[sakic]

Good riddance.

[Michael Barnes]

He asked for another phone caller who "didn't have a nice night in the bathhouse who's angry at me today."

This had me roaring..

[cmsgop]

"sodomite" and said he should "get AIDS and die."

DoH !!!!

[new cruelty]

"You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? "

Sounds like Savage has a few personal issues to deal with.

[Semper Paratus]

Suprised he lasted that long.

[ffusco]

This will only help him. He is now a pariah again.

[The Iguana]

Not exactly full of Christian charity.

Mike must have been having a bad day.

[jacket]

aww, someone poor little ears got offended.

[fuente]

Like nobody saw this coming?

[Burkeman1]

I have only listened to Savage for about the past two months and only off and on. He struck me as unbelievably shallow and just a mean guy who often would never allow a caller to flesh out their opinion before slapping them down with non sequiturs and verbal abuse. He was the anti Rush.

[quark]

"...get AIDS and die, you pig...go eat a sausage and choke on it."

Classic.

[finnman69]

Well clearly Savage is into saying what's on his mind. Mike should not feel too bad. MSNBC is a loser network with garbage ratings.

[usastandsunited]

MSNBC on Monday fired Michael Savage for anti-gay comments.

I consider the title misleading. Those weren't anti-gay comments. They were ruthless, irresponsible comments that he should not have made & I don't feel sorry for him for getting fired.
An anti-gay comment would something to the effect that "homosexual behavior is wrong". I'll stand by anyone's right to make that comment.

[Drango]

Savage says this all the time on his radio show...MSNBC didn't think he'd say on TV?

[shadowman99]

It appears to me that Michael Savage is losing his mind. His politics are all over the place and his rants verge on psychotic.

He's become someone that when I hear him described as conservative I cringe. He underscores the stereotype that we're bigots. His manner of delivering his message undermines his credibility.

[BunnySlippers]

I can't believe they kept him this long. What a horrible man!

[Pest]

I agree with many of Savage's ideas. However, his delivery is raw and isn't made for mass consumption. His style works much better on radio.

[Hugin]

The incident that resulted in his firing began innocently enough. Savage was taking viewer phone calls about airline horror stories, and a male caller began talking about smoking in the bathroom.

"Half an hour into the flight, I need to suggest that Don and Mike take your ..." the caller said, before he was cut off and his words became unintelligible.

So some twerp lied about what he was calling about, and in the middle of the story tried to slip in some obscene insult. I don't blame Savage for responding as he did. 0 Oh well, MSNBC sucks anyway. The only thing worth watching on the network is Scarborough Country.

[Coleus]

I'll miss the show.

[newgeezer]

Darn. I've heard so much about him, but never got to see his show.

Oh, well. Sounds like he and Mike Gallagher should get together and star in a "conservative" remake of "Dumb and Dumber."

(No; Gallagher's just a ranting blowhard. Liberals love him because he makes conservatism look stupid.)

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[HarryDunne]

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[L.N. Smithee]

"Half an hour into the flight, I need to suggest that Don and Mike take your ..." the caller said, before he was cut off and his words became unintelligible.

This reads like a possible set-up by syndicated shock jocks Don and Mike, who do an afternoon show that apes Stern's, except that it aims lower, if you can believe that.

Silly me. I thought that Mike was going to be more careful.

[Tai_Chung]

Does this mean that NBC would fire anyone that wishes for the death of Charlton Heston (NRA), President Bush (remember the pretzel jokes?), Henry Hyde (from the Clinton impeachement), Newt Gingrich, and Ronald Reagan?

I agree that Savage crossed the line in his comments, but let's not have a double-standard.

[areafiftyone]

What Savage said was just plain nasty and MSNBC did the right thing. Did anyone catch Fox and Friends this morning? On the question of the day someone called in and said to the girl (I am not sure what her name was) that was substituting for E.D. Hill "Would you @#$% Howard Stern? I almost died! At least Fox and Friends had the decency not to stoop to that person's level by answering that person back!

[amexmike]

The reason his show didn't succeed is because of the ridiculous time slot they had it on. Saturday 2:00 PM (Pacific). What moron scheduled that time slot? It was destined to fail at that time. Based on the story he was set up. It's sad that fringe groups can put so much pressure on today's media while inverse pressure is labeled hate speech. Mr. Savage has a particular style that is purposeful to get people to think about the message. It's a shame that he has been taken off the air.

[rintense]

A buh bye.

[ikka]

Does MSNBC still have Julianne Malveaux on from time to time? Julianne is the charming leftist who hoped that Justice Thomas was fed lots of high-fat foods by his wife so he would have a heart attack and die early.

[OpusatFR]

Never could understand why MSNBC put him on in the first place. They could have picked someone less contentious and less patently way-out-beyond- the known right leaning universe. Or maybe that was the point: to have the right tarred with the thoughts and image of this man.

[Spiff]

Savage has said worse to many other callers. But, I guess if you say it to a "sodomite"...er...a member of a protected class of people who define themselves by a particular behavior in which they engage - then you're asking to be fired.

I knew this was coming. MSNBC was just looking for an excuse. Savage doesn't work well on TV and he just wasn't a good fit for MSNBC. I'll still listen to him on radio where he does best.

[swilhelm73]

Surely Hollywood will rally around Savage to stop the chilling effect of MSNBC's censorship will have on free speech in America, right?

[CounterCounterCulture]

"Are you a sodomite?"

All this time I thought sodomites were supporters of Saddam Hussein. Silly me.

(Guess I wouldn't last too long on PMSNBC either...'course I wouldn't have been given a show to begin with)

[Ichneumon]

"Half an hour into the flight, I need to suggest that Don and Mike take your ..." the caller said, before he was cut off and his words became unintelligible.

Sounds like the caller said something obnoxious that the audience didn't get to hear, thanks to the delay that all call-in shows use to defend against malicious callers.

Savage would have heard the full statement in his earpiece, then he (or a show's engineer) would have hit the "mute" button in time to cut off the call's time-delayed audio from being aired in its entirety.

From what *did* get aired before it got cut off, it was clear that the caller was switching subjects in the middle of the sentence in order to try to sneak in a statement before anyone could catch it. He was clearly trying to pull a fast one of some sort.

To be fair to Savage, MSNBC should really have found out what the caller had said -- Savage's retort may have just been in kind. I often hear his radio show since it plays when I'm often driving home from work, and I've never heard him actually wish death on someone who hadn't already been *WAY* over the line themselves in attacking Savage or America.

[Ichneumon]

There was no immediate comment from Savage

...unlikely...

[Dr. Frank fan]

One wonders why they hired him in the first place. Presumably, just so they could play "gotcha" and fire him (thus, they hope, discrediting and humiliating and nullifying him) when he inevitably made a comment like this, as it was completely predictable that he would.

I don't "agree with" everything or perhaps even a majority of what Savage says, and it's true that he's also rude and crude and sometimes downright bizarrely insane if you take what he says seriously and literally.

However, his radio show is a blast :)

[TomGuy]

I didn't figure Savage would stay on MSNBC very long.

It will be interesting to hear how Savage spins this (in his favor, of course) on his radio show this evening--unless he's away on another day off/vacation.

[zoen]

Good for him. Someone needs to tell it how it is. I complelty agree with what he said. 100% All the way! That reminds me to tune in tonight at the office. Nice

[Sloth]

"Oh, you're one of the sodomites," Savage said. "You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that?

Yeah, that's the same reason USA Today fired Julienne Malveaux when she said of Clarence Thomas, "You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."

What? They didn't fire her? They hired her *after* she said that?

*Reels in shock*

[Zack Attack]

Very poor judgment and just hateful. This reminds me of when that Malveaux woman said something about hoping Clarence Thomas would have a heart attack.

[sit-rep]

It amazes me how you, and many others do a downer on a guy who speaks his mind. Free Speech it was once called, and now that your GOP is pandering to the gays for 2004 votes, you blindly follow like a little puppy dog.

Just remember my pacifist friends... Your daddy's, if they are passed, are giving you a swift kick in the ass. They did not tolerate the sodomites back in their day, so why the hell are you? This is a conservative forum. The conservatives I am(or used to be) familiar with are guided by the good book. So why do accept homosexuality? Or are you just pretending to be religiously pricipled?

It was not too long ago, a bimbo said something about Bush. Everybody dogged her as she should have been. Now the faggots are gaining ground and you say nothing... just scoff at the folks who do. If you do speak out, it is as soft and gentle as can be...Why?

I hope you are proud of yourself. Being a fellow American and see where our country is headed, I am not proud of you.

[SamAdams76]

Even before this incident, Savage rubbed me the wrong way. There are many talk show hosts and pundits who represent the conservative viewpoint in a civilized, yet uncompromising manner, such as Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter to name just a couple.

I place Michael Savage in the same category as Howard Stern. He makes up for his lack of talent by being as outrageous and attention-getting as he can be. In other words, Savage is just a shock-jock. Some here may remember the Robert Downey Jr. show from about 10-15 years back. For a short time, he was the hottest ticket in town. But in order to keep his audience, he had to keep getting more and more outrageous. Eventually, he became a laughingstock and people stopped taking him seriously (not that many did in the first place).

[JoeGar]

I preferred Savage's radio show over his TV show. It was apparent that MSNBC made him be more politically correct than he is on radio.

[The Wizard]

they were looking for an out after the first show when he called hildebeast a pig.....

Call fox news....

[The Wizard]

they were looking for an out after the first show when he called hildebeast a pig.....

Call fox news....

[gitmogrunt]

The Supreme Court's over turning of Sodomy Laws a week earlier, should have been an omen to Savage, to watch his sausage sucking comments.

[aculeus]

His television program was awful.

Get lost, loser.

[BlacKnight]

One cannot take Savage literally. You must listen BETWEEN the verbiage lines. His history proves he's neither anti-Gay nor a Racist. It requires intellect!!!

[Jimbaugh]

Savage is right and MS NBC is going get screwed on this deal. He will spend the next 20-years attacking them. You can't give the GLBT crowd an inch or they will take a mile. You can choose to fight GLBT crowd or give them everthing they want.

I choose to fight.

[GrandMoM]

....I knew it was only a matter of time!

[BostonianRightist]

"MSNBC spokeman Jeremy Gaines"

any relation to the Gaines that runs the New York Times?

[rwfromkansas]

If he just said "sodomite," I would be against his firing, as that is an accurate description.

But to wish for the gay man to get AIDS???

That is despicable.

That man needs to learn some decency.