Recent efforts by Rockstar Energy Drink to hide its intimate connection to the vile worst-of-the worst of the right-wing hate fringe have led to legal action. Rockstar’s founder and CEO, Russel Weiner is the son of hate talker Michael Weiner, better known as Michael Savage. This alone doesn’t make Rockstar a hate-owned drink in itself. There is more to the story. Michael Savage’s wife and Russel’s mother, Janet Weiner, is listed as the director, treasurer, and secretary of both Rockstar and Savage Productions, producer of Savage’s daily talk show, and both companies share the same address. Savage and his wife are both herbalists, Savage holding a Ph.D. in ethnomedicne. Savage is notorious for his hate-filled daily talk show on which he once told a gay caller that he hoped he would get AIDS and die, called for the end of all Muslim immigration to the United States and claimed that autistic children are brats who haven’t been told to cut the act out. The United Kingdom has recently banned Savage from entering the country for fostering extremism. He has sought the help of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in remedying this ban after calling Clinton “the most Godless woman in the Senate” among other attacks.
Russel shares his father’s right-wing views. In 1996 he and his father co-founded the Paul Revere Society whose mission was to “bring together Americans who actively seek to take back our borders, our language, and our traditional culture from the liberal left corroding our great nation.” In 1998 Russel ran for the California State Assembly with Savage’s endorsement, proudly displaying his right-wing views as co-founder of the Paul Revere Society exclaiming the society’s xenophobic hate slogan, “Our Nation, Our Border, Our Language.”
Considering Rockstar’s intimate connection to the vile Savage and Russel’s own right-wing extremism, it makes no sense to ever purchase Rockstar Energy Drink. Further, their own efforts to minimize or hide this connection only demonstrates their acknowledgement of the liabilty this truth would bear for Rockstar’s success. Don’t support the hate. Have a Monster Energy or something if you must.