While You Were in Vietnam, Michael Savage Was Hugging Trees!

In case you've been unplugged since last week, you may have missed Michael Savage's latest group to hate. Our troops and veterans with PTSD. He went on a rant about saying this nation needs more men like him. He said he was tired of the celebration of weakness after a caller said he was a veteran with PTSD. Savage didn't understand PTSD any more than he understood that someone could become a veteran by 20.

Guess he never heard of these

The youngest person ever to receive the Medal of Honor was probably William "Willie" Johnston, who earned the Medal during the Civil War just prior to his 12th birthday and received his award 6 weeks after his 13th. The oldest recipient was probably General Douglas MacArthur who was 62 years old when he earned the Medal. World War II hero Jack Lucas became the youngest man in THIS CENTURY to receive the award when he threw is body over TWO grenades at Iwo Jima just 5 days after his 17th birthday. (At the time of his heroism he had already been in the Marine Corps for THREE years.

You can catch up on the rest of what Savage had to say using junk science on combat and PTSD

These are the most important things you really need to know when it comes to the source of the rant.

Michael Savage Old Enough to Serve, Didn't

It is amazing what you can find online. This one from 2009 about the hater holds a lot of information.

First, he hates a lot of different groups so much so that this happened
Profile: Michael Savage, the US shock jock banned from Britain

"Get Aids and die, you pig," the American radio "shock jock" told a purportedly homosexual man who once badmouthed his teeth.

Latinos "breed like rabbits"

Muslims "need deporting"

autistic children, "in 99 per cent of cases it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out".

Instead of going to Vietnam he was doing this

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, travelling the South Pacific investigating the medicinal properties of plants. (Being abroad, he missed the Vietnam draft).

An expert on herbology and homeopathy, he has written 18 books, including one in which he advocated the therapeutic uses of marijuana and another about the importance of re-greening America in which he wrote about our "plant allies" and called for every state to have a "tree czar".

Angry that no publisher wanted a book he had written blaming Asian immigrants for bringing in infectious diseases, he recorded a mock radio show with his wife, Janet, and two of his friends acting as callers.

So there you have it. While Vietnam veterans, most of them under 21, which Savage thinks is strange, were risking their lives,,,,Savage was hugging trees and pushing for tree czars.

So much for the claim this nation needs more men like him while slams veterans with PTSD. Now you know where he's coming from even though he has no clue where you were or why you have PTSD.