If I remeber correctly he lost his TV show for a very negative respone to a gay guy who called him. I would be shocked if he was gay. Regardless, I don't listen to him anymore and would much prefer Levin in that time slot instead of midnight here in Detroit.
My advice to Levin only SEEMS strange: Start a TV show, and sit back a couple weeks. Once the establishment gets a bit confortable with ya, go over the top --really hit the roof.
Slam gays or blacks. Get your flamboyant a$$ thrown off the air in high style, making sure to draw lots of censure. Go down to the border and make sure you get arrested for some shaky charges, interfering with the duties of the border patrol, for example.
Continue slamming your tormentors, "naming names".
Don't screw around with Rush too much (I don't listen to his show).
You do remember correctly. It wasn't a 'negative response', he called him a 'pig' and told him he wished he would die. That's so far out of the bounds of anything resembling what any sane person should believe, or say, he should have lost his radio show, book deals, etc. as well.
I wouldn't be shocked if he were gay though. I knew a man once who you would think would fit in the typical 'Bubba' mold of conservativism that probably never even met a gay guy, let alone would be gay. While not as over the top as Savage, he had the same bomb throwing frame of mind.
Ends up, the guy, who's family thought he worked Friday nights, spent every friday at gay orgies. He was married and had 4 kids, and died of AIDS by 50. It's literally a miracle his wife didn't get AIDS. She had absolutey no clue till around a year and a half before he died. By the time she found out, he had full blown AIDS, not just HIV.
I don't say this to condemn him, or Savage. They are people with flaws just like anybody else, his just were more severe, but it's all the same in the eyes of God. All of our goodness filthy rags and all.
All I'm saying, is that sometimes, things like way over-the-top anti-_________ to the point of obvious hatefulness and absurdity is just an attempt to cover over something they are ashamed of.