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Right-Winger Blasts O'Reilly
New York Post ^ | 04/25/05 | Richard Johnson, Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson

Posted on 04/24/2005 11:20:27 PM PDT by Pikamax

RABID radio host Michael Savage is whining that he has been banned from the Fox News Channel after he dissed Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

The controversial conservative — who was fired by MSNBC in 2003 after referring to a caller to his show as "a sodomite" who should "get AIDS and die" — recently burned more bridges by calling O'Reilly a "Leper-Con who poses as a conservative" and Hannity "another Republican bootlicker who began as a Rush [Limbaugh] understudy" on his "Savage Nation" radio show.

Savage claims that he's been bumped off four scheduled appearances on Fox News Channel in the wake of his caustic comments.

"These two are now acting the way the mainstream media has been acting for decades, thinking they are the gatekeepers of who shall be heard in the conservative world," Savage sputtered in a statement.

"Both are jealous of my audience and are trying to silence me because they do not want the competition."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blowhard; foxnews; savage; savagebashing; talkradio
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To: Accygirl
A true representation of modern conservatism:

Right now he's talking about an article, "Wary Democrats discover a severe 'parents gap'".

My blood does not goil listening to him, and I listen to what he has to say occasionally. I'm sorry that yours does.

101 posted on 04/25/2005 7:31:55 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence
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To: Sirc_Valence

Oops, typo... Man, I had a long day at work.


102 posted on 04/25/2005 7:55:15 PM PDT by Accygirl
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To: Pikamax
The controversial conservative — who was fired by MSNBC in 2003 after referring to a caller to his show as "a sodomite" who should "get AIDS and die" —

Nuff said!

I have no interest Savage's hatefilled rants.

103 posted on 04/25/2005 7:57:40 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Pikamax

Savage is no right winger.


104 posted on 04/25/2005 8:00:05 PM PDT by John Lenin (It's not like you have a home country to go back to)
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To: Pikamax
A Fox News Channel spokesperson responds: "One is a well-known hater, and the other is a notorious publicity hound. We congratulate them on their successful attention-grabbing efforts."

I know he/she's talking about Savage/Donohue but he sounds more like he's talking about Savage/O'Reilly.

105 posted on 04/25/2005 8:00:46 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AD fan club: "lol, Good one AD."--gopwinsin04; "Hey, AmishDude, you are right!"-FairOpinion)
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To: John Lenin

Michael Savage is the tazer-gun of the right.


106 posted on 04/25/2005 8:10:47 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence
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To: Sirc_Valence

Anyone who has listened to Savage knows he is an old leftist who claims to be "independant" now. I'm not fooled.


107 posted on 04/25/2005 8:12:04 PM PDT by John Lenin (It's not like you have a home country to go back to)
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To: Pikamax

As long as I have Rush, the rest are little more than window dressing.


108 posted on 04/25/2005 8:15:02 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne
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To: John Lenin

That's what people say about David Horowitz. Someone named Whittaker Chambers was also an old leftist before he switched sides and provided insights from the perspective of someone that was once steeped in the doctrines of the left. Don't mistake him for a LIEberal.


109 posted on 04/25/2005 8:28:46 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence
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To: Sirc_Valence; John Lenin
I don't hope to kick a dead horse, but I was just doing some research and I remembered this little thread. I just wanted to add another name to the list of "old leftists" that have changed course and affected history for the better.

From a description of the book "Principles & Heresies":

In his roles as author, editor, columnist, activist, and amateur political philosopher, Frank Straus Meyer (1909-1972) played a decisive role in birth and growth of the post-World War II American conservative movement. Though he possessed a fiery and provocative personality, Meyer served as a unifying figure for conservatives because of his efforts to "fuse" the traditionalist and libertarian strands of conservatism, which then, as now, were often at odds.

His untiring labors paid off, providing the necessary cohesion for a fractious movement to eventually sweep to power with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Today, Meyer's fusionist outlook has been adopted, at least implicitly, by virtually every self-identified conservative organization in America... as a young man Meyer was a radical revolutionary dedicated to the overthrow of the United States government. The Communist Party USA used him in a number of capacities: as an undercover recruiter at the University of Chicago; as a student organizer at the London School of Economics, from which Meyer was expelled for distributing communist literature; and as its educational director in the Indiana-Illinois region.

110 posted on 04/25/2005 11:27:37 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Sorry about the symbols but it helps moderate some of my traffic. If you just cut and paste my name (HowardLSmith.ô¿ô) into your standard ping address list it will work. Thanks for your PINGS!!!!!


111 posted on 04/27/2005 1:31:16 PM PDT by HowardLSmith.ô¿ô
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Sorry about the symbols but it helps moderate some of my traffic. If you just cut and paste my name (HowardLSmith.ô¿ô) into your standard ping address list it will work. Thanks for your PINGS!!!!!


112 posted on 04/27/2005 1:31:21 PM PDT by HowardLSmith.ô¿ô
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To: HowardLSmith.ô¿ô

That's what I did--copied and pasted it onto my list. We'll see if it works next time I send out a Laura PING (and if she's having breast cancer treatments, that may be a while).


113 posted on 04/27/2005 1:36:26 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Senate switchboard: 202-225-3121. Reach out and complain to someone.)
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To: Pikamax

Talk about a shameless attempt at publicity.

If Savage could offer half the insight O'Reilly does on a nightly basis he might be half as popular.


114 posted on 04/27/2005 1:49:39 PM PDT by outfield
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To: Sirc_Valence

I'm not sure this guy really knows what he wants. He's attacking O'Reilly, one of (IMO) the best in the biz...yet he gets thrown off every radio and television network that lets him on. He's just a bit too much.


115 posted on 04/27/2005 2:47:21 PM PDT by Politics4Fun
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To: Politics4Fun
Since when have you been listening to radio? O'Reilly is nowhere close to being one of the best in the business. He has a good TV show, but radio does very well without him. In a TV debate he once gave Dalton Trumbo as an example to Ann Coulter of people "unfairly" persecuted by McCarthy. (By the way, the only example that O'Reilly could come up with wasn't even part of the Senate investigation into govt. penetration by Communists). I think this was in a discussion where Ann brought up a book by M. Stanton Evans. I don't pay attention to much of what O'Reilly says since he doesn't really say anything new about anything; although on television it seems like he does because tv is pretty much a leftwing medium of communication. Savage is a maverick and ranks up there with the best of them, right up there with Laura Ingraham, Larry Elder and George Putnam. Of course, Rush Limbaugh is the best, followed by Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, and Michael Medved.
116 posted on 04/27/2005 3:39:53 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence
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To: Pelayo
Between O'Reilly, Hannity, Savage, and Rush... I'll pick Rush everytime and twice on Sundays.

Well said, and my thoughts exactly on the four men.

The only thing I'd add -- and this is just a personal sore point with me -- is that O'Reilly's Orwellian use of the term "progressive" (when he's describing a left-winger) is getting on my last nerve. Basically I enjoy watching his show, but his increasing use of that word is bizarre.

And Rush is, simply put, God's gift.

117 posted on 04/27/2005 3:49:30 PM PDT by Glenmerle
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To: Pikamax

I'm fed up with O'Reilly, too. At least Michael Savage hated the fact that Terri was dehydrated and starved to death. O'Reilly seemed like he couldn't care less.


118 posted on 04/27/2005 3:51:40 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy ( Theresa Marie SCHINDLER - We will NEVER FORGET! - IMPEACH JUDGE GREER!!!)
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To: frankiep

It doesn't matter how much money Savage makes, how many books he sells, or how high his ratings are. He just can't stand that he's not accepted into the inner sanctum of Conservative media personalities and it eats at him like a cancer.


119 posted on 04/27/2005 3:55:56 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Glenmerle
The only thing I'd add -- and this is just a personal sore point with me -- is that O'Reilly's Orwellian use of the term "progressive" (when he's describing a left-winger) is getting on my last nerve. Basically I enjoy watching his show, but his increasing use of that word is bizarre.

A better name for them would be "Social Revisionists."

120 posted on 04/27/2005 4:52:26 PM PDT by Pelayo (Practice safe government, use kingdoms!)
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