Monday, April 30, 2012

The National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Education Association – the organizations that invited bully extraordinaire Dan Savage to speak at their National High School Journalism Conference – have issued a press release denouncing Savage’s comments at the conference


JOURNALISM CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS APOLOGIZE FOR SAVAGE INVITE - Breitbart News/BIG Government

ANTI-BULLY ADVOCATE DAN SAVAGE BULLIES HIGH SCHOOL KIDS WITH PROFANE BIBLE RANT
As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”

The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers with contributors ranging from President Obama to Hollywood stars. Savage also writes a sex advice column called “Savage Love.”
EXCLUSIVE - PARENT OF KIDS WHO WALKED OUT ON SAVAGE: 'WHAT A PIG'
"My son is the first boy you see leaving on the video. My daughter is right behind him. They felt that they were there to hear about journalism and this man's fight against bullying. They had no idea, and neither did I, of who Dan Savage actually was.

"As he started to insult the children's God, Bible, and choice of lifestyle, my son felt he had enough and calmly got up to leave. My daughter followed him and then the rest of their 22 classmates all got up and left.

"After they had left the room Dan Savage made his derogatory remarks in a cowardly fashion about them not being able to take it."

Naman says that organizers failed to provide satisfactory answers as to why Savage had been allowed to speak in the first place.

"The attitude of the conference coordinators was as disturbing as Dan Savage's," he says. "They reportedly said that as journalists the kids should have been able to sit there and take it all in. They felt the only thing that they had failed at was to not clearly tell the attending schools about Dan Savage. If they had to warn the schools, why would they let him speak?

In addition, Naman says, some of Savage's remarks were sexual in nature, and inappropriate for an audience of high school students.

"He made lewd references to his mate in Speedos--something about having to be pried off of him to come to the session. In any context, speaking to highschoolers of any sexual type, that is flat out wrong. My 16-year-old daughter was there.

"This puke felt at ease enough to speak like that in front of a little girl. What a pig.""
DAN SAVAGE BRAGS ABOUT WHITE HOUSE TIES; 'DON'T NEED PERMISSION FROM PARENTS TO TALK TO THEIR KIDS' - Video
...claims he does not need parents' permission to talk to their kids about explicit, sexual issues.
SAVAGE: JUSTICE SCALIA IS A 'C***SUCKER'
In December 2010, Dan Savage did an interview with Newsweek magazine along with “Glee” star Jane Lynch. In that interview, in which Savage spoke for the It Gets Better Project endorsed by President Obama and members of his administration, Savage did double duty.... President Obama’s favorite anti-bullying advocate has a list of bullying victims a mile long. And the list keeps growing.
SAVAGE: 'I WISH REPUBLICANS WERE ALL F***ING DEAD'
In 2006, Savage said that Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli, who was running against Democrat Bob Casey (the eventual winner), “should be dragged behind a pickup truck until there’s nothing left but the rope.”
SAVAGE WANTED TO 'F*** THE S*** OUT OF RICK SANTORUM'
The White House’s favorite bully, Dan Savage, is the author of the syndicated column “Savage Love.” But he’s also a massively offensive bully on the political scene. Google Rick Santorum’s name, and you’ll get a vile, disgusting definition, which we won't reprint here. That’s because Savage, militant anti-religious author of the sex column “Savage Love,” coined the definition and Google-bombed it in order to slander Santorum for Santorum’s opposition to gay marriage.