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MSNBC fires Savage after anti-gay remarks
Associated Press ^
| Jul. 7, 2003 01:00 PM
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.
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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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To: sakic
I can't believe they kept him this long. What a horrible man!
To: shadowman99
Yea, this man is not a conservative. He is a psychotic idiot.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:24:10 PM PDT
by
Norse
To: sakic
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.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:24:32 PM PDT
by
Pest
To: menamena99
A great man? Savage is a self-promoting idiot who gives conservatives a bad name. Too bad he still has a radio show.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:24:44 PM PDT
by
kegler4
To: The Iguana
Not exactly full of Christian charity. He's Jewish.
To: menamena99
sounds like some people can't take a joke.
You're absolutely right. I met a woman who said that she supported gay rights, and I told her to buzz off and have her children get molested and she became very, very upset. She just couldn't take a joke, I guess.
(for the intelligence impaired, the above is a joke. I never really said any such thing to anyone).
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:25:30 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
To: menamena99
I like Savage.
Someone has to be the last angry man in America.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:25:44 PM PDT
by
fishtank
To: kegler4
give it a few months.
To: sakic
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.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:26:44 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: sakic
I'll miss the show.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:26:48 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(God is Pro Life and Straight and gave an innate predisposition for self-preservation and protection)
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To: sakic
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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posted on
07/07/2003 1:27:01 PM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
To: Norse
He is a psychotic idiot. Laughing all the way to the bank.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:27:03 PM PDT
by
BureaucratusMaximus
(if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
To: Drango
Savage says this all the time on his radio show...MSNBC didn't think he'd say on TV? AGREED! Anyone who has listened to Savage's radio shows has heard far worse! He is totally "Un-PC" and proud of it! I think of him as the "Right's" "Off the Wall" answer to the "Left's" numerous "Shock Jocks"!
Quite frankly..., very few radio types are cut out for (or succeed on ) TV!
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:27:36 PM PDT
by
ExSES
To: usastandsunited
I agree. Wishing death on a caller by a horrible disease is the reason he got fired. If he merely expressed his moral outrage at homosexual behaviour he would still have a show. The only pig in that exchange was Savage.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:27:46 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(w)
To: jacket
We were watching the show and we both looked up and my wife said"what prompted that" as we weren't fully listening but were reading...We like Savage Nation, he calls it like it is. I felt this was a bit over the top, but that seems to be his nature.
Like Stephen Bing firing Penn for fear of hurting his film project, MSNBC has every rightt o fire Savage.
Loved his bashing of Hollywood, though.
To: kegler4
I didn't know that Don & Mike were gay!
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07/07/2003 1:28:05 PM PDT
by
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To: Democratic_Machiavelli
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To: sakic
"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.
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posted on
07/07/2003 1:30:59 PM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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