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SAGA Network's NewsRadio 1070 WINA in Charlottesville, VA

has dropped the Savage show effective immediately. This is a direct

result of Savage's recent comments on autism.

Press release attached.

July 23rd, 2008

WINA Replaces Savage with The Dave Ramsey

Show

Last week on his nationally syndicated show talk host

Savage made some very uninformed and reprehensible comments concerning

the growing issue of autism in America.  NewsRadio 1070 WINA vehemently defends

the right each of us has to the freedom of speech.  We also understand that

sometimes people make mistakes.  However, Savage has shown no remorse

and offered no apologies for his fact-less tirade and has, in fact, tried to justify

his insensitive remarks.  Our mission at WINA has always been to offer the best

possible and most stimulating talk for Charlottesville.  It is clear that

Savage no longer fits with our or your high standards.

Starting tonight WINA is proud to replace Savage

with The Dave Ramsey Show.  Dave Ramsey has been a fixture of the

WINA Weekend Lineup for years and can now be heard every weeknight from 8pm to

10pm.  Particularly during these tough economic times we feel that Mr. Ramsey’s

message is much more useful and positive.

Please find attached the remarks made by Savage and

more information about The Dave Ramsey Show.  

Autism is " [a] fraud, a racket.  I'll tell you what autism is. In 99

percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out.

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.' 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 also stated: " [W]hy was there an asthma epidemic amongst

minority children? Because I'll tell you why: The children got extra welfare if

they were disabled, and they got extra help in school. It was a money racket.

Everyone went in and was told [fake cough], 'When the nurse looks at you, you

go [fake cough], " I don't know, the dust got me. " ' See, everyone had

asthma from the minority community. "

Savage

The Savage Nation

July 16th, 2008

Transcript courtesy of mediamatters.org (http://mediamatters.org/items/200807170005)

The Dave Ramsey Show

Weeknights 8pm-10pm on

NewsRadio 1070 WINA

From www.daveramsey.com:

I have an unusual way of looking at the world. My

wife, Sharon, says I’m weird, and truthfully – I am weird. But there’s a

reason. Starting from nothing, by the time I was 26 I had a net worth of a

little over a million dollars. I was making $250,000 a year – that’s more than

$20,000 a month net taxable income. I was really having fun. But 98 percent

truth is a lie and that other 2 percent can cause big problems, especially

with $4 million in real estate. I had a lot of debt – a lot of short term debt

– and I’m the idiot who signed up for the trip.

The short version of the story is that debt caused

us over the course of two and a half years of fighting it to lose everything.

We didn’t tell anyone what was going on, but if we had to do it again, we would

learn from the wisdom of others who have been through it. We soon learned that

we were not the only ones at the bottom. Barbie and Ken (you know, the couple

who appear to be perfect – perfect clothes, perfect car, perfect house)

are broke, and I don’t take financial advice from broke people anymore.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find

out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have

confidence in handling it. I read everything I could get my hands on. I

interviewed older rich people, people who made money and kept it. That quest

led me to a really, really uncomfortable place – my mirror. I came to realize

that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the

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I went back to my first love, real estate, so

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I wrote the book Financial Peace based on all that Sharon and I

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