate Radio

The pendejón pictured here used to have a mid-day talk show on Florida’s RealRadio 104.1. He billed his show as "the rantings and ravings of an ignorant backwoods motherfucker."Oh okay, those were my words. He said it was a "mixture of outrageous daily, biker attitude and personality, and right-wing style rants."His name is Edward Shannon Burke, got angry at his dog, got a handgun and threatened to shoot it last week. The gun then discharged, "accidentally" and the bullet went through the dog's leg and hit his wife, Catherine, on the side of her head, according to a report.Interesting visual, either the dog was on Catherine's head, or she was on the floor. Who can say since the incident happened about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday at the couple's home.In a recording of Burke's 911 call, he tells the dispatcher he was playing with a gun that he didn't know was loaded, and it went off. He says the bullet struck the side of his wife's head. Catherine was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. The dog lost her tail and could lose a leg.The pendejón has been charged with two counts — aggravated battery with a weapon and animal cruelty. However, he was not released from jail because his arrest was a violation of his DUI probation in Orange County. When Burke posted $5,000 bail on the probation charge, he was released. He was ordered to wear an ankle bracelet monitor.Now Catherine has filed for a restraining order.That 104.1 FM said Burke would not be back on the air should come as no surprise to his idiot following, but I'm sure it will.This entire sorry episode sounds like a bad country and western song.Speaking of ignorant, there's Michael Savage. He's a piece of work. He's hateful, ignorant, and scary and worse, he has his own talk show. If we were able to see what he looks like on the inside, the unevolved image to the right is what we would no doubt see. That I know someone that looks like this does not make me happy...however, I digress.Moving on...Savage has said things like, "Latinos breed like rabbits," "Muslims need deporting" and as for autistic children, "in 99 per cent of cases it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out."Now, as a result of his ignorant blather he's found himself on a list with 15 other people who, according to British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, he has "fomented hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way" as to cause violence if they were allowed into the country." In other words, they're undesirables.Despite what the British Government might believe, this slug is pissing and moaning that he's been lumped together with a neo-Nazi and a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard. As a result, he claimed he will sue the Home Secretary for defamation by association. He might even suggest that his listeners not travel to Britain. This brings up another question, do any of them have passports?Democrats, Guantanamo inmates' lawyers, civil liberties campaigners, illegal immigrants (he calls them "brown supremacists"), feminists, Islamic groups and homosexuals - especially campaigning homosexuals ("anal rights" as he puts it delicately) - Savage lays into them all. And let's not forget the homeless, the Clintons, CNN, academics and any remaining liberals – America's enemies at home and abroad are everywhere, according to the Savage world view.He wasn't always the hatemonger that he turned into.He was born Michael Alan Weiner in the Bronx, New York, in 1942. His father was a "gruff and profane" Russian Jewish immigrant who sold antique bronzes and apparently passed on his political cynicism. His mother was a Roman Catholic Italian-American. Savage, who frequently makes jokes about Jewish celebrities for his largely Christian audience, rarely alludes to his ethnic origins. After being awarded a biology degree and seeking to emulate his hero, Charles Darwin, he moved to Hawaii in the 1960s where he earned master's degrees in anthropology and botany, traveling the South Pacific investigating the medicinal properties of plants.He became an expert on herbs and homeopathy, and wrote 18 books about it, including one in which he advocated the use of marijuana for therapeutic purposes. He also wrote one about the importance of being a good steward of our environment and wrote about our "plant allies."At some point during the 1980s, the self-proclaimed "Mr Nice Guy Nutritionist" started to turn into "Mr Nasty Guy Broadcaster."Either he's simply chasing ratings, or he really is a bigoted asshole who believes the sewage he spews. Your call.