MSNBC fires Savage after anti-gay remarks

Associated Press ^ | Jul. 7, 2003 01:00 PM

[sakic]

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."

[Joe Hadenuf]

Sit on it first, and I will.

Uh, er, oh boy......

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Wow, you said more, and said it better, in one post, than I have in thirty.

Guess I should hang it up.

Seriously, you said it perfectly. But don't hold out any hope of those on this thread who hate Savage "getting it"...they won't.

[LBK]

I like the Savage Nation. It was obvious it was not going to last on TV though.
It seems to me that any perverted "politically correct" person can say whatever crap they want, but when the moment of truth comes nobody wants to hear it.

[sit-rep]

We're pissin' into the wind here...

To end, the choice is yours how you want to admit I am right. The phrase indeed was harsh. But the determination in not accepting the lifestyle is focused.

[Phil V.]

. . . now we hear the gay patrol silencing a great man.

Oh fer chrisakes! Spare me, please. Savage's across-the-board bigotry doesn't even belong on the internet

[OldFriend]

I am a 66 yr. old married woman and you are one sick jerk.

[rockfish59]

Hmm, doesn't sound like it to me.

Maybe he ought to tell them all to get F****D and quit.
Who needs it?
Go sail his boat or drive his hot rod! AND move out of fagtown, which I hate to admit, is my hometown!

[Afronaut]

What you said!

[freebilly]

Just bend over already you cowards, lube up, and grin and bear it since it can't possibly last that long.... That being said. I'm done posting for now. I have a schedule.

Doing a proctology exam on your cranium?

[OldFriend]

Hilarious that you think it was the caller who was an uncivilized jerk.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

OH, BOO-FRICKETY-HOO!

The bad man said mean things, Mommy!

I got six nieces and nephews who, all whining together, don't grate on my nerves like this garbage being posted.

I guess I should be glad I don't have to take any of you people to Six Flags for an afternoon, or to the Zoo for a day.

I'd need a fifth of Jack Daniels just to kill the pain at the end of it all.

[sakic]

I'd say the guy has First Amendment rights being trashed.

It's been said many times already in this thread but this is in no way a first ammendment issue.

[concerned about politics]

Next time you meet a homosexual, I invite you to exercise your right to tell him you wish he was dead. And I invite every decent person within earshot to exercise their right to shun you like the plague.

Why bother? They're doing a great job of killing off themselves and those who come in close contact. I do shun sodomites, and teach my kids to do the same.
They could seek help, like drug addicts and alchoholics, if they wanted to. Why feel sorry for their deathstyle choice?
If they all die, so? What right do we have to save them? It's their choice. Savage simply suggested speeding up the process.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Oh fer chrisakes! Spare me, please. Savage's across-the-board bigotry doesn't even belong on the internet

For crying out loud, I agree, Savage should be replaced with a decent sodomite.

[sit-rep]

OMG... And you're proud of that??

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Maybe.

But I'm selfish. I enjoy listening to him. I want him to stay on the air as long as possible.

Though I do fear he's going to just drop dead of a stroke, one day, on the air, given how worked up he gets sometimes.

But I love to listen to him in the afternoon, and will continue to as long as he's on the air.

Given his ratings, I imagine there's not much to worry about.

[sakic]

Savage had a perfect right to say what he wanted to say, no matter what you, or I, or anyone else thought of it.

You are absolutely correct. MSNBC had a perfect right to terminate him for his comments as well.

[Joe Hadenuf]

OMG.....Of what?