{"id":453,"date":"2008-08-04T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/08\/hooray-for-honda\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T20:43:00","slug":"hooray-for-honda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/hooray-for-honda\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for Honda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received this email from an autism activist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An American Honda automobile radio commercial mistakenly ran in the<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/22\/business\/media\/22sava.html?ref=media\">Michael Savage \u201cSavage Nation\u201d radio program<\/a> in the San  Diego and New<br \/> York markets. We have taken immediate steps to ensure that all national<br \/> and regional Honda advertising be pulled from this program permanently.<\/p>\n<p> Jeffrey Smith<\/p>\n<p> Jeffrey A. Smith<br \/> Assistant Vice President<br \/> Corporate Affairs &#038; Communications<br \/> American Honda Motor Co., Inc.<br \/> 1919 Torrance Boulevard<br \/> Torrance, California, 90501<br \/> 310-781-5062<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am just so PISSED OFF at that asshole, Savage.  He is as cruel as he is misinformed.  Autistic kids are not &#8220;brats,&#8221; but he sure is.  I have avoided posting about the aptly-named Michael Savage because I did not want his stations to get more attention and possibly do even more damage.  I sent a letter right away to our local affiliate, WRKO, but did not hear back.<\/p>\n<p>It was wrong of me not to blog about it when silence can be construed as apathy.  There is no ignoring evil.<\/p>\n<p>Savage and his minions really need to apologize and learn from their mistakes. <\/p>\n<p>We should all thank Mr. Smith and we should all consider buying Hondas for our next cars.  Tell a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received this email from an autism activist: An American Honda automobile radio commercial mistakenly ran in the Michael Savage \u201cSavage Nation\u201d radio program in the San Diego and New York markets. We have taken immediate steps to ensure that all national and regional Honda advertising be pulled from this program permanently. Jeffrey Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-7j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}