Posted on 07/07/2003 1:11:21 PM PDT by sakic
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NEW YORK - MSNBC on Monday fired Michael Savage for anti-gay comments.
The popular radio talk show host who did a weekend TV show for the cable channel referred to an unidentified caller to his show Saturday as a "sodomite" and said he should "get AIDS and die."
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If you had clicked on my link, you would understand the context of what I wrote. I wasn't making specific reference to you, I was quoting my own post from November 2000.
You mean, like when people use childishly silly hatemongering labels like "the Gay-stapo"?
Once again, click on the link. On post # you will find that I have addressed my use of the phrase:
88 Posted on 11/20/2000 11:27:23 PST by L.N. Smithee
To: BelialThe job of the Gestapo was to implement Hitler's vision throughout Germany by a variety of methods, some overt, some covert, but always with a strategy of smearing those whom they wanted to destroy.
An illustration of what I mean is in my essay, "I Won't Hate Homosexuals No Matter How Much The Media Wants Me To."
There is no "hate" involved in the term "Gay-stapo" -- it is a derisive term without doubt, but it is descriptive, and not simply a slur, as were the words used on that thread that I was addressing. IMHO, it is no different than when someone refers to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton as "poverty pimps." Using language describing the activity that causes them to be held in low esteem is different from just calling them "n-----," a word that has no other purpose than to injure.
During the writing of the Constitution, homosexuals that got caught in the act got the death penalty. Our forfathers didn't tolerate it.
And I would say that neither does Micheal Savage. Your points about regular day time television audiences is right on target.
Sadly, that twerp today is a "hero" for being the guy who pushed Savage's wrong button, getting him fired.
I do wonder about Mike Savage's blood pressure. Get the blood boiling and "the head speaks, not the heart" (to paraphrase Jesse Jackson who sidestepped his own soundbite).
Somebody wished for Pat Buchanan to "drop dead" when Buchanan came to an FR town hall in 2000 and that Freeper managed to post for another three years after that.
Of course that too was over-the-top regardless of how one feels about Buchanan.
This has been the standard fudgepacker line for years.
WE need help because all of YOU are at risk.
The fact is that unless you're sharing needles; engaging in high risk sex with IV drug users or prostitutes you've got a better chance of getting hit on the head by a Sammy Sousa home run on an IRT train than contracting AIDS.
That is unless you happen to be wiggling your wienie in another turd burglar down at the local health club steam room.....accidentally of course
The title of this article should read "MSNBC fires Savage after pro-heterosexual remarks". It appears the AP is showing their bias, aye?
I think there is a lot more to that story than we will ever know.
Some other of society's undesirables were made into "heroes" too:
Men whose sodomy case led to Supreme Court ruling keep low profile(Lawrence Garner Texas)
It was neither man's first brush with the law when a Harris County sheriff's deputy, responding to a romantic rival's false report of a man with a gun, entered the apartment at the Colorado Club on Sept. 17, 1998, and found the men engaged in sex.For Garner, Harris County court records list arrests for assault, drunken driving and possession of a small amount of marijuana. Department of Public Safety records show only two convictions for assault, in 1995 and 2000.
Lawrence has two convictions for drunken driving and one for murder-by-automobile in 1967.
In 2000, the former roommate of Garner who called deputies to the apartment - and was later convicted of filing a false police report - went to court to obtain a protective order against Garner, accusing him of several beatings and a sexual assault.
Garner "punched me on my left eye two times" in January 2000, said Robert Royce Eubanks in an affidavit. Garner also beat Eubanks with a hose in 1999 while "using crack and drinking" and beat him with a belt in 1998, the affidavit said.
In May 1998, Garner "stabbed me on my right ring finger with a box cutter" and "grabbed a hot iron and burned me" and "then sexually assaulted me," Eubanks charged.
The caller/lover later died of a physical assault (I believe that this case is still unsolved).
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